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Re: Phil Collins
Sep 09, 2010, 16:31
IanB wrote:
zphage wrote:
Maybe this is the turning that inevitably happens to once vilified commercial acts: ABBA, ELO, Bread, Carpenters, Beach Boys, Four Seasons, Association, Etc.,


Not to mention Queen who were just as uncool as Genesis in NME circles between Punk Rock and Fred's demise.

All it takes is a couple of hipster acts to say they like something a bit outre and guilty pleasure-ish and suddenly all is forgiven.

Even LZep's rep got a re-fit in the mid 80s and Floyd's too in the late 80s early 90s.


agree

also agree about punk's flat earth sensibility


some of that sensibility may also be related to demographics, punk was a backlash to mid to late 70's AOR/stadium tedium such that baby was thrown out with bath water.

Level of play of stadium acts was so high that coming back in with Chuck Berry and less was rebellion, but they had no plan or discipline to truly develop a different way. Technology helped for a little while, hence so many synth acts in UK and Europe.
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