'80s Hair Bands in the Grungy '90s (Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, Poison, Warrant, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard)

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The '90s were funny, and the '80s in the '90s even moreso.
Todd in the Shadows has a great in depth look at Mötley Crüe's Generation Swine if you want a deep dive on that one.
Here's a link to the videos without me talking over them:
Motley Crue - Hooligan's Holiday
• Mötley Crüe - Hooligan...
Motley Crue - Afraid
• Mötley Crüe - "Afraid"...
Skid Row - My Enemy
• Skid Row - My Enemy (O...
Skid Row - Into Another
• Skid Row - Into Anothe...
Poison - Stand
• Poison - Stand
Warrant - Family Picnic
• Warrant - Family Picni...
Bon Jovi - This Ain't a Love Song
• Bon Jovi - This Ain't ...
Def Leppard - Slang
• DEF LEPPARD - "Slang" ...
Def Leppard - All I Want Is Everything
• DEF LEPPARD - "All I W...
I wrote this video myself, but here's a funny description written by ChatGPT:
In this captivating RU-vid video, we delve into the fascinating transition of '80s hair bands as they faced the seismic impact of the grunge movement sparked by Nirvana and its contemporaries in the 1990s. Join us on a nostalgic journey as we explore how these iconic rock acts attempted to adapt and reinvent themselves amidst a rapidly changing musical landscape.
We examine the various approaches taken by these bands, from incorporating alternative rock influences to embracing a rawer and more introspective sound. Delve into the sonic evolution, the cultural impact, and the critical reception of these transformations, as we unravel the stories behind the albums that marked this era of musical transition.
From power ballads to gritty anthems, we explore how the iconic aesthetics and larger-than-life personas of 80s hair bands were reshaped in response to the grunge movement. Gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by these bands and the factors that contributed to their successes or struggles during this period of musical evolution.
Join us in this thought-provoking exploration of how '80s hair bands weathered the storm of grunge. This video is a must-watch for fans of '80s rock, lovers of music history, and those interested in the transformative nature of the music industry. Like, share, and subscribe to our channel for more insightful content on the evolution of genres and the impact of cultural shifts.
Keywords: 80's hair bands, '90s grunge, music industry, glam rock, power ballads, Poison, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Warrant, Def Leppard, Nirvana, fashion, sound, music history, rock and roll, documentary.

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@Benny5000 Год назад

You gotta appreciate how Ozzy adapted to every genre of rock for decades. He outlasted everyone while making huge changes to the sound.

@mrsomeone846 Год назад

I’d never thought of that before reading, but damn are you right! Specially when you consider Paranoid, Blizzard of Oz and No More Tears are from 70, 80 and 91🤯

@kellykerr5225 Год назад

I don’t know if he adapted or if we did. I think he remained his authentic self the whole time. I 100% believe in self improvement so long as you’re still the same person at heart. Look at p!nk. She just keeps getting more successful and she’s never changed for anyone. She’s very inspiring for women any way. I watch a lot of concerts on RU-vid and some of them have almost all male audiences and others almost all female. I like a performance by Metallica and I saw zero females in the audience. I was dangerous for sure. People get so excited they just shove forward. Most bands stop the show to help.

@thelolguy007 Год назад

Yeah and ripped off the musicians who wrote his songs, revived his career and helped him succeed

@kospandx Год назад

@@thelolguy007 This is true. Bob Daisley saved his arse.

@thelolguy007 Год назад

@@kospandx and how did he repay him? By ‘NOT’ paying him royalties and getting in studio musicians to re-record the parts so he wouldn’t have to pay the royalties in the future

@robdixson196 Год назад

There is nothing more out of style than recently out of style. The 90's were brutal for hair bands.

@ericvonharding3421 11 месяцев назад

Even GNR lost a chunk of their cool factor. Use Your Illusion survived because of their extraordinary large fanbase waiting for a proper Appetite follow-up.

@tomasom4497 11 месяцев назад

I never liked hair bands. Punk and hard core metal only. I loved when grunge came along.

@user-cf7dj9iq5t 11 месяцев назад

Not as brutal as dating apps are to men

@ericvonharding3421 11 месяцев назад

@@user-cf7dj9iq5t Way to connect 90s rock music with an incel perspective

@DJ_Force 11 месяцев назад

I don't think Nirvana killed Glam metal, I think Dr. Dre did. After the Satanic paranoia faded in the US and the plethora of power ballads from supposedly heavy metal bands, rock was no longer dangerous. Then, in 1992 the LA riots plus the release of danceable Gangsta rap made Hip-Hop both fun for kids and scary for parents. That's the recipe for popular music.

