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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: KevShmev on March 27, 2018, 07:58:54 PM
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Not best or your favorites, but the biggest 4 rock bands in the 80s.
I would have to go with:
Van Halen
U2
Def Leppard
Bon Jovi
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Not best or your favorites, but the biggest 4 rock bands in the 80s.
I would have to go with:
Van Halen
U2
Def Leppard
Bon Jovi
No argument there. I saw all 4 in the 80's live.
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Not much to argue with there, Kev.
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AC/DC should be there but I don't know who to remove. Man I never liked U2. U2 is to me what the Stones are to jammindude.
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That list seems like it might be true for 88-89 but maybe not for the entire decade. Billy Idol and The Police may be contenders for few years as well. Phil Collins was like every other song on the radio for at least half of the decade.
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Not sure Billy Idol was a contender for any year.
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Not sure Billy Idol was a contender for any year.
Maybe it's a regional thing , it seemed like White Wedding and Rebel Yell were always playing somewhere. But you're right , it doesn't look like he had huge album sales like the others mentioned.
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Phil Collins was more pop in the 80's than rock.
If we were gonna do the Big 4 pop stars of the 80's, I'd put Collins on there along with Michael Jackson, Madonna and George Michael. Prince could be on there as well, but not sure who you could take off.
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Journey should probably be on there somewhere.
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Not sure Billy Idol was a contender for any year.
Maybe it's a regional thing , it seemed like White Wedding and Rebel Yell were always playing somewhere. But you're right , it doesn't look like he had huge album sales like the others mentioned.
What region are you in?
Sure they were popular songs and all, but every other artist mentioned in this thread is true upper echelon for the 80's. I think Adam Sandler has as much to do with Idol's lasting popularity than Idol himself. I feel like he was a marginal performer in the 80's.
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"Rock" as a generic term covers many genres. That being said....
Metallica
U2
Def Leppard
Iron Maiden
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I don't think Billy Idol would have made the Big 20. :lol :lol
Journey is not a bad pick, although they fizzled out in the latter part of the decade, and their most well known song, Don't Stop Believin', is far more popular now than it was at the time (it was a hit back then, but not a monster hit).
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"Rock" as a generic term covers many genres. That being said....
Metallica
U2
Def Leppard
Iron Maiden
Huh? There is no way to argue that Maiden or Metallica were bigger in the 80's than Van Halen. Heck, Metallica was an underground band until 1988.
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"Rock" as a generic term covers many genres. That being said....
Metallica
Looking back, maybe. At the time. No way.
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Not sure Billy Idol was a contender for any year.
Maybe it's a regional thing , it seemed like White Wedding and Rebel Yell were always playing somewhere. But you're right , it doesn't look like he had huge album sales like the others mentioned.
What region are you in?
Sure they were popular songs and all, but every other artist mentioned in this thread is true upper echelon for the 80's. I think Adam Sandler has as much to do with Idol's lasting popularity than Idol himself. I feel like he was a marginal performer in the 80's.
I'm just going from memory of rock radio airplay in the Washington , DC Area ( DC 101 back then ) and 98 Rock Baltimore. Both are still on , but just barely . Billy Idol got a ton of air here , and Phil Collins on these ROCK stations. They wore out Syncronicity for a few years as well.
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Survivor also got played on rock stations quite a bit. :P
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It's interesting the difference in countries too. Even though I am a big VH nut they weren't huge in Australia beyond Jump and (much to my disgust) never toured here with either Dave or Sammy . I am not counting the tour a few years back with Roth.
Also Def Leppard - again I was a huge fan but to see them mentioned above in lists omitting Bon Jovi is hard to relate to. Def Leppard weren't in Bon Jovi's ballpark out here.
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Survivor also got played on rock stations quite a bit. :P
Eye of the Tiger !!! lol
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Not best or your favorites, but the biggest 4 rock bands in the 80s.
I would have to go with:
Van Halen
U2
Def Leppard
Bon Jovi
Kind of hard to go different, there's a few others have mentioned like Journey or AC/DC. I'll add a few more that are up there: Bruce Springsteen, Guns n Roses, Billy Joel
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ZZ Top seemed like they were everywhere for 3/4 of the decade .
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They were, but using all fake drums on Eliminator took away some of their "rock cred" for a while.
Springsteen had one of the 3-4 most popular albums of the 80's, so he definitely has a strong argument.
