The Modernist wrote: It's odd how artists from this era are treated with kid gloves, whereas you mention a UK band from the 80s and people can't wait to put the boot in. It's as if VDP is some protected species who automatically deserves a level some level of respect.
From the late 60s?Really?
all that proto prog shit and scummy blues groups, drivel like SFSorrow, Oddyssey and Oo-aaricle, Pepper and the Moody Fucking Blues, bleeding Rock Operas, cunting Van the Plank, the new, disimproved artsy-farts Beach Boys, the first two Stooges dirgeathons, all that shiny suits, sweat and farty horns 'soul', not to mention that nonsense Miles Davis pumped out because he had a hard-on for Hendrix, and of course funky-wunky cowbell wahwah - I'm always giving them a kicking, and others slaughter the Grateful Dead.
And 1976-1988 was easily the best period for British music.
For the record, I bought a reissue of that VDP thing and played it precisely once (
https://www.discogs.com/seller/dyinglig ... r_id=87406) and you are precisely right. Sucks so hard it blows
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