Bowie, Dylan, The Stones, The Who all released notoriously bad music in the 80's. You also had the crappy last few albums by Zeppelin and Floyd in that decade too.
Seventies musicians that went bad in the 80s
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Status Quo fell apart in the mid 80s, their 70s albums were great and a couple from 80/81 were good but up until 91 most off their albums were bad.
ZZ Top whilst having massive success with Eliminator in 1983. Their 70s albums were just so much better more bluesy and honest.
Aerosmith same applies massive MTV success with their late 80s albums but the 70s stuff is better. The remake of Walk This Way whilst it broke barriers the original fro 75 is so much better.
Van Halen started in the late 70s though their sound was eighties right from the start were very good in the 80s they waited till the 90s to fall apart.
Whitesnake great blues heavy rock act. 1987 was a massive album but it was more 80s hair metal. Not the classic sound of Lord/Marsden/Moody.
ZZ Top whilst having massive success with Eliminator in 1983. Their 70s albums were just so much better more bluesy and honest.
Aerosmith same applies massive MTV success with their late 80s albums but the 70s stuff is better. The remake of Walk This Way whilst it broke barriers the original fro 75 is so much better.
Van Halen started in the late 70s though their sound was eighties right from the start were very good in the 80s they waited till the 90s to fall apart.
Whitesnake great blues heavy rock act. 1987 was a massive album but it was more 80s hair metal. Not the classic sound of Lord/Marsden/Moody.
Originally Posted by Jon Ross:
“In my opinion even Kate Bush went downhill somewhat in the '80s. Her earliest stuff is beautiful and timeless - the same can't be said for stuff like The Hounds of Love - full of drum machines, synths and Fairlights that date it firmly to the mid '80s.”
“In my opinion even Kate Bush went downhill somewhat in the '80s. Her earliest stuff is beautiful and timeless - the same can't be said for stuff like The Hounds of Love - full of drum machines, synths and Fairlights that date it firmly to the mid '80s.”
AS a huge Kate fan i would wholly disagree yes HOL is very 80's but along with The Dreaming stand as definig moments in her career and talent. And then rounding off the decade with The Sensual World it was Kate at her best. But to each their own
Originally Posted by Glenn A:
“He was good up until 1983, but his work went downhill after 83. Tin Machine were dire and his chart performance seemed to get worse from the mid eighties onwards. I'd generally say Bowie was at his peak in the seventies, when he tried everything from electronica to American soul.”
“He was good up until 1983, but his work went downhill after 83. Tin Machine were dire and his chart performance seemed to get worse from the mid eighties onwards. I'd generally say Bowie was at his peak in the seventies, when he tried everything from electronica to American soul.”
Yup, Scary Monsters is his last great album and everything went downhill after that. How is Let's Dance his most commercially successful album is beyond me. He redeemed himself a bit in the 90's, but never came close to the quality of his 70's stuff imo.
Originally Posted by Jon Ross:
“In my opinion even Kate Bush went downhill somewhat in the '80s. Her earliest stuff is beautiful and timeless - the same can't be said for stuff like The Hounds of Love - full of drum machines, synths and Fairlights that date it firmly to the mid '80s.”
“In my opinion even Kate Bush went downhill somewhat in the '80s. Her earliest stuff is beautiful and timeless - the same can't be said for stuff like The Hounds of Love - full of drum machines, synths and Fairlights that date it firmly to the mid '80s.”
i think the exact opposite is the case Kate adopted to the new technologies of the time very well which cannot be said of all artists of the time. HOL and The Dreaming are both excellent as the poster above rightly suggests. And I'm not a big fan either.
i don't see the 80s in the same negative light as others. The decade gave us The Smiths, Madonna, Public Enemy, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Guns N' Roses, Depeche Mode, Whitney,, to name but a few. The social context is not a million miles from the times we live in now. Perhaps we might learn something from those times?
I thought the 80's was dreadful in the main.
Most of the 60's and 70's giants had run out of steam, and very little arrived to challenge their quality.
Dire Straits emerged as a world class band, and Queen had their second coming.
Deep Purple actually rebuilt themselves, and came back strongly, and thankfully are still going.
Most of the 60's and 70's giants had run out of steam, and very little arrived to challenge their quality.
Dire Straits emerged as a world class band, and Queen had their second coming.
Deep Purple actually rebuilt themselves, and came back strongly, and thankfully are still going.
Originally Posted by Deep Purple:
“I thought the 80's was dreadful in the main.
Most of the 60's and 70's giants had run out of steam, and very little arrived to challenge their quality.
Dire Straits emerged as a world class band, and Queen had their second coming.
Deep Purple actually rebuilt themselves, and came back strongly, and thankfully are still going.”
“I thought the 80's was dreadful in the main.
Most of the 60's and 70's giants had run out of steam, and very little arrived to challenge their quality.
Dire Straits emerged as a world class band, and Queen had their second coming.
Deep Purple actually rebuilt themselves, and came back strongly, and thankfully are still going.”
Ill agree with you on Perfect Strangers, however the other two 80s albums House Of Blue Light and Slaves and Masters are not that great. But fromThe Battle Rages On albums have been stronger.
Originally Posted by bryemycaz:
“Ill agree with you on Perfect Strangers, however the other two 80s albums House Of Blue Light and Slaves and Masters are not that great. But fromThe Battle Rages On albums have been stronger.”
