Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: How 70's music sounds in the 80's Message-ID: <1626@dciem.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 12:08:52 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1626 Posted: Thu Jul 11 12:08:52 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 13:17:47 EDT References:Reply-To: jeff@dciem.UUCP ( Richardson) Distribution: net Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 23 Summary: > It's amusing reading all the Yes postings. I had assumed that most netters > were too young for that. I used to be a BIG Yes fan but their music seems > irrelevent now. A year ago I tried listening to "Tales from Topographic > Oceans" followed by the Genesis album "The Lamb Lies ..." and it seemed > that Yes's sound (at least on Tales) was obsolete but that Genesis still > sounded fresh. Maybe that's because Peter Gabriel sounded close to the > edge (clever gag) like a lot of 80's music, while Yes was mushy. Funny how > Roxy Music used to sound sharp in the 70's, and now sound glazed over. I'll have to agree that Yes's music sounds somewhat dated (though I can still enjoy it), more so than Genesis's. (I think of all the big "progressive rock" acts, ELP is the one that to me sounds the most dated.) However, I have to disagree about Roxy Music. To me, their early work sounds much fresher today than pretty well any of the other groups of that era, including Genesis. At first, I thought maybe it was because I hadn't played my Roxy Music records as much as my Yes, Genesis, ELP and Pink Floyd, but now I think it's because Roxy's music has more in common with a lot of the 80's music than the other groups do. Perhaps Eno's assistance (mainly as producer) to a lot of new groups during the past eight years has something to do with that. -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsri!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff