Re: [bomp] Re: Bands You Listened To Religiously, But Hate Today

[Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Mark Robinson <wytches@lycos.com> wrote:

> 
> OK...the 80's.
> > 
> Ministry - First album was about a vacuous as
> possible.  I remember some goofy thing about "Being
> An Effigy".  To be honest the later stuff just grew
> tiring.  The whole bass/guitar grind fell into the
> disco/rap trap.  No future for the genre.

I do like "Jesus Built My Hot Rod", though. Never was
a huge fan ; 

> 
> Bowie  Face it, in the eighties he sucked.  

Didn't "Lodger" come out in '80? That's a superb
album. "Scary Monsters" is a pretty good album, too. 
You must be talking about the REST of the 80s. 

I saw
> him for the Glass Spider Tour and am not sure if I
> was more embarrassed to have shelled out the shekels
> or for Bowie descending from a large glowing spider
> that looked more like a translucent purple squid.  I
> thought the stuff in the nineties got back on track

Late '90s. 

> but never saw him live again.  My god, that album
> Tonight is unlistenable.  
> 
> Simple Minds  EEEEEK.  I just dont know.  Heaven
> 17 and Simple Minds.  It has not stood the test of
> time.  Maybe it was like Reuniteback then you could
> swill the stuff and get a vicious buzz, but it
> doesnt age well, tastes like crap and cost ya a ton
> of brain cells which you can ill afford.

They were one of those bands who sounded decent the
first
time one heard them, but who got seriously overplayed.
I'm sure
if they'd just done a couple albums and faded into
obscurity, 
many peoples' opinions of them would be different. 
> 
> Depeche Mode  By 1985 I would cringe whenever I
> heard a bass sequencer and the hand-clap-whip-snap
> on the 1st beat and the ever-present deadpan vocals.

I know Dave Gahan and he's a perfectly cool guy, but
I'm not
a fan of his music - and the DM cover of "Never Turn
Your Back
On Mother Earth" is rather pathetic, considering the
greatness
of the original song. 

> 
> As for eighties groups that I still listen to. 
> Smiths, Gang Of Four, New Order, Cure, OMD.

Gang of Four I still can listen to. OMD I was never a
fan of. 
As for the other bands, there are songs that I like by
all of
them but I've always found it hard to listen to entire
albums
by them. The Smiths, New Order, and The Cure are just
meant
for "greatest hits" type albums. 



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