by weedavie » Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:35 pm
As pointed out I'm misusing the term. A definition is:-
A genre of rock music, especially prevalent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, typically characterized by prominent keyboards and drums and heavy use of guitar effects, often regarded as bombastic or grandiose in its delivery.
This is people like Kansas, Styx and Aerosmith. I think big hair was pretty important, too.
I thought it was the degeneration of Prog Rock, a bit self-important but rocking, like If, Family, early Yes, to a state of total self-infatuation and operatic excess, Pink Floyd, Genesis and the later Yes.
Anyway, whatever you call it, it's not a pleasant thing to haunt you on a seven hour walk.
Fortunately the album didn't haunt me, only the title track.
I wish I didn't know it. I don't care what age you are, the music of your young years, what you loved and what you hated is lodged inside of you, and your subconscious has no taste.