I am a big Billy Joel fan, but it feels like he was more of a pop star than a rock one, although he, like Elton John, often blurred the line between the two.
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Not sure Billy Idol was a contender for any year.
:lol
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"Rock" as a generic term covers many genres. That being said....
Metallica
U2
Def Leppard
Iron Maiden
Huh? There is no way to argue that Maiden or Metallica were bigger in the 80's than Van Halen. Heck, Metallica was an underground band until 1988.
Underground band??? Not in Los Angeles..... Kill 'em (83) all was an eye opener to the Metal scene here. "Ride the Lightning" (84) was HUGE! Followed up by "Master of Puppets"(86) and "And Justice for All" (88). They were considered ground breaking and all eyes here were looking at them.
As far as Van Halen, their top 2 , and most popular albums were in 78 and 79. After that... they were not as adored with LA fans, even though they were local boys. So yeah.... while 1984 was a commercial success, it can't compete with the success of Metallicas 4 album run. Fair Warning was a let down to most here after the epicness of the first 2.
As far as Maiden... same argument. Here in LA they were MONSTERS!!!!! For the whole run of the 80's. Debut, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave...on and on...
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AC/DC should be there but I don't know who to remove.
This.
And I would add Dire Straits and Aerosmith as contenders.
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What about Scorpions??? They were very popular in the eighties, Blackout, Love At First Sting, Savage Amusement, etc...
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Queen, Aerosmith & G 'n' R were much, much bigger in the UK than Van Halen in the 80's - in fact Poison were bigger than VH over here.
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I am a big Billy Joel fan, but it feels like he was more of a pop star than a rock one, although he, like Elton John, often blurred the line between the two.
It's still rock and roll to me
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Queen, Aerosmith & G 'n' R were much, much bigger in the UK than Van Halen in the 80's - in fact Poison were bigger than VH over here.
Around the time of Nothin But A Good Time , I would say the same here in Australia.
Early 80's the biggest our here (from my point of view at least) was KISS. As KISS dropped off the top of the charts in the USA in the late 70's/early 80's they went ballistic out here with Dynasty and Unmasked. They called it Kissteria out here.....they were everywhere and there is a bit of an industry in collecting the unique Aussie KISS memorabilia from that time.
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I'm tempted to throw Foreigner into the mix, but they kinda fizzled out during the mid-eighties. They were huge for a span of years but kinda straddled the classic rock of the 70's in their hey day.
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Not best or your favorites, but the biggest 4 rock bands in the 80s.
I would have to go with:
Van Halen
U2
Def Leppard
Bon Jovi
No denying that Def and Bon Jovi both had two monster albums, but the earlier two albums (for each) were fairly ordinary.
I would contend that Back in Black and Born in the USA join The Joshua Tree as the 'big 3' biggest rock albums in the decade; and each had other albums as highly regarded as Pyromania and/or New Jersey. For those I'd give the nod to Bruce and ACDC over DL and BJ.
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High'n'Dry is ordinary ? - first I've heard ;D
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High'n'Dry is ordinary ? - first I've heard ;D
"Fairly". Present poster not-withstanding, it wasn't even in the same league, let alone ball-park as Hysteria/Pyromania
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High'n'Dry is ordinary ? - first I've heard ;D
"Fairly". Present poster not-withstanding, it wasn't even in the same league, let alone ball-park as Hysteria/Pyromania
Perhaps in sales but I know I'm not the only one around here who would reach for High n Dry before Hysteria
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High'n'Dry is ordinary ? - first I've heard ;D
"Fairly". Present poster not-withstanding, it wasn't even in the same league, let alone ball-park as Hysteria/Pyromania
Perhaps in sales but I know I'm not the only one around here who would reach for High n Dry before Hysteria
*raises hand*
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"Rock" as a generic term covers many genres. That being said....
Metallica
U2
Def Leppard
Iron Maiden
Huh? There is no way to argue that Maiden or Metallica were bigger in the 80's than Van Halen. Heck, Metallica was an underground band until 1988.
Underground band??? Not in Los Angeles..... Kill 'em (83) all was an eye opener to the Metal scene here. "Ride the Lightning" (84) was HUGE! Followed up by "Master of Puppets"(86) and "And Justice for All" (88). They were considered ground breaking and all eyes here were looking at them.
As far as Van Halen, their top 2 , and most popular albums were in 78 and 79. After that... they were not as adored with LA fans, even though they were local boys. So yeah.... while 1984 was a commercial success, it can't compete with the success of Metallicas 4 album run. Fair Warning was a let down to most here after the epicness of the first 2.