@kirakirakuromi 11 месяцев назад

A video going through 90s bands trying to survive in the 2000s would be really interesting

@graffiti9145 11 месяцев назад

2000s bands surviving in the 2010s would be cool too, considering rock wasn't very popular in the 10s

@chrissantos5580 11 месяцев назад

Hey grandpa rock was still a thing in the 2000s

@nykcarnsew2238 11 месяцев назад

I mean if you’re talking grunge bands that’s kinda tricky since most of the big ones split before the 90s ended. You’ve basically only got Pearl Jam and that bizarre dance pop album from Chris Cornell Edit: I completely forgot that Chris Cornell had Audioslave in the 2000s

@benjamink7105 11 месяцев назад

90s bands couldn't even survive the 90s lmao. A lot of sophomore albums slumped, bands were dropped by majors as quickly as they'd been signed (see: Local H with Pack up the Cats). The grunge/alternative bubble burst somewhere toward the end of 1996.

@Mirokuofnite 11 месяцев назад

When Kurt died, grunge died. It did linger a couple of years later, but post-grunge, nu metal, and pop punk was the next wave for the second half of the decade. Post-grunge carried the self-pity but lacked any soul and was cookie cutter Pearl Jam knockoffs.

@Skycladatdusk78 Год назад

1991 and 1992 are two of my favorite music years, mostly in part because both metal and grunge could be successful and co-exist, rather than just having to be alternative rock from 1993 onwards.

@piero50eas Год назад

Agreed

@sonusworld5357 Год назад

93 was still ok it all went downhill mid 94 onwards- Post Cobain’s death

@leetorry Год назад

My man what the fuck are you talking about, 1990 to 1995 was some of the greatest years in metal. Death metal and black metal ruled, doom metal was getting its laurels, alt metal was a thing.

@coyotebillkc9185 Год назад

In 91-92 Alice in Chains would be played on both Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes.

@sonusworld5357 Год назад

@@coyotebillkc9185 Sure but they were the closest thing to Metal - What say you?

@tomservo5347 11 месяцев назад

I do remember that almost everyone had Skid Row's 'Slave To The Grind' CD despite it being the height of grunge back in high school. It was such a heavy hitter it was totally legit.

@arturovillalobos336 11 месяцев назад

We can't deny that Bon Jovi's "It's my life" became a worldwide hit. My conclusion: They grew in their own pop rock style.

@mikesteelheart 11 месяцев назад

But it does suck lol.

@diegorivas1991 11 месяцев назад

But came way after grunge at it's peak. In the case of Bon Jovi a fair comparission is with Keep The Faith from 1992 and These Days from 1995.

@jsan3743 11 месяцев назад

They adapted by appealing to the older generation, not the raging youth of the 90s

@Ivantheterrible81280 11 месяцев назад

Grew? Bon Jovi copied every trend that came out. Musically and visually.

@mikesteelheart 11 месяцев назад

"It's My Life" is just watering down a mid tempo hair band song as far down to adult contemporary mainstream as possible for $$$. Don't get me wrong; I actually love tons of top 40 pop hits but songs like that are the worst of both worlds and just annoying.... Def Leppard did the same thing after Hysteria in the 90's...

@coyotebillkc9185 Год назад

I was never a fan of Poison but really, they tried changing their sound and direction before Grunge broke big. They seemed to be influenced more by the Black Crowes than Nirvana. So much so that I remember seeing an ad in the early 90's for something called "The Southern Rock Festival" and Poison was the headliner. With Lynyrd Skynyrd playing right before them.

@kospandx Год назад

Yes! I have been saying for years that I think Poison would have gone down an Americana route if Grunge had never happened. There was always a bit of country to the sound of their ballads, which I suspect helped ease rock audiences into Garth Brooks, who broke big the same year as Nirvana.

@carpenoctem775 11 месяцев назад

That’s sad that Skynyrd had to play before a band like that. At least they’ve had a better legacy.

@LemmyLawless 11 месяцев назад

Native Tongue... my favourite Poison album with no doubt!!

@wildspowell196 11 месяцев назад

Get this… Bret is from Pennsylvania, but if you hear him talk, he has a straight up southern accent. I’m from SC and he sounds like he could be from right down the road. I always though poison had kind of a blue collar/southern thing going on, in the modern day more than ever.

@markmccleary7276 11 месяцев назад

@@LemmyLawless I agree that No Doubt was a huge 90s band, but I don't think Gwen sang on any Poison albums. =o)

@rjc7289 Год назад

Honorable mention of strong 90's albums by 80's bands... Dog Eat Dog -- Warrant Dysfunctional -- Dokken Carnival Of Souls -- Kiss Show Business -- Kix 3 -- Firehouse Still Climbing -- Cinderella Waiting For The Punchline -- Extreme Collage -- Ratt Louder Than Hell -- Manowar Crack A Smile -- Poison Hear In The Now Frontier -- Queensryche Still Not Black Enough -- W.A.S.P. Let It Rock -- Great White Za Za -- Bulletboys

@magicstuff Год назад

Warrant's Dog Eat Dog is severely underrated. I think it slipped by a lot of folks at the time.

@bb-gc2tx Год назад

tell the truth billy squier from 1993 is an incredible album

@NRobertAlexander Год назад

@@magicstuff Dog Eat Dog is the best Warrant album if you ask me. A more mature and slightly heavier take on the 80's heavy metal sound, but still respecting the band's roots and not taking the pretentious grunge route.

