Rewinding the 80’s: The Bands That Won’t Go Away
Written by Chris C on August 20th, 2008
I love 1980’s musical nostalgia trends as much as the next person but there is no humor in how much of it is coming back. I am not talking about Frank FM playing ‘Cars’ by Gary Numan on a daily basis or ‘Everybody’s Working for the Weekend‘ every Friday at five o’clock (which is the lamest thing ever on radio by the way) but the continual comebacks of bands that should have hung it up already.
Take for example the latest Motley Crue song ‘Saints of Los Angeles‘. It sounds rocking at the beginning …
but it just takes one round of the chorus to make it sound like a filler song off a Dokken or a Ratt album. There’s even a lame attempt at repeating the coolness of the voice-over at the beginning of ‘Shout at the Devil‘. There goes the hair on the back of my neck again.
It gets worse folks.
Foreigner.
Yup they are back too and are currently tied with Whitesnake for most band lineup changes. The 80’s iconic group that produced hits like ‘Urgent‘ and ‘Jukebox Hero’ comes up with the stinker ‘Too Late‘:
This might be as bad as ‘Stay the Night‘ or ‘That was Yesterday‘.
There is no official video for the single by the way. There is some guy’s cell phone camera recording of the band singing the song live and other not-so clear live versions. The Patterson Bigfoot film is easier to watch.
I know that the Crue has a hell of a lot more fans and the original band members but come on. At least rent a camera and record it live.
Wrapping up the lame comeback edition of Rewinding the 80’s is none other then Rick Springfield who was described as looking good in his latest go-around rehashing his love for Jessie:
“…maybe even better than contemporaries Sting and David Bowie.:”
That isn’t much of an achievement, especially when this was Bowie twenty years ago..
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And to top it off, I’d feel out of place going to see one of these has-been bands at some podunk county fair even though they’re all older than me.
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I loves me David Bowie and would see him at a county fair or on farm or even for a roll in a haystack.
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Yes, it was a grim time. I can still remember seeing that picture of Bowie and thinking “Stylish!” I burn with shame.
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Yah well Meg there is that gay hurdle to get past with Bowie before sleeping with him.
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Thanks, you’ve sentenced my head to an endless-loop tape of all these songs. Great.