Lighten up, Francis. Your comment is inane. It's a fluff thread. On the 80's. And yet my comment is somehow innapropriate? If you disagree, fine -- but why be personally insulting, and more importantly -- why take the time to respond?
And since you're placing yourself as the benchmark of taste, pray -- enlighten us with music that you find more acceptable.
I’ve been a Duranie since the “Planet Earth” days in 1981.... saw them playing 2 summers ago and I was 5 feet away from John T. for more than 1 1/2 hours.... I love him so much, but it was kinda sad to see how old he’s gotten (haven’t we all?).... anyway, Andy T. left the band about a year ago due to health complications (too much smoking) and his health is deteriorating fast.... he’s following the same path as Robert Palmer (may he R.I.P.) as far as his lungs and overall health are concerned....
It's fluff music.
And since you're placing yourself as the benchmark of taste, pray -- enlighten us with music that you find more acceptable.
well, I'm a good judge of my own taste, but I don't know about a "benchmark." I think appreciation for quality and creativity, along with repulsion for petty commercialism, come from somewhere very objective outside ourselves.
Notwithstanding that, let's see...to make it fair, let's find something from the '80's...sort of hard after '83-'84... what do I remember listening to then...Gerry Rafferty, City to City; Bowie (Modern Love); Jackson Brown (well, it was a phase); I saw Billy Joel once; Pure Prairie League twice (once they were excellent, once they were pitiful); Spyro Gyro; Pat Metheny a half dozen times; Edie Brickell; BB King; Delbert McClinton -- OK, these are my picks for '80s, caused it was happy music that launched a happy decade: Delbert McClinton, The Jealous Kind (Givin' it For Your Love...) and John Lennon/Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy (a great statement).
Really haven't got too far past the first couple of years, but it's getting late, and this post is long enough as it is.
Oh, and as I said, I think what's her name from the Bangles was a knockout, but that's not speaking musically.