Christopher Cross on Midnight Special

[ProfD]

2 hours ago, Adan said:

For me, the part that hasn't aged well is the production values -- the over-produced, sanitized, glossy sound of it is an aesthetic I embraced when it was new but eventually came to reject in a big way.

I haven't done a deep dive into it scientifically but there's a fine line between digging a sound or production aesthetic and being over it after hearing it too much.😁

 

For some folks, the DX7 sound and David Foster produced Chicago records is the perfect example of it combined.🤣

 

I'd imagine the yacht rock production aesthetic highly influenced some of those 1980s records too. 

 

That's why the production aesthetic changed in the 1990s with Alternative, Grunge and Hip-Hop. Musicians and producers were tired of overly polished sounds too. 😎

[stoken6]

On 9/23/2023 at 8:42 PM, changearound2 said:

RLTW and 2 of my bandmates recognised it as a Saxon song

I'm not a big hair-metal fan but I quite liked that. They took a good song and gave it a new spin, and it gained a different perspective - something that a lot of covers fail to do (cue the "slowed down, whispered vocals and gently picked cowboy chords" formula).

 

Cheers, Mike.