As far as Maiden... same argument. Here in LA they were MONSTERS!!!!! For the whole run of the 80's. Debut, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave...on and on...
Please. LA is a vacuum. It's not at all indicative of anywhere else. I say all that tongue in cheek and with deep respect, but for real, east of the Mississippi? Van Halen is Ritchie Blackmore and Metallica is Uli Jon Roth. Van Halen was the band that EVERYONE had on their text books (remember when you used to have to cover your textbooks in paper bags?). Guys loved them, chicks loved them, and they played sold out arenas. Metallica was the band that the weird kid had as a patch on his jean jacket and you never actually heard any songs from.
This is not a diss, I love Metallica and Hetfield is, to me, the coolest guy in rock (something Roth still wants to be). So I get Metallica and love them. But let's not revise history. Back in 1985 they were a niche band anywhere more than 20 miles from the Sunset Strip.
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Big 4 80's bands in general, worldwide (including metal):
U2
Guns N' Roses
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Big 4 bands in the USA excluding metal:
U2
Guns N' Roses
Van Halen
Def Leppard or Motley Crue (I can't stand MC, but they were the most prominent hair band)
Big 4 bands in Europe excluding metal:
U2
Guns N' Roses
Dire Straits
Whitesnake (Scorpions are very close)
Whitesnake were huge in Europe since the beginning of the 80's, while in America they didn't catch on until 1987(S/T album with hits Here I Go Again, Still of the Night and Is This Love), when from a boogie/bluesy hard rock band they turned into another commercial hair metal band to finally crack America.
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High'n'Dry is ordinary ? - first I've heard ;D
"Fairly". Present poster not-withstanding, it wasn't even in the same league, let alone ball-park as Hysteria/Pyromania
Perhaps in sales but I know I'm not the only one around here who would reach for High n Dry before Hysteria
I love all three albums, but I would absolutely say High n Dry is anything but ordinary. It didn't have the commercial accessibility of Pyromania or Hysteria. But the songwriting and playing chops were absolutely there, and unlike most rock albums of that era, it is an album that you can really enjoy from side A, song 1 through the end without feeling like there is anything that is filler.
Van Halen was the band that EVERYONE had on their text books (remember when you used to have to cover your textbooks in paper bags?). Guys loved them, chicks loved them, and they played sold out arenas. Metallica was the band that the weird kid had as a patch on his jean jacket and you never actually heard any songs from.
Yeah, I have to agree. I mean, looking back from NOW, Van Halen is a joke that I thankfully outgrew fairly early on, whereas Metallica are true heavyweights that I can still go back and listen to and feel like they are the bedrock foundation of what metal evolved into. But looking at the '80s alone, you can't really put Metallica anywhere near a "big 4 of rock" status. Van Halen really helped define that era of rock. Notwithstanding the arguable quality of Metallica's first two albums, they were still relatively obscure and underground, especially when compared to Van Halen. Their fanbase grew tremendously with Puppets, and the Puppets tour started generating buzz about their cred as a legitimate epic live band. But again, compared to Van Halen, they were still small potatoes. They didn't start to REALLY take off commercially until AJFA, and that was at the very tail end of the '80s. Again, that isn't to take away from their status, influence, or anything else. But as far as the '80s go, Van Halen dominated that decade, whereas Metallica were up-and-comers until very late in that decade.
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Ironically, Metallica's legendary status today is a testament to their obscurity then. They were NOT - like Guns - a one-hit wonder or - like Boston - one of those with a legendarily popular debut album. They were the slow burn band, and they were (at least to me) very different than what I had heard before or what I was listening.
And this from a guy who lived in college with a guy who slept out to get ...Justice on vinyl day of release. It blew me away, but it wasn't the kind of music you cranked on your stereo for a college floor party.
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Big 4 80's bands in general, worldwide (including metal):
U2
Guns N' Roses
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Big 4 bands in the USA excluding metal:
U2
Guns N' Roses
Van Halen
Def Leppard or Motley Crue (I can't stand MC, but they were the most prominent hair band)
Big 4 bands in Europe excluding metal:
U2
Guns N' Roses
Dire Straits
Whitesnake (Scorpions are very close)
Whitesnake were huge in Europe since the beginning of the 80's, while in America they didn't catch on until 1987(S/T album with hits Here I Go Again, Still of the Night and Is This Love), when from a boogie/bluesy hard rock band they turned into another commercial hair metal band to finally crack America.
