Originally posted by Diki:
the very music that you prefer had ALREADY gone through the filtering process of time, before you even got into it! The good remains and the bad gets forgotten. But if you listen to CONTEMPORARY music, that filter has not yet been applied. But good and interesting current music DOES exist. Unfortunately, no-one has done the filtering, yet, so you have to wade through the slime to get to the good stuff. If that's too much to have to do, you may have to wait ten or twenty years to find out
Diki, very well put. Twenty years seems about the cycle it takes to discover which songs have stood the test of time to become standards. 80's and early 90's pop hits are suddenly back in demand (high school/college reunion parties etc) and I'm getting quite a few requests for this era now. Here are just a few of the ones I do :
Red Red Wine (UB40)
I Swear (All4One / John Michael Montgomery)
Dance The Night Away (Mavericks)
Kokomo (Beachboys)
You Can't Hurry Love/Groovy Kind Of Love (Phil Collins)
Fields Of Gold (Sting)
Right Here Waitin For You (Richard Marx)
Every Breath I Take (the Police)
Stuck In The Middle With You (Stealers Wheel)
Tear In Heaven/ Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
Come Dancing (the Kinks)
If You Don't Know Me By Now (Simply Red)
Good Thing (Fine Young Cannibals)
Scott
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