80s music
The 80s were chockful of New Wave power ballads, synthesizers, drum machines, and no shortage of Madonna and Michael Jackson.
Beatboxing
Beatboxing (additionally beatboxing) is a type of vocal percussion fundamentally including the specialty of imitating drum machines utilizing one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice. It might likewise include vocal impersonation of turntablism, and other instruments. Beatboxing today is associated with hip-jump culture, regularly alluded to as "the fifth component" of hip-bounce, in spite of the fact that it isn't restricted to hip-jump music. The expression "beatboxing" is in some cases used to allude to vocal percussion overall.
By James Aaron Wellington Jr4 years ago in Beat
A Quick Overview of City Pop
Let's talk about city pop, one of my favourite generes. City pop is basically a subgenre of Japanese pop music that started in the late 1970s and took over in the 1980s. The music is western-inspired, using elements of funk, disco, and soft rock to bring a new sound. It was nothing like the traditional Japanese music of the past, it used music all around the world to make a smooth, rich sound that could only be made in the 80s.
By Other Slater4 years ago in Beat
Pat Benatar Saved My Life
1979, the summer before I started the sixth grade for the second time. My sister and I were visiting our dad and watching America Bandstand. Dick Clark introduced a new singer, Pat Benatar. She sang Heartbreaker and hypnotized me. I wanted to be her. I wanted to dress like her, sing like her, wear my hair like her, be as cool as her.
By CAROLE S TURNER4 years ago in Beat
'That's Why I'm Here'
James Taylor's eleventh album, That's Why I'm Here, was released in 1985, four years since his last longplayer Dad Loves His Work and two years after Taylor cleaned up from his well-publicized drug addictions. The album's title and demeanor suggest a new beginning for Taylor, and indeed Taylor decided to self-produce the album in collaboration with Frank Filapetti, a producer, engineer and mixer who would go on to win multiple Grammy Awards for his work on various Broadway albums, including Wicked, Spamalot, The Color Purple, and Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida. (Not to mention Grammys received for his production and engineering on Taylor's Hourglass, which will be covered when that album is assessed.)
By Sean Callaghan5 years ago in Beat
'Dad Loves His Work'
Following the lukewarm reception to his 1979 album Flag, James Taylor went into Record One in Los Angeles to record his 10th album, once again produced by longtime manager Peter Asher. This time around, Taylor did not lean on covers, having a hand in writing every song on an album for the first time in his career (noting that even his Apple debut included a traditional folk tune). The album, recorded and released at a troubled time in Taylor's personal life, was released in March 1981.
By Sean Callaghan5 years ago in Beat
25 Greatest Songs of Sade
Sade is one of those musicians that comes around only once in a generation. She is strikingly beautiful, glamorous, an image of strength, her voice is instantly recognizable, perfect pitch and soothing timbre, and her band is one of the hottest jazz/R&B bands of the past 75 years.
By Rick Henry Christopher 5 years ago in Beat
Sometimes A Song Changes Your Life
My parents gave me my first turntable when I was four years old, so it is safe to say that music has always played a big role in my life. It was a real turntable, too! Not some toy. I cannot tell you how much vinyl I ran the needle through over the years! I got my first ever record in 1964 (I was four years old) as a party favor. It was “Love Me Do” by The Beatles, and those four-year-old little girl ears were never ever the same. Never ever the same. I fell in love.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior5 years ago in Beat
Rebel Yell
Yes, Twisted Sister was one of the bands that fueled the fire of my teen feelings of being powerless and pushed around at every turn. This song was playing on the boombox when we staged a walkout in high school. We were protesting closed campus lunches among other things. I believe the song was playing loud enough that the congressman speaking in our Economics class could hear it.
By Yvonne Lovejoy5 years ago in Beat