Wildranger, may I ask a question? How old are you and where are you located in the world?
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Who is your daddy, and what does he do?
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Who is your daddy, and what does he do?
Papa don't preach.
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Yeah, I have to agree. I mean, looking back from NOW, Van Halen is a joke that I thankfully outgrew fairly early on, whereas Metallica are true heavyweights that I can still go back and listen to and feel like they are the bedrock foundation of what metal evolved into. But looking at the '80s alone, you can't really put Metallica anywhere near a "big 4 of rock" status. Van Halen really helped define that era of rock. Notwithstanding the arguable quality of Metallica's first two albums, they were still relatively obscure and underground, especially when compared to Van Halen. Their fanbase grew tremendously with Puppets, and the Puppets tour started generating buzz about their cred as a legitimate epic live band. But again, compared to Van Halen, they were still small potatoes. They didn't start to REALLY take off commercially until AJFA, and that was at the very tail end of the '80s. Again, that isn't to take away from their status, influence, or anything else. But as far as the '80s go, Van Halen dominated that decade, whereas Metallica were up-and-comers until very late in that decade.
I mean you look at 1988, when Metallica released ...And Justice for All, they were on a stadium bill with Van Halen. The Monsters of Rock Tour in 1988. They were the 2nd opening band on the bill before Dokken, Scorpions, and Van Halen. I heard from Tom Morello, when he did a thank you to Metallica for being together for 30 years as a band, that during the LA show in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, that Metallica created such a buzz and fury (which resulted in a small riot and chairs being thrown around) that poor Dokken had to follow that.
Four years later, they went from 2nd opening band to co-headlining with GNR in the same venue and eventually, they went to headline the LA Coliseum by themselves.
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I know that both TAC and I saw that tour. Him in New Jersey I believe and I saw it in Maine. Metallica was on the up at that point but the video for One really got them into the mainstream and then when they did the Black Album everything blew up.
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June 26, 1988
Giants Stadium
Metallica is on stage!
(https://i.imgur.com/7ErF9PU.jpg)
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I was drunk, rain was pouring on me and I stepped on a mustard pack that shot my leg during Metallica. LOL
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I was drunk, rain was pouring on me and I stepped on a mustard pack that shot my leg during Metallica. LOL
Good times! :lol
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Who is your daddy, and what does he do?
Papa don't preach.
(https://vinnieh.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/madonna-papa-dont-preach.jpg)
Please. LA is a vacuum. It's not at all indicative of anywhere else. I say all that tongue in cheek and with deep respect, but for real, east of the Mississippi? Van Halen is Ritchie Blackmore and Metallica is Uli Jon Roth. Van Halen was the band that EVERYONE had on their text books (remember when you used to have to cover your textbooks in paper bags?). Guys loved them, chicks loved them, and they played sold out arenas. Metallica was the band that the weird kid had as a patch on his jean jacket and you never actually heard any songs from.
This is not a diss, I love Metallica and Hetfield is, to me, the coolest guy in rock (something Roth still wants to be). So I get Metallica and love them. But let's not revise history. Back in 1985 they were a niche band anywhere more than 20 miles from the Sunset Strip.
Exactly.
But hey, if we can argue that a band/artist is in the Big 4 because they were big in my town, then I can put Sammy Hagar in there, since he has always been huge in St Louis, right? ;)
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I was drunk, rain was pouring on me and I stepped on a mustard pack that shot my leg during Metallica. LOL
Good times! :lol
oh the story I could tell you later back at my buddies Campground. Lol
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I hope it doesn't include mayonnaise down your leg. :lol
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I do have a story about that. LOL Would you like to hear about it?
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I do have a story about that. LOL Would you like to hear about it?
Nah, I'm good, thanks. :lol
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Well too bad for you. LOL
Whole bunch of my friends and I rented a beach house and in the last day there's some food left I took this long sausage dioped it in mayonnaise and zipped the other end in my pants.
All my friends give me a nickname of CK. Stood for Colossal Kielbasa. Lol
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Well too bad for you. LOL
Whole bunch of my friends and I rented a beach house and in the last day there's some food left I took this long sausage dioped it in mayonnaise and zipped the other end in my pants.
All my friends give me a nickname of CK. Stood for Colossal Kielbasa. Lol
I'll bet it sounded just like that. DIIIIIIIOP!
