{"id":2324,"date":"2012-10-02T08:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2012-10-02T08:50:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T12:50:53","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-287-roach-days-revisited-i-want-my-mtv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/10\/02\/my-musical-evolution-part-287-roach-days-revisited-i-want-my-mtv\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 287 Roach Days Revisited I Want My MTV"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find it interesting to look back at the past 100 posts, particularly the ones that feauture the music from the radio and MTV. Seeing it all in this condensed time lapse format highlights how quickly the popular mainstream music sound changed over the course of the decade. Men Without Hatsand Culture Club<\/em> faded away and INXS<\/em> and Tears For Fears <\/em> took over those spots at MTV. Bruce Spriungsteen <\/em>andJohn Mellencamp brought us back down to earth with working class, small town sensibility.<\/p>\n

With the dawn of the Compact Disc, my own musical identity was all over the map.\u00a0 Up to this point, My Musical Evolutionmuch like my actual life, was compartmentalized into very distinct and tidy boxes. If you have been following along since January, you know about The Scratchy 45 Days, The KISS Age, BFMS, The Academy Days, Space Mountain, College Intermission, The Rise & Fall Of ’84, The Metal Years <\/em>and Roach Days Revisted. <\/em>With few exceptions, music from each of these eras for one reason or another stayed in those eras. That isn’t to say that I didn’t listen to The Go-Gos during The Roach Days, just that when I did, it was usually to reminisce about The Academy Days. <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Life moves forward and for the most part, so did My Musical Evolution Now, with the advent of the Compact Disc, I was possessed with idea of acquiring all the music from My Musical Evolution <\/em>on Compact Disc.\u00a0 That project was very similar to to this one. I think that one while more expensive was considerable easier becaue it didn’t require much thought. If I found Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me<\/em> on a CD, I knew it was fromThe Scratchy 45 Days and I bought. This project requires more head scratching and memory jogging.<\/p>\n

While I was giving all my money to Wooden Nickel and Musicland, MTV and the radio were providing music that I couldn’t justify on my budget.<\/p>\n

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Suzanne Vega – Luka<\/em>
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