Geiginni wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 2:23 pm
Lotta DX-7 going on in that one as well as gated drums, heavy vocal reverb. This is pretty much what it sounds like when doves cry.

Which lead me to this guy who might have created some kind of platonic ideal for vintage synthesizer youtube videos imho.

penningtron wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:21 pm

Geiginni wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:56 am - Chorus, on anything (and too often, everything), but particularly acoustic guitar

If I had to pinpoint the absolute worst sound of the '80s it would be fretless electric bass with chorus. Sounds like a polished queef.

It's all over this album:

indiegrab_360 wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:49 pm

penningtron wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:21 pm

Geiginni wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:56 am - Chorus, on anything (and too often, everything), but particularly acoustic guitar

If I had to pinpoint the absolute worst sound of the '80s it would be fretless electric bass with chorus. Sounds like a polished queef.

It's all over this album:

a queef in the hand is worth two in the Bush


she can queef on me anytime is what I'm saying, polished or not

yeah, KB uses every '80s studio cliche but it's so over the top weird it kind of cancels out.

penningtron wrote: Sat Feb 26, 2022 7:06 am yeah, KB uses every '80s studio cliche but it's so over the top weird it kind of cancels out.

^This, plus she was often the first one to do it, therefore it was not a cliche at the time.

Geiginni wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 2:26 pm Also: Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart

Respectfully disagree, heard that on the radio the other day and it was quite entertaining, which isn't something anyone's ever said about We Built This City.

Your first post was spot on though, covered all the 80s cheeseball bases.

Do we have consensus that 80s production styles are the cheesiest? Seems tough to argue to me, the chorus and the gated reverb set a pretty high cheese-bar, but I'm curious what others think.

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Sat Feb 26, 2022 9:13 am Do we have consensus that 80s production styles are the cheesiest? Seems tough to argue to me, the chorus and the gated reverb set a pretty high cheese-bar, but I'm curious what others think.

Maybe, but at least some music of that era (for whatever reason: catchiness, danceability, etc.) has proven to be somewhat enduring.

On the flip side who the hell would return to most of the mainstream rock/pop music of the early 2000s. Something like Staind is just as dated but not even fun or catchy.

^ I haven't sat in my wife's car as often since the pandemic, but I have the feeling we've entered an era where all of the specifically goofy techniques have become integrated and are used more sparingly. Like it's all on a pallet for big time producers to season the soup with as opposed to going all in. Which is more reasonable and less hilarious.

Penningtron wrote:at least some music of that era (for whatever reason: catchiness, danceability, etc.) has proven to be somewhat enduring.

For sure. I'd much rather listen to We Built This City than Staind. Just talking production style, not musical content.

losthighway wrote: Sat Feb 26, 2022 9:26 am ^ I haven't sat in my wife's car as often since the pandemic, but I have the feeling we've entered an era where all of the specifically goofy techniques have become integrated and are used more sparingly. Like it's all on a pallet for big time producers to season the soup with as opposed to going all in. Which is more reasonable and less hilarious.

I agree in the sense that there are way more options now, and therefore maybe a less obvious stamp. But I think production has gotten far more extreme. The latest freak show single by Fall Out Boy or whomever will make A-Ha sound relatively airy and dynamic by comparison, and there won't even be a decent song underneath.