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If only I tried slang. Lol
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Didn't know where to put this:
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Original members Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, Dennis Elliott, Ian McDonald and Rick Wills take the stage with Mick Jones and Foreigner - Kelly Hansen, Tom Gimbel, Jeff Pilson, Michael Bluestein, Bruce Watson and Chris Frazier - to rock through some of the best-selling songs that bring back the memories that make it feel like the first time for both long-time fans and new generations.
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When we are saying "biggest of the 80s" we are talking truly huge, because the 80s were the biggest decade of all. Here is a quick look at the top 25 selling albums of the 80s, with rock acts in bold.
1. Michael Jackson - Thriller
2. AC/DC - Back in Black
3. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
4. Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
5. Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
6. Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
7. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
8. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Bank - Live/1975-85
9. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
10. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
11. Def Leppard - Hysteria
12. Various Artist - Dirty Dancing Original Soundtrack
13. Michael Jackson - Bad
14. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend: The Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers
15. U2 - The Joshua Tree
16. George Michael - Faith
17. Madonna - Like a Virgin
18. Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down
19. Whitney Houston - Whitney
20. Van Halen - 1984
21. Various Artists - Top Gun Motion Picture Soundtrack
22. Madonna - True Blue
23. Various Artists - Footloose Motion Picture Soundtrack
24. Def Leppard - Pyromania
25. REO Speedwagon - High Infidelity
I owned every one of these albums. Clearly the biggest act was Various Artists.
Just outside the Top 25 were Journey with Escape, ZZ Top with Eliminator, The Police with Syncronicity, Billy Joel with An Innocent Man, Bon Jovi with New Jersey, Genesis with Invisible Touch, Eagles with Eagles Live, Aerosmith with Pump, Metallica with ...And Justice For All, Phil Collins with Face Value AND ...But Seriously, Whitesnake with Whitesnake, U2 with Rattle and Hum, and Metallica with Master of Puppets.
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Wow, Springsteen had two in the top 10? Some things will just never make sense to me.
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I had or have 17 of those. Hmmm.
By the way, of the also rans? "An Innocent Man" by Billy Joel is a very under-rated album. I LOVE that record, and if you dig into the where's and why's of that (and what Joel was trying to accomplish) it's even more amazing, especially since it landed with millions and millions of people had no clue of that subtext. Plus the title track is a vocal tour de force.
EDIT: I had 15; I miscounted the two Madonna records (I have Like A Prayer and the greatest hits, Immaculate Collection).
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I had 8 of them.
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I only had 6 of them.
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Not to be a dick, but I will point out, only one in that top ten that isn't in (or currently nominated for) the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Phil Collins.
:) :) :tup :loser:
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Original members Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, Dennis Elliott, Ian McDonald and Rick Wills take the stage with Mick Jones and Foreigner - Kelly Hansen, Tom Gimbel, Jeff Pilson, Michael Bluestein, Bruce Watson and Chris Frazier - to rock through some of the best-selling songs that bring back the memories that make it feel like the first time for both long-time fans and new generations.
Since when is Rick Wills an original member? Ed Gagliardi played bass on the self-titled debut and on Double Vision (which came out in 1978, making this its 41st, not 40th, anniversary). Rick Wills didn't join the band until Head Games.
When we are saying "biggest of the 80s" we are talking truly huge, because the 80s were the biggest decade of all. Here is a quick look at the top 25 selling albums of the 80s, with rock acts in bold.
I've only ever owned three of these albums (Back in Black, Slippery and Pyromania).
I wonder if there are any other decades with THREE movie soundtracks among top selling albums. I'm sure the SNF soundtrack was one of the top 25 selling albums of the 70s, but I can't think of any others.
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Grease I would guess as well. I think the 60's had more soundtrack albums that charted.
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I owned every one of these albums. Clearly the biggest act was Various Artists.
I have had 7 of them. Looking back, there are 9 I would own. But just because they were huge doesn't mean they were an automatic buy for me. There are plenty on that list that I have no interest in. Take the AC/DC album, for example. Great album. But I would never listen to it. The couple of standout songs from it could be heard on the radio or MTV than I cared to hear them, so that covered it. I feel similarly about several of the others.
