Trevor Horn could be described as a genius, with his Buggles project a brief foray into pop music. But that same person caused perhaps a seismic shift in music when he created Art of Noise in 1983. Beat Box and Moments In Time were like nothing previously heard and surely inspired many other artists.
I’d contend their best album was The Seduction of Claude Debussy, years later - an album that, unfortunately for the masses, went almost entirely under the radar but was a monumental achievement and quite stunning!
Yes - MTV had two great initial years with innovative, low-budget videos, kind of like an mini-version of early Hollywood. I'm thinking of Men at Work's Land Down Under, Peter Gabriel's Shock the Monkey, Billy Joel's Pressure and my favorite - Wall of Voodoo' s Mexican Radio. Then the money rolled in and the music was lost in epic productions that even Cecil B. Demille would have balked at. But this brief period did launch some great careers in film and music. That's Hanz Zimmer on the keyboards.
Excellent post, Jason.
Trevor Horn could be described as a genius, with his Buggles project a brief foray into pop music. But that same person caused perhaps a seismic shift in music when he created Art of Noise in 1983. Beat Box and Moments In Time were like nothing previously heard and surely inspired many other artists.
I’d contend their best album was The Seduction of Claude Debussy, years later - an album that, unfortunately for the masses, went almost entirely under the radar but was a monumental achievement and quite stunning!
I arrived in Belfast in 1980 and discovered Top of the Pops - not something we saw in the US - and as a refugee from disco it was a great relief!
Yes - MTV had two great initial years with innovative, low-budget videos, kind of like an mini-version of early Hollywood. I'm thinking of Men at Work's Land Down Under, Peter Gabriel's Shock the Monkey, Billy Joel's Pressure and my favorite - Wall of Voodoo' s Mexican Radio. Then the money rolled in and the music was lost in epic productions that even Cecil B. Demille would have balked at. But this brief period did launch some great careers in film and music. That's Hanz Zimmer on the keyboards.