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Post by soonerbillz on Apr 4, 2022 6:37:06 GMT
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Post by sirrastus on Apr 4, 2022 7:31:17 GMT
I'm glad he likes the first 4 records.I'd punch him out anyway for hating Spectres.As for the 80's it's difficult to keep your sense of musical balance when the genre has descended to a lot of crap(not all)and you're trying to fit in and succeed but da boyz did more than fine IMO.
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Post by The Ocean on Apr 4, 2022 17:46:43 GMT
You ever read something and instantly suspected the writer probably gets off to recordings of their own voice? Because this is a bunch of smugly pseudo-intellectual garbage. It's not even pablum. It ASPIRES to be pablum.
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Post by joe on Apr 5, 2022 2:20:22 GMT
I'm glad he likes the first 4 records.I'd punch him out anyway for hating Spectres.As for the 80's it's difficult to keep your sense of musical balance when the genre has descended to a lot of crap(not all)and you're trying to fit in and succeed but da boyz did more than fine IMO. Agree with you on 80's music, and some 70's. There was some good stuff buried in there like you said. Each to their own, but I got sick of the "happy little tunes" disco and dance music REAL fast. I don't like disco or dance, but combine the two and, well, I won't say it. But if everybody liked the exact same music, the world would only need one band to keep everybody happy.
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Post by luxexterior on Apr 5, 2022 10:21:29 GMT
Well it's entertainingly written in the style of 1970's Gonzo Rock Crit. I think he absolutely nailed the first three albums & it's great that On Your Feet gets the respect it deserves for once. I can see his point but disagree re Agents & he couldn't be more wrong about Spectres. As a history/resume of the bands work it's incomplete & needs more detail but to be fair the writer eludes to this in the article but to write off everything after Spectres is clearly very wrong.
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Post by marty on Apr 5, 2022 14:31:11 GMT
Trying to be objective, I’d love to read some music reviews that aren’t so recording-centric. To me, what sets BÖC apart, besides defying genre, is over 50 years of extensive touring. Only The Beach Boys, Ray Charles and B.B. King have played more shows, and regardless of whether or not the black and white albums are better than what came after, BÖC grew, as musicians, throughout the decades, so much so, especially Buck Dharma, that even losing Pearlman and the Bouchards didn’t reduce the overall performance. To say that the Secret Treaties BÖC was the top of the pops leaves out a vital ingredient, where they are concerned. Too bad the author obviously didn’t witness the history that I did.
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Post by sirrastus on Apr 5, 2022 18:39:33 GMT
I'm glad he likes the first 4 records.I'd punch him out anyway for hating Spectres.As for the 80's it's difficult to keep your sense of musical balance when the genre has descended to a lot of crap(not all)and you're trying to fit in and succeed but da boyz did more than fine IMO. Agree with you on 80's music, and some 70's. There was some good stuff buried in there like you said. Each to their own, but I got sick of the "happy little tunes" disco and dance music REAL fast. I don't like disco or dance, but combine the two and, well, I won't say it. But if everybody liked the exact same music, the world would only need one band to keep everybody happy. 70's disco and dance were fine IMO 80's RnB sucked for the most part tho stuff like Kool and the Gang was still great along with Commodores etc who were still good but strict R&B/dance was pretty forgettable excepting early Madonna and a few others and my comment was more about hard rock in the 80's and thrash metal etc.
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