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More specifically, Pandora's Box is an Aerosmith box set which collects more than fifty singles, album tracks, demos, outtakes, live cuts and rarities. An old bandmate of mine used to always have that box set lying around the studio so that's why I remember it. "Pandora's Box" is also the title of an Aerosmith song which is on that box set, as well as the title of a different song by OMD (Paul Humphrey & Andy McCluskey). OMD were another one of those British new wave bands that were significant in influencing the shape & sound of the electronica that I was writing and performing back between 1991 & 1996. Good stuff!
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The 80s were also an ok decade, although not my favorite.
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>My favourite group, although previous to the >80s are Genesis! Too bad they are over!
Not only are they over, but Phil Collins is currently embarking upon his final farewell concert tour. See him if you can! Phil is still one of my all-time favorite male vocalists on the same list with Steve Perry, John Lennon, Peter Ceterra, and many others. And I'm with Elz, Genesis was a great band!!
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When I read something about Genesis I feel younger. I spent the best years of my life with their magic music. Trespass, Nursery Crime, Foxtrot, Genesis live, Selling England by the pound, The lamb lies down on Broadway...magic moments, beautiful words, great music. Musical box, Firth of fifth and Dancing with the moonlit knights are masterpieces I will never forget. Luciano
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quote:Originally posted by Calico Jack: >My favourite group, although previous to the >80s are Genesis! Too bad they are over!
Not only are they over, but Phil Collins is currently embarking upon his final farewell concert tour. See him if you can! Phil is still one of my all-time favorite male vocalists on the same list with Steve Perry, John Lennon, Peter Ceterra, and many others. And I'm with Elz, Genesis was a great band!!
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Phil Collins was a great vocalist (still is i suppoose ), i never really liked Peter Gabriel and i started liking Genesis with P.Collins. He came to Portugal recently but i missed him, apparently he even sang some stuff from Genesis but him, solo, is average i think. Heīs not such a good composer as Mike Rutherford, so i believe he should have sticked with them! And his last records...YUCK! Terrible! And there was a rumour some time ago that they would get together again for a last tour...of course it was just a rumour ! The thing that really gets me "mad" is the fact that i lost their concert many years ago, here in Lisbon. It was fabulous and lasted 3 hours! Their last vocalist wasnīt as good but still i think they should have had more support, they were a little ignored and iīd like to see more of Genesis. As for other musics and musicians from the 80īs, i can name some wich i still like, some musics simple do not die...groups like The Cars with the song "Drive", Reo Speedwagon with "Canīt stop this feeling", Icehouse and "Crazy", Laura Branigan "Self Control", Pat Benatar, I also listened to Camel, Supertramp and many more.
quote:Originally posted by Luciano: When I read something about Genesis I feel younger. I spent the best years of my life with their magic music. Trespass, Nursery Crime, Foxtrot, Genesis live, Selling England by the pound, The lamb lies down on Broadway...magic moments, beautiful words, great music. Musical box, Firth of fifth and Dancing with the moonlit knights are masterpieces I will never forget. Luciano
Indeed Luciano! I love their musics too and i will not name them because there are so many! Itīs one of those rare groups that kept doing good music as the years went by, some records better than others but still, high quality. And nowadays groups like Genesis simply do not exist!
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I think it's hard to choose a particular decade because all of them have been important in the evolution of music. I suppose the 60s might be the most important in terms of how music flourished and broke from the chains of rock and roll and has lead us, at least in part, to where we are now with such a diverse selection of music to listen to. I love all those girl groups from that era with those great powerful ballads with the huge vocals, wistful lyrics and intoxicating melodies. I think all the psychedelic weird shit was interesting and important too and, of course, you had the Beatles.
As an era the 70s were pretty bland really, but punk was also an important thing to happen and the end of the decade saw the advent of a truly great independent scene, where you really felt like just everyday ordinary people were singing about what they wanted to or making records of the like that had never been heard before.
