Author Topic: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day (Read 308316 times)

KevShmev · « **Reply #2380 on:** January 30, 2013, 10:37:52 AM »

Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Blech. I was never wild about Poison, and while I can see why this song was so popular, I never liked it. There is good cheese, and then there is bad cheese. This is bad cheese.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #2381 on:** January 30, 2013, 10:39:05 AM »

I've grown so very tired of this song, despite having just picked it up to play in the band(s). Even though I hate it, chicks dig it, so it works.

KevShmev · « **Reply #2382 on:** January 30, 2013, 10:44:57 AM »

Chicks pretty much dig anything that can be connected to hair metal. Seriously, go to any bar where a band is playing 80s stuff, and every time they play anything by Bon Jovi, Poison, Whitesnake, Motley Crue, etc., girls hit the dance floor at record speed.

Jaq · « **Reply #2383 on:** January 30, 2013, 11:02:36 AM »

Pretty much, if you went out to parties or clubs or whatnot in the 80s and were into women who liked rock, your best bet was to be as conversant with hair metal as was humanly possible. Bon Jovi was more useful-even this thread doesn't have space for the stories I could tell that started with an excited woman at a club being into Bon Jovi-but if you majored in Bon Jovi, you defintely minored in Poison.

I actually liked Poison's first album-that's another thing, a lot of us guys now talking all tough about how we only used hair metal to get laid tended to like a lot of it up until, oh, 1986-87 or so-but even being conversant in hair metal to keep hotties interested didn't make me like Every Rose Has Its Thorn in the LEAST.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #2384 on:** January 30, 2013, 11:03:41 AM »

Quote from: KevShmev on January 30, 2013, 10:44:57 AM

Chicks pretty much dig anything that can be connected to hair metal. Seriously, go to any bar where a band is playing 80s stuff, and every time they play anything by Bon Jovi, Poison, Whitesnake, Motley Crue, etc., girls hit the dance floor at record speed.

Exactly why we also started doing Girls, Girls, Girls. Guaranteed to fill the dance floor with chicks.

Every.

Single.

Time.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #2385 on:** January 30, 2013, 11:04:55 AM »

And gets guys on the floor hitting on girls, girls, girls.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #2386 on:** January 30, 2013, 11:06:25 AM »

Exactly.

masterthes · « **Reply #2387 on:** January 30, 2013, 11:13:09 AM »

I'm more a fan of "Something to Believe In"

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2388 on:** January 30, 2013, 12:26:25 PM »

Was a fan of Poison's first four albums. Good power ballad for it's day, but it has not stood the test of time. Hardly ever listen to it now, and if I heard it for the first time today, I'd probably be pretty 'blech' about it. It's good for nostalgic purposes, and because my enjoyment of it is ingrained in my musical DNA.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #2389 on:** January 30, 2013, 12:51:39 PM »

I'd imagine a lot of DNA got "ingrained" to this song.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2390 on:** January 30, 2013, 01:17:05 PM »

Quote from: Sir GuitarCozmo on January 30, 2013, 12:51:39 PM

I'd imagine a lot of DNA got "ingrained" to this song.

KevShmev · « **Reply #2391 on:** January 30, 2013, 01:19:02 PM »

What does it say about this forum when a Poison song in this thread gets more replies than a Hendrix song does in the classic rock thread*?

*I posted both about the same time this morning.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #2392 on:** January 30, 2013, 01:25:05 PM »

I noticed that. It's gotta be an anomaly. Around here, hair metal seems to go over about as good as a fart in church. Granted, you can always count on the same general handful of people to have comments on the like.

KevShmev · « **Reply #2393 on:** January 30, 2013, 01:26:42 PM »

Yeah, with 80s songs, there can always be a bit of a LOL-factor, which can make them worth discussing more, while a lot of the classic rock songs will fall along the lines of "great song, yeah, that goes without saying," ya know?

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #2394 on:** January 30, 2013, 01:28:42 PM »

That borderline LOL-factor is what I love so much about it. Some of it's so over the top that in addition to giving me a little bit of a chuckle, I'm like "I so wish I could be in that band".

The video for New Thing by Enuff Z'Nuff is a perfect example.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #2395 on:** January 30, 2013, 01:41:11 PM »

Quote from: KevShmev on January 30, 2013, 10:37:52 AM

Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Blech. I was never wild about Poison, and while I can see why this song was so popular, I never liked it. There is good cheese, and then there is bad cheese. This is bad cheese.

Kevin Shmevin will be playing the part of Debra Kadabra today...

Seriously. NO. Just... HELL no. Never liked this song, and if this makes me an anomaly in the chick world... I couldn't care less. So be it.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #2396 on:** January 30, 2013, 01:42:22 PM »

For the record, I'm not sure if there is any such thing as bad cheese.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #2397 on:** January 30, 2013, 01:42:49 PM »

Because we all left our young DNA in the 80's while out parents left their DNA with Jimmy.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #2398 on:** January 30, 2013, 01:43:35 PM »

Quote from: Sir GuitarCozmo on January 30, 2013, 01:42:22 PM

For the record, I'm not sure if there is any such thing as bad cheese.

