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80's hair metal or 90's grunge?

80's hair metal
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Offline WildRanger

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80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« on: April 22, 2018, 03:38:13 PM »
What do you prefer?


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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2018, 04:02:52 PM »
Depends on the band, but overall I'd have to go with hair metal over grunge, tho there's plenty of hair metal I don't like, and some grunge that I do like. Probably due in part to the fact that I grew up in the 80s.
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2018, 04:56:51 PM »
"hair bands" are one of the few things of the 80's I DON'T like.  I thought it was all silly. 
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2018, 06:02:22 PM »
Apples and oranges.  I love them both for different reasons, and there are good examples and bad examples of both.   

You could have included 00s nu-metal in this as well, and I would say the same thing.

Which actually leads me to a small revelation...   is the 10s the first decade with no musical trend to define it? 
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2018, 06:09:09 PM »
80's!
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2018, 08:50:01 PM »
Depends on the band, but overall I'd have to go with hair metal over grunge, tho there's plenty of hair metal I don't like, and some grunge that I do like. Probably due in part to the fact that I grew up in the 80s.

Depends; Cinderella slays anything in the grunge era, but I'd take Temple of the Dog and Soundgarden over, say, Autograph, or anything with this on the cover:



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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2018, 02:26:48 AM »
Wasn't a fan of bands like Poison, but I dug Mottley Crew and Ratt.
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2018, 05:13:15 AM »
Both, but only the good bands.
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2018, 08:25:05 AM »
Depends on the band, but overall I'd have to go with hair metal over grunge, tho there's plenty of hair metal I don't like, and some grunge that I do like.

Pretty much this, although I would say that actual "grunge" that I like would make a very short list.
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2018, 08:44:10 AM »
I still love Ratt's Round & Round.  And 80's Van Halen was awesome.
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2018, 08:51:13 AM »
Was never a fan of grunge music and love the 80s... I'm a 90s kid but the 80s had great music.

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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2018, 08:52:14 AM »
The problem with all of this is Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.   Pearl Jam with the way they recycle the Who crossed with a smattering of UFO/Kiss/Zeppelin - they are undeniably an amazing live band - and Soundgarden with the beauty and genius that was Chris Cornell.    Even without the tragedy of his death, I think 40 years from now we're going to look back at Cornell in the same way we look at, say, Deep Purple, or The Doors.

But for those two, this isn't even a conversation in my opinion. 

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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2018, 09:14:51 AM »
I was listening to Crazy Horse the other day and realizing that Pearl Jam is basically an exact carbon copy.
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« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2018, 10:20:11 AM »
80s metal is my stuff. Hated grunge. Still do. My life wasn’t shit in the 90s so I had no frame of reference for it.
And it was anti everything I loved in music.


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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2018, 10:31:46 AM »
Depends on the band, but overall I'd have to go with hair metal over grunge, tho there's plenty of hair metal I don't like

This is me to a T (although I suppose it really depends what is and isn't included as "hair metal").  I intentionally omitted the "some grunge I like" comment because I'm not sure there's anything considered "grunge" that I like (is Peral Jam's "Ten" considered "grunge"?).


You could have included 00s nu-metal in this as well, and I would say the same thing.

Which actually leads me to a small revelation...   is the 10s the first decade with no musical trend to define it? 

I wouldn't say that "nu-metal" "defined" the 2000s, and I'd say that alt/indy rock "defined" the 1990s at least as much as "grunge."  I agree, though, that there's been no single dominant musical style for the 2010s.
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2018, 10:45:59 AM »
Hair metal by far. Those bands were full of a lot of great musicians who also didn’t take themselves too seriously. It made for some really fun music.
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2018, 10:47:30 AM »
I choose going deaf.  :lol
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2018, 10:48:23 AM »
I choose going deaf.  :lol

Yeah, well, you like Grace Under Pressure, so....  ;-)
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2018, 11:15:41 AM »
I choose going deaf.  :lol

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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2018, 11:16:36 AM »
Grace Under Pressure rules, and I will handle jingle's results in my roulette with grace... under pressure.  :hat
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #21 on: April 23, 2018, 11:17:46 AM »
Hair metal by far. Those bands were full of a lot of great musicians who also didn’t take themselves too seriously. It made for some really fun music.

Great musicians who put posing over musicianship?


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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2018, 11:27:07 AM »
who put posing over musicianship?

Says who?
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2018, 11:29:05 AM »


Umm............  ;D
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #24 on: April 23, 2018, 12:31:07 PM »
Depends on the band, but overall I'd have to go with hair metal over grunge, tho there's plenty of hair metal I don't like

This is me to a T (although I suppose it really depends what is and isn't included as "hair metal").  I intentionally omitted the "some grunge I like" comment because I'm not sure there's anything considered "grunge" that I like (is Peral Jam's "Ten" considered "grunge"?).


You could have included 00s nu-metal in this as well, and I would say the same thing.

Which actually leads me to a small revelation...   is the 10s the first decade with no musical trend to define it? 

I wouldn't say that "nu-metal" "defined" the 2000s, and I'd say that alt/indy rock "defined" the 1990s at least as much as "grunge."  I agree, though, that there's been no single dominant musical style for the 2010s.

 Maybe I should not say defined the decade so much as it is a clear product of its decade. It was the stand out metal genre of that period, anyway.  I mean, if we are going to be broad, 80s rap was very much of a product of its time just as much as hair metal was.  But I was thinking more along the specific rock/metal lines when I made the statement.
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2018, 12:45:58 PM »
Maybe I should not say defined the decade so much as it is a clear product of its decade. It was the stand out metal genre of that period, anyway.  I mean, if we are going to be broad, 80s rap was very much of a product of its time just as much as hair metal was.  But I was thinking more along the specific rock/metal lines when I made the statement.

I agree with all that.

When I think of music in the 80s, I think about new wave and metal.
For the 90s, it's grunge, rap and alt/indy rock (and really, more than alt/indy rock in general, I think of all the female singers like Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Cheryl Crow, etc.).

I can't really pinpoint anything for the 2000s and 2010s like that, although maybe we need more distance to do that.
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2018, 03:35:37 PM »
I think 40 years from now we're going to look back at Cornell in the same way we look at, say, .. The Doors.

Yeah, overrated.
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2018, 03:48:45 PM »
I think 40 years from now we're going to look back at Cornell in the same way we look at, say, .. The Doors.

Yeah, overrated.

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« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2018, 03:57:51 PM »
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2018, 03:59:37 PM »
Everyone- "TAC, do you like sushi"?

TAC- "What am I, a fruitcake"?

Wut? :lol

Why can't I have both?

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« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2018, 04:08:34 PM »
That's my point.  There's good music in both eras. I do lean to the 80's  but you make it seem like no music is good from the 90's.   That is incorrect.
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2018, 04:12:05 PM »
When in this thread did I ever say that?? Quote me bitch!
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« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2018, 04:15:07 PM »
Tim, we know you tapped out in the 90's.   It's not like you've professed your hate on other threads. :lol
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Re: 80's hair metal or 90's grunge?
« Reply #33 on: April 23, 2018, 05:26:48 PM »
Tim, we know you tapped out in the 90's.   

Some would say I've been tapped out since the 90's!


Hey, my favorite album of all time came out in 1992. :P
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« Reply #34 on: April 23, 2018, 05:28:32 PM »
Tim, we know you tapped out in the 90's.   

Some would say I've been tapped out since the 90's!


Hey, my favorite album of all time came out in 1992. :P

Was it a new band? :neverusethis:
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