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Blue Moon Top 100 Bands Artists - Full List of Artists (pg 287)
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FogBlueInSanFran
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I don't think The Police are gonna make the list here, but they were unbelievably popular when I was in high school in the early 80s -- in part because all the young women I knew loved Sting and/or Stewart Copeland (Andy Summers was too short and/or old I guess). And actually all of their records are good I think, not "great" though the last two were quite strong (if not a smidge pretentious as they got more popular). One of my wife's friends who hated them called their front man "Schting" (as in "schtick") which I always thought was hilarious. Pretty pompous guy, I thought, but I saw a great piece on him revisiting his old NYC haunts when they were trying to make it at clubs like CBGB when "Roxanne" came out and he came off really down-to-earth and self-deprecating. My sense was The Police weren't especially popular in the UK; is that right?There would be soft rock after classic rock station on the dial and it came to the point that when something like The Police or Blondie came on I was very excited....
Mad Eyed Screamer
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They were huge in the UKI don't think The Police are gonna make the list here, but they were unbelievably popular when I was in high school in the early 80s -- in part because all the young women I knew loved Sting and/or Stewart Copeland (Andy Summers was too short and/or old I guess). And actually all of their records are good I think, not "great" though the last two were quite strong (if not a smidge pretentious as they got more popular). One of my wife's friends who hated them called their front man "Schting" (as in "schtick") which I always thought was hilarious. Pretty pompous guy, I thought, but I saw a great piece on him revisiting his old NYC haunts when they were trying to make it at clubs like CBGB when "Roxanne" came out and he came off really down-to-earth and self-deprecating. My sense was The Police weren't especially popular in the UK; is that right?
I loved their first album.Nothing after that.They were huge in the UK
Bill Walker
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Did any of them seriously chart though ?This quantity over quality barometer som of you have is odd to me.
Give me 1-2 LPs of greatness over someone who can produce 10 of an average nature.
FogBlueInSanFran
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Ah. It seems they're none too popular around bluemoon, kind of like U2, another band that is absolutely giant here.They were huge in the UK
Mad Eyed Screamer
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I think had U2 split up after the Joshua Tree they'd be an all time great band - us Brits don't particularly like stadium bands - kind of we build em up to knock them down. We like our bands in small size venues and once they get too big you hear cries of "sell out". That plus Bono wanting to save the world became very annoying..... in the same way Sting did too.Ah. It seems they're none too popular around bluemoon, kind of like U2, another band that is absolutely giant here.
I would say The Police were the biggest band in the world in 83.
4 or 5 weeks at number 1 in the UK with Every breath you take and then same in the US a few weeks later and filling stadiums in the US.
Ironically The Police played Gateshead stadium in 1982 with support from U2, The Beat, Lord's of the New Church and Gang of Four
60's Bee Gees were quality some of the best product going around into the early seventies and the split.Definitely
Their 60's output is littered with great tunes.
The disco phase got them a bad rap in the UK but looking back are top tunes - the harmonies are just amazing.
1st of May , Holiday and World for example stand the test of time but falsetto for upward spirally melodies wasn't my bag.
As an aside the Grandmother ( mothers side ) lived in Ashburton Melbourne around the corner where I had moved in my younger days to and whenever they visited she supplied them with helpings of the lovely vegetable patch they for some strange reason they enjoyed smoking.
Hard to put a case against all that Fog but I thought Terry Kath was a good musician perhaps in the wrong band with decent vocals as for his replacement the least said the better and I chuckle at the fact the band threw him out despite their success with him at the helm.REO is the outlier — they did a couple of great songs before they went pop, literally and figuratively. Foreigner was good for a couple of decent ones early on too. Toto as well. I even owned that Asia record (they were a “supergroup”, remember?) In contrast I DETESTED Chicago.
But then there’s Styx and Journey, arguably two of THE most annoying bands in the history of music, largely because they were so popular here for so long. Journey especially as they are from San Fran (I apologize on behalf of my city for foisting them upon the universe). Even so, both had a tune or two that stuck in the ears.
The problem with ALL those bands is that they should have been one or two hit wonders but instead made music their careers and turned out utter dross. As bands, they sucked. They should have all been like Saga. Or John Waite. Or Mister Mister. Or Kajagoogoo. Or A-ha. Do a hit, take your money, then please break up and go away forever. Argh.