THE 80S ARE ALL RIGHT IF YOU LIKE SAXOPHONES

[defrog]

It’s often trendy to put down the 80s in terms of music, but there’s a lot of good music to be had from that time, and I don’t just mean LA hardcore punk or college radio staples like REM and The Replacements. And every decade has its fair share of cheesy music that doesn’t age well.

In the case of the 80s, for my money the main problem wasn’t the hair or the clothes or the British accents – it was the gratuitous sax solos.

A pretty definitive list is here.

PRODUCTION NOTE: Some of the songs on the list are actually pretty good. Still, that’s probably more sax than we needed. And that's not including Kenny G.

Best gratuitous sax solo? That'd be Fear.

Let’s talk about sax,

This is dF

Comments

[thelastaerie.livejournal.com]

I guess no one has officially apologised for Michael Bolton... but I have very fond memories of the 80s music. Smiths, Stone Roses, Guns and Roses, Kate Bush... all sans saxophone :)

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

To this day I don't "get" the Stone Roses, but anyway, yeah, tons of good 80s music. Even if you just focus on the New Wave bands that tend to define the 80s sound, some of them were pretty good.

As for Michael Bolton, no apology would be sufficient to make up for his transgressions. And that's just the mullet.