Thoughts from the 80's

Sorry I have not been writing too much as of late my friends but my new job is very tiring. Ah yes, a steady job, the most vile poison to creativity one can be bitten by. On the bright side though, now I can afford more whiskey, which is the artists friend, so by and by this will balance itself out. I shall endeavor to write more often, which means more booze, YAY!!!

That being said, I can now tell you a thought I happened across in the vast wasteland that is my mind, while I was sitting down with a nice bottle of Scotch. I was perusing cable television offerings when I stumbled upon a show on one of the many Mtv's, it was called Metal Mania and let me just say wow. It was a showcase of videos from the 1980's, more precisely hairbands from the 80's. Truth be known, as a youth I considered much of this music to be not so bad, not great, but at least it wasn't New Kids on the Block or Tiffany. Now that I am older, I find that, as a novelty, the music is still not that bad. It was not, by any means, amazing but it wasn't the worst thing. well, Bon Jovi and Winger sucked but not as much as Def Leppard so that's a plus. A fun little game is to watch Ozzy Ossbourne now and then watch his vide0s from back then. You no longer see the cool, scary, parent bain you saw as a child, now you just see a frumpy, middle aged Brit with a kleenex full of dog mess singin' Bark at the Moon. How's that for a tribute to Randy Rhodes? The song "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" by Great White made me realize a vast difference between popular music then and now. That song is absolutely full of innuendos, so full in fact, that it should be called "Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge)". Popular music now has no suggestion or innuendo, bands just say what they were thinking while they were writing their crappy songs, I am sad, I am angry, touch my penis, show me your ass. That is a great way to talk if you are a ninety year old, ex-marine with alzheimers (I will leave this word misspelled if only for the humorous irony that I forgot how to spell it) but not a good way to write songs.
I also discovered that I learned more about world history from Iron Maiden than from my actual teachers. It would have been awesome to have a class taught by Bruce Dickenson. He could sing the important points that you had to know for the test and you would still recall them perfectly, even now, so many years after you have left the mind crushing walls of public school behind.
I believe that the 80's was the only musical decade that you would hear the phrase "Dude I just wrote this amazing synthesizer solo", or, "Hey, which one of you guys used both bottles of my Aquanet?". I never noticed until the other day that all of the 80's synth players, only play with one arm. Don't believe me? check for yourself, "The Final Countdown" by Europe and Bon Jovi's "Run Away" are two great examples of this. There is so much more I could talk about but it is best if you discover it all for yourself. Call your local cable company and demand that they stop playing current crap and start playing some old crap and find out for yourself.