Okay.
I was listening to various and sundry albums today when I was suddenly, and utterly without warning, struck by an urge to hear the song Rain Comes Crashing Down by Night Ranger, from their album Big Life. Don't ask me why, it just happened. So I dug the CD out and put it on and listened to it, nice little moody near ballad with some killer guitar solos, the sort of thing you couldn't help but air guitar to when you were sixteen and silly. Cool song, nice trip down memory lane...and then the next song starts, and oh boy.
For those of you who don't know, the next song on Big Life is "The Secret of My Success", a David Foster produced bit of pop that was from the soundtrack of a Michael J. Fox movie of the same name. It is pretty much everything that is wrong with rock music in the 1980s, down to the synthesized horns that were a staple of Foster productions back then. Now, I don't feel like digging up chart listings or anything like that, so this might be opinion, but before Night Ranger put out "The Secret To My Success" they were headlining arenas off a series of successful albums and a few big singles. After they put that out, Big Life sank like a fucking stone, Man In Motion sank even faster, and by 1988 Night Ranger was reduced to opening for Kansas in clubs. (Which was, admittedly, a great show, but STILL.)
So to me, that was the precise moment when Night Ranger blew it. When they put out a plastic sounding, souless soundtrack song that sounded like all the other plastic sounding sound track songs from the mid-1980s.
So, the point of all this ramble is this: pick a band, and where applicable, pinpoint the precise moment where they blew it. Interested to hear if I'm the only guy that does it, lol.
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