“Ill agree with you on Perfect Strangers, however the other two 80s albums House Of Blue Light and Slaves and Masters are not that great. But fromThe Battle Rages On albums have been stronger.”
I agree, and what I really meant was that their comeback allowed them to continue to this day, when it looked as though they were finished.
The big thing that really allowed that was Blackmore leaving, and Steve Morse joining. They were suddenly a happy band again.
Fleetwood Mac may have been different in the 80s from the 70s but no way did they go bad - they created one of the best albums ever in "Tango In The Night".
Originally Posted by Electra:
“Eh?
Elton John & Bryan Ferry don't sound anything alike. They've both got very distinctive voices. I don't understand how anyone could confuse the two.”
“Eh?
Elton John & Bryan Ferry don't sound anything alike. They've both got very distinctive voices. I don't understand how anyone could confuse the two.”
lol, in my defence... I was only 5 in 1982, so I don't remember Blue Eyes or Avalon being in the charts.
I think I heard it unannounced on the radio when I was 10 or 11 maybe, liked the sound of it, but just the first 2 lines and I instantly thought it was a Bryan Ferry track - I was familiar with him by this time. Obviously later on, it sounds more Elton, but it's not always that obvious when you're young!
Avalon has since become one of my favourite albums btw. I hope no-one thinks Roxy Music 'went bad in the 80s'.
Originally Posted by Lazlo_St_Pierre:
“lol, in my defence... I was only 5 in 1982, so I don't remember Blue Eyes or Avalon being in the charts.
I think I heard it unannounced on the radio when I was 10 or 11 maybe, liked the sound of it, but just the first 2 lines and I instantly thought it was a Bryan Ferry track - I was familiar with him by this time. Obviously later on, it sounds more Elton, but it's not always that obvious when you're young!
Avalon has since become one of my favourite albums btw. I hope no-one thinks Roxy Music 'went bad in the 80s'.”
“lol, in my defence... I was only 5 in 1982, so I don't remember Blue Eyes or Avalon being in the charts.
I think I heard it unannounced on the radio when I was 10 or 11 maybe, liked the sound of it, but just the first 2 lines and I instantly thought it was a Bryan Ferry track - I was familiar with him by this time. Obviously later on, it sounds more Elton, but it's not always that obvious when you're young!
Avalon has since become one of my favourite albums btw. I hope no-one thinks Roxy Music 'went bad in the 80s'.”
Well they ended in 1983, They didn't get the chance
Originally Posted by Jon Ross;70055744[B:
“]The big difference between Phil Collins' music in the '70s and the '80s was that he wasn't writing anything in the '70s[/b]. He wrote one Genesis lyric on his own in the '70s (Scenes From a Night's Dream).
In the '80s he got under the misapprehension that he was a songwriter, encouraged by the other members of Genesis and by prats like Terry Wogan.”
“]The big difference between Phil Collins' music in the '70s and the '80s was that he wasn't writing anything in the '70s[/b]. He wrote one Genesis lyric on his own in the '70s (Scenes From a Night's Dream).
In the '80s he got under the misapprehension that he was a songwriter, encouraged by the other members of Genesis and by prats like Terry Wogan.”
Actually Phil Collins co-wrote quite a bit for Genesis in the' 70s. Just looking at one Genesis album in front of me (Trick Of The Tail) he was involved in co-writing 3 of the 9 tracks. Nor would I agree that everything he wrote in the 80s was awful, although a lot of what he recorded wasn't great. He wrote at least 3 memorable songs, all of which were highly praised at the time and stand the test of time.
Originally Posted by FrankBT:
“Actually Phil Collins co-wrote quite a bit for Genesis in the' 70s. Just looking at one Genesis album in front of me (Trick Of The Tail) he was involved in co-writing 3 of the 9 tracks. Nor would I agree that everything he wrote in the 80s was awful, although a lot of what he recorded wasn't great. He wrote at least 3 memorable songs, all of which were highly praised at the time and stand the test of time.”
“Actually Phil Collins co-wrote quite a bit for Genesis in the' 70s. Just looking at one Genesis album in front of me (Trick Of The Tail) he was involved in co-writing 3 of the 9 tracks. Nor would I agree that everything he wrote in the 80s was awful, although a lot of what he recorded wasn't great. He wrote at least 3 memorable songs, all of which were highly praised at the time and stand the test of time.”
Indeed In the Gabriel Era all the tracks were credited to all 5 of them. Though Banks, Gabriel and Rutherford did the majority.
Originally Posted by Jon Ross:
“In my opinion even Kate Bush went downhill somewhat in the '80s. Her earliest stuff is beautiful and timeless - the same can't be said for stuff like The Hounds of Love - full of drum machines, synths and Fairlights that date it firmly to the mid '80s.”
“In my opinion even Kate Bush went downhill somewhat in the '80s. Her earliest stuff is beautiful and timeless - the same can't be said for stuff like The Hounds of Love - full of drum machines, synths and Fairlights that date it firmly to the mid '80s.”
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Originally Posted by AnywhereButHome:
“Fleetwood Mac may have been different in the 80s from the 70s but no way did they go bad - they created one of the best albums ever in "Tango In The Night".”
“Fleetwood Mac may have been different in the 80s from the 70s but no way did they go bad - they created one of the best albums ever in "Tango In The Night".”
Totally agree, along with Hounds of Love, Tango is a fantastic album.
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