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Originally posted by bueno bob
Hard rock going mainstream in the 80s was one of the worst things that could have ever happened to it. Metal (or "Metal") became trendy for a bit due to the success of bands like Maiden, Priest, etc, so what did you get? The inevitable watered-down metal bands that were "safer" for radio play than those groups were - Trixter, Winger, Warrant, Poison, Firehouse, blah blah blah...Nirvana was such a breath of fresh air to more extreme music after all the hair-metal noise of the late 80s, it was no wonder that hard rock and heavy metal became viewed as a fucking joke.
That being said, I hate the radio these days. Nu-metal is fucking crap, I can't tell Korn from Slipknot from any of the other 5000 horseshit sound alike acts. Rap and hip-hop both suck - LONG gone are the days when Will Smith, Sir Mix-a-Lot and the others in the same school of rap could actually make it even remotely listenable. I just laugh my ass off when I see some 16 year old white kid in the car his dad bought for him with a $4000 stereo blaring the crap at a stoplight, bobbing his head and flashing gang-banger hand symbols, and I try to make sure they SEE me laughing at them...because they need to know that they just look fucking GAY doing it.
Gone are the days, hunh?
Well, maybe in another few years, things'll at least change with radio formats, who knows...?
Hard rock going mainstream in the 80s was one of the worst things that could have ever happened to it. Metal (or "Metal") became trendy for a bit due to the success of bands like Maiden, Priest, etc, so what did you get? The inevitable watered-down metal bands that were "safer" for radio play than those groups were - Trixter, Winger, Warrant, Poison, Firehouse, blah blah blah...Nirvana was such a breath of fresh air to more extreme music after all the hair-metal noise of the late 80s, it was no wonder that hard rock and heavy metal became viewed as a fucking joke.
That being said, I hate the radio these days. Nu-metal is fucking crap, I can't tell Korn from Slipknot from any of the other 5000 horseshit sound alike acts. Rap and hip-hop both suck - LONG gone are the days when Will Smith, Sir Mix-a-Lot and the others in the same school of rap could actually make it even remotely listenable. I just laugh my ass off when I see some 16 year old white kid in the car his dad bought for him with a $4000 stereo blaring the crap at a stoplight, bobbing his head and flashing gang-banger hand symbols, and I try to make sure they SEE me laughing at them...because they need to know that they just look fucking GAY doing it.
Gone are the days, hunh?
Well, maybe in another few years, things'll at least change with radio formats, who knows...?
Brilliant as per norm.
Recently read that more and more rock stations are closing up shop 'cuz station owners have discovered that advertising dollars lie in stations that utilize a hip-hop/rap format.
Local rock station around here has degenerated over the past ten years to the point where there are 40 minutes out of an hour when you hear nothing but imbecilic DJ prattle (all of these guys seem to think that combining second-rate Howard Stern material in a voice sounding like Don Imus is the way to immortality) and commercials, and when they DO get around to playing music it's the same old tunes they've been playing for years (got nothing against Pink Floyd, but there's more to the group than the same five tunes that get played over and over again. Same goes for Led Zep).
Almost sounds sacreligious, but I'll be glad when they close that fucker down. Better to disintegrate than carry on in a pale imitation of one's former self.
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