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| From | DanAbnrml9@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: Jocelyn/80s |
| Date | Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:21:26 EDT |
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In a message dated 8/15/03 7:03:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
> but, i still have a real pop(ular) ear. from growing
> up listening to top 40 radio during the 80's?
Amen, Jocelyn. I think that my own love of pop-oriented music--both
slick/mainstream and obtuse/underground--is rooted in the fact that I grew up in the
'80s, which was a time when mainstream music was very very poppy. So much of the
music from that decade--from the more obscure alternative stuff right on up
to the top 40 stuff--was sugary pop, and that certainly was a huge influence in
terms of shaping my tastes. This also might be why a lot of the *older*
power-pop--like the Raspberries or Badfinger--doesn't do as much for me as the
stuff that came from the punk era on. But I think many ignore this--that '80s
mainstream music was, in all honesty, really poppy and catchy--in favor of the
more standard party line that '80s music was plastic garbage. It's too bad,
really. --Jason
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