Are you guys nuts? Numan made some exceptional records in his heyday, which I've owned for years and seen done live,
but in terms of musical form he was a total johnny-come-lately,
basically playing mid-70s glam-pub-rock (think "Glass of Champagne") and playing it with the same instrumentation of Bowie/Eno's "Warsawa" and Human League's "Being Boiled". That's pretty much all he did. It was pretty formulaic.
(Emotionally, he took out the cheeky flirtatious vibe, and replaced it with aspergic misery).
By "Dance" he got Mick Karn to play on his record and make it sound like Japan.
You seem oblivious to the entire post-kraftwerk electro dance music genres that have proliferated ever since "acid house" went into the charts in 1988... Where on earth have you been living for the last 25 years?! Inside a mellotron?!
All this notwithstanding, of course, you are quite correct that pretty much all comercial pop and rock is afflicted with a ridiculous retro mania - as Andy McCluskey of OMD opined last year when talking about their new album -
pop seems to exist as a perpetual museum exhibit these days - everything remains "in fashion" and you can do any genre you want, so long as you get your pastiche right and do all the correct elements credibly.
Although it could be argued that the quest for authentic mellotron sounds seen on this list is a perfect example of that, chin-strokers on here feeling that MTron plugins etc are insufficiently authentic.
Which is probably right - any full knows you need to play M-tron twice through a plate echo, slightly sharp of take 1 and slightly flat on take 2 and pan them like mad to get a cool sound ;)
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> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Foo Fighters live w/M4000D
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> The Foo Fighters sound pretty generic to me they could be anyone and from anytime over the last 30 years.
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> I feel sorry for young people now, at least the stuff I listened to was new and didn't sound like my parent's music e.g Glen Miller. Today most of the stuff my kids listen to could have been recorded at anytime over the last 30-50 years. My parents hated King Crimson although my father did like Michael Gile's drumming on Schizoid Man. I don't hate my children's music I'm just bored by it.
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> And speaking of "Nights in White Satin" it's the only song that I can still remember exactly where I was when I heard if for the first time: Heald Green, Stockport on 18th November 1968 approx 11pm.
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> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@> wrote:
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