I did the same today followed by "Foreverly" which I like a lot.Very sad.
Think I"ll spin "EB84" today..."On The Wings of A Nightingale" is one of their masterpieces.
Goodbye Phil, loved many of your songs.
Yes, there are a lot of "singers" today that are lousy, but I think there are many many great ones. Today's music scene is so cutthroat that many great performers are taken with a grain of salt. There are so many talented musicians out there, that it is almost a requirement to have a gimmick in order to get noticed. Fabulous singers abound, but there are so many of them and we are so inundated with them, that what would have been considered extraordinary back in the 50's, 60's and 70's is just ordinary and almost commonplace today. Also, if you don't have support from the industry, forget about it.
Steve-You may be right, but I don't see the major labels signing up great talent. I see them signing up a "look" and building a brand from there. I find the opposite of your argument to be true in that we have far too many current 'stars' with no talent compared to the true talent we used to have. Of course I could be dead wrong and it's just my opinion.
The really sad thing is that we used to take this type of talent for granted because we were so spoiled with so much great music in the 1950s, 1960s, and into the 1970s. Then along came manufactured talent which had no real talent. 'Singers' who couldn't really sing a single note on key were manufactured into pop stars and of course this is still continuing today. Lots of todays pop star wonders would have been given a boot in the ass on their way out of the studio door in the old days after a very brief audition.
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