@PaboritongAwitinniBoyKarne17 Год назад

Firehouse 3rd album is very banger..

@flacorocks2513 Год назад

I can't agree with this list enough. Although Ultraphobic caught me off guard, I slowly loved it. Belly to Belly not so much.

@jaymz010 Год назад

Oh that period of hard rock - Post-Nirvana/Pre-Korn. I call it... WAYNE’S WORLD ROCK 😄 The movie Airheads exemplified that period

@keeponlivin81 11 месяцев назад

I ain't fartin' on no snare drum!

@carpenoctem775 9 месяцев назад

1994 was a pivotal year for sure.

@bezoticallyyours83 Месяц назад

Party time! Excellent!

@sonusworld5357 Год назад

Skid Row broke out of the glam phase with Slave to the Grind - I mean that one was Super Heavy . Much Heavier and more Metallic than their self titled first one

@sonusworld5357 Год назад

@mikedavis8008 Absolutely 🤘🤘

@N_0968 Год назад

It’s such a good album.

@crushingalldeceivers Год назад

But the glam album had better songs.

@sonusworld5357 Год назад

@@crushingalldeceivers are you serious?? The heavier album was more Realistic in terms of both the music and lyrics

@username-mf4mu 11 месяцев назад

Yeah great album fucking love the last track wasted time such a catchy riff and vocals

@JP-ou6ss Год назад

I am a massive 80s hard rock fan, and even I am in doubt whether Bon Jovi became even better in the 90s. I love me a good ballad, and Bed of Roses, Always, This Ain't a Love Song are just gold. I even enjoy their 2000s stuff a lot. They truly trascended time.

@carpenoctem775 11 месяцев назад

They matured musically and lyrically better than most of their peers. That’s why they’re still on top and stayed culturally relevant for a longer period of time.

@lorenzosandoval7328 11 месяцев назад

W.A.S.P. deserves an award for their catalogue alone, they tried getting heavier and deeper with their songs back in 1989, then did a concept album, then a queen inspired album, and finally of all the bands trying to fit in with grunge, wasp took the industrial metal route and made some of the darkest music at the time. All of this during the 90s which basically made fun of people like him.

@dude5301 9 месяцев назад

Once Steve Clark died in early ‘91, Def Leppard was never the same. Adrenalize (which I’m pretty sure is the last 80’s Hair/Glam Metal album to go #1 on the Billboard 200 in 1992) was the finish line for them. I wonder how the 90’s would’ve went for them if he didn’t die and it’s crazy how he didn’t even live to see the grunge takeover, he died while they were still on top.

@xennial80sxberner 5 месяцев назад

Yeah I love Adrenalize and see it as pure 80s arena/hair metal in the Hysteria style. Maybe "make love like a man" was the one sorta 90s sounding track. Never thought how their trajectory could have been way different if Steve Clark lived. Maybe their 90s output would have been closer to Euphoria (99), like just a slightly edgier and more modern 80s sound

@thehalcyonflight 11 месяцев назад

As a Boyband connesieur/historian, I often compare the late 90s/early 00s boyband craze to that of the 80s/ really early 90s hair mania. The parallels are really uncanny.

@XxLIVRAxX 11 месяцев назад

Looks like Kpop occupies that space

@davequiquegg 11 месяцев назад

there was also landfill amounts of boy bands in the 00's in the UK until One Direction decimated them and the girl groups simultaneously. There's definitely a comparison there. Also indie acts before the Arctic Monkeys ended all that with their debut. Both the boy bands and indie landfill occupy a nostalgia place and only play their hits whenever they tour just like the 80's hair metal bands.

@thehalcyonflight 11 месяцев назад

@davequiquegg oh I know... Boyzone East 17 Code Red Take That 5ive 911 Westlife.... just to name a few.

@carpenoctem775 11 месяцев назад

Comparing hair bands to boy bands is kinda vague. Because hair bands actually had talent and made somewhat quality music. A more accurate comparison would be comparing boy bands to pop punk and emo bands. Both styles of music are extremely overrated teenybopper crap. The parallels are uncanny.

@thehalcyonflight 11 месяцев назад

@carpenoctem775 well the comparison has more to do with the meteoric rise and fall and in the height, the manufacturing of it all. Emo/pop punk had a gradual rise, stuck around for quite a while and even inspired what music would sound like roughly around the late 00s.

@TestMeatDollSteak 11 месяцев назад

I know that a lot of rock journalists and media pundits have, for the last 30 years or so, confidently repeated versions of the popular and romantic narrative that Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, et al. “turned the culture upside down and changed music forever”, but I’ve always been a little suspicious of that narrative, in part because it happens to flatter my own personal musical tastes, and in part because there does seem to be a lot of evidence to the contrary. Nirvana’s Nevermind _did_ bump Michael Jackson’s Dangerous off the top spot for one week in January of 1992, of course, but the top ten best selling singles and albums from that same year were from artists such as Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men, Garth Brooks, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kris Kross, and other R&B, rap, or country artists. There were certainly a few years in the early to mid 90’s that everyone at the malls and every trendy actor or musician wore Doc Martens boots and flannel shirts, but bands like Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, and Nine Inch Nails were still most heavily repped and embraced by the teenaged freaks, geeks, and social misfits across suburban America (I include myself in this latter group). They were mainstream, because they sold millions of CDs, yes, but they still weren’t the preferred soundtrack for the majority of music fans. So, I think there’s a bit of truth and a bit of hyperbole to the trope of grunge music “altering the course of music” and whatnot.

