donna summer wrote:
quoted 3 lines Listen, I give massive street cred to Leppard for having a one armed drum,
> Listen, I give massive street cred to Leppard for having a one armed drum,
> and pyromania is fucking great, but the follow up that was big in the late
> 80's is fucking terrible...
Someone mentioned Robert John 'Mutt' Lange. In all seriousness, he shouldn't
be completely overlooked (well, he can be mostly overlooked, but not
completely). His style did make heavy use of studio effects to emphasize the
dancier elements of his proteges, in a much more polished way than a lot of
the other pop-metal dreck that was big at the time.
That's not to say Lange took his cues from Kraftwerk and Moroder, or strayed
very far from the formula that spawned the Kiss Army, but his heavy hand in
the percussive sound of both The Cars and Def Leppard surely did help elevate
dance music in the public eye, at a time when white teenagers were becoming
increasingly hostile toward anything that didn't rawk. There were legions of
kids who wouldn't be caught dead buying 'breakdance music', rap, freestyle or
disco, but they would dance around their poster-bedecked bedrooms to anything
that had power chords and a 'good beat'. Lange fed them exactly what they were
hungry for, and in so doing, unknowingly primed them for a day when they might
see the divide between 'their' dance music and 'ours' as not being so vast,
after all. That's my theory, anyway.
For a limited time, I've put up a little something for the adventurous at
http://hyperreal.org/~mike/def/ ... click on the graphic and enjoy. (And that
mix isn't much different than the LP version, actually).
- Mike
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