I'll give credit to three things helping revive rock music.

 

1.) The music video. Images of Tawny Kitean self-buffing a Jaguar come to mind first, but fans were able to quickly put a face to a band and a face with the music. But Tawny wasn't bad either.

 

2.) The comeback. Who knew what the impact of collaborating with a rap group on a remake of a rock classic would have on the career of Aerosmith? Genesis, Yes, Boston, and even Whitesnake made successful comebacks in the 1980s.

 

3.) The supergroup. Asia, Powerstation, The Firm, and the Traveling Wilburys all had an impact, mixing different backgrounds into a single sound.

 

I've always said that 1980s music is the most diverse of any decade or era. It saw a few formats branch out into many specialty formats that are still around today. It gave us the cross-over hits, the one-hit wonders en masse, music videos, and wall to wall concert tours. By far my favorite genre of music.

I'll give credit to three things helping revive rock music.

 

1.) The music video. Images of Tawny Kitean self-buffing a Jaguar come to mind first, but fans were able to quickly put a face to a band and a face with the music. But Tawny wasn't bad either.

2.) The comeback. Who knew what the impact of collaborating with a rap group on a remake of a rock classic would have on the career of Aerosmith? Genesis, Yes, Boston, and even Whitesnake made successful comebacks in the 1980s.

 

3.) The supergroup. Asia, Powerstation, The Firm, and the Traveling Wilburys all had an impact, mixing different backgrounds into a single sound.

 

I've always said that 1980s music is the most diverse of any decade or era. It saw a few formats branch out into many specialty formats that are still around today. It gave us the cross-over hits, the one-hit wonders en masse, music videos, and wall to wall concert tours. By far my favorite genre of music.

Ask Chuck Finley what he thinks about that!:lol:

U-2

REM

Van Halen ,or was it Van Hagar?

What about that Springsteen fellow? His 80's releases were "The River","Nebraska","Born In The USA", and "Tunnel Of Love". Not too shabby.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/16/the-boss-says-hell-rock-vote-for-obama/

 

Speaking of "The Boss" he is in the news today.

When Guns'n'Roses first came out, they looked just like Poison, Warrant, Winger, and all the other hair metal bands that so defined the '80s as an awful era for rock'n'roll, or at least, hard rock. I'll grant that they sounded different, but that hair the outfits from when they first showed up were very much hair-metal.

G-n-R had a "sleazy" look about them. They looked nothing like Poison, Warrant, or Winger. Just my opinion.

G-n-R had a "sleazy" look about them. They looked nothing like Poison, Warrant, or Winger. Just my opinion.

 

Axl looked like he spent hours with a hair dryer, curling iron, hair spray and fancy brush in the band's first several videos. When they first came out, they tried very hard to look like Poison, et al. Now that may have been under instructions from their record company, but they did it nonetheless.

Kurt Cobain

I'll have to think the 80's are getting a bum rap in this thread.

 

Personally, I love 80's music, even now. Never have understood why people hate it so much.

Axl looked like he spent hours with a hair dryer, curling iron, hair spray and fancy brush in the band's first several videos. When they first came out, they tried very hard to look like Poison, et al. Now that may have been under instructions from their record company, but they did it nonetheless.

That is funny.:lol:

Personally, I love 80's music, even now. Never have understood why people hate it so much.

I liked some of it. Def Leppard was okay.

Motley Crue had a good sound- but I think they were trying at first to spin off of KISS.

 

Yeah GnR def. look like sleaz, well that is prob. because they are.

I still liked some of their sound when they came out. Paradise City was a good tune.

Welcome to the Jungle was well over played.

 

Poison, I am sorry I just couldn't connect with them. They to me just all looked like girls.

At times it reminded me of a blonde Boy George. (mainly speaking of CC Deville- I think that is his name).

Kurt Cobain

Wasn't he more early 90's?

He introduced the Seattle Grunge sound and was with that awful looking Love girl!

Umm see by that time I was well into marriage and had to work more, so I lost touch of the music scene - rock music scene...

Ask Chuck Finley what he thinks about that!:lol:

Yeah, but I'm talking about Tawny before her hanging-out-with-Ravi-Shankar phase and her carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase?

Van Halen REALLY made it big with 1984, Van Hagar wasn't until later. I'd say Eddie smiling into the MTV camera while jamming to "Jump" brought it back.

I still play Bon Jovi's cassettes in my stratus on the way to work.