@LuchaLibertaria 5 месяцев назад

True. Hard Rock continued to be popular until 1993. Def Leppard was outselling Pearl Jam in 1992. Around 1992, pretty much all the Traditional Hard Rock/Metal bands were pushed outside of the mainstream & replaced by Alternative, Rap and Techno. Before that Hard Rock and Alternative were co-existing in the mainstream. Music Industry wants us to believe that it was 'a good thing' and they repeat that Grunge narrative as if it was the word of god

@Warstub Год назад

I Saw Red is such a great song. And Jani Lane's songs on Warrant's debut are a showcase of excellent songwriting.

@facerip2222 Год назад

Uncle Tom's Cabin is my jam off of that album. For those slow ballady songs, I am often not in the mood for the slowness of them, they just make me feel sad. But Uncle Tom's Cabin has so much electric energy, it gives me goosebumps. I love the music video for that song too.

@jasonlawson01 Год назад

The bitter pill. Thin Disguise. I saw Red. Letter to a friend. Stronger Now. All my bridges are burning. Blind Faith. Jani was a great song writer. Very honest sounding voice aswell. Miss that guy

@ms85129 11 месяцев назад

@@jasonlawson01 Mr. Rainmaker, also quite well imo :D

@Bianca-87 5 дней назад

Totally agree but sadly people think of the Cherry Pie song when they think of Warrant and Jani Lane hated that song but of course the greedy music executives begged for a big sound cheesy instant hit and there it was but yes Jani Lane was a great singer/ songwriter

@anamaria-girllover 11 месяцев назад

i always wondered how that transition happened. i feel like everyone associates that big, long hair with the 80s. and then it just immediately disappeared in the 90s. trends are weird

@michaeldoyle189 Год назад

Skid Row Subhuman Race was a solid album. Skid Row was more of a metal band than most of the other bands that were their contemporaries. Which is surprising since they were late to the scene. But they also fell victim to the rocker followed by ballad formula. And frankly, they did the ballad as good, if not better, than the rest. The power ballad definitely had an element of cheese. But Skid Row seemed to do it with less cheese than the others.

@rahimmaarof9930 Год назад

Agreed

@endezeichengrimm Год назад

It IS a solid album. I still play it to this day. Subhuman race is a masterpiece.

@SuperStrik9 Год назад

Skid Row definitely fared better than most. I remember they toured with Pantera in 1992.

@benjaminreagle460 Год назад

I agree, Skid Row was right there with GnR. Dirty hard rock. Not hair metal.

@MikeSoutham Год назад

100%

@kospandx Год назад

Whilst it isn't mentioned here, it should be added that Vince Neil released what is arguably the best album to spring out of the Mötley Crüe family tree right in the middle of grunge, viz., his first solo album, Exposed. It is musically a far richer album than anything he had tried before, and the material is thoroughly strong (half of it was written to be a follow-up to Ozzy's The Ultimate Sin). It did decently well, but really deserves to be heard by more. It also makes absolutely no concessions to grunge.

@firesideshats Год назад

Yeah but that because its lead single was on encino man.

@kospandx Год назад

@@firesideshats That may have had some effect, but Vince's name and the strength of the album itself should have been enough to draw many listeners in by themselves, even in 1993.

@tonyponchopeters Год назад

Exposes is an Amazing album!

@aelfredrex8354 Год назад

A Stevie Stevens project with Vince on vocals, really.

@kospandx Год назад

@@aelfredrex8354 Well, Soussan came with half of the songs, but if it IS a Stevens project, it certainly blows Atomic Playboy out of the water.

@titowrestling Год назад

Bon Jovi coming back with “It’s My Life” was a big success, though.

@Bianca-87 5 дней назад

Bon Jovi has been able to keep their fan base and bring in new fans over the years. They haven't necessarily changed

@joesmith8725 Год назад

I hate how a lot of videos separate by decades. When they all pretty much coexisted with each other. I was there those years. They all overlapped decades, Glam/hair rock you had it started in the '70s, rolled over into the '80s and '90s. Popular ALL 3 decades. Just that popularity wavered off during the mid '90s. Mainstream kind of rock. Hard rock blues based. "Grunge" , a silly term pushed by the national media, was/is basically garage rock, punk rock with heavier distorted guitars and slower tempo. Also existed already , late '70s, '80s as underground music in certain scenes, played just on college radio, independent/alternative radio stations and late night videos on MTV. Harder to see and hear these kind of bands. The alt rock explosion during the late '80s and early '90s helped propel bands like these into mainstream. So, alt/indie rock which was mainly underground during the '70s and '80s, exploded into mainstream during the '90s , '00s. Overlap. Lot of good alt rock. The ones that were labeled grunge tends to be more whiney, emo, depressing. Gets boring after awhile. But, you also had more upbeat , energetic rock like punk, ska, etc and multiple punk subgenres. And Metal. Nu metal, rap metal, multiple metal subgenres, etc. All also coexisted back then overlapping decades and recent years. And also other good fun genres coming out back then multiple decades, rap, funk, R&B, etc.

