80's Rock

U-505

Take the skinheads bowling, in your…… bitchin’ camaro.

Yes, Switch, I completely forgot Billy Idol. The 3 leather clad dancers in the “white wedding” video always brighten my day when I see them :-).

Truth be told, I have VERY screwed up music taste.

I kept my cassettes arranged in alphabetical order. The first two groups were ABBA and AC/DC…

The Alan Parsons Project is by far my favorite group (by far some of the BEST instrumentals ever done… not surprising since Alan Parsons produced Dark Side of the Moon…). I own every single album they have ever done (I bought my first CD player due to them not releasing their albums after Ammonia Avenue on cassette)

I have my radio in my office at work tuned to the Classical station (I love me some Wagner!)

In my CD changer in my car I have Witness (an awesome late 80’s 1-album band with Debbie Davis doing lead vocals), Kansas, Billy Idol, Hoobastank, Golden Earing and Regina Specter. (now THAT is screwed up!)

I have a serious fetish for strong and distinct female vocalists (Kim Carnes, Kim Wilde, Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Tyler, Jamie O’Neal, etc.)

And when I am youtube surfing I often bring up Avenue Q or Wicked musical tunes… (The Internet is for Porn!)

Did I mention that I also like Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams (Sr.)?

As I said… completely screwed up…

:|

balungaloaf

everyone’s brought up great bands. what happened to music nowadays?

Der Kommander

@balungaloaf:

everyone’s brought up great bands. what happened to music nowadays?

I think new bands play guitar like Mike Tyson speaks english. Very Broken
They learn 4 or more open pos. chords and then play strum all six strings anyway. :|

Speaking for myself…

Rap would be the biggest detriment to modern music. Modern R&B has NOTHING to do with classic R&B.

And Pop has again been dragged into oblivion, perhaps even more severely than it was during Disco.

There are a few groups out there doing some half decent stuff (Hoobastank mentioned above, I also like a couple of White Stripes tunes…) but by-and-large the only folks BUYING music today are buying trash; and the labels are controlled by either Disney “artists” or gang-bangers.

Music is on a cusp again, like it was circa 1981. The current era has done all that it can, and each “new” song is only a rehash of what went before. EVERYONE is waiting for the next Van Halen so that music can “run with the devil” again for a while and grow into something other than the current TRASH.

And you know… it is really SAD that the most trite Hair Bands of the late 80’s had more originality and more SKILL than anything currently aired on Top 40 stations today. It is enough to make me ALMOST long for a return to Bow Wow Wow…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHcaIJETZo

At LEAST they had a good hook…

Rap started off with a powerful message but now that 80% of gangster rap is purchased by suburban white kids (that is an actual statistic, not me ranting) it doesn’t really have any meaning anymore. A suburban kid can’t even imagine what life in the inner city is like. Rappers aren’t individuals from the ghetto anymore, they live in splendor and also have no concept of how life in the inner city is like.

hip hop always sucked, and always will suck. Especially since hip hop artists take all the credit and don’t give any to their musicians.

Rock has been severely mutilated by pussy bands like Fall Out Boy, Blink 182 and Green Day. More emphasis is put on the singing than the instruments now, which has lead to every teenage girl from Connecticut to California starting to like rock bands because the singer is “hot”

Heavy Metal and Hard Rock is even better than before thanks to bands like Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Godsmack, Breaking Benjamin, and Red.

Just my $0.02

Der Kommander

@M36:

Rap started off with a powerful message but now that 80% of gangster rap is purchased by suburban white kids (that is an actual statistic, not me ranting) it doesn’t really have any meaning anymore. A suburban kid can’t even imagine what life in the inner city is like. Rappers aren’t individuals from the ghetto anymore, they live in splendor and also have no concept of how life in the inner city is like.

hip hop always sucked, and always will suck. Especially since hip hop artists take all the credit and don’t give any to their musicians.

Rock has been severely mutilated by pussy bands like Fall Out Boy, Blink 182 and Green Day. More emphasis is put on the singing than the instruments now, which has lead to every teenage girl from Connecticut to California starting to like rock bands because the singer is “hot”

Heavy Metal and Hard Rock is even better than before thanks to bands like Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Godsmack, Breaking Benjamin, and Red.

