{"id":18963,"date":"2013-05-25T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18963"},"modified":"2013-05-29T07:19:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:19:21","slug":"well-is-was-the-1980s-i-have-my-80s-pass-or-do-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/well-is-was-the-1980s-i-have-my-80s-pass-or-do-i\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;well is WAS the 1980s! (I have my &#8217;80s pass&#8230;or do I?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up two CDs from the $5 bin at FRY&#8217;s today (which is HUGE and has many treasures), both from the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darryl Hall and John Oates<\/strong>&#8216; <em>Voices<\/em> has been a favorite of mine since I bought it in 1980 at the age of 9.<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7ooPfAAr9o?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>The other, <strong>Stevie Ray Vaughan<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>Soul to Soul,<\/em> which was a huge LP for me when it came out 1985 and my band I&#8217;m in now can play the whole LP as a set (see <a title=\"Electric Stevieland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/can-a-cool-cover-band-really-exist\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Electric Stevieland<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TMY9Wrh1oPA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI love both CDs\u2014they just didn&#8217;t make the upgrade to CD&#8230;or to the car once the cassette deck went away.<\/p>\n<p>The liner notes from SRV are a <strong>celebration<\/strong> of the Texas guitarist hitting the big time as part of a blues revival (Cray, T-Birds, Thorogood, etc) and keeping true to Texas blues roots\u2014the words &#8220;the &#8217;80s&#8221; are never used.<\/p>\n<p>In their liner notes, Hall and Oates on the other hand mostly <strong>apologize<\/strong> for all things 1980s. Not sure why, the &#8217;80s were pretty good for them! Cause its dated? X-static from &#8217;78 is way more dated sounding but &#8217;70s\u2014a time that we have forgiven for its sins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0Is &#8220;well it WAS the &#8217;80s&#8221; a legit excuse for any musician\/band\/song\/album?<\/p>\n<p>Do any artists get an &#8220;&#8217;80s pass&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Is there such thing as a &#8220;&#8217;90s pass?&#8221; A &#8220;&#8217;70s pass&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>A crapbuger record is bad because its bad. (Loverboy is Loverboy&#8217;s fault, not the producer or stylist&#8217;s.) It&#8217;s not all trends, fashion and production is it? Knowing when to say when is part of your artistic (or at least stylistic) integrity, right?&lt;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8217;80s did not force itself on you (or did it) any more than that bandana and parachute pants combination did.<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; Hall and Oates did have a Bad and Dated release: 1988 <em>Ooh! Yeah!<\/em> Sounded like it was stuck in 1986!!! The next one they went back to early &#8217;70s soul and it was like the 1980s never happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up two CDs from the $5 bin at FRY&#8217;s today (which is HUGE and has many treasures), both from the 1980s. Darryl Hall and John Oates&#8216; Voices has been a favorite of mine since I bought it in 1980 at the age of 9. 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