@kylereece1979 Год назад

Awesome video. Bon Jovi were the real ones that seamlessly stormed into success in the 90s via the Keep the Faith album. I dont know exactly how it fared in America overall, but in Europe they actually became even bigger than before. MTV Europe rotated the 'Jovi all the time and over here in general, they were side to side with Grunge, and the likes of Guns n Roses in terms of continuous popularity. Im Irish, and remember hard rock like Bon Jovi not getting sidelined by Grunge on MTV here. It was a huge mixed bag of everything.

@kospandx Год назад

I don't think grunge was nearly as big a phenomenon in Europe as in the States. Around my parts it felt less like grunge replaced metal than metal simply disappearing just as I got into it for no apparent reason. Apparently they did sell enough records to chart fairly highly, but I have no idea who were buying them.

@AnthonySforza Год назад

Actually, Jon himself admitted that Always was their top selling single. Which was what, 93-94? However, while MTV played their songs a lot in the US, Im struggling to recall anything coming out after 96. As, in 2000 when It's My Life came out, I recall thinking it had been a while since Bon Jovi put anything out. Annnnnd you could not ESCAPE that song at all that summer. It was everywhere.

@markwilliamsmusic2987 11 месяцев назад

@@AnthonySforzathey took a break after these days Sambora and Jon put out solo stuff they came back with Real Life and after the Crush album !

@carpenoctem775 11 месяцев назад

That’s what I said on my last post. They were the biggest band from that scene to survive and become bigger, especially internationally, in terms of album sales and stadium tours. Many of their peers tried to follow, some succeeded, most failed. They stayed culturally relevant for a longer time too, whereas most of their peers faded into nostalgia. For example, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, and poison did a stadium tour together in recent years, but could only do so billed as co-headliners. Bon Jovi have been headlining their own stadium tours globally for over 3 decades. Edit: Sorry if that was a little long. lol

@Chelaxim 8 месяцев назад

@@AnthonySforzaWho says you can't go home from 2005 and Who says you can't go home from 2016. Is most grunge singers didn't even get to live to see 2016 let alone have a hit. Bon Jovi,Madonna,U2 and Duran Duran are the quadfecta of Gen X artists who stayed relevant the longest.

@javi__... Год назад

These hair metal bands were in a weird bind. It was too soon for 80s nostalgia and they didnt fit in with a more serious sound. Meanwhile all those punk and alternative bands that were ignored in the 80s suddenly had a new following.

@gx1tar1er Год назад

also alternative/indie bands music in the 80's have aged better than a lot of 80's hair/glam. A lot of these are left to the past.

@Wadiyatalkinabeet_ 11 месяцев назад

⁠⁠⁠@@gx1tar1erThats a preference and a preference that isn’t the general consensus at that. Most of the public would disagree with you, but you are entitled to your own opinion. It’s just an opinion, and it’s not objective especially since most of the public would tend to disagree with you. When people thinks 80s rock, they think glam and hair metal. Alternative/Indie is 90s/modern aged rock

@orangecounty2033 Год назад

Everyone says rock changed in 91-92 when Nevermind hit, and it did, ... but if you were paying attention hair metal was in its last throes in 89-90. Mainstream rock stations were still playing Crue, Poison & Ratt but every city had an alternative station that was playing NIN Pretty Hate Machine, Janes Addiction, the Cure Disintegration , etc. I remember hearing The Mountain Song in a bar and going 'omg wtf is this', and bought Nothings Shocking in 89 ... Gish came out 6 months before Nevermind but only college rock stations played SP... The music industry got smart , everyone was begging for a big change 🎶🎸

@angryagain3801 Год назад

Some of my favorite albuims by these "hair bands" came out of the 90's Motley made two great albums Warrant delivered Ultraphobic & I loved that. Skid Row's Subhuman Race is killer. Even Dokken got back together, Dysfunctuional isn't my favorite Dokken album but it was refreshing to hear in 1995. Def Leppard's Slang is really good as is Bon Jovi's These Days. I just wish these albums received some airplay so the masses heard them.

@tommynoble3428 11 месяцев назад

Poison/Richie Kotzen's Until You Suffer Some (Fire and Ice) is a great freaking song. Native Tongue is a criminally underrated and underappreciated album.

