Popdose: Cutouts Gone Wild!: Big Noise, “Bang!”
DavidMedsker
· 1 year ago
Pop records like this fascinate me. So inoffensive, so safe. "Come on, guys, let's just dance!"
Rob
· 1 year ago
Great points, Jeff!
I would add the fact that in the 80s, when everything was still available on vinyl, you could buy a brand new album for $6 or so. If you heard one or two songs on MTV that you liked, you thought nothing of plunking down that kind of money. And if the album sucked, as it sometimes did, you didn't mind too much.
Once we got into the CD era, where you had to pay $13 or more per album, the risk-taking all but ended. You had to be damn sure you knew the artist and liked more than one or two songs on the album.
That, my friends, may be why the record industry took a nosedive.
rwcass
· 1 year ago
Only six dollars for a new album with huge artwork and liner notes and a lyric sheet? I really did miss out. I can't remember how much my cassettes cost, but those had even smaller artwork than you find on a CD, plus few liner notes and no lyric sheet, at least with the ones I bought.
I went to a record store last night called Laurie's Planet of Sound. (It's a pretty small planet.) I called in advance last week to see if they had the album I was looking for. They didn't, but they ordered it for me, so that was good.
scrumble
· 1 year ago
This was really the next generation of yacht rock, but it was British: Cutting Crew, Johnny Hates Jazz, Breathe, Danny Wilson, Hipsway and... fill in the blanks here?
scrumble
· 1 year ago
...but the guy to blame for all this was probably Steve Winwood c. 1986
DavidMedsker
· 1 year ago
Waterfront, Swing Out Sister, Curiosity Killed the Cat, the Kane Gang...
Rich
· 1 year ago
Michael Scott would listen to this on the patio of his condo, with a big glass of chardonnay from a cardboard box.
Rich
· 1 year ago
Amazon's got the 2003 album available for download. Sampling it, I'd guess that in 2003, "Big Noise UK" discovered a 1989 vinyl stash - maybe some Cause & Effect and Information Society.
terje
· 1 year ago
It's so... clean. They sound like guys who drink a lot of milk, exercise three days a week, pick up their kids after an 8-16 day in the studio and watch telly with their wives on Friday night. In a way I've always admired people who can reduce the elements of popular music to this kind of utter formulaic, washed-out nonsense. It's an art form in itself, really - most bad pop acts never pull it off.
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I would add the fact that in the 80s, when everything was still available on vinyl, you could buy a brand new album for $6 or so. If you heard one or two songs on MTV that you liked, you thought nothing of plunking down that kind of money. And if the album sucked, as it sometimes did, you didn't mind too much.
Once we got into the CD era, where you had to pay $13 or more per album, the risk-taking all but ended. You had to be damn sure you knew the artist and liked more than one or two songs on the album.
That, my friends, may be why the record industry took a nosedive.
I went to a record store last night called Laurie's Planet of Sound. (It's a pretty small planet.) I called in advance last week to see if they had the album I was looking for. They didn't, but they ordered it for me, so that was good.