Hooray! We love it when someone invents something we didn’t even know we needed! Like the Ped Egg, or the electric dreidel. Well, file this under the “we don’t know how we ever lived without it” category: The 80s Sax Solo Grading System.
Invented by blogger (we think- the website is pretty mysterious) Ryan Kelly , the The 80s Sax Solo Grading System examines many of those sax solos we know and love (and hate) with methodical, accurate and hilarious criteria.
As Mr. Kelly describes it:
I realized about 5 years ago that at some point in the 80s, lots of the popular music started incorporating saxophone solos into their songs. Some of them are fine, but most of them are ridiculous to have in the songs. Below, I have attempted to separate the quality and appropriateness of the solos from what I think of the song as a whole (I still really like most of these songs, even the ones with low grades).
There’s even music samples on the page so you can check the solos out for yourself. Awesome!
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