[atlantaprog] Re: another aspect

>jblanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>> 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.

I might point out that Enya's producer is a big Phil Spector fan.

*Lots* of those '80s records, in fact, were produced by people who wanted
to be The Phil Spector Of The '80s, with their Perfect Pop Creations built
around what are really rather "little" tunes.   "Merry little synthesizers
crammed into every nook and cranny" fit perfectly with that.  It's not for
nothing that Phil Collins covered "You Can't Hurry Love" and "A Groovy Kind
Of Love," or that (IIRC) Stock, Aitken, and Waterman (remember them?) had
Bananarama cover "Venus".

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