20 years have past and some of this cheese is moldy. Others, like a fine wine. Still others, like a classic suit. But each has some of those '80's licks you remember well into old age....
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“Ah Leah” is still played often on classic rock stations across the US even in 2008. It’s a great fist-pounding 80’s guitar anthem. To last this long in active radio rotation says quite a bit. I always thought it was sung by a larger-than-life Led Zeppelin-esque ‘70’s guitar band. Anyway, I still wish I never saw this video.
But that’s sometimes the point to the 80’s. We were coming off a pretty rough decade, stylistically.
And even with quite a few major video oddities such as Donnie Iris’s “Ah Leah,” this was an era that was ripe with creative guitars and bass lines. And it was a time where music was allowed to stretch past a disco beat or a classic guitar anthem.
It wasn’t only the 80’s lead guitar riffs, it was also some exquisite bass lines that kept us involved in the song. Listen to the bass on this specifically.
There is actually 7 senses. The two missing here are vestibular and proprioception (or ‘balance’ and ‘sense of the relative position of neighboring body parts.’) I mean, duh.
Grunge’s emergence killed 80s music’s affinity for the slap and pick bass riffs . Level 42 was a Brit quartet that featured Mark King on bass. It is said his fingers are insured for 1 million pounds.
This was from “The Swing.” Like a lot of bands, INXS’s most diverse and modish sound was found on the album that proceeded extreme fame. The Swing’s music was still influentially melodic, the band still humble. “Let It Be” by The Replacements fits this category as well.
God I wish he hadn’t made this video. What a slendidly rockin’ 80’s anthem done in by one of the cheesiest videos ever. MTV was not good for all artist, Donnie Iris in particular.
Few albums were so stylistically elegant as Roxy Music’s swan song “Avalon.” Start to finish, it’s beautiful music that couldn’t have existed in any other time.
In 1981, many videos were still live performances with the album song played over it. Squier’s “In The Dark” was leftover 70’s guitar rock but fit into the decade’s anthems.
Split Enz was one of those early New Zealand MTV bands that seemingly was on only on 120 minutes. This video seemed quite “British” in a day of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.”
Come on! Nothing like one of maybe a dozen or so J.Geils licks to take you back to ‘83. This video was considered too risky for the time. Ah, but that deliciously huge hair.
Now, I owe it to myself to tell you, Mr. Griswold, that if you are thinking of taking the tribe cross country, this is your automobile. The Wagon Queen Family Truckster. You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it.
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