Thursday, April 29, 2004

Crappy 80's Song of the Week

In addition to this week's "Crappy 80's Song of the Week", I want to discuss those albums that marked a band's "jumping the shark" moment. Off the top of my head, here are a few examples of bands and the albums after which they should have called it a day. Feel free to disagree.

  • Rolling Stones "Tattoo You" - "Harlem Shuffle"...'nuff said.

  • REM "Automatic For the People"

  • U2 "Achtung Baby" (maybe "War")

  • Pearl Jam "10"

  • Aerosmith "Permanent Vacation"


  • Now back to our regularly scheduled program:

    "Easy Lover" by Phil Collins and Philip Bailey

    UPDATE: On a related note, be sure to check out Jeff's "Talking Back to 80s Music" series of posts over at Protein Wisdom. Stuff like that is gonna get you blogrolled, my friend.