Okay, so I'm channel-surfing and I come across 80s metal clips on VH1. I thought "Hey, cool...My stuff".

Then the interviews with people on New York streets started, and it pissed me off.

One hipster said they all had bad hair and wore women's clothing (Talk about blatant generalizations). One hoity-toity culture person with odd-colored hair associated them all with drugs. Another punk just said in response to names like Poison, Cinderella and Faster Pussycat, "They're all hair-metal bands and they're all pussies!"

I'm sorry, but I am pissed.

I declare here, loudly and proudly, that I am an 80s-metal fan. They knew how to live the rock star life, and they took their fantasies and made them reality.

What have we seen in rock in the past ten years? Stuff that makes you weep, cloning that's cheap and unwashed and bitter and world-hating creeps.

I don't care how 80s metal people looked (and to me, they were as handsome as anything)...I go by what pleasures my ear, and that is a rock band in wild clothing singing about life in the fast lanes.

P.S...

The ladies who were and are fans of 80s-metallers are infinitely hotter to me.

Sincerely,

John "outofplacechild" Kilduff

[i]One hoity-toity culture person with odd-colored hair associated them all with drugs. [/B]

Well, we all know how drug-free rock stars of the 60s and 70s were, and no one ever hears about any drug overdoses or addictions of musicians of the 90s...

Long live 80s hair metal! :-)

F*ck what they think! They probably listen to that Korn/Limp Bizkit crap! Let me guess, they probably only interviewed these late teens/early 20's kids who don't know what good music is (well there are a few of them out there that know what good music is because they are here on the xchange). I say it loud & proud too, "I love hair bands and always will!" :)

I feel for you!

I was reading once in teen mag (I was bored!!!) about Bon Jovi. They did a picture time line. They showed current picture and said "here they are today, all cleaned up and ready to rock." Excuse me?! But they rocked better in the 80s than they do now! :mad:

I agree with you all about the 80's Hair Metal Bands. Give me some of that stuff before some of the stuff of today.

Originally posted by Iluvthe80s
F*ck what they think! They probably listen to that Korn/Limp Bizkit crap! Let me guess, they probably only interviewed these late teens/early 20's kids who don't know what good music is (well there are a few of them out there that know what good music is because they are here on the xchange). I say it loud & proud too, "I love hair bands and always will!" :)

:) Its weird... cause today, someone got on my case at work for listening to the new Poison, while wearing a Korn shirt. I like Korn, they are a very, very good band... its just they get rained on for giving birth and helping out awful bands like LB!

80s metal still freaking rules... I bet that VH1 asked teens in Times Square, which is were their offices are... if they would have gone to the Village, where the show with Sebastian Bach was/is shot... then they would have gotten a whole different view :)