Hey Vince, you ready to watch the Grammys?

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Best Rap "Song" lol

That's what I was wondering. Did any of them actually play anything on those guitars? Other than maybe strumming a few basic chords? Also how much if the good ole lip syncing was going on.? I heard something about Cardi D, a singer I have never heard of but I am sure is extremely famous and popular and has sold trillions of streams.

Less Rap, but plenty of Hip Hop?

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Battle of the white rappers! Well, Machine Gun Kelly net worth: $8 million, Eminem net worth $210 million. I think he’s laughing all the way to the bank.

I’m gonna go grab all my Beastie Boys albums and go through them again like a proper grumpy old man.

Haha exactly. If you handed them a Jethro Tull album, they would file it away in their stack under the Ts and wonder why you are yelling at them.

JT was one of those bands that wandered around quite a bit genre-wise. But they had plenty of stuff that was good hard rock. Saw them at Oakland Colesium in the late 70s right at the time Bursting Out was very popular. They could play.

When I see a pic like that, all I can think of is a calculated poser. Covered with lame tattoos and everything is done so perfectly to look so cool, right down to the cool underwear with logos to show 'cause your designer jeans are hanging low.

Way back in the day, we weren't posers. We INVENTED having your underwear hanging out of your pants. And it was the regular cheap-ass boxers from Fedco hanging out from Levis 501s worn falling off the butt. It looked stupid and ridiculous. Which was why we did it of course.

Oh yeah, we also invented wearing your baseball cap on backwards. That's not a new thing.

I think maybe one of the big downfalls for current music was overuse of voice processing. Maybe not, who knows.

For a long time, I was that guy. Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, etc. That was it, everything else was crap. But I am really expanding these days and enjoying all kinds of music. I hope to spend some time on the newer music and see if I can find some I like. For example - dubstep, some of that is really awesome stuff, love it. But some of it is kind of so-so. There is a lot of rap I like, but I lot I don't like as well. I think there are gems buried everywhere.

Right now I am mining backwards and backwards. All the way to the 20s. I just think its a riot to listen to those old blues songs, it makes you realize those guys way back then were the ones who came up with the stuff that become everything in rock, country etc. I'm not sure if anyone from the 60s onward has come up with a blues/rock single guitar lick that those guys didn't play first.

I have worked my way through the 30s, 40s and 50s. There is lots of great stuff buried in there. Heck I even am listening to some country/western music. If you were to tell that to myself 40 years ago I would have called you crazy. For example, Move it On Over, Hank Williams SR, 1947. Good lord, the guitar work in there, just awesome. In 1947! There is great music in every decade I think. But, also there can be stuff that is not so great in there. Heck even my most favoritest bands often have crap. There's some new stuff by Metallica that's...not good. And then there is "Van Hager". BLECH. But these are all opinions of one person. Others have their own taste. I think its all good, listen to what you want, and try to branch out if you get bored. Its so great you can find this music on the interwebs these days, and Vid I always like your music threads to help me expand. Keep them going!

I think I would blurt
Cars
Duran Duran
Cure
Pet Shop Boys
Thompson Twins

But the 80s also brought a huge pile of one hit wonders which makes it harder to name a list of artists.

There aren't many of those 80s bands I would want to see in concert. But I like the music. I remember the Cars played at the universty but I took a pass. I did see Devo play, that was just awesome.

I gave St. Vincent a try, I really did. But....
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All good although at the risk of getting pedantic about it some of these are more 70s than 80s. I keep the Boston and Foreigner stuff in my 70s folder, they were mostly before the 80s. The "good" Journey stuff was from the 70s but they certainly had huge popular hits i the 80s. Cars is one of those that started in the 70s and fell over into the 80s. REO Speedwagon was also 70s but got their big hits in the early 80s.

I was never much into REO Speedwagon over the years. I did see them play once a little bit back (playing with Devo oddly enough) and I was blown away by the level of musicianship there. As a live performance, it can only be described as incredible. Those guys have more talent in the nail clippings of their pinkie fingers than most bands of today have.