Music Banter - View Single Post - What went wrong with so many artists/bands from the 60s and 70s throughout the 1980s?

Terrapin_Station · 08-28-2021, 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by jadis

While I'm capable of grasping the idea of an artist who goes in new directions I'm not necessarily thrilled with but respect them anyway, I am also very sympathetic to Bowie fans who failed to appreciate his evolution from someone who kept reinventing himself by releasing brilliant records every year to someone who's stuck in a rut, doing the same commercial gunk as everyone else on MTV.

Scary Monsters didn't sound like Low, which didn't sound like Station to Station, which didn't sound like Diamond Dogs, which didn't sound like Hunky Dory. The problem with his Phil Collins years is that it's the opposite of that.

At most you could say that three albums were in a similar style, but it's not as if every single Bowie album prior to the 80s was in a completely different style.