To be fair, I discovered a lot of my favorite artists through compilations like Bravo Hits and later Crossing All Over and Punk-O-Rama… and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 of course.
Back in the heyday of TV I found so many good artists from watching Later… with Jools Holland. He’d book a couple of big-name bands to draw viewers, alongside a bunch of unknowns he wanted to give exposure to.
It also taught me that there is no type of music that can’t be dramatically improved by a boogie-woogie piano solo if the artists are into it.
You mean where they used cheap studio bands to recreate big hits? I bought one once, in the 80s. What a letdown. But iirc Bravo Hits always used the original music.
I’ve been googling for the last half hour and can’t seem to find any, do you know keywords that might help me find some please? I have a couple of victims good friends I want to inflict this on.
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That would rather be the equivalent to “Bravo Hits 18” (or whatever they were called in other countries)
To be fair, I discovered a lot of my favorite artists through compilations like Bravo Hits and later Crossing All Over and Punk-O-Rama… and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 of course.
For me it was the weekly telephone song votings on the radio.
They often deliberatly put niche stuff in there up for vote that then stuck with me :-)
Back in the heyday of TV I found so many good artists from watching Later… with Jools Holland. He’d book a couple of big-name bands to draw viewers, alongside a bunch of unknowns he wanted to give exposure to.
It also taught me that there is no type of music that can’t be dramatically improved by a boogie-woogie piano solo if the artists are into it.
You mean where they used cheap studio bands to recreate big hits? I bought one once, in the 80s. What a letdown. But iirc Bravo Hits always used the original music.
I remember in high school one of my friends bought one of these, not knowing what it was. He was so pissed and called it a knock-off.
That’s exactly what they were.
I’ve been googling for the last half hour and can’t seem to find any, do you know keywords that might help me find some please? I have a couple of
victimsgood friends I want to inflict this on.I don’t think I’ve seen this particular grift since the 80s. OTOH Spotify is recently doing similar shit with underpaid musicians and/or AI.