The Most Epic Email Ever

[christiefan915]

Like you aren't on the dance floor when Dancing Queen comes on.

Who isn't? You'd have to be dead.

 

[WinterBorn]

I grew up on Sabbath and Zepplin. My father would never have let disco hit my ears... After the divorce I led a very sheltered life full of solely Christian Music until I was old enough to choose what I listened to when I wasn't stuck in my mother's car...

Early 80s is when I began to listen to what I liked again, and Abba would never have been in my album collection or played on the stations I listened to.

I got my varied taste in music from my parents and my brothers. Mom loved classical music, so that was what was played during the day. My Dad was a jazz fan. He had a great collection of old 78s of Dave brubeck, Louis armstrong, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and some other legends. My brothers were rockers in the 60s and early 70s, so I got Hendrix, Joplin, Dr. John, The Allman Bros, CCR, and the rest.

I don't like twangy country or rap, but the rest is fair game. I'd love to have the money I spent on buying and rebuying the same albums after people stole them. I must have bought Alan Parsons Project I Robot 10 or 12 times.

I also think we lost a great art form in album covers. Emerson, Lake & Palmer used to have some great covers.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Well, if you got stuck listening to Christian Pop/Rock music, I can see why you gravitated away from the religion. My parents never encouraged us to listen to that crap, and presto, still a Catholic. Of course, my dad's objections would have been that Christian Pop/Rock is too modern and not generally Catholic enspired. He's old-school, and loves his classical, jazz, ska, and so forth. He's a big fan of Glen Miller. Interestingly enough, while he was still young enough to be following contemporary music, the last big craze that my dad was into was disco.

Good lord! Have you ever listened to Catholic Music?

"Hmmmm My Father Plays Dominoes Better Than Yours!"

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Y

Cheap Trick
ZZ Top
bob Marley

All three from the 70's!

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Me too, and I was never able to fit in because I despised it. I like some 80's Rock, but not that shit. Zepplin is somewhat tolerable but Black Sabbath, jesus, how can anyone who listens to that shit talk about anyone's taste in music? God that is torture. That is torture to me.

...but that's 70's rock. Both Zeplin and Black Sabbath (at least the original line up with Ozzie) had broken up by 1980 and if you didn't like Led Zeplin or Black Sabbath then you obviously didn't do enough bong hits!!!

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Pink Floyd came out with the following albums in the 80s:

The Final Cut (1983)
A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988) or was it 89...?

Good stuff.

They even reached into the 90s with:

The Division Bell (1994)

All of them are good.

Pink Floyd is one of the best bands of all time.

Yes but they began in the 60's like The Who and The Stones and The Beatles.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Hardly any music is superior to Disco.

I have lost what little respect I may have ever had for you.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Those bands were all 70s bands that rocked thru the 80s.

Exactly. If it wasn't for 60's and 70's bands the 80's would have been a long cold dry spell until Nirvana and Pearl Jamm started the grunge revolution of the late 80's early 90's.

 

[Rationalist]

That was extremely painful to read - I was cringing the entire time. At first I thought perhaps they were dating for awhile, hence his frustration, but when I read "first date", it became obvious that the guy is a total psycho.

 

[cancel2 2022]

No. That's just you pissing into the wind.

I'll give you that one, quite funny.

 

[cancel2 2022]

I listen to Pandora and Slacker radio. I'm sure I heard it at some point, just not recognized it. Maybe on Fresh Prince Of Bel Air or something, or at the skating rink. I'm sure I would have danced to it, I just wouldn't have been somebody that bought that album.

As I said. I like dancing. I'm even good at it, or so I've been told.

Holy crap Damoman, you've never heard Dancing Queen.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Again. And this changes that there was good music in the 80s how? You asked what rock bands played in the 80s that were still around... I named quite a few.

Because most of those bands you mentioned recorded most of their best music in the 70's and not the 80's.

 

[Damocles]

...but that's 70's rock. Both Zeplin and Black Sabbath (at least the original line up with Ozzie) had broken up by 1980 and if you didn't like Led Zeplin or Black Sabbath then you obviously didn't do enough bong hits!!!

I know it is 70s.. What part of "I grew up on" means 80s?

And again, Sabbath is not solely a 70s band. It's silly to try to freeze a band into one decade when they span 3 or more.

 

[Damocles]

Because most of those bands you mentioned recorded most of their best music in the 70's and not the 80's.

Which doesn't change at all what I said. Even the worst of the 80s was better than disco, and there were many bands that were great in the 80s.

You just want to pretend that your teen decade was the "bestest ever"... But remember you wore the pin holes in your satin shirt, you wore the bell bottoms (by choice, not because you were in the Navy), you wore your shirt unbuttoned with faux gold chains, and you listened to Abba on purpose...

 

[Damocles]

Yes but they began in the 60's like The Who and The Stones and The Beatles.

And again you make the mistake that bands should be frozen in time even if they span even 5 decades (like the Stones). The band created new music in the 80s, I bought the albums.

 

[cancel2 2022]

I got my varied taste in music from my parents and my brothers. Mom loved classical music, so that was what was played during the day. My Dad was a jazz fan. He had a great collection of old 78s of Dave brubeck, Louis armstrong, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and some other legends. My brothers were rockers in the 60s and early 70s, so I got Hendrix, Joplin, Dr. John, The Allman Bros, CCR, and the rest.

I don't like twangy country or rap, but the rest is fair game. I'd love to have the money I spent on buying and rebuying the same albums after people stole them. I must have bought Alan Parsons Project I Robot 10 or 12 times.

I also think we lost a great art form in album covers. Emerson, Lake & Palmer used to have some great covers.

There are some great bands and artists from the '80s, Depeche Mode, New Order, Tears for Fears, Level 42, REM, ZZ Top, Spandau Ballet, UB40, Elvis Costello, Madness, Squeeze and INXS to name a few.

 

[Damocles]

There are some great bands and artists from the '80s, Depeche Mode, New Order, Tears for Fears, Level 42, REM, ZZ Top, Spandau Ballet, UB40, Elvis Costello, Madness, Squeeze and INXS to name a few.

Oh wow... We've got different taste.

Let's see... we can add to your "greats" with Huey Lewis and the News... Michael Jackson...

 

[cancel2 2022]

Oh wow... We've got different taste.

Let's see... we can add to your "greats" with Huey Lewis and the News... Michael Jackson...

I don't disagree with that but I was trying to showcase artists and bands that made it in the '80s. Surely you can't dislike True Faith?

 

[Damocles]

I don't disagree with that but I was trying to showcase artists and bands that made it in the '80s.

Aerosmith

 

[cancel2 2022]

Aerosmith

Motorhead, Ace of Spades.