End Of Transition
Even though the decades were different, the music of the 70's didn't seem to change that much from the 60's.
And then came the 80's.
Everyone I knew were very resistant to it at first, saying the new music sounded plastic and the bands looked strange. There was a record store in Abilene, Texas that had one copy each of Adam & The Ants' Prince Charming and Kings Of The Wild Frontier in the front entrance way. During the two years that I lived there, both records went unsold, but you could see people hold each one up, show them to their friends, and laugh at them for being so odd looking.
What appealed to me was how both the sound and images on the album covers seemed like they had been broken apart, and then put back together in a different way. It wasn't so much a change, it was like taking everything you have seen and heard before and turning it sideways, or rearranging the order.
I was always being asked "how can you stand to listen to this new wave crap," while they stuck with the old bands we listened to in high school. I never stopped loving that stuff, but I always looked down on these guys because they couldn't move on. They were really missing out.
Then the nineties rolled around, and I found that all the CDs I was buying were to replace the record albums I already had. At one point I was asked "why do you only listen to stuff from the eighties? You need to move on."
WHAT! How did that happen?
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