Looking at old hot 100 charts from the late 50s until the mid 80s, instrumental songs regularly made the top 10 on the hot 100 with numerous ones hitting number one. Then after the Miami vice theme hit number one and Axel F was a huge hit in 1985, they dropped off sharply and eventually to nothing. Harlem Shake made it to the top in 2011, but that was a novelty song. Why did radio and the music industry stop playing/promoting them?
What happened to popular instrumental songs?
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 4, 2024 1:47 PM |
There's an authoritatively wonderful BBC documentary that covers this called "The Joy of Easy Listening". I'll post the preview here, but it should be available in full somewhere if you google it. If you're in the UK, I think it's still available on iPlayer.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 3, 2024 1:41 PM |
Offsite Link
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 3, 2024 1:42 PM |
Because humanity is losing all sense of taste.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 3, 2024 1:48 PM |
LOVE Herb Alpert - RISE was / is such a sexy song.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 3, 2024 2:02 PM |
It was a magical time! Love’s Theme, Feels so Good, Classical Gas, Breezin’, Moments in Love, even into the 90s with Paul Hardcastle’s Rain Forest. Even the OG Maslanka Grazin, Oye Como Va and Birdland are more traditional jazz tunes that take me back to the same feeling. I used to also shamelessly love Yanni’s One Man’s Dream because it came as a pre-installed midi file on my first computer in the 90s lmao. But that time is gone forever.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 3, 2024 2:16 PM |
Don't forget Chuck Mangione's, "Feels So Good"
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 3, 2024 4:11 PM |
People like being told how to feel about something, because thinking is hard.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 3, 2024 4:23 PM |
I remember loving this song from Hiroshima called One Wish :
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 3, 2024 9:33 PM |
not the same but I really like the Bridgerton instrumental takes on pop songs.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 4, 2024 5:33 AM |
Herb Alpert allowed Diddy to sample his music all for royalty money. He should hang his head in shame.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 4, 2024 6:06 AM |
All rappers do is sample.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 4, 2024 6:18 AM |
I always found Telstar to be almost unbearably poignant.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 4, 2024 6:19 AM |
[quote]All rappers do is sample
r12 Uh-huh. And what 90s record does the following sound like?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 4, 2024 7:03 AM |
People nowadays need WORDS, any kind of words.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 4, 2024 7:06 AM |
Oh and Madonna and Lenny Kravitz STILL haven't given Public Enemy credit for this one.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 4, 2024 7:08 AM |
[quote] LOVE Herb Alpert - RISE was / is such a sexy song.
“ Rise” is the hottest disco-not-disco song.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 4, 2024 7:24 AM |
r20 It's also the soundtrack to Laura's rape.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 4, 2024 8:30 AM |
I think it's been replaced by movie soundtracks, like Ennio Morricone, John Williams, and a few others. There are stations for this on Amazon music.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 4, 2024 1:47 PM |