Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of low cards in this hand, especially the rappers. But OF ALL TIME? No Manilow, no 1910 Fruitgum Company, no Fucking Duran Fucking Duran, no Adam Ant, no Culture Club, no Shaggs, no Depeche Mode? NO BEE GEES?!? Kids these days don't know how good they've got it, consarn it. And Yoko would move way up the suck list if anyone had actually heard her, as opposed to heard of her.
Duran Duran and Depeche Mode are actually good. There's much worse from the 80's-90's then those two groups. Plenty of one(and no) hit wonders that easily beat out a lot of the examples you mentioned.
You couldn't throw a dart and not hit someone in the crowded room of 80's-90's "pop sensations" you didn't mention. Sometimes it's true what they say about no accounting for taste... ;-P
Rock. I listened to rock and/or roll. OK, Duran Duran had a real talent for painting up a near-naked woman and putting her in a video. I respect them for that and for knowing that their music was shit enough that we needed to be distracted from it. They may be better than Wall of Voodoo. Y'know what's great about one-hit wonders, though? They have their hit, then they GO AWAY! Depeche Mode stands in here for a whole axis of Dancy Dancy Crap - Tears for Fears, Andre Cymone, Soft Cell, Big Country... And sure, Flo-Rida sucks. But as much as KC and the Sunshine Band? It's a near thing
Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of low cards in this hand, especially the rappers. But OF ALL TIME?
ReplyDeleteNo Manilow, no 1910 Fruitgum Company, no Fucking Duran Fucking Duran, no Adam Ant, no Culture Club, no Shaggs, no Depeche Mode? NO BEE GEES?!?
Kids these days don't know how good they've got it, consarn it.
And Yoko would move way up the suck list if anyone had actually heard her, as opposed to heard of her.
What the heck did you listen to growing up???
DeleteDuran Duran and Depeche Mode are actually good. There's much worse from the 80's-90's then those two groups. Plenty of one(and no) hit wonders that easily beat out a lot of the examples you mentioned.
You couldn't throw a dart and not hit someone in the crowded room of 80's-90's "pop sensations" you didn't mention. Sometimes it's true what they say about no accounting for taste... ;-P
Rock. I listened to rock and/or roll.
ReplyDeleteOK, Duran Duran had a real talent for painting up a near-naked woman and putting her in a video. I respect them for that and for knowing that their music was shit enough that we needed to be distracted from it. They may be better than Wall of Voodoo. Y'know what's great about one-hit wonders, though? They have their hit, then they GO AWAY!
Depeche Mode stands in here for a whole axis of Dancy Dancy Crap - Tears for Fears, Andre Cymone, Soft Cell, Big Country...
And sure, Flo-Rida sucks. But as much as KC and the Sunshine Band? It's a near thing