The Great Musical Taste Black Hole I Endured

Ok... the solid five years in an alcohol, pot and sundries haze; after all of these years, NOW MAKES PERFECT SENSE!!!

My twenty year high-school reunion is coming-up and I accidentally found out about it (the in-crowd is only allowed to go, but sometimes one of plebeians find out about it and go to the High School and get a form... it really pisses them off. I did one better and put it on Classmates.com. Apparently I am now hated more than in HS which means Hell just froze over... dress warm next week).

Ok... on with the hell and why torturing them again was ruined for me and why I now realized another reason for the anesthesia.... on the forms we have to pick (if they are not fully filled-out you can't come, they don't put your stuff on the list for the venue!) out favorite songs from your years in HS.

Since I spent a good deal of it in a black-out I decided to go to my CD and tape coll and look.... ouch!
Someone swiped all my good mid-80s music! How dare they!

On to the internet and all the best information one can want... I'm drinking a beer now.

See, we (my wife and I) decided to narrow our search (because it was going to be SO VAST) to just 84-86. I graduated/got kicked-out with an unearned diploma in 86.

Did you know there was no good music in the years 1984-1986, but there were a lot of movies about pissed-off teenagers, coincidence?

Ok, to be fair, 4AD was producing in that time (86’ Clan of Xymox, Cocteau Twins, Colourbox, Dead Can Dance, Dif Juz, The Wolfgang Press), Nick Cave put out a good album, The Cure put out Head on the Door in 85, Bad Religion did one, The Sisters of Mercy put one out that had good songs but shitty production, a high-point was Violent Femmes- Blind Leading the Naked (an amazing album), Jesus and Mary Chain, and a few really off the beat bands.

What are we NOT seeing here? I can tell ya’… hits.
With the exceptions of Eurithmics and a VERY brief Joe Cocker flash on the lower depths from the 9 & ½ weeks soundtrack (Simply Red, I’m thinkin’)… NADA!

Ozzy and ACDC put out their absolutely WORST albums, the best metal album of these years was This Is Spinal Tap… making FUN of metal!

Was it coke? That has nothing to do with the absence of Punk, Jazz, Blues, Classical and the odd break in Alternative/Synth (yup they sucked too) Ok, Whitney was in her Hey-day and Aretha was in her comeback, but the songs were drivel… and you know it.

This is weird man…. Really weird... it all makes sense now....

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