![]() R&B crossover was a matter of course on the pop charts there, ballads like Whitney Houston’s blockbuster “I Will Always Love You” and the stirring Boyz II Men– Mariah Carey team-up “One Sweet Day” had months-long reigns at No. Innovation abounded, with New Jack Swing giving way to neo-soul as well as further experiments with studio technology’s fast-moving innovations. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.The ‘90s may be the last decade when R&B, not hip-hop, was the dominant force in black music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Sunday, November 20th, 2016 at 10:27 pm and is filed under Jan Hammer, Quantize, Ryuichi Sakamoto. *frantically combs through my iTunes library for a funny yet oddly appropriate suggestion* WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS MORE HI-NRG COVERS OF 80s POP SONGS. Just don’t post the theme to Streethawk, I did that years ago. If anyone out there wants to share some lesser-known 80s theme tunes that they think are rad, please do so in the comments. ![]() And now, with me posting these remixes, I think I’ve hit the holy trinity of electronic 80s TV theme music tunes. In case you haven’t figured it out already, with my repeated posts featuring covers of the themes to Airwolf and Knight Rider, synthesizer-heavy TV theme songs from the 1980s are like opiates to me. And there’s this version by Polysics, which is probably my favorite because it sounds like it was performed by chipmunks on meth. If you want more “Computer Obaachan” in your life, and why the fuck wouldn’t you, there’s this video of the song being performed with English subtitles. I prefer the Sakaitsukasa take on it though just because it’s a bit more fast-paced and frantic. I don’t know which one of these versions came first, but it doesn’t really matter. ![]() ![]() I’m not going to say it’s the greatest song ever written in the history of the world, but I’m not going to not say it either. It was written by Ryuicihi Sakamoto because, I assume, he was like “fuck it, I can make stupid fucking pop music as good as the next guy.” This song is about a grandmother who is a computer. ![]()
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