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the real innovators of the 80's were Sonic Youth, Tom Waits, the Bad Seeds, and the Pixies
Ladyhawke Wrote:Steve O I agree, you have nailed it. 80's was a time of a whole new innovative approach to music, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Peter Gabriel to name a few, changed music history.
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i would also put Paul Weller in that catagory of innovators of the 1980s...
musically he created "cafe bleu" album with Style Council...full of jazz,blues and a touch of rap..pretty well unheard of of as a major mainstream rock artist at the time...and still scored a huge hit with it in europe/japan/australia...even managed to hit the US charts without a definitive cohesive 'genre style'
also Style Council basically started off as a duo of PW and keyboardist Mick Talbot, they recruited members as required for individual tracks, another thing that was different at the time but is now commonplace for some modern artists to do.
not a fan of "house/acid jazz" by any means but he also tried to get this then experimental music released to the masses as mainstream music and out of the 'undeground' on record company enforced shelved Style Council album "modernism:a new decade".
although i dont neccessarily agree with Weller's "leftwing political stances" inm the 1980s but he did have the balls to release highly political songs on a constant basis...probably moreso than any other artist since the 1960s US peace/folk era.
im not saying everything he did in the 1980s was brilliant but he did have the balls to try different things, afterall, he could have stayed with The Jam and had a licence to print money for years to come within that band....
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
