In both his solo career and fronting Genesis, Phil Collins dominated the 1980s. His many ballads crowded the radio, his rounded face loomed from record shop shelves; And everywhere, The Academy Awards, Band Aid, Live Aid, Miami Vice, Phil Collins was there. However it was a monkey’s paw kind of […]
I’m back for yet another round of Trash Theory-based questions and answers for celebrate 500K subscribers. All opinions in the video are mine and mine alone and most are used for comedic purposes. Don’t take anything in this video too seriously. Enjoy! #q&a #trashtheory #questionsandanswers Soundtrack: Luar – Oblivion (https://soundcloud.com/luarbeats) […]
Punk changed everything. As well as celebrating DIY ethos and anti-musicality, from 1977 onwards, certain things were just instantly uncool: Hippy values, Long hair, and liking bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple or Bad Company. Doing any one of these things, especially coming from the punk scene, was a treasonous […]
If you know the B-52s you probably know them from one of two songs. The surreal sea life-themed post-punk of “Rock Lobster” from 1978 or the raucous permanent karaoke-staple “Love Shack” a decade later. Emerging during the apex of New York Punk, The B-52s had the look of a retro-future […]
Britain in the 80s had some great number one singles. Songs that summed up a moment, stretched the boundaries of what pop could be, yet have stood the test of time. “Ghost Town”. “Don’t You Want Me”. “Relax”. “West End Girls”. “Ride On Time”. From this list you would think […]
1994 was the year where punk truly went pop. Especially in the US. For the most part punk was an underground concern, there was no chance that you could become rich, famous or even financially secure playing punk rock. But then, post-Nirvana, louder more alternative sounds made it to the […]
You know who Paul McCartney is. A Beatle. A Wing. Half a Fireman. A knight of the realm. Writer of “Hey Jude”, “Band On The Run” and “Wonderful Christmastime”. But more than anything he is still to many the impish, whimsical, cute one from The Beatles, adept at silly three […]
A vision of the future that never properly arrived, Synth-pop was an ever present staple of the British charts in the early 1980s. A canny fusion of pop-suss and technological invention, its height reflected the increased affordability of commercial synthesizers from the late 1970s onward. But that doesn’t mean that […]
Compared to the drum-machine euphoria of dance music in 1989, Soul II Soul stood apart. Britain was getting sweaty in make-shift raves, with Euro producers snagging Disco samples to voice their four-to-the-floor 120 BPM party-starters. Meanwhile a loose collective of London-based DJs, dancers, singers and the occasional musician slowed it […]
Tears For Fears didn’t quite fit in. Not style conscious enough to be New Romantic but too Smash Hits to be the next Joy Division. Not quite a synth-pop band, more a pop band that used synthesisers. Before U2 took over, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith were briefly the biggest […]
