my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
My mainstream top 10 "rock" songs from 1978 were:
Runnin' With The Devil -Van Halen
Because The Night -Patti Smith
Who Are You -The Who
Roxanne -Police
Sultans Of Swing -Dire Straits
Heart Of Glass -Blondie
One Nation Under A Groove -Funkadelic
Rock Lobster -B-52's
Das Model -Kraftwerk
Teenage Kicks -Undertones
very close:
Dreadlock Holiday -10cc
Hot Blooded -Foreigner
Fat Bottomed Girls -Queen
Hold The Line -Toto
Agreed. When I think back, the DS songs that I gravitated toward were things like "Skateaway", "Industrial Disease", and "Lady Writer" -- what I consider the more XTC-ish side of DS. When Brothers in Arms came along I was happy for the success it brought them but it was also the poster child of how MTV could make anything a success given enough push. Sort of like what happened a couple years earlier with the Police and Synchronicity.
I'm holding out for the Wilson-mixed 5.1 super-duper walletbuster special anniversary extra adjectives edition.
We are in general concurrence here, as you just named 3 of my favorite DS cuts. However, I think that the title cut from "Brothers In Arms" was excellent and somewhat 'proggy'. And despite it's overplayed aspect, "Money For Nothing" is a guilty pleasure with me, for the humorous lyrics and Knopfler guitar picking. Also thought "One World" was a great song that didn't get the saturation treatment and still sounds good today. Their final studio album contained "Heavy Fuel", which I liked a lot.
I'm holding out for the Wilson-mixed 5.1 super-duper walletbuster special anniversary extra adjectives edition.
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