“It's like those Chinese dishes where beef and chicken are stir-fried with lobster and shrimp, and the mind's gustatory processors can't quite figure out what the hell to do with the combined meat/seafood taste-- I can't think of any other era in music that allowed the "good band/bad producer" gene to flourish the way 80s "college rock" did. Cheap synths will always sound flat and dated in ways tha”
