[atlantaprog] Re: another aspect

In a message dated 8/15/2003 9:47:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jblanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >I grew up in the
> >80s and I instinctively gravitated towards music recorded in the sixties 
> and
> >seventies because it sounded "real" and "alive" to me.
> 
> It's interesting that you should use the word "alive" in that context.  I
> remember reading article after article back then about how the '80s sound
> was supposed to be inspired by an effort to get away from That Dead Studio
> Sound Of The '70s and back to That Great "Live" Sound Of Those Old Motown
> Records And Such.
> 

I could definitely see that argument for some of the early punk and new  
wave, but not that mid-eighites crap pop sound with the merrry little 
synthesizers 
crammed into every nook and cranny and those godawful robot drums that just 
go "thud...thud...thud...thud...thud..thud." with no variation at all.



CH

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