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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Afghan Dave on May 21, 2006, 08:43:33 AM
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Miami Vice! Yes.. Yes!
$hit, I've just watched the trailer at Miamivice.com for the new film and it looks AMAZING!
I'm really hyped about this as that show was the world to me back in the day. Before I grew my hair and just after I first picked up a guitar I used to LOVE that show.
The vibe of the new film looks spot on and really comtemporary... gives me chills. I'm gonna shave my "broken leg home alone beard" into something COOL with stubble and book this years holiday - I love sun, sea and speedboats.... Yeh.. and I'm gonna wear a T-shirt under my suit jacket as well... I'm livin' La Vida Loca baby... (I may have gone a little nuts as I havn't been out of the house for a week)
PDT_024
Hey I know there are quite a few guys on here who loved the 80s from the "what are you listening to" posts.
Most of my favourite music / bands are rooted in the 80s - Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth ect.. Even The Cure and The Smiths.. the list is huge!
Even gigs were brilliant.. Queen @ Wembley + Donnington when it was the REAL Monsters of Rock!
What came after? $hit Grunge and Britpop tossers like Oasis! PDT_029
Apart from Alice in Chains, the 90s were a washout to me... Then we got Nu-metal around 2000.. Wat da f**k was that all about?
The 80s values are coming back baby.. the old bands are touring again and even articulate musicianship is making a comeback... "In the Circle
The Circle of Life"............
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Interesting rant dave 8)
given the age of most of the posters around here I think you might be out in the cold on this one.
I come from a cross over period. I appreciate the eightes in its late stages and most of the nineties were a bit of a lost time where the real cream made it to the airways but had to compete with the oceans of rubbish.
Then again just listen to comercial radio now! :x
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I was only born in 1986, so i only really remember most of the 90's. But the 80's seems to be alot more interesting musically than anything else recently.
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agreed wholeheartedly (apart from the cure and stuff like that).
And the a-team is better than miami vice.
I was born in the early 80's, so I can't remember much about it, but i think the music and tv programs are kind of in-built into my psyche...
:lol:
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You guys make me feel old.
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I'm about to be a dad.
There does that help.... feel younger now. :lol:
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I pity the fool who didn't like 80's thrash metal, that was one of my favourite periods of music ever.
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:D I didn`t like the 80`s period of Thrash metal it was & still is Cr@p. In many respects it helped to kill & minimise HM. Along with the over the top image of more mainstream metal [ hair metal etc ] Metal fans didn`t have a lot to choose from.
:D 8)
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If it wasn't for the Talking Heads, Me, and the Transformers the 80's woulda sucked so much harder...
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80s Thrash metal is cr@p? No way... The Big Four Metallica / Deth / Slayer / Anthrax DEFINED thrash!
The progression of the genre was intense during this period, their passion & rivalry were a catalyst for breaking through boundaries..
Reign in Blood is still magnificent!
Hey, I gotta agree about Transformers - I've even got some mint boxed originals (I was a fussy child who kept his toys in showroom condition - I had no one to play with :cry: ).
I've got a metalhead friend who bought the Original Soundtrack album on tape in 1985ish and he still loves it cause EVEN THAT ROCKED!
BTW --- I'm very popular now and have lots of friends... really... no really I am...
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Hey JP that does make me feel better. Look forward to the best job you will ever have ( i.e. being a dad)
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The 80s rocked. A very cool decade for guitar playing aswell.
Transformers, The A Team, ThunderCats and Muthaf***in' Knightrider bi***es!!!!!!! The mans decade!!!!!! :D :D
PS JP, Congrats on the impending fatherhood thing ,it's a blast (hell I've done it twice.)
My kids are 2 and 4 and they can both do devils horns and say Heavy metal man!!!!! 8) 8)
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Metallica
Megadeth
Anthrax
Annihilator
Testament
Kreator
Overkill
Death Angel
Nuclear Assault
Sodom
Destruction
Motorhead
Possessed
Razor
Suicidal Tendencies
Dark Angel
Vio-Lence
Exodus
Celtic Frost
Municipal Waste
All of these are very good 80's thrash/speed metal bands, i love it they were an influence for more extreme genres which we have today.
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Van Halen 1984....
Whitesnake 1987...
Then.... the 90s and Y2K we got...Limp Bizkit?
It became a musical Planet of the Apes....
