listen to it while you read the rest. maybe you feel sorry for me...
I mean, if you see this you already kind of know where this is going and what the answer will be. This is probably one of the first music videos i saw when there started to be music channels in germany. of course, i had heard music before this. but moving pictures can be quite something. anyhow. my music taste isnt everybody's. sometimes it is plainly considered as gay music, in the sense of very manly music. i dont know. i like guitars tho. and drums. and if its rock it will be fine. but yeah, i get easily bored with certain kinds of music after a few weeks and change the direction a bit. so its not only rock'n'roll i hear. i hear everything.
i just was introduced to other kinds of music, more recent ones. sounds really good and i started to like some of them, not all. the thing is also, that certain music is just made for a certain time. like jump. just look at those funny haircuts. look like a couch where the stuffing bursted out.... curly with massive chemical help (everyone had it in the 80s i guess). electric guitars (boah). a drumset which is twice the size of my flat (yeah, my drums are my castle). and the that certain touch of aerobic or sportic life. just one need to hear physical by olivia newton john. the last time i mentioned that song it was a joke. nothing else. i would and probably never could talk seriously about physical or olivia newton john (remember, her dancing with john travolta in grease..?). so, i think most music is just made for a certain time and will disappear after some years. very little will stay but thats ok. jump represents that kind of 'you can do everything, even jump, if you want to. just do it'-attitude of the very activity oriented 80s.
ok, i dont really know. i think my music taste is kind of weird because i have heard a bit too much 80s music and even more 90s. and got stuck in it. it is really hard to listen new, other kinds of music once you are in that 'trap', or? i grew up with this a bit. it isnt any excuse i know. but still. i remember my parents have this song on vinyl (you can listen to it while you browse through my blog)
it is still in my mind quite clearly though i havent heard it for ages now. it is a somewhat different time and thus represents something different. i havent time now to think what. i like that song too. and it isnt like jump. this comes just to my mind now: i think personal music taste, if you have one at all, is like a big mixing bowl. you start with the music your parents hear. then you hear more in kindergarden, school, through friends and the like. you buy your first cd (or download a song in 21st century). you kiss to a song and remember it. you have a road trip with a mix of songs. all this is somehow added to that bowl and then mixed together. at the end you have perfectly unique music taste. i hope so at least. maybe its not a special one. but its unique through its mixing. and the good thing is, some music will fall out of that bowl and new music will constantly come in. at the different times the bowl contains different 'ingredients'.
nothing to add there at the moment.
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There was for sure better music in the 80s than this. I agree with you on this point.But every decade brings its on new thing into music and this is on of the songs you can hear again and again (or for the first time) and place it into the 80s right away.
To talk about David Lee Roth here is another story. He has always been some kind of a freaky glamour person of the music business. Like Freddy Mercury for example. And if you look at his way to dress and to move in the video you can even see some similarities.I mean, have you ever seen his Beach Boy cover from the early 90s? Don't rememeber the song anymore but it was even more horrible than this one.
But to make the most important statement here: THERE HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER MUSIC IN THIS WORLD THAN IN THE 80s!!! (Amen)
hmm... I find it very hard to belive that double bass drumm and 30min long guitar solos, would beat the real music that is produced a decades before and after 1980s. Let's face it, the 80s was crap, so were early 90s. But when the British came (Pulp, Oasis, Blur, Suede, Ocean Colour Scene, The Verve..) and save us all from this daunting era of big hair and small testicles.
ich finde freddy auch spitze und ich weiß da auch noch jemanden,,,,
and what about überhaupt the music of the 60s ????????
but if there hadnt been the 80s there wouldnt have been these kind of 'counter-revolution' music from britain, or? just a thought. in that the sense, maybe the 80s were crap and long hair and and small testicles were more important than music itself. but in the long run, this is why kurze haare und grosse gemaechte die vormachtstellung gewonnen haben. oder?
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