Музыка 80-х

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еще был Бой Джордж... Do you really want to hurt me??

А еще в 80-е Стиви Уандер записал несколько своих лучших песен.
Part-Time Lover - Luther Vandross & Philip Bailey on backing vocals
Overjoyed - офигенная по настроению баллада, одна из моих любимейших баллад вообще.
Ну и конечно же...
"No New Year's Day
To Celebrate..."

2Betsy:

>еще был Бой Джордж... Do you really want to hurt me?? - И "Карма хамелеон"!

Саманту Фокс точно все помнят... Она пела "Touch Me"...

и Сабрину... Boys, boys, boys...

Фил Коллинз. Какой альбом не поставь - сплошь шедевры.
Великий Оззи стал таким именно в 80-е.
Каждый альбом Джудас Прист 80-х теперь настоящая классика стиля.
АсДс стали супергруппой.
Масса отличных новых команд - Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Poison, Metallica,Slayer,Motley Crue, Cinderella, Accept.
Второе дыхание Эроусмит, Кисс, Дио, отличные пластинки Рэйнбоу, Ингви Мальмстина, "Триллер" Майкла Джексона, конечно Мадонна, Кайли Миноуг, Уитни Хьюстон и любимые Битлы.
Под завершение декады - отличный дебютный альбом парней из Skid Row (1989)

2Betsy:
>Она пела "Touch Me"...
>и Сабрину... Boys, boys, boys...
Вот что они пели - уже не очень-то вспоминается :-)
"Но мы их любим не только за это..." (с)

2karp:

о том, что Саманта Фокс была еще и певицей, я узнала недавно...

Соглашусь с Flaming Rain, действительно масса отличных групп появилась в 80-е. А для меня самый ярчайший коллектив которые возник в те годы, это естественно Bon Jovi. Одни из немногих которые дожили до сегодняшних дней в отличной форме (как физической так и музыкальной).

Кстати, массово распространились видеокассеты и в конце 80-х, даже не и надеясь тогда, что кто-то к нам приедет на гастроли, можно было посмотреть клипы и концерты многих, кого ранее только слушали.

Re: Музыка 80-х
Автор: Betsy Дата: 03.02.06 15:43:04



Одна из самых любимых песен 80-х, если иметь ввиду попсу - Madonna "Like A Virgin"! Казалось бы - такая банальщина, но в этом то и вся привлекательность, наверное... Да, и еще ностальгия...

Песенка, тока с виду банальщина...
Штучка сделана в лучших традициях "Тин Пан Элли":

The songwriting team of Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg wrote this. Other songs they have written include "Eternal Flame" by The Bangles, "So Emotional" by Whitney Houston, "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper, and "Alone" by Heart. All were #1 hits in the US featuring female vocalists. Steinberg considers this their most famous song.
Steinberg: "My father was a farmer. He was a grape grower in the Coachella Valley and our vineyards were in a little town called Thermal, California. I had a Rock band called Billy Thermal and we were signed to Planet Records, Richard Perry's label. That band had just split up, so I was working out in the vineyards with my dad. I remember writing the lyrics to 'Like a Virgin' while driving in a red pickup truck that I owned around our dusty desert vineyards. I had been involved in a very emotionally difficult relationship that had finally ended and I had met somebody new. I remember writing that lyric about feeling shiny and new - I made it through the wilderness, somehow I made it through - I made it through this very difficult time. I took that lyric to Tom, he knew what I had gone through. He read those first lyrics and he sat down at the piano and tried to write a sensitive ballad to them. He'd come up with a few interesting things, but every time we got to the chorus lyric where it said, 'Like a virgin,' it just hit a brick wall - how can you write a tender ballad called 'Like a Virgin'? It just sounded ridiculous. Whereas it was him prodding me with 'True Colors' to finish the lyric, with 'Like a Virgin' I was the one prodding him, saying, 'No, no, no, let's not put this one aside because this is a very special lyric.' I didn't want to let it fall by the wayside. At that time Tom and I were writing Rock songs. Tom had this voice that was not unlike Lou Gramm (from Foreigner). Tom had that kind of voice - very high, very powerful range. Out of nothing more than utter frustration, Tom started to play the bass line to 'Like a Virgin' and sing the lyric falsetto to this bass line he was playing. I said, 'That's it!' He stopped and went, 'What?' and I said, 'That's it, that's the song.' He couldn't imagine because he had this style of singing that was usually based on that male Rock thing. I think he was trying to imagine doing a falsetto, almost Motown inspired vocal and I said, 'Yeah, that's it.' He went along with it and agreed that that's how the song was working. We did a demo where Tom sang the song falsetto and I added a few background vocal parts. Tom didn't like me to sing because he never liked my singing. He sort of indulged me and I added a few little parts that ended up being used on the Madonna record."
Steinberg: "When we were writing songs like 'Like a Virgin' and 'True Colors,' Tom lived in Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley and he made a living primarily as a background singer, he was a session singer. He had been in a Rock band called Fool's Gold. There were a couple of guys in LA - Richard Page, who later formed the group Mr. Mister, and Bill Champlin from The Sons of Champlin. Tom, Bill and Richard were sort of the guys that producers called when they needed background vocals. We met at a party at producer Keith Olsen's house. Keith Olsen had already proved to be a successful matchmaker. If I'm not mistaken, he introduced Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to Fleetwood Mac. He produced the first Fleetwood Mac record that included Stevie and Lindsey. It was August of 1981 that we met at a party at Keith Olsen's house." ...

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Nile Rodgers produced this and recorded it using real musicians, rather than synthesized tracks that were characteristic of Madonna's first album. Rodgers had several hits in the '70s with his Disco group Chic, and used many of the same musicians on this album. Rodgers has also worked with Peter Gabriel, Al Jarreau, David Bowie, and Sister Sledge.
Steinberg: "Our demo, if you were to hear it, you'd notice it's influenced by a sort of Smokey Robinson style of singing. A song that would come to mind would be 'I Can't Help Myself' by the Four Tops. When Madonna recorded it, even as our demo faded out, on the fade you could hear Tom saying, 'When your heart beats, and you hold me, and you love me...' That was the last thing you heard as our demo faded. Madonna must have listened to it very, very carefully because her record ends with the exact same little ad-libs that our demo did. That rarely happens that someone studies your demo so carefully that they use all that stuff. We were sort of flattered how carefully she followed our demo on that. I remember once reading a comment that Nile Rodgers made, I was amused when he said that he took this sort of unimpressive demo and made this great record because in fact, they just copied our demo. The main difference was it was Madonna singing instead of Tom and there was a great drummer on the record, Tony Thompson. I've seen Nile Rodgers being interviewed about 'Like a Virgin' on several occasions and I always think he takes too much credit because everything was in our demo." (thanks to Billy Steinberg for speaking with us about this song)
The title and lyrics were very racy for a Pop song, which made it more difficult to find someone to record it. Madonna had released only one album and was known as a dance singer, so her record company didn't mind having her record a song that would generate some controversy. It became a huge hit and created a new image for Madonna that set her apart from other singers. The media has been fascinated with her ever since.
Madonna performed this for the first time on September 18, 1984 at the first MTV Video Music awards. Wearing a wedding dress and a belt buckle that said "Boy Toy," she sang a sultry version of this, ending with a simulated orgasm. The show was live. Madonna was convinced she missed a note while performing this on the show, but if she did, no one seemed to care.
This was Madonna's first #1 hit. It stayed there for 6 weeks in the US.
This was a topic of discussion in the Quentin Tarantino movie Reservoir Dogs. The character Mr. Pink starts the debate by saying, "'Like a Virgin' is all about a girl who digs a guy with a big d--k. The whole song is a metaphor for big d--ks." Mr. Blue responds, "No it's not. It's about a girl who is very vulnerable."
In their December 7, 2000 issue, Rolling Stone named this #4 on their list of the greatest Pop songs since The Beatles era. The top 3: "Yesterday," "Satisfaction" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
In 2003, MTV wanted to open the 20th Video Music Awards by recreating a classic moment from the first show. To start the show, Britney Spears came out of a wedding cake singing this. She was followed out of the cake by Christina Aguilera and then Madonna, who was a surprise performer. Madonna sang a song called "Hollywood," and kissed both Spears and Aguilera on the lips before joining Missy Elliott for a short version of her song "Work It."

Да, и конечно же помимо пост-панка, новой волны, евродиско и прочего, это были годы heavy metal: может кто помнит: "Хэви-металл в каждый дом!"

New Wave of British Heavy Metal - Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motorhead, ветеран Оззи развернулся во всю, немцы всякие: Accept, Helloween и прочие, за океаном трэш голову поднял - Metallica, Megadeth.

Во второй половине восьмидесятых в наших краях увлечение железом приняло прям-таки повальный характер. Если бы, скажем, Iron Maiden посетили нашу страну году так в 1986 - заморская битломания просто ушла бы покурить. Им бы и персональный транспорт не понадобился - всю дорогу на руках бы носили.

2Горыныч:
>"Хэви-металл в каждый дом!"
"хеви мЕтал - по всем планетам", как было в каком-то переводе песни хайрастой группы Европа...

"терпеть ненавижу" сей стиль...

2karp:

но мы же, надеюсь, объективно смотрим в прошлое? А ведь реальность была такова (см. выше). Хэви в те годы у нас разросся до практически до размеров мэйнстрима. Явление загадочное.

2Горыныч:
>Хэви в те годы у нас разросся до размеров мэйнстрима.
Дык, там часто был такой Хэви, что он в мейнстриме и был...
Но iron maiden'ом и metallica'ой были все стены расписаны.

Что мИталл было слушать модно и круто - неоспоримый факт и в коллекции у практически любого подростка тех лет было что-нибудь громыхающее. По себе знаю :-)

PS
Еще величайший вопрос человечества помню: "Ты за брейк или метал?".
Правильно было отвечать - "метал" :-)

2Кот Котофеич:

>Поначалу умиляли обложки - все эти чудища, - да уж, блин шедевры китча! Это ж был полный трэш во всех смыслах. При всей их многочисленности, такое ощущение, что их один и тот же человек рисовал.

2Кот Котофеич:

>В Лондоне видел ну очень дорогую книгу,
>по дизайну обложек heavy metal.

- надеюсь, не купил?

Manowar конечно, блистали в этой отрасли народных промыслов - как щас помню, все какие-то накачанные полуголые дядьки с мечами на обложках. Типа богатырский эпос.

2Кот Котофеич:
2Горыныч:

Выложили бы здесь пару таких картинок....