"Damn you all... Damn you all to hell!...."
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Van Halen 1984....
Whitesnake 1987...
Then.... the 90s and Y2K we got...Limp Bizkit?
It became a musical Planet of the Apes....
"Damn you all... Damn you all to hell!...."
I dunno, I think a lot of the bands from the late 80's peaked in the early 90's (plus some new bands):
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jane's Addiction
Soundgarden
Alice In Chains
Smashing Pumpkins
Tool
Guns N Roses (not certain on the timing of this...)
Rage Against The Machine
Muse
QOTSA
Sonic Youth
Faith No More/Fantomas etc
These are all good 'rock' bands, just with a more contemporary sound...music moves on, but all these bands contain good musicians.
Plus, Passion and Warfare ---> 1993 :)
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Muse and QOTSA early 90's?????
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Plus, Passion and Warfare ---> 1993 :)
er, 1990, which i like to think of as nineteen eighty ten :?
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Muse and QOTSA early 90's?????
nah, I was just going for good bands from the whole of the 90's at that stage.
RE: P& W, my bad, I think that 93 might have been the CD release?
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The 80s was the best decade ever! Well, the 60s was cool, too, but I'm not old enough to properly appreciate the 60s. The 70s just sucked, no matter when you were born.
Since the 80s music has gone downhill terribly. I'm not a metal fan, but all the best songwriters in the 80s absoultely kill the current ones. You just can't compare U2, Dire Straits, The Police to anyone these days. (Yeah, I know they all hit the scene in the late 70s, but they are still known as 80s bands, really).
At least it's getting cool to know how to play your instrument again. The 90s grunge thing made it cool to know nothing at all--just strum a few chords, any chords. It was like 60s protest songs with overdrive.
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The whole point of grunge was about the songs. 90% of the bands about appreciated the Beatles and other 60s and 70s pop bands.
I couldn't hum any of the songs by any of the bands you guys mentioned, ask me about a Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins song and I could sing a whole albums worth back to you :wink:
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The whole point of grunge was about the songs. 90% of the bands about appreciated the Beatles and other 60s and 70s pop bands.
I couldn't hum any of the songs by any of the bands you guys mentioned, ask me about a Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins song and I could sing a whole albums worth back to you :wink:
so you like pop music then?
:wink:
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owned.
The 80's were king - long live spandex. second to the 50's. Cars with fins, rock'n'roll dancing, buddy holly... don't even try to argue.
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Yes.
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we still got alot of good stuff in the 90s...
* Pantera
* Down
* Sepultura
* PJ Harvey
* RATM
* SOAD
* Primal Scream
* Black Crowes
* Green Day
* Pearl Jam
and thats just for starters (whats wrong with pop music btw? - are we all musical neanderthals on this board?).
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owned.
The 80's were king - long live spandex. second to the 50's. Cars with fins, rock'n'roll dancing, buddy holly... don't even try to argue.
agreed.
chuck berry too.
:D
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all the best songwriters in the 80s absoultely kill the current ones. You just can't compare U2, Dire Straits, The Police to anyone these days.
Hmmm...I think there were/are some very good songwriters in the 90's:
anything involving Stephen Merrit (Magnetic Fields, etc)
Blind Melon
Cat Power
Coldplay....even though I do dislike them
Radiohead
The Flaming Lips
Jeff Buckley
Lauryn Hill
Red Hot Chili Peppers (in their current incarnation)
Wilco
Now, admittedly, not many of those artists achieved the success of the bands you listed, and some of them focus on a deliberately 'lo-fi' sound as opposed to the more expansive sound of someone like U2, but I still think any of that list wrote some great songs.
Anyway, I appreciate the 90's; it's given us new sounds and textures which aren't necessarily guitar-oriented but it has made some interesting music possible. I like hip-hop, dance, ambient, all that stuff...maybe it would be in the minority to like that kind of thing on a guitar forum, maybe. But beyond those artists listed above, I can think of countless great albums produced in the '90's. Just not metal albums, thats all.
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The whole point of grunge was about the songs. 90% of the bands about appreciated the Beatles and other 60s and 70s pop bands.
I couldn't hum any of the songs by any of the bands you guys mentioned, ask me about a Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins song and I could sing a whole albums worth back to you :wink:
so you like pop music then?
