Snappy as heck! Don't believe me? Try playing to this and let me know...
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80's AOR bass can be brutal!!
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Hmm, that sounds like a lot of other stuff in that time period, a glossy, shimmering radio friendly track that is watered down new wave/synth pop made safe for mass consumption, not unlike The Fixx but even more commercial. Yes, great bass playing, but that was an era when bass was more upfront and animated. What’s the backstory on this band?
Haha fantastic honest review lol, really enjoyed reading it! But what do you mean "that was an era when bass was more upfront and animated"? 1984??
Sure…between the disco/funk era and a certain amount of fusion or prog that got to the masses just a few years before, the instrument had a higher profile in general, let alone all the lead-ish bass that came in with post-punk.
Interesting... So did 80's pop kinda weaponize jazz fusion to a large extent? I've always kinda thought that.
I did some sleuthing, Canadian band, fourth album(last one from the original run of the band)and ironically it was produced by one time Fixx bassist Alfie Agius, so I wasn’t too far off in my assessment. Can’t say that I’d ever heard of them before, but there was another Canuck band in that realm and time period, Spoons, that caught my attention although they weren’t that ground breaking. Other than that, there was all that Nettwerk stuff like Moev and Skinny Puppy…darker, edgy, and artsy, although Sarah MacLachlan made all the money for the label.
