Opus 80|A Musical Opus from the 1980s

Or perhaps, I should say the lack of fashion.  Ha!  I am of the age, where musicians that at one time seemed ultra cool, look incredibly dorky twenty years later.  Or at least, my kids would have be believe so.  MTV seemed like a good idea at the time, but now it just means those musicians and all that spandex are now preserved for all posterity.  And for my kids instant disapproval at the fact that I actually listened to these guys.  Big hair and spandex were a kind of cool combination at one time.  I think?  Now a days, your more likely to see Hedley wearing a Bentley timepiece copy then getting my kids to watch some of my favorite old rock videos.

I guess, it is really a generational thing.  I know, that when I was rocking out to Van Halen, Rush, and Triumph, there was a certain amount of disdain for the generation of hit makers that came before them from my generation.  Now most of those stars made so much money, they didn’t need to wear fake chronographs, not that I would have noticed much anyway.  I was really more into the music, then what my favorite musican was wearing.  I suppose that’s why I liked Phil Collins a lot more than Duran Duran.  I know it sounds a little pretentious, but who cares what a musician wears, or who they sleep with, so long as their music is great.

Although I suppose I shouldn’t get myself all to high and mighty.  As looks did matter somewhat to me.  The look of the album covers anyway.  I would be found guilty of buying more than one record album, because the artwork looked pretty amazing.  Sometimes, even without hearing a single song.  But hey, I also bought my first sailboat without ever having sailed before, so I suppose there was some precedence there.  Anyway, it’s not like I was the first to buy carbon copies when they came onto the market.

I still believe, that it’s the music that should come first and foremost.  Even though I loved MTV from the first day it hit the air, it wasn’t really about what the artists were wearing, as much as it was about visualizing the music that I loved so much.  The little movies accompanying the song were pretty cool.  Don’t even get me going on the whole Micheal Jackson thriller video.  That’s an entire post (or blog) in and of itself.