Well, I could've used Culture Club and Adam and the Ants as examples -- or Bow Wow Wow and Men at Work -- but whoever I selected would've been controversial with someone.
I picked Duran Duran and Flock of Seagulls because they are both remembered (if remembered at all) for some pretty silly songs, and for their "look" rather than for the overall quality of their music.
OK, how about Journey and REO Speedwagon? I'd be surprised to find many partisans of those bands around here. In my mind, they might as well have been the same band -- along with Styx and Toto -- utterly generic arena-rock, utterly devoid of soul or passion or anything even vaguely interesting.
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I picked Duran Duran and Flock of Seagulls because they are both remembered (if remembered at all) for some pretty silly songs, and for their "look" rather than for the overall quality of their music.
OK, how about Journey and REO Speedwagon? I'd be surprised to find many partisans of those bands around here. In my mind, they might as well have been the same band -- along with Styx and Toto -- utterly generic arena-rock, utterly devoid of soul or passion or anything even vaguely interesting.