The 80s were a great decade because the independent scene really kicked in properly and so much interesting and diverse music came about and it was a truly exciting time. Also the technology that we take for granted now in music production was all new then and records started to sound like they hadn't before with the use of samplers and computers. Unlike now, generally speaking people would use these very creatively. As the 80s came to a close you had house and techno starting to appear as well which gave music another interesting colour and has lead to where we find ourselves today with stuff like the electro clash scene and back to basics synthesiser music. The other good thing about that decade was that unlike now where you have a load of manufactured garbage at the forefront of what everyone considers as the current musical climate , back then people with real talent were in the limelight. People who were amazingly creative and had something to say in their music, like The Smiths and The The and Depeche Mode and countless others. I cannot honestly remember a time of recent years where I have heard a mainstream record coming through the TV, or the radio, that had anything of value to say to me about my life, or life in general. OK, apart from Morrissey's new album.
I'm not sure of what to think of the 90s as I can't think of it having any particular identity. Although having said that some of my favourite records are from that time and the one good thing about it was you had some amazing records - kind of like bits of shrapnel embedded into the anonymous body that music was back then - as the artists who were making great music in the previous decades had matured and were making some of their best work.
I find this decade now particularly strange, I'm not even sure what music is meant to be anymore as with the advent of computers and downloading a lot of people just see it as a commodity more than the beautiful thing it really is. I think now it is a case of there being more content over style. There's a million niche genres for just about everything, which I suppose is nice, but I'd rather be hearing records that can stop you in your tracks with an incredible and unpredictable chord change or reduce you to tears with just a beautifully well written couplet. I feel like I have to work really hard now to find something that stirs me and not so long ago somehow those kind of records would just gravitate towards me through the ether. It's worth putting in the effort to find it though, because, in my opinion, music is unique. There's nothing else in the world that can do the things to you that it does. It's almost supernatural in the way it can sometimes weave its way around your very soul, extract the emotions from it and play them back at you amplified to the point where there's little else to do but cry.
It makes me sad that we are living through a time where it's not valued as it once was and deserves to be.
Thanks for reading.
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That was beautifully said, mizubaku! I agree with everything that you wrote with the exception of the 1970s being a pretty bland decade musically. I think a lot of brilliant music and creative ideas spilled over from the late 60s into the 70s and enabled the further development (and birth in some cases!) of many genres. The 70s offered us great rock (Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd), progressive rock (Rush, Yes, King Crimson), funk (Sly & the Family Stone, Grand Funk Railroad, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic), punk (Sex Pistols, Ramones), disco (ABBA, Bee Gees, KC & the Sunshine Band), early electronica (Kraftwerk, Neu!, Tangerine Dream) and sewed the seeds of heavy metal (Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, AC/DC) as well! Plus I was born during the 70s, so how could they be that bad?
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Though most of my favorite artists were primarily 60s artists, I think rock n' roll was still very young then.
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HUH???????1970-1979 Stones(their hey days)Zeppelin,KISS,Boston,Aerosmith Frampton,Floyd,Traffic,Bowie, T REX, New York DOLLS, Genisis, Cheap Trick,Van Halen,JOURNEY!! JOPLIN, HENDRIX, SEX PISTOLS, CARS, B,52's,Clash, BLONDIE, Pretenders, RUSH, Do you want me to continue..Some of these bands started in the 60's&70;s but all of these bands flourished in the 70;s......The 70's is by far the most influential time music...IN MY MIND
If it wasnt for the 70's the 80's would only have been DISCO!!!!!!
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), i never really liked Peter Gabriel and i started liking Genesis with P.Collins. He came to Portugal recently but i missed him, apparently he even sang some stuff from Genesis but him, solo, is average i think. Heīs not such a good composer as Mike Rutherford, so i believe he should have sticked with them! And his last records...YUCK! Terrible! ![[sad]](cry.gif)
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I love their musics too and i will not name them because there are so many! Itīs one of those rare groups that kept doing good music as the years went by, some records better than others but still, high quality. And nowadays groups like Genesis simply do not exist!![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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