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Yep, yep I do love pop music. That a bad thing? Every board on the internet has it's own little clique. Harmony Central is filled with Classic rock cover bands, and 90% of you guys are metal heads.
Lets live in harmony people, music is music.
But music in the 80s fooking sucked... Cmon its just embarrasing...
:D
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The whole point of grunge was about the songs. 90% of the bands about appreciated the Beatles and other 60s and 70s pop bands.
I couldn't hum any of the songs by any of the bands you guys mentioned, ask me about a Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins song and I could sing a whole albums worth back to you :wink:
:D Right On Dude !!!
I`m a metal fan & Thrash sucks bigtime of all the bands mentioned non of `em with the exseption of Motorhead [ Who are still the best Thrash type band ] ever wrote descent songs. :evil:
They all copied Motorhead but missed Motorheads biggest asset there songs where actually singable. Mettalica are beyond doubt the most overated band ever ! 1 descent album in there entire caerer is an appaling return !!!! & the only reason anybody talks about the black album is it`s the only album they did with any descent songs !!!
Outside of Anthrax`s Medusa [ There best song ] The rest of that 80`s Thrash list is utter cr@p !! not a descent tune amongst any of `em !! Lots of noise & fast tempos but nothing actually worth listening to !!! :twisted:
:D 8)
PS The Police, U2, Big Country, Cure, ABC [ Lexicon Of Love ] all good :D
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PS The Police, U2, Big Country, Cure, ABC [ Lexicon Of Love ] all good
All 80s... My point exactly..
BTW - Miami Vice also got the record for longest No1 TV soundtrack album!
and.... Co-Stars included - Sheena Easton! .... Frank Zappa! ... James Brown! and ... PHIL Bloody COLLINS!!!!!!!!!
I mean Phil Collins wrote the goddam book on songcraft and don'tcha ever forget that you young 'uns.....
But Seriously...(see what I did there?)
Phil Collins was in it... discussion over... Miami Vice was brilliant.. I WIN... The 80s Rule!!!!
Phil Collins = "The love that dare not speak its name"
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The new movie looks wicked and I am looking forward to more than the other summer blockbusters. I'm currently watching series 1 of "robbin of sherwood" another classic 80s show. Soundtrack by clannad rooooobbiin, roooooobin the hooded man!
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Just shows you- even the Normans had problems with Hoodies.
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:D There actually showing re-runs of Miami Vice on Bravo i think at the moment [ Afternoons]
It`s amazing how much of an influence vice was & has been to TV. It was the 1st show to incoperate modern "Pop"/"Rock" music as part of the show. They also used to use these as non verbal passages in the shows, both of these techniques are now very common but vice was the 1st to really do this.
By the Way Michael Mann the director of Miami Vice is responsible for the best "Thriller" film ever made IMHO "Heat" uses all of the above techniques but in a film enviroment. Both Mann & Ridley Scott are the only 2 film directors who actually understand music & how to use it.
:D 8)
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nice tagline jt....
Thanks on the congrats guys... although I had to quit a christian youth group I was trying to help a mate start up. I just dont have time for everything.
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Just shows you- even the Normans had problems with Hoodies.
that's the funniest thing i've read all week! i mean since last monday...
historical humour, much underrated!
as to which decade's better, to me the only thing that seperates them is fashion, i don't much care which one music came from, the 50's, 60's, 70's 80's, 90's and 21st century have all produced great music ( and an unending deluge of shitee ). people derided the 80's throughout the 90's, but now we mostly just remember what was good and the rubbish has shuffled off into history.
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You are absolutely right Blue- each decade has its share of gems and lemons. Someone once said to me that 80% of pop music is cr*p but that it just depends upon your personal taste as to how you allocate it. I don't subscribe to the politically correct "if it sells it must be good" argument but I do accept that what I like might be considered to be rubbish by others ( however misguided and wrong they might be :wink: )-one man's meat and all that. The 1960's are held up as a shining example of everything that is good in music- but don't forget Sugar Sugar by the Archies and, for that matter, a whole lot of other Jonathan King nonsense that sold by the bucket. Keep an open mind is my motto.
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:D Spike Milligan once wrote ;
"With a future unknown A present uncertain we take solice in the past "
The truth is we filter out all the bad stuff, individualy & as a society.
:D 8)
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I like the 70's stuff more to be honest but i do like the metal bands from the 80's.
I love thrash :P
Before Elvis it was all k sara sara!