Popdose: Into the Ear of Madness, Week 33 — Procrastinating | Popdose
Jevon the Tall
· 10 months ago
Here's the World For Ya - The Payolas. Which featured Bob Rock. So David Foster is within spitting distance of having influenced Metallica!
breadalbane
· 10 months ago
Rock also engineered "Here's The World For Ya"
Terje, are you familiar with the album? For those of us who camein from the perspective of liking The Payolas, it's pretty much a wrong-headed disaster -- Foster's just the wring producer for the band. But how does the LP hold up from the perspective of a David Foster fan?
Incidentally, we *know* what The Payolas thought of the album. For their next album, Bob Rock and Paul Hyde very deliberately thanked their new producer Bruce Fairbairn, who "did the decent thing and let us be ourselves(we can all look in the mirror in the morning now)."
terje
· 10 months ago
I don't really how I feel about the Payolas album. I mean, all the Foster stuff is in there and I would probably have loved it back in '85 - and maybe still today, in a nostalgic way. But I heard it for the first time eight or nine years ago, and the first thing that popped into my mind was: empty, empty, empty.
breadalbane
· 10 months ago
Interesting that even as a Foster fan you didn't hear it back in 85, as the lead single ("You're The Only Love") was a minor chart hit at the time.
As the artist's name starts with H, this single will soon be featured on Bottom Feeder. So maybe some Bottom Feeders readers will have some other perspectives .
fellow canadian
· 10 months ago
Thanks for all this! I didn't know about most of it ! Big surprise! I love most of this list! Foster is even greater than i thought before !
Eric S.
· 10 months ago
Wow, there's a scary amount of good information here. And with Foster, "scary" is many times the best adjective. It still amazes me that the person responsible for some of those great Tubes and Chicago songs also produced some of this other crap. I guess a producer can make a good act great, but if you're mediocre, production only emphasizes that fact.
terje
· 10 months ago
Hm, that's an interesting perspective. I think we could easily come up with an entire series here on Popdose focusing on that alone: Beatles/Martin, Cohen/Spector, Horn/Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Foster/Chicago, Prefab Sprout/Thomas Dolby ... heck, even Alan Tarney/A-ha's debut album. Who made it great, who made it suck, and why?
Eric S.
· 10 months ago
I like the idea, especially for bands that have had varying levels of success with different producers. For instance, Cheap Trick's best records were arguably done by Tom Werman, while their George Martin and Todd Rundgren discs were pretty uneven.
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Terje, are you familiar with the album? For those of us who camein from the perspective of liking The Payolas, it's pretty much a wrong-headed disaster -- Foster's just the wring producer for the band. But how does the LP hold up from the perspective of a David Foster fan?
Incidentally, we *know* what The Payolas thought of the album. For their next album, Bob Rock and Paul Hyde very deliberately thanked their new producer Bruce Fairbairn, who "did the decent thing and let us be ourselves(we can all look in the mirror in the morning now)."
As the artist's name starts with H, this single will soon be featured on Bottom Feeder. So maybe some Bottom Feeders readers will have some other perspectives .