(but another 11 from the "almost" list)
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I went and looked (because of course I did):
1970s: SNF and Grease in the top 25
The 1960s are really interesting (at least to me). Only three artists are represented in the top 10: the Beatles (6), Led Zeppelin (2)....and the Monkees (2)! The only soundtrack in the top 25 is West Side Story (unless you count Hard Days Night and Help)
1990s (the only list I could find was U.S. only): The Bodyguard, Forrest Gump (?!) and Titanic.
There are no soundtracks among the best selling albums of the 21st Century (both decades combined), but soundtracks were the best selling albums in 2006 (High School Musical), 2007 (HS Musical 2), 2014 (Frozen) and 2018 (The Greatest Showman).
I'll stop derailing the thread now.
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Wow, Springsteen had two in the top 10? Some things will just never make sense to me.
The Boss is awesome.
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Damn, even I have at least 8 of those albums. I miss when rock music was big like that. I mean, I don't remember the 80s but rock was still big in the 90s of my child hood.
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Wow, Springsteen had two in the top 10? Some things will just never make sense to me.
The Boss is awesome.
Some might call that...
wait for it.....
BOSSOME!
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I'm surprised there's no mention of Motley Crue. They were pretty big specially in the late eighties.
I would say,
Scorpions
Motley
Journey
Def Leppard
OHH,, and Weird Al.. :metal
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I've owned 11 of those 25 at one point or another on cassette or CD.
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I had Back In Black and Hi Infidelity on 8-track. :lol
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I'm surprised you've even heard of REO Speedwagon.
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He heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who.....
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I'm surprised you've even heard of REO Speedwagon.
Why? High Infidelity was huge. I was in junior high when that came out. Their live show from Denver from that tour was played quite a bit on MTV. They had a ton of great songs..Back On The Road Again, Riding The Storm Out, etc...
I actually have Hi Infidelity on CD.
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They put on a good like show as well.
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I owned 6 of those at some point in time. 1 of them now in physical form (Back in Black). Hysteria was probably my #1 favorite CD for a good 5 year stretch when it was first released. It was the first or second CD I bought with my own money.
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While I appreciate that bands like Van Halen were huge in the US, they never made that much of a splash over here in the UK. So from a transatlantic perspective:
Queen
Bon Jovi
Dire Straits
Def Leppard
were all hugely popular in the UK in the 80s.
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I would venture to say that no kid that went to a school dance in 1981 can claim "I never heard REO Speedwagon".
I don't have it on CD, just LP, but that "side one" is solid as a rock.
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I would venture to say that no kid that went to a school dance in 1981 can't claim "I never heard REO Speedwagon".
There's no way this isn't not true! :biggrin:
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I would venture to say that no kid that went to a school dance in 1981 can't claim "I never heard REO Speedwagon".
There's no way this isn't not true! :biggrin:
Goddammit!! :) :) :)
Fixed.
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He heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who.....
:lol
I using MTV as a barometer, and I think Def Leppard takes this kind of easily. Where we run into a problem is that so many of these bands were hugely popular in the mid 80s or the late 80s and so few were popular from 1980-1989. Bringin on the Heartbreak was huge for them in 81. Pyromania was epoch shattering. Hysteria carried them right on through to Adrenalize. That's a run nobody else tops.
ZZTop fits into the conversation. El Loco through Afterburner kept them on MTV and the radio for most of the 80s. They were huge. And while we probably won't consider her rock, Madonna probably had the best run of them all with ST, Virgin, True Blue, Prayer (83-89) (71 million units).
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I using MTV as a barometer, and I think Def Leppard takes this kind of easily. Where we run into a problem is that so many of these bands were hugely popular in the mid 80s or the late 80s and so few were popular from 1980-1989. Bringin on the Heartbreak was huge for them in 81. Pyromania was epoch shattering. Hysteria carried them right on through to Adrenalize. That's a run nobody else tops.
That's true. But they also had pretty big gaps between albums as well where nothing was going on.
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I using MTV as a barometer, and I think Def Leppard takes this kind of easily. Where we run into a problem is that so many of these bands were hugely popular in the mid 80s or the late 80s and so few were popular from 1980-1989. Bringin on the Heartbreak was huge for them in 81. Pyromania was epoch shattering. Hysteria carried them right on through to Adrenalize. That's a run nobody else tops.
That's true. But they also had pretty big gaps between albums as well where nothing was going on.
True. Def Leppard was mostly MIA on MTV from 1985 till later 1987 since they rarely played older videos once they ran their course except when they did best videos countdowns or rock blocks or stuff like that.