@bradencockrell1018 Год назад

Cinderella & Great White are two bands that put music out in the grunge era 90s… they didn’t cave and just did what they always did which is hard rock infused w blues. That’s what sold millions of records in the 80s and early 90s and they didn’t waver just because it wasn’t “in” anymore. Two of the best bands ever in my opinion.

@username-mf4mu 11 месяцев назад

Great white released hooked in 91. Desert moon would’ve been a hit in the 80s for sure

@julienverveer748 11 месяцев назад

Didn't take long before Cinderella fell down too though. Don't get me wrong, they're one of my favorite bands ever but

@revivedfears 11 месяцев назад

Cinderella are so much better than they get credit for. Their TERRIBLE name is what puts people off them

@nicholasgood9608 4 месяца назад

Wish more people listened to those bands, they are some of the best of that era (and all time) IMO

@haberak3310 11 месяцев назад

I'm gonna be honest, 80s rock/metal bands transitioning into the 90s is probably my favorite genre of music. There is just something unendingly interesting about listening to the sounds of someone who was riding the waves like a master trying to adjust to changing tides. I stand by Keep the Faith and These Days being overall better albums than New Jersey and Slippery, even if there are a couple singles out of the 80s albums that I prefer over the majority of both albums (namely Wanted and Lay Your Hands on Me, but they still don't match the best songs on the 90s albums imo).

@Eric_In_SF 11 месяцев назад

The 90s weren’t grungy. It just so happens. Grunge was the most main stream so everybody who wasn’t even born, yet has distorted reality that the entire era was pure grunge. The 90s were super eclectic and bizarre. You had bands like Jane’s Addiction and Primus that were like super far out there and you had crazy comedy bands like B-52’s or Primus again. Then you had alternative hip-hop, like Digable, planets and tribe, all the way to things like Swedish retro euro pop like the cardigans and even far out bands like the Squirrel Nut Zippers playing 1920s hot jazz going main stream. Then you had hard-core punk and Pop punk like Green Day and NOFX. You had the beastie boys doing crazy hip-hop, and then then you had British Pop like blur and oasis and 1 million other mellow dancy bands like happy Mondays and then you had stuff like Ned’s atomic dustbin and back. It was like every genre and everything. It was just fun and cool worked. The 90s were all about alternatives, and every alternative could go main stream in a heartbeat.

@MetrohamComicMedia 5 месяцев назад

Ye it seemed the 90s had a lot going for it with music

@carpenoctem775 2 месяца назад

Honorable mention. Early alt and nu metal like KoЯn, deftones, rage, tool. And goth industrial, NIN, Type O, Rammstein.

@moreblack Год назад

And yet in 2023, Def Leppard and Crue are playing Wembley Stadium with Van Halen's kid opening. Tide comes in, tide goes out I suppose.Alice or PJ will never ever do that.

@kevinrayonflores2212 Год назад

What do you expect it’s a stacked 80s nostalgia road. Ofc it’s gonna stack when you have the famous bands from the 80s in one card.But younger people (gen z) still talk about nirvana and Alice In Chains. There music is still so relatable decades later. Kurt cobain literally became an icon of rock music.

@Wadiyatalkinabeet_ 11 месяцев назад

⁠@@kevinrayonflores2212dk about that, as someone from gen z myself. Me and most of the people I know around my area who are also gen z like 80s hair metal better than 90s alternative rock. My sisters who were born in the early 90s late 80s and there friends are more alternative rock listeners.

@CarterHayes77 11 месяцев назад

@@Wadiyatalkinabeet_I think 90s pop culture is way more popular, especially fashion via tiktok, Insta pages like 90s anxiety.

@javierortiz82 11 месяцев назад

Bon Jovi's These Days is probably their best album. Kind of gritty, adult contemporary, very introspective and sometimes even reflecting of internal conflicts, their musicianship peaked there. Richie's bluesy style ruled all over the album, I think it features some of the heaviest plays by Tico. And what about the production qualities?, I mean, listen closely to the classical parts in This Ain't A Love Song. That song is amazing. It's a shame the album didn't sell as well, which prompted them to a more popy sound in Crush, which has been a defining album for their style in the last quarter of a century.

@carpenoctem775 11 месяцев назад

These Days was their last great album.

@dubstep2496 11 месяцев назад

“Don’t think there’s alot to go back for the poison album” That album is incredible.

@tedbertier9454 Год назад

"It's like a mullet became self-aware and adapted itself into a superior coif." This is perhaps the funniest thing I've heard all year. Well done.

@jumariduqueza3726 Год назад

Bon Jovi survive the 90s they still sell millions of album in the US andmore popular in Asia and europe in the 90s.

@Vinylrebel72 Год назад

Motley Crue’s album with John Corabi was a killer record.

@teamamerica5987 Год назад

Agreed. After Too fast for Love and Shout at the Devil. 3rd best record. Better that everything else they recorded imho.

@MrMackmonster Год назад

Couldnt agree more. It demonstrated that the band was more than just glam.

