Comments on: Cutouts Gone Wild!: Big Noise, “Bang!”

By: Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 8 | Popdose

Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 8 | Popdose — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:30:56 +0000

[...] It is remarkably strange that this is now the second time Big Noise has appeared on Popdose, quite possibly doubling the amount of times this crap was mentioned in 1989. No way I waste any more time on this, so check out the existing Big Noise chatter here. [...]

By: Cutouts Gone Wild!: Judson Spence, “Judson Spence” | Popdose

Cutouts Gone Wild!: Judson Spence, “Judson Spence” | Popdose — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:30:34 +0000

[...] that he’s got nothing but good, clean fun on his mind. Our esteemed David Medsker summed up an earlier Cutouts Gone Wild! by saying “So inoffensive, so safe. ‘Come on, guys, let’s just [...]

By: rwcass

rwcass — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:40:42 +0000

Only six dollars for a new album with huge artwork and liner notes and a lyric sheet? I really did miss out. I can't remember how much my cassettes cost, but those had even smaller artwork than you find on a CD, plus few liner notes and no lyric sheet, at least with the ones I bought.

I went to a record store last night called Laurie's Planet of Sound. (It's a pretty small planet.) I called in advance last week to see if they had the album I was looking for. They didn't, but they ordered it for me, so that was good.

By: rwcass

rwcass — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:40:42 +0000

By: terje

terje — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:40:39 +0000

It's so… clean. They sound like guys who drink a lot of milk, exercise three days a week, pick up their kids after an 8-16 day in the studio and watch telly with their wives on Friday night. In a way I've always admired people who can reduce the elements of popular music to this kind of utter formulaic, washed-out nonsense. It's an art form in itself, really – most bad pop acts never pull it off.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:39:40 +0000

Amazon's got the 2003 album available for download. Sampling it, I'd guess that in 2003, “Big Noise UK” discovered a 1989 vinyl stash – maybe some Cause & Effect and Information Society.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:23:36 +0000

Michael Scott would listen to this on the patio of his condo, with a big glass of chardonnay from a cardboard box.

By: DavidMedsker

DavidMedsker — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:12:24 +0000

Waterfront, Swing Out Sister, Curiosity Killed the Cat, the Kane Gang…

By: DavidMedsker

DavidMedsker — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:04:31 +0000

Pop records like this fascinate me. So inoffensive, so safe. “Come on, guys, let's just dance!”

By: scrumble

scrumble — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:45:46 +0000

…but the guy to blame for all this was probably Steve Winwood c. 1986