You mean where they used cheap studio bands to recreate big hits? Happened to me once, in the 80s. What a letdown. But iirc Bravo Hits always used the original music.
That would rather be the equivalent to “Bravo Hits 18” (or whatever they were called in other countries)
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 week ago
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 week ago
I remember in high school one of my friends bought one of these, not knowing what it was. He was so pissed and called it a knock-off.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 week ago
That’s exactly what they were.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I’ve been googling for the last half hour and can’t seem to find any, do you know keywords that might help me find some please? I have a couple of
victimsgood friends I want to inflict this on.A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 week ago
I don’t think I’ve seen this particular grift since the 80s. OTOH Spotify is recently doing similar shit with underpaid musicians and/or AI.
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
To be fair, I discovered a lot of my favorite artists through compilations like Bravo Hits and later Crossing All Over and Punk-O-Rama… and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 of course.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
For me it was the weekly telephone song votings on the radio.
They often deliberatly put niche stuff in there up for vote that then stuck with me :-)
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Back in the heyday of TV I found so many good artists from watching Later… with Jools Holland. He’d book a couple of big-name bands to draw viewers, alongside a bunch of unknowns he wanted to give exposure to.
It also taught me that there is no type of music that can’t be dramatically improved by a boogie-woogie piano solo if the artists are into it.