METALPRIEST
Senior Member
Thought this would make for a good topic. Some people talk about the 80's sound...the BIG LUSH 80's sound as if it were a bad thing. Now we're not just talking about metal bands...or as they were named hair bands later.
BUT....ANY band...classic bands even from the 60's and 70's like Jefferson Airplane or HEART. Speaking of HEART....this is what got me to write this thread. I was listening to "BAD ANIMALS" this week.....with all it's lush 80's production...and you know what?? I like it better than the last two albums that were more basic and blusier.
Do we really think that these type of albums, bands FROM that time...or bands that dabbled in the production styles all together were lazy?? Was it really an easy way out?? Cause from where I was sitting "Bad Animals" was pretty awesome. My point is.....it still takes just AS MUCH creative genius, talent and know how along with feeling...to make those style of albums.
One good track from the Bad Animals album that still blows me away is "Wait For An Answer"
Does stripping all this away and making the music more basic...or less hooky make it better or more intelligent?? There are some fans of music that think so. There are prog fans that think so...and IMO...a lot of prog is some of the most over produced and overly overdubbed music out there.
I Love Prog by the way, so that will not be the debate. But what is is shift in style or the bands that came out with the big sound straight away. Also is there a bit of prejudice from the strip down fan club against bands like Warrant when they made albums like Belly To Belly....which would be heavier, darker and lacking that big 80's sound.
Go ahead and discuss...and if you care to...post other big lush 80's production tunes that are worth value and show just as much and sometimes more intelligence than their stripped down counterparts and critics.
KEEP IT FUN
BUT....ANY band...classic bands even from the 60's and 70's like Jefferson Airplane or HEART. Speaking of HEART....this is what got me to write this thread. I was listening to "BAD ANIMALS" this week.....with all it's lush 80's production...and you know what?? I like it better than the last two albums that were more basic and blusier.
Do we really think that these type of albums, bands FROM that time...or bands that dabbled in the production styles all together were lazy?? Was it really an easy way out?? Cause from where I was sitting "Bad Animals" was pretty awesome. My point is.....it still takes just AS MUCH creative genius, talent and know how along with feeling...to make those style of albums.
One good track from the Bad Animals album that still blows me away is "Wait For An Answer"
Does stripping all this away and making the music more basic...or less hooky make it better or more intelligent?? There are some fans of music that think so. There are prog fans that think so...and IMO...a lot of prog is some of the most over produced and overly overdubbed music out there.
I Love Prog by the way, so that will not be the debate. But what is is shift in style or the bands that came out with the big sound straight away. Also is there a bit of prejudice from the strip down fan club against bands like Warrant when they made albums like Belly To Belly....which would be heavier, darker and lacking that big 80's sound.
Go ahead and discuss...and if you care to...post other big lush 80's production tunes that are worth value and show just as much and sometimes more intelligence than their stripped down counterparts and critics.
KEEP IT FUN