Just my $0.02

Sooooooooooooooooo Effin’ True.

Cobert

Good rap has existed since its creation (See: GZA and the rest of Wu-Tang, The Coup, Ded Prez, Mos Def, The Fugees, The Roots, Busdriver, Talib Kweli), it’s just not played on radio stations.

Honestly, record labels have always been the cause for bad music. There’s plenty of good music today, you just have to dig to find it.

Rap would be the biggest detriment to modern music. Modern R&B has NOTHING to do with classic R&B.

And Pop has again been dragged into oblivion, perhaps even more severely than it was during Disco.

The ‘rap’ you’re referring to shouldnt even be called rap, its stupid mall-rap that is directly sold to suburban white kids (like said before). Its just pop under a different name. Some of the rappers Ive listed above have actually made good music and have artistic integrity.

Again: there’s plenty of good music today, you just have to dig to find it.

balungaloaf

dont forget Jurassic Five or a tribe called quest.

as for Metal, Godsmack suuuucccckkkkkkssss the big one

find some Hatebreed or Jackboot Suicide. these bands freakin rage!

below the bottom is just hardcore and a fav of mine. i found it on youtube but with some stupid game as the video. listening is worth it though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZMRT_fI9-Q

and what about favorite 80’s songs covered.

like is A-HA’s version of Take On Me better than Reel Big Fish’s version. i think not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO7sTntruzg

balungaloaf

AH! i forgot Jurassic 5. TRUE hip-hop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZmQIGLNxBs

the best.

and the musical Swingset. very good if you like the music of the 20’s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2oPI7nGveA

Cobert

Jurrassic 5 and ATCQ are both awesome.

Disturbed does indeed suck.

This is a better cover of Take On Me. Not being ska makes it instantly better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5_xUlC3f_k

Jermofoot

@Der:

Here’s a few more: Slayer, Guns n roses, The Smiths, The Pixies, The Clash, Kiss, Dead kennedy’s, The Ramones, Red Hot Chili’s…

Yeah, sounds good, but I kind of feel like some of those are on the cusp of the 80’s (GNR, Pixies, RHCP, etc.)

@U-505:

Take the skinheads bowling, in your…… bitchin’ camaro.

Maybe you’ll find a cute punk rock girl, but most likely will just hang out with your friend Stuart.

@Cobert:

Good rap has existed since its creation (See: GZA and the rest of Wu-Tang, The Coup, Ded Prez, Mos Def, The Fugees, The Roots, Busdriver, Talib Kweli), it’s just not played on radio stations.

I hope you aren’t saying those peeps were at the creation. Very good either way. The GZA is just a musical genius, yet many people won’t even recognize it because they will never give him a chance. RIP ODB/Dirt McGirt/Big Baby Jesus. :lol:

Have to agree with balung on Tribe, probably the best hip hop group I’ve ever heard. Also, the Pharcyde, De La Soul, Digable Planets, etc.

a44bigdog

What no Motorhead?

And if we are going to bring up Punk, Fear and the Plasmatics are missing as well. Black Flag got mentioned but I will bring them up again.

Krocus did some good stuff in the '80s. Accept also did some of their best stuff then as well. And least I forget Hawkwind had some good LPs in the '80s but I have yet to hear a bad one from them.

There has not been good rap since Grand Master Flash and The Furious 5.

And I have to bring up a few other bands as this goes on…

Charlie Sexton (the vid at the start of this thread) was awesome… especially since he was only 16 at the time. That mid song guitar riff can be ranked with the nest of 'em.

No one except me has mentioned Night Ranger. Their last album was SMOKIN! Halfway to the Sun may be their best work ever, and it is from the Man in Motion album (their 5th). Seven Wishes also deserves mention.

Def Leppard… High N Dry and Pyromania albums… Ain’t no doubt that THAT is some serious rock.

ALDO NOVA… How in the hell can any of us discuss 80’s rock and NOT mention Aldo Nova?
Fantasy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GylirgHFqeQ

Rumours of You:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUb0i-9P-9w

Hold back the Night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdIAxhMkQgI