OFF: Lame 80s pop teen horror

[f. rat]

> >Material Girl was a perfect 3-minute summation of the entire
> >decade.
>
> I know what you mean, but it was still very crap indeed, was it not?

I've often wondered, the song being sooooooo bad, whether Madge was actually
taking the mick from step one with this one.

> >Seems to me there was a Cure song I liked
>
> Surely a tad harsh, lumping the Cure in with the above! They weren't that
> bad. I saw them play at Glastonbury one year and they were a good live
> outfit.

Haven't seen them but I can't help but agree - even the kitsch "Love Cats" is
still cool - makes me laugh anyway. I hope that's what whatsisface intended!

> Until the day I bought "Flying Teapot", which was *so* over-the-top it
> actually freaked them out. They all went quiet and asked if I was feeling
> alright. How strange that it's "OK" to like psychedelia now. When I first
> discovered it I relished the extreme anti-fashion statement it seemed to
> embody.
>
> Strangely enough, within my circle of prog-loving schoolfriends, I could
> never convince any of them that Hawkwind were great. One of my old mates
> from that time became the biggest Gong fan I know- he has virtually
> everything Daevid Allen has ever released (which is a lot)- but he still
> maintains that Hawkwind are crap. C'est la vie.

I can just understand someone liking Gong but not Hawkwind - that's a matter of
taste. It's people who don't get either that I don't go for!!


> But it's worth noting that all these crummy 80s pop acts were at least
> "real bands" of sorts, unlike the manufactured tosh foisted on us now.

At least!!?? This means things are STILL getting worse. Omigawd!!!!

f rat