02-13-2010, 08:12 PM
marshlander Wrote:Thanks, Rychard may I bring this full circle. You gave us The Runaways singing Slade, here is Slade singing Run Run Away (well, okay, maybe not their best song but it's as close as I could get )I really liked this tune .I don''t think it was bad at all.A really daft fun song that I could''nt get outta my mind all day.He,he!
The problem with rock music is that so much of it is 2-dimensional and many artists have not pushed the boundaries in recent years. The form has more or less fossilised. Just as I remember a real sense of excitement in the 1960s at the imminent release of every new Beatles song (what would they sound like this time?) Top of the Pops in the 1970s was an event. Bands like Slade, Wizzard and Sparks made every appearance a real occasion. Of those three bands only Sparks have gone on to be consistently interesting and are even now continuing to do things differently. I can't think of many bands of whom I could say that their 20th album was their best work to date (they may have just released their 22nd album, but they are allowed a little wriggle room!). And no, I don't think Dave Hill was Lady Gaga's dad!