Limburger.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #2399 on:** January 30, 2013, 01:52:11 PM »

I'm sure there's an application for it in which it is palatable.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #2400 on:** January 30, 2013, 02:03:06 PM »

*insert black_floyd's puking emote here*

Orbert · « **Reply #2401 on:** January 30, 2013, 02:13:11 PM »

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #2402 on:** January 30, 2013, 02:15:33 PM »

wolfking · « **Reply #2403 on:** January 30, 2013, 02:32:11 PM »

Fuck I love that movie.

Orbert · « **Reply #2404 on:** January 30, 2013, 02:34:55 PM »

Yeah, the two Bill and Ted movies are some of the first DVDs I got when I got my first DVD player, like 100 years ago.

The song, I could live without. But I always think of Bill and Ted quoting it to show how deep and philosophical they can be.

FreezingPoint · « **Reply #2405 on:** January 30, 2013, 02:35:14 PM »

The solo makes the song, I love playing it. Not the best Poison ballad though.

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #2406 on:** January 30, 2013, 10:02:43 PM »

Good song. Haters gonna hate.

Bonus points to Orbert for the reference. I just watched that movie again recently too.

KevShmev · « **Reply #2407 on:** January 31, 2013, 08:21:08 AM »

Hall & Oates - Maneater

Funny story about this song is my younger brother Mark was 5 when this song came out...and he was scared of it. He literally would get upset if it came on. But then one day, the whole family was out at a furniture store or something, and it was playing over the store. He was initially freaked out, but once my parents told him there was nothing they could do about it and not to pay attention to it, he was fine, and I don't think it ever bothered him again.

Anyway, I always thought this was one of Hall & Oates' best hits of the 80s. A lot of cool musical things going on in this song, the rhythm is hard not to tap your foot to, and the hook in the chorus is infectious.

Mindflux · « **Reply #2408 on:** January 31, 2013, 08:40:08 AM »

Quote from: KevShmev on January 31, 2013, 08:21:08 AM

Hall & Oates - Maneater

I remember when this came out, I Just couldn't figure out they were saying "Man eater", and I never new the track name until later. I don't know what I thought they were saying.. something like "Magneta"... which I always said "this makes no sense"..

ZirconBlue · « **Reply #2409 on:** January 31, 2013, 11:40:33 AM »

Quote from: Mindflux on January 31, 2013, 08:40:08 AM

Quote from: KevShmev on January 31, 2013, 08:21:08 AM
Hall & Oates - Maneater

I remember when this came out, I Just couldn't figure out they were saying "Man eater", and I never new the track name until later. I don't know what I thought they were saying.. something like "Magneta"... which I always said "this makes no sense"..

My mom thought they were saying "bandita".

Jaq · « **Reply #2410 on:** January 31, 2013, 12:01:14 PM »

I didn't mind Hall & Oates growing up-I think their version of You've Lost That Loving Feeling is flat out amazing-but it was around this time that they went from "not my thing, but I'll listen to them" to "I don't like these guys"-and it was strictly because I didn't like Maneater. It was just too fucking goofy for me.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #2411 on:** January 31, 2013, 12:07:20 PM »

Kev that is too funny. My younger brother was afraid of riders On The Storm by the Doors. He's hears the rain and lightning and Jim's low voice and he'd cry.

Also, no one could get away from Maneater. TV, Radio. It was everywhere!

Orbert · « **Reply #2412 on:** January 31, 2013, 01:08:10 PM »

Little kids can be so empathetic that it freaks them and everyone else out. "Whoa-oa, here she comes" is scary. This woman is going to come eat you. To a five-year-old kid, that's pretty scary. "Riders on the Storm" is a spooky song. I didn't like it when I was little, and even though it's kinda cool now, I don't know if I'll ever like it.

One time when my son was maybe four or five, we were watching Thomas the Tank Engine (these anthropomorphic steam engines and their little adventures) and Thomas get in a wreck. That alone didn't bother my son, everyone bumps into things sometimes. But they had to lift him up with cranes on set him on the track. It was a very tricky situation, and kinda scary. Just watching that scene, my son got so scared that he started crying. Once Thomas was safely back on the tracks, all was well.

Oh yeah, the song. Yeah, kinda goofy. I like some Hall & Oates, but this one's a little too silly.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #2413 on:** January 31, 2013, 01:37:47 PM »

Maneater's okay but... I'm kind of agreeing with this:

Quote from: Jaq on January 31, 2013, 12:01:14 PM

but it was around this time that they went from "not my thing, but I'll listen to them" to "I don't like these guys"-and it was strictly because I didn't like Maneater. It was just too fucking goofy for me.

wolfking · « **Reply #2414 on:** February 01, 2013, 03:47:20 AM »

Fucking love Hall and Oates, smooth killer 80's tune.

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Author Topic: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day (Read 308316 times)