80s music
The 80s were chockful of New Wave power ballads, synthesizers, drum machines, and no shortage of Madonna and Michael Jackson.
Are These Folk Songs?
Introduction While researching songs for articles that I share in UK & Irish Folk Music 60s-80s I started thinking of songs by non-folk artists that could be considered folk songs. Folk music often documents the zeitgeist, as well as telling stories and including love songs and lost love songs, all of which are seen across all genres of music.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 5 months ago in BeatBon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer"
'Livin' On A Prayer' is my all time Go-To Anthem... it paradoxically revs me up, as tears spring unbidden to my eyes! Obviously, I have excellent taste in this instance, as this track off Bon Jovi's 1986 "Slippery When Wet" album topped the charts in early 1987; later won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance in a Video and has become the band's signature song.
Angie the Archivist 📚🪶Published 5 months ago in BeatMy favorite albums part one: Selena’s live albums
Selena won her Grammy in 1994 for this wonderful live album that she and her band released and recorded in 1993 appropriately titled “Live”. It’s an album that is chocked full of Selena’s hit at the time that have become classics with time. The album takes the best from every album that the band had recorded from when they signed with EMI Latin at the time to 1993 when the album was recorded. Recording the album where they recorded it was a homecoming because it was Selena y Los Dinos hometown heroes in Corpus Christi Texas at the famous collesium of the city.
Rikki la rougePublished 5 months ago in BeatWorld Turned Upside Down - Incredible Words From Leon Rosselson
Introduction Sometime in the past I first heard this song, either by Billy Bragg or Dick Gaughan. These versions conveyed the anger at the Hateful spite of the privileged classes toward the less fortunate.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 5 months ago in BeatBoy George and culture club, as great and fabulous as they ever ever wore, and ever are, and ever will be forever and ever always!
I saw a Boy George and culture club in 2022, my awesome cousin took me to see them at some hotel resort in Pennsylvania somewhere. Boy, George and culture club did not disappoint at all, they did their hits a lot of them and also because there’s artists in the music industry they also treated us their fans to some new stuff too, which is always enjoyable and exciting at the same time. Unfortunately, on this gig, while this show rather original drummer John Moss was not there now he is not out of the group bios any stretch of the imagination no it is there was a substitute for him at that night. He still a member of culture club.
Rikki la rougePublished 5 months ago in BeatA Sixth Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction I need to be a little more careful in my song selections as I repeated one in Episode Five (Link at the end of this article) but I have to be thankful for the suggestions from the members of UK & Irish Folk Music 60s-80s for their suggestions of artists who have slipped my mind and artists I have never heard of. I had been particularly remiss in my lack of coverage of Welsh Folk.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 5 months ago in BeatSpend Christmas with Willy Chirino
In recent years Willy Chirino released two Christmas albums one was “Llegó la Navidad” and “Navidad en Familia”. Willy knows how to serve up wonderful holiday concerts and television specials be it for Valentine’s Day or Christmas.
Rikki la rougePublished 5 months ago in BeatA Fifth Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction This is the fifth installment in this series taking it up to fifty songs for you to enjoy. I am trying not to repeat artists but the more I share the more difficult that is to do.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 5 months ago in BeatA Fourth Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction This is the fourth episode in this series and I am trying to not repeat myself and to include artists that have not appeared in previous ones. I don't think I will have any problem with that, and I am lucky enough to start this off with someone that I have met a corresponded with.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 5 months ago in BeatA Third Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction This is the third selection that I have created to share in UK & Irish Folk Music 60s-80s and you can visit them here to discover even more musical treasures.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 5 months ago in BeatMerzbow - Material Action 2
A heaping dollop of noisiness from the long-time Japanoise king, Masami Akita, a.k.a. "Merzbow," who has been going since 1978 and has a hundred and forty million albums of this stuff. Here, we have a heavy collage of bang and clang, intercut with high, piercing, synth whistling but it never does in any way get dull. The feeling is that one is inside the bowls of some great, futuristic tin horn beast from a demonic bestiary located somewhere south of Chiba City and somewhere north of the Sprawl. Strings are plucked behind the wall of noise, there is always the sensation of movement...movement...movement forward in sound, a process of progression.
A Second Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction Peter Guy said this in a comment on the story below: It’s ascribed to various blues singers I think, that “all music is folk music, at least I never heard a horse sing” or words to that effect.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 5 months ago in Beat