@Wadiyatalkinabeet_ 11 месяцев назад

It’s alright. The Crue is just better sounding when they’re glam/hair metal band

@SHOUTband Год назад

i have to say i never saw Skid row as a "Hair Metal band" they were always very heavy but i guess the ballads made them be thrown into the Glam Metal side.

@SHOUTband 11 месяцев назад

@@bozhno yes i agree.

@FighterBJ 11 месяцев назад

That and their association with Bon Jovi in the late 1980s is my guess why they remain hair metal in our memories.

@michaelmblog 11 месяцев назад

Ultimately, for my money, the 80s rock bands' music has aged better than 90s grunge. When you've had a beer or two and are having fun, do you want to hear Motley Crue or do you want to feel bad for yourself and listen to Pearl Jam?

@edgabrielocay3376 Год назад

Bon Jovi still works in the 90s

@victormauss5536 11 месяцев назад

I had always rally wondered about this. Thanks for making a majustic video on it

@bruceburnett1584 11 месяцев назад

I talked to Janie not long before he was gone, and he told me he absolutely HATED "Cherry Pie"...RIP Janie

@nundo7781 Год назад

Correction: Mutt Lange wasn't necessary too busy producing Bryan Adams and Shania Twain albums, he was too busy boinking Shania Twain!!! And hell, no sane guy could ever blame him for one minute!!!

@wasauchimmer4010 Год назад

Super interesting topic. Some bands sure got it and sounded alright. Very cool and well-done video!

@psychopoison Год назад

Winger - Pull is just one of the most underrate albums of all times, its a masterpiece

@Roger8176 Год назад

Pull is fucking awesome! Probably best album of '93. Anybody who laughs at Winger should listen to Junkyard Dog.

@AnthonySforza Год назад

Hahaha, I remember hearing In Cognito for the first time, like "Wait... the DJ said this was new Winger?" Love that song.

@jonathanhughes2199 Год назад

OK Stewart

@colinclement2752 Год назад

Shut up Stewart

@y_s4021 11 месяцев назад

Honestly, I think I like today's heavier Winger way more than their prime. One of my favorite bands actually. They made so many cool songs after they went heavy, even their hard rock got better. Kip and Reb Beach are so good.

@freedomisslavery6840 11 месяцев назад

Winger and Warrant made their two best and heaviest albums in the 90s with 'Pull' and 'Dog Eat Dog'. Both awesome albums.

@crisgadelhart 11 месяцев назад

Winger is criminally underrated. Great musicians, great songs. Sure deserved better.

@mildred714 11 месяцев назад

Hahahah

@LemmyLawless 11 месяцев назад

Down incognito, I really love that song

@mysterio7807 Год назад

Bon Jovi's These Days is very adult. If this album were written by someone else, it'd be considered a masterpiece.

@TheDouglasSeth Год назад

I prefer These Days over any 80's Bon Jovi. Great CD. I have said many times, if it was anyone else who made that CD, it would have been much bigger!

@1985cactus Год назад

You use that word masterpiece but I don't think you know what it means.

@kalterkakaozumfruhstuck1515 Год назад

Ironically, he doesn't mention the grunge songs from Bon Jovi's These Days album, such as - Hey God - or - My guitar lies bleeding in my arms. unbelievable

@carpenoctem775 11 месяцев назад

It was probably their most introspective album lyrically.

@RespectTheMusic 11 месяцев назад

I agree 1000 percent with you. As a guitarist I love and have researched a lot of the guitar legends such as EVH, Brian May and so on. I feel like Ritchie was one of the most UNDERRATED guitarists of all time. You’re never gonna see him on a top 10 list and I feel like a big part of that is because Richies best playing (in my opinion) was on their more 90s albums. The man was a blues guy, and you can really see him embracing that on the These days album specifically. Me and a friend of mine whose also a guitarist talk about the album all the time and we both feel that it just came out at a time when eyes were not directed towards Bon Jovi. Also I feel like it’s one of those albums where his playing was well placed and blended on most of the songs. So his playing was not as noticeable to people who don’t have an ear for music and have a hard time distinguishing and picking out each individual instrument. Then let’s not even get started on Jon’s voice (the perfect blend of rasp, toughness and sweetness).With all this being said I’m with you! It’s a true masterpiece! I could talk about this album all day, so imma end with this… These days (masterpiece of a album), Dry County from Keep the faith album… Phenomenal guitar solo!!!! Or solos if you wanna take into account that he starts with a bluesy solo that he could have ended on but instead chooses to ride into another more classic Bon Jovi shredder solo! 🤯

@luislanga 11 месяцев назад

Great video. It always bugged me how the 80s guys tried to save themselves when the new thing hit. It's not like OG car manufacturers moving to electric cars or businesses moving to online shops or whatever, it's the guys admitting they were never the cool transgressors that don't care about anything they tried to show they were, their personalities were just a product of their management/marketing team lol.

@SuperStrik9 Год назад

Jackyl are a great band. They formed in 1991 so they technically aren't an 80s band but they played some killer southern tinged hard rock. Jackyl's first 2 albums are definitely worth checking out. Headed For Destruction is a badass tune. There's a great version of it from Woodstock 94. Also don't forget Guns N Roses. The Use Your Illusion albums were a massive success and their tour with Metallica in 1992 was selling out stadiums.

