NealIsGod wrote:Red13JoePa wrote:I'm guessing NealIsGod and maybe AKay will appreciate this:
Heard Simple Minds' Alive & Kicking the other day out of the blue and realized that it might be one of the best songs recorded in the 1980s. Holds up amazingly well, too.
Good song, but I prefer Tears For Fears in that genre.
My favorite groups are Van Halen (boh eras, but prefer DLR), Kix, Kingdom Come, Aldo Nova and Zebra.
My other non Journey favorites are -Zeppelin/Robert Plant,Mr Big (or Eric Martin solo,one of my all time favorite singers),TNT(Harnell era and other Harnell projects),Foreigner,Van Halen (both eras,prefer DLR),The Babys/John Waite,The Darkness,Queen,KIX,Whitesnake,KISS,JSS,Sam Cooke,Motown and old school soul music (Four Tops,Temptations,Jackson 5,The Supremes,Michael Jackson before he was a kid toucher),Aerosmith,just for starters.
I have been on a HUGE Zeppelin kick since the reunion show announcement.They were TRULY brilliant.Page was a MASTER producer and know how to get GREAT drum,guitar, and bass sounds.God, I love that band!!
In many respects I feel that Led Zep and classic Journey were similar.Mainly, no 2 albums were the same,they had a distinct sound, with a MASTER vocalist and guitarist, and they both could play a variety of music. Neither band had very many limits. Although I will say Perry was a WAAAAY better live vocalist then Plant!!