Comments on: Did Any Of Rock’s Long-Standing Icons Not Make A Poor Aesthetic Choice During The ’80s? http://idolator.com/400428/did-any-of-rocks-long-standing-icons-not-make-a-poor-aesthetic-choice-during-the-80s Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:30:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Chris N. http://idolator.com/400428/did-any-of-rocks-long-standing-icons-not-make-a-poor-aesthetic-choice-during-the-80s/comment-page-1#comment-677822 Chris N. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:56:21 +0000 218bf60d796197d3c845ed95686d19bb#comment-677822 <p>Gated reverb was awesome, it was the subsequent digital approximations of it that were so awful.</p> Gated reverb was awesome, it was the subsequent digital approximations of it that were so awful.

]]> By: cheesebubble http://idolator.com/400428/did-any-of-rocks-long-standing-icons-not-make-a-poor-aesthetic-choice-during-the-80s/comment-page-1#comment-677832 cheesebubble Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:06:00 +0000 218bf60d796197d3c845ed95686d19bb#comment-677832 <p>@<a href="#c7246604">kurtck</a>: thank you.</p> @kurtck: thank you.

]]> By: Kate Richardson http://idolator.com/400428/did-any-of-rocks-long-standing-icons-not-make-a-poor-aesthetic-choice-during-the-80s/comment-page-1#comment-677962 Kate Richardson Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:31:34 +0000 218bf60d796197d3c845ed95686d19bb#comment-677962 <p>Jimmy Buffett produced some inexcusable music in the '80s. And let's not get into a debate about whether his stuff in the '70s was good to begin with because it definitely was.</p> Jimmy Buffett produced some inexcusable music in the ’80s. And let’s not get into a debate about whether his stuff in the ’70s was good to begin with because it definitely was.

]]> By: sparkletone http://idolator.com/400428/did-any-of-rocks-long-standing-icons-not-make-a-poor-aesthetic-choice-during-the-80s/comment-page-1#comment-677912 sparkletone Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:20:08 +0000 218bf60d796197d3c845ed95686d19bb#comment-677912 <p>@<a href="#c7229573">Royfromage</a>: I suppose it's <i>theoretically</i> possible that Tom Waits has made a mistake at some point.</p> <p>But if he has, <i>if</i> he has, <i>Downtown Train</i> is most certainly not it.</p> <p>(Not that it's his finest work either, but <i>come on</i>.)</p> <p>PS: Seconding the Elton John thing.</p> <p>PPS: Wow. I'd never seen that Bowie + Mick thing. <i>Painful</i>.</p> @Royfromage: I suppose it’s theoretically possible that Tom Waits has made a mistake at some point.

But if he has, if he has, Downtown Train is most certainly not it.

(Not that it’s his finest work either, but come on.)

PS: Seconding the Elton John thing.

PPS: Wow. I’d never seen that Bowie + Mick thing. Painful.

]]> By: Lucas Jensen http://idolator.com/400428/did-any-of-rocks-long-standing-icons-not-make-a-poor-aesthetic-choice-during-the-80s/comment-page-1#comment-677842 Lucas Jensen Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:52:00 +0000 218bf60d796197d3c845ed95686d19bb#comment-677842 <p>@<a href="#c7248766">noamjamski</a>: I love that drum sound. Hahaha. I'd never use it, but I love it.</p> @noamjamski: I love that drum sound. Hahaha. I’d never use it, but I love it.

]]> By: jody http://idolator.com/400428/did-any-of-rocks-long-standing-icons-not-make-a-poor-aesthetic-choice-during-the-80s/comment-page-1#comment-677852 jody Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:25:36 +0000 218bf60d796197d3c845ed95686d19bb#comment-677852 <p>i'd forgotten that "don't drive drunk" existed, but it sounds okay to my adult ears -- ignoring the lyrics, it could pass for something on <i>cupid & psyche 85</i>!</p> i’d forgotten that “don’t drive drunk” existed, but it sounds okay to my adult ears — ignoring the lyrics, it could pass for something on cupid & psyche 85!

]]> By: noamjamski http://idolator.com/400428/did-any-of-rocks-long-standing-icons-not-make-a-poor-aesthetic-choice-during-the-80s/comment-page-1#comment-677862 noamjamski Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:48:02 +0000 218bf60d796197d3c845ed95686d19bb#comment-677862 <p>@<a href="#c7234670">Big Gray.</a>: Nothing is wrong with the idea of gating in and of itself, it is a very necessary music production tool. The abomination that Collins helped pioneer was the effect known as "gated reverb" where the toms and snare are reverbed to holy hell, and then cut with a quick gate. That is that huge boomy sound heard on everything from "in the air tonight" to "pour some sugar on me" as well as everything in between. That sound is very 80s, and a large reason why so much commercial music from that era sounds dated, even if the songs are intrinsically good.</p> @Big Gray.: Nothing is wrong with the idea of gating in and of itself, it is a very necessary music production tool. The abomination that Collins helped pioneer was the effect known as “gated reverb” where the toms and snare are reverbed to holy hell, and then cut with a quick gate. That is that huge boomy sound heard on everything from “in the air tonight” to “pour some sugar on me” as well as everything in between. That sound is very 80s, and a large reason why so much commercial music from that era sounds dated, even if the songs are intrinsically good.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/400428/did-any-of-rocks-long-standing-icons-not-make-a-poor-aesthetic-choice-during-the-80s/comment-page-1#comment-677872 Anonymous Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:38:06 +0000 218bf60d796197d3c845ed95686d19bb#comment-677872 <p>Starship.</p> Starship.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/400428/did-any-of-rocks-long-standing-icons-not-make-a-poor-aesthetic-choice-during-the-80s/comment-page-1#comment-677922 Anonymous Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:18:53 +0000 218bf60d796197d3c845ed95686d19bb#comment-677922 <p>Tom Waits! Tom Waits, Tom Waits, Tom Waits. Pure gold in the 80s.</p> Tom Waits! Tom Waits, Tom Waits, Tom Waits. Pure gold in the 80s.

]]> By: Eugene Langley http://idolator.com/400428/did-any-of-rocks-long-standing-icons-not-make-a-poor-aesthetic-choice-during-the-80s/comment-page-1#comment-677882 Eugene Langley Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:16:30 +0000 218bf60d796197d3c845ed95686d19bb#comment-677882 <p>@<a href="#c7234975">rogerniner</a>: The Steve Winwood reference is apt. "Higher Love" inexplicably came on in a bar a while back and, desperately trying to remember who sang it, my friends and I could only come up with "the bass player from Genesis", who incidentally, I just found out, was Mike from Mike and the Mechanics. In any case, "Higher Love" is as good a distillation of what was wrong with the 80s as anything else.</p> @rogerniner: The Steve Winwood reference is apt. “Higher Love” inexplicably came on in a bar a while back and, desperately trying to remember who sang it, my friends and I could only come up with “the bass player from Genesis”, who incidentally, I just found out, was Mike from Mike and the Mechanics. In any case, “Higher Love” is as good a distillation of what was wrong with the 80s as anything else.

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