Squonk
Hey Guys forget the fashion
Name the good sounding bands from the 80's, that you wouldn't feel embarrased about having in your collection.
There were good Bands and Musicians but most of them sold out to the 80's.
Sting, Genesis etc were all pre 80's
Listen to Genesis before Phil Collins dragged them down to his level (all happened in the 80's)
I have a 1985 concert of Van Halen, and it is terrible, obviously Eddie is good in parts but it was still a sell out to the 80's.
What inspiring, lasting stuff came out of 80's,(besides U2) absolutely nothing.
LMinnie
Judas Priest!!
Black Sabbath!!
Uriah Heep
They didnt come from the 80's but they never sold out...
What about Metallica?
Heath
guns and roses , they come from the 80's and slash still has his loud hair *although it still looks kewl*
Squonk
Ok
You got me on Metallica and GNR, they can join U2 as influential, inspiring acts in the 80's
Even though Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest never sold out, they weren't exactly at the forefront in the 80's, they had already achieved what they had to do in the 70's. They were asleep in the 80's
LMinnie
Like all good bands were...They took the low road and stayed well clear of teh dreaded 80's
And thats why some of them are still around!!
DNC
I dont know where we would be in music without the 80's...
Heath
almost forgot about def leopard , bon jovi
then lets go a little darker and deeper Iron maiden , sepultra , sisters of mercy ...
Manfred-Klose
I can't believe what i am reading here, i'm a die hard 80's metal fan, and also a die hard fan of modern metal!!!
If it wasn't for the outlaw 80's , then bands like children of bodom would have such a hardcore image many years later.
If you want to know where you are going, you must know where you have been!!!!!
Go check out some of these bands:
Skidrow
Poison
Warrant
Anthrax(80's,90's)
Pantera(80's,90's)
Firehouse
Ozzy
Judas Priest
and the list goes on forever.....
Squonk
Who did Bon Jovi inspire with their music?
I am not talking just music here, I am talking inspiration and influential.
There obviously will be artist that were untouched by the 80's but in general it was an awful decade.
Manfred-Klose
Who did Bon Jovi inspire with their music?
Probably shania twain or something, dont know?
I think it will fall under poprock category.
Mr-M
Me! -1 on the 80's
There a few good artists that didn't conform to the norm during that time, but by and large the 80's were terrible. Style (really awfully horrible style at that) over substance all the way is the 80's!
Heath
IMO , the 90's did more damage to guitar based main stream music then the 80's , we had a helluva lot more electronic music (techno and the beginnings of rave music) . there were some good bands in the 90's but from what i can recall there wasn't as many as there were in the 80's .
Manfred-Klose
Just reminding everyone that their favourite guitar player could have come from the 80's.
mine is Randy Rhoads, Zakk Wylde, Jason Becker, Yngwie Malmsteen, Slash........
Squonk
Let's change the topic slightly
As opposed to the 50's, 60's, 70's what influence did the 80's have on music as a whole?
Still_Missing
Squonk wrote:
Let's change the topic slightly
As opposed to the 50's, 60's, 70's what influence did the 80's have on music as a whole?
The greatest influence I can think of is that its end strengthened the anti-mainstream movement. Call the 90's "a new hope ?"
As you can see, I don't like the 80's. Wasn't around tho, so I can't judge without some bias against it (... just look at KISS's faces. I'm really sorry for them ?)
LMinnie
Gave birth to the power metal ballad?...
Dunno...maybe ???
Modern rock as we know it.... ???
I think each decade did have a profound effect on the next ,a carry over effect if you wish...
Renesongs
The 70's had it's share of dogs and is often referred to as the decade that good taste forgot.
Abba
Cliff Richards
Ike and Tina Turner
Olivia Newton John
The Bee Gee's
Am I making my point yet?
Squonk
Rene
The 70's were a bit dodgy in the POP stream, but boy did it have some good ROCK acts
Bob-Dubery
I tend to be fairly rude about and allergic to the 80s, but I think it's the case that all eras of music had the good and the bad. Thinking back to the 60s I think there were valid reasons for regarding it as a special time, but there was a lot of crap music too. Most of that crap music has not lived on - except on Radio 702's Solid Gold Sunday - so because we don't remember it or are not reminded of it we tend to think that what has lived on was the totality. Which it wasn't.
The 80s.... I think that a lot of good 60s and 70s bands made bad records in the 80s. But I'm not convinced that's because it was the 80s. Some of them just ran out of steam.
To my mind there are some factors that resulted in some bad music...
1) Growing use of cocaine. I don't want to get into a debate about the pros and cons of narcotics and their use, but I don't think you can make the same defense that you can for some other illegal substances IE that it aids creativity.
2) A financial squeeze in the industry. You had to produce hits and fairly quickly. I think this is why there was this syndrome of making a record sound like a recent big hit. That's why producers had the biiiiiiiig drum sounds, the fiddly percussion on the extremes of the stereo spectrum, the flanged/slap/fretless/all of the above bass guitars, the Mark Knopfler guitar sound (not his fault that everbody thought they could have a hit by making their guitars sound that way)...
3) Less new artistic ground to plough.
4) Because of MTV and the like, how you looked became at least as important as how you sounded and how well you could play.
5) Increasing rationalisation of the US radio stations and thus rationalising of their playlists and a need to fit a record into a pigeon hole labelled "C&W", "Disco", "AOR" etc.
Despite all of that I thought some people who had been around previously made some good records. David Bowie for example. When did U2 make it big? I think of them as an 80s band.
I think too that it was a decade in which popular music and the people making it started looking beyond their navels again and addressed the world situation. Not just things like "We Are The World", but there was an increase in expression of social and political concerns.
I thought there was some great South African music. James Phillips, the whole Voelvry thing, Bright Blue, Tribe After Tribe, Ella Mental, The Genuines, Jennifer Ferguson, Tananas...
Bob-Dubery
Renesongs wrote:
The 70's had it's share of dogs and is often referred to as the decade that good taste forgot.
Abba
Cliff Richards
Ike and Tina Turner
Olivia Newton John
The Bee Gee's
Well most of those were not SEVENTIES acts. Cliff, Ike and Tina, The Bee Gees all made their debuts and their best records in the 60s.
And what was so bad about Abba really? OK... the clothes. But they made great pop music - incredible sounding records and better playing than they are given credit for.
