Human Racing and the Riddle - Nik Kershaw

Two amazing albums of the 80s (1984).

Genious music, timeless and full of joy, songs so good and sung so well.

Nik Kershaw is so good.

Edited by Icarium - June 26 2015 at 16:39

cool

I just watched a cool performance from Howard Jones and Nik performing Wouldn't It Be Good -   

Very curious how HJ studied Piano at the Conservatorium Of Music, then embarked on his Pop career. Similar about Nik, a guy who could write and arrange with his eyes closed. Admirable how young they were, the chosen direction (which, truly, hasn't aged well), and, how overlooked they have been. I am no Illuminati, but I feel a total 80's acceptance hovering on the horizon...............the 60's were raw, the 70's organic, the 80's plastic, the 90's kinda blended all the sounds with mixed results, post-2000 ironed out the creases and most things have decent production values. I dunno, the music world is an amazing place when I step out of my one-track mindset.

Tom Ozric wrote: Very curious how HJ studied Piano at the Conservatorium Of Music, then embarked on his Pop career. Similar about Nik, a guy who could write and arrange with his eyes closed. Admirable how young they were, the chosen direction (which, truly, hasn't aged well), and, how overlooked they have been. I am no Illuminati, but I feel a total 80's acceptance hovering on the horizon...............the 60's were raw, the 70's organic, the 80's plastic, the 90's kinda blended all the sounds with mixed results, post-2000 ironed out the creases and most things have decent production values. I dunno, the music world is an amazing place when I step out of my one-track mindset.

i feel 2010s is å merge of shoegaze, noise, indie, electronica with Neo folk, sort electro-organic combo/mix

ofcourse he did, he also liked Mahavishnu.

^ I can agree with that

"new wave" perhaps

well 80s genesis were mostly anew wave act with trinkles of prog.

I am starting to believe, as much as (some of us.......... ) have despised many of these popular, 80's New-Wave acts - many of them obviously had a love of various Prog bands, from Yes, Genesis, to Gentle Giant, Mahavishnu and VDGG. It all comes out in the wash........