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

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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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