Top Ten disapointing moments in the music industry

[sadaist]

Van Hagar.

David Lee Roths slow drift away from making rock music.

Metallica Loads & Re-Loads......blanks.

Steve Perry exits Journey.

Rob Halford exits Judas Priest.

MTV

Nirvana becoming famous and popularizing the grunge movement.

Satellite radio.

Auto-tune for singing..

Boy bands. N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees



Special honors go to Lars Ulrich for shutting down Napster.

[Mr Badguy]

10: The Punk explosion
9: Skynyrd plane crash
8: Halford "comes out"
7: Def Leppard post 1987
6: Twisted Sister "Come out and play"
5: The Osbournes
4: UFO/Michael Schenker break up (2000s)
3: Dimebag Darrell shooting
2: Blackmore`s Night
1: Melodic rock driven underground

Just a few alternatives.

[Seshmeister]

1. Congratulations Mrs Hagar it's a girl, no wait a minute, it's a boy.

[Seshmeister]

8: Halford "comes out"

You GAYIST!

[Nickdfresh]

I think Michael Bolton shaming heterosexual men everywhere is worse...

[Mr Badguy]

You GAYIST!

He did it for publicity just as Priest were launching the Ripper Owens era, rather than for any cause he was, ahem, behind.

Besides, as a wise man once said: "Queering don`t make the world work".

[GAR]

10: The Punk explosion
Just a few alternatives.

The punk thing didn't really carry over here, back in the 80's because the so-called "punk" fans were mostly a tape-traders' scene.

You saw critics laud it like it was the Golden Days of Music, but the sales didn't support it and I could be wrong, but I believe the Sex Pistols' Bullocks album didn't even go gold in the states until the late 80's.

It's like reading the news everywhere about how many great things Obama has done, but then you watch the real shit go down on CSPAN and the truth is the exact opposite.

That's my recollection anyways. Kids would go out to clubs done up to the nines in the traditional Rejectionist Salvation Army attire, plus those stupid fucking mandated Doc Martens boots (remember those stupid clodhopper things) but that costume was just an act. They didn't buy the hype either.. that costume was for the same "look at me I'm a reject" effect then as it is today.

[Sensible Shoes]

Hambon - C'mon I'm waiting for the last two - did I miss 'em?

[Unchainme]

In terms of the Heroin Rock V. Hair Metal thing,

I'm of the mind that both were great periods in Rock N' Roll.

I mean with the Hair Metal genre, there was some damn good records that came out from Motley Crue, Ratt, Skid Row and GN'R, etc. Sure you had some shit bands and such come out, but the music is fun to listen to.

With Grunge/Alternative, you had some great groups as well like I mentioned before in AIC, STP, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden. Great songs, and some criminally underrated guitar work by Jerry Cantrell and Kim Thayill.

It's also sort of amusing how they all claim similar influences though, despite killing off the other genre. Cantrell loved EVH and CVH, Cobain and Slash both loved Aerosmith's "Rocks" (which is one of the most underrated hard rock records ever), and Billy Corgan has covered Van Halen before, and written very positively about them. Hell, The Melvins which are as pretty much as grunge can get, were all big KISS fans growing up.

Good Hard Rock to me is all that matters, and that is something that's few and far between these days, you won't ever see something like those two scenes again, thanks to how everything is monopolized. Fuck Clear Channel, Fuck Ticket Master, and Fuck MTV.

[BlimpyCHIMP™]

STP came out 4 years before grunge, but got the first album shelved for 2 years for political reasons.

[GreenBayLA]

My personal list:
1 Joe Perry quits Aerosmith 1979
2 Michael Schenker quits UFO 1979
3 DLR quits VH 1985
4 John Bonahm dies/Led Zeppelin breaks up 1980
5 Bon Scott dies
6 Hair Spray Metal Power Ballads
7 Kurt Cobain suicide
8 Vince Neil kills Razzle/Hanoi Rocks
9 Rap/Hip Hop
10 The Clash/Elvis Costello/Euro-pop

+ Randy Rhodes death, KISS post Alive II, Boy Bands/Britney etc.

[GreenBayLA]

Mine are basically things that upset me when they happened, at the time when Rock n Roll still ruled my world. That's why I didn't put Jimi Hendrix' death or breakup of Beatles etc I was too young to know. When Elvis died I only knew him as a fat guy who played to old ladies in Vegas. I was unaware of young, cool Elvis 'til much later.

I'd like to add death of Phil Lynott to my list...
I haven't seen: Steve Clark Def Leppard, Freddie Mercury Queen or karaoke.

[Seshmeister]

Compare The Clash and Elvis Costello with Hip Hop, Boy Bands or Simon Cowell...

[chefcraig]

Compare The Clash and Elvis Costello with Hip Hop, Boy Bands or Simon Cowell...

Hell, I'd take any two early Costello albums and anything the Clash did up to and including Sandinista! over just about anything else that came out of England between 1977 and 1982, aside from the first three Police albums, Squeeze's Singles – 45's and Under compilation, the first two Pretenders albums and a handful of singles by some one hit wonders of the period.

[FORD]

I think Sandinista might have been better as a double album rather than a triple. Some great songs, but a lot of filler. As opposed to the "double" album London Calling, which was solid all the way through. And they could have replaced any one of those filler tracks with the single "This is Radio Clash" and it would have been an instant improvement.

One thing we can probably all agree on though...... The pseudo-Clash album "Cut the Crap" was a complete abortion!