Examples of 60's artists trying to embrace early 80's trends

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I'm looking for examples of acts like McCartney (who went synthy and weird on McCartney 2) or the Stones and the Who --same deal but also with alot more "video"/"video game imagery (Emotional Rescue/It's Hard LP cover). Its obvious these artists who were pushing 40 were trying to follow whatever the next trends were. Who else was out there trying to embrace early 80's styles after a decade+ career

― NOWWHAT, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

BREAKDANCERS inna ROBERT PLANT video stylee

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Herbie Hancock

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Brain Wilson - "Smart Girls"

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link

ZZ Top

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link

George Clinton

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Yoko Ono - "Walking on Thin Ice"

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Neil Young - Trans

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000024R1I.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

X-post

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Toni Basil

― TRG (TRG), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Robert Plant - Tall Cool One

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG, STARSHIP

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Warren Zevon's much-maligned Transverse City (which, I somewhat predictably maintain, is some kind of masterpiece)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean, just look at that fucking thing!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Michael Jackson, har har!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Mitch Ryder (of "and the Detroit Wheels" fame) recorded a version of Prince's "When You Were Mine" on an early 80's LP. I'm curious to hear it.

― James, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Jeff Lynne.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean that's a bit of a stretch, sure.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

See, I was tempted to put in Steve Miller for "Abracadabra" and Don Henley for "Dirty Laundry", but like Jeff Lynne, their heyday was in the seventies.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

At least Miller was pulling 80s moves in the 70s.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

That Mitch Ryder Lp's okay. John Mellencamp produced it. It sounds like a Mellencamp record with Mitch Ryder singing.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link

All of them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

"wired for sound", guys!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.cdlp.de/1/B5176_01.jpg

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f162/f16211cffzd.jpg

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

The best new wave song by an older musician doing new wave was...
The best new wave song by an older musician doing new wave was...

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

oops. second link should be why did so many prog rock bands thrive during the New Wave boom?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Good Christ, that Grace Slick album.

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

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Also:

Stevie Wonder: Most of the "Hotter Than July" album.
Paul McCartney: "Temporary Secretary" and "Say Say Say".
George Harrison: Most of "Gone Troppo"
Chicago: Everything they did from "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" onwards.
Marvin Gaye: "Sexual Healing" and the rest of the "Midnight Love" album
Temptations: "Treat Her Like a Lady"
Dennis Edwards: "Don't Look Any Further"

Generally, it seems African American "old" acts were considerably less alienated by the sudden dominance of the synthesizer than white "old" acts were.

I mean that's a bit of a stretch, sure.

Jeff Lyne is way more of a 60s artist than Alice Cooper, George Clinton or Yes. Already in 1967, he made wonderful psychedelic pop with Idle Race.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, geir stickin' up for the black folk

and speaking of, the whispers put out great stuff on SOLAR Records in the 80s

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Ian Anderson gave it a try-

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000011P7.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

But put the codpiece back on pretty quick.

― bendy (bendy), Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Steve Winwood OWNS this thread.

― disco violence (disco violence), Thursday, 2 February 2006 05:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Lou Reed: Original Wrapper

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 2 February 2006 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Original Wrapper: worst song ever?

― bendy (bendy), Thursday, 2 February 2006 06:26 (eighteen years ago) link

once again, the kinks are overlooked. give the people what they want is an arena/punk-rock hybrid 20 years ahead of, oh, good charlotte or green day! and "come dancing" is one of the best songs of the 80s, period.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 2 February 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Jethro Tull was definitely my first choice, although their heyday was certainly in the 70's.

Marvin Gaye's "Midnight Love," any post-"Final Cut" Pink Floyd, Roger Waters' "Radio KOS," pretty much any soul/funk unit that switched to synths.

I might dispute Miles Davis, however, on a few points...

― vartman (novaheat), Thursday, 2 February 2006 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Marianne Faithfull KILLED this thread in '79.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 2 February 2006 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

- Gary "U.S." Bonds (made three LP's with a Springsteenish sound, and two of those had some Springsteen involvement)
- Chubby Checker (made one LP with a Springsteenish sound after he saw how well U.S. Bonds was doing)
- Jack Casady (of Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna fame) had a new wave band called SVT (but they were really good, so I'm not gonna clown 'em)

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 2 February 2006 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link

GEIR HONGRO: Stevie Wonder couldn't have been threatened by the synth in the 80's 'cause he'd been using synths continuously during the 70's.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 2 February 2006 08:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Not quite from the 60s, but close - Linda Thompson's first solo album is quite synthy (Richard would never have let her indulge in that shit)

― gordo heavyfoot (van dover), Thursday, 2 February 2006 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Stevie Wonder couldn't have been threatened by the synth in the 80's 'cause he'd been using synths continuously during the 70's.

But he did it very much in his own way. "Hotter Than July", with heavy use of synth drums and more synths than ever before, was very much in line with the fashionable sounds at the time.

Seems nobody mentioned Peter Gabriel btw. Genesis debuted in 1960, and some of the stuff in particularly his fourth soloi album is clearly influenced by then "modern" styles.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 3 February 2006 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link

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