@MrMackmonster Год назад

Jackyl was awesome!!!!

@y_s4021 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the tip! gonna check them out.

@SuperStrik9 11 месяцев назад

@@y_s4021 No problem. 👍

@ColtraneTaylor 11 месяцев назад

Jackyl pees all over GnR.

@gileadbot19 Год назад

Dude, I was lucky enough to see the Crue with Warrant in February of 92. I was only 14 and Dr Feelgood had come out a couple years prior and I was absolutely in love with the whole album. They had the dopest laser light hologram of the crazy doctor from the cd/cassette inserts Introducing them. The kicker is my parents fuckin took us to the show(literally watching the entirety of both bands)which we got tickets from them for xmas. It was insane.

@stephenhamel9464 Год назад

Dr feelgood came out in 1989

@gileadbot19 Год назад

@@stephenhamel9464 thanks man, it's fixed.

@cindyrector9718 11 месяцев назад

Lucky kid

@shouldvebeenonthealbum Год назад

Great video!! I just happened to stumble upon it but have immediately subscribed. As a lover of 80s hard rock, and owner of most of these albums too, I reckon you’ve given a very fair assessment. Great work all round and I’m looking forward to the second part of this! Keep up the great work!

@wedontcookfood Год назад

This was a really well produced video and I enjoyed watching it. Keep up the good work and I mean it in the most genuine way!

@countMonteTristo 11 месяцев назад

Great work on this, really nicely put together, and funny too

@acason4 Год назад

The Native Tongue record is actually pretty damn incredible: Stay Alive Stand Until You Suffer Some Strike Up The Band Theatre Of My Soul Ain’t That The Truth 7 Days Over You Also, the Motely Crue self titles isn’t all that great, but the things that are good are as good as anything Crue ever did: Hooligan’s Holiday Misunderstood Uncle Jack Welcome To The Numb Loveshine

@stonerdemon Год назад

Harem Scarem, Vicious Rumors, Badlands, Kix, Crimson Glory, Lynch Mob... The great hair bands of the 90's that almost no one remembers.

@BVRNERMVSIC 11 месяцев назад

"Grunge" (specifically talking about seattle bands) by itself was short-lived, from 1991 to roughly 1993 (the chicago bull years), it quickly got absorbed into the greater Alt bubble

@kevinbailey4879 11 месяцев назад

I've been looking for a conversation like this. ❤

@lauralikessomestuff 11 месяцев назад

Kurt was so epic

@iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053 Год назад

'94 Motley Crue is a 7/10 Subhuman Race is an 8/10 Native Tongue is a 7/10 I really dig them all

@sarabrown6022 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for this - it was super interesting. I knew what Crüe had done but it's great to see it in context compared to the other contemporary bands.

@mlanzara9215 11 месяцев назад

This video was awesome! I would love to see a video about the transition for bands from the 70s to the 80s as there were some big changes then as well

@55Porter Год назад

How interesting that all through the 90's a lot of these bands were mocked for having no staying power, and here we are almost 30 years later and many of them are still filling up stadiums because people can't get enough of that nostalgia from their 80's heyday. I don't think too many grunge bands are out there packing 40,000+ seat stadiums like we saw last summer with the Motley/Leppard/Poison tour. Of course Bon Jovi still packs 'em in too. It's funny how things work out over the long term.

@bb-gc2tx Год назад

80s bands lost the battle but won the war

@AnthonySforza Год назад

It also doesnt help that music today objectively sucks, en masse. So people began looking backward. What's really cool, is that obscure bands or the late 80s/Early 90s, like Roxy Blue, Wildside, Vain, Britney Foxx, etc etc, who never got the time of day, are actually having their own moments in the sun, finally. Where Bobby Blotzer was talking about Ratt's catalog being "En fuego" as he put it, where it took ten years for Detonator to go gold, then just hovered there, but then after the insurance commercial, took less than two years to go from just over gold, to platinum.

@Undying3001 Год назад

Yeah who the fuck even cares about Pearl Jam, Peppers, Stone Temple Pilots, and all the other dated 90s trend bands anymore?

@Beeraltar Год назад

Well alot of the big grunge bands can't tour for obvious reasons.

@bb-gc2tx Год назад

@@Beeraltar grunge and nostalgia dont mix very well. it would be kinda of odd seing a 48 yr old wearing a zero t shirt and talking about how much he hates his parents 🤣

@johnchedsey1306 Год назад

Never ever thought I'd hear Warrant and King's X compared in the same sentence, but now I hear it. I had a friend take me to a Def Leppard show in 2003 or so. Packed house and they gave the audience exactly what they wanted. I'd say they weathered the 90s fairly well.

@RocknDanger 3 дня назад

Great video! Really enjoyed it, thanks for sharing.

@InAtlasAtLast 11 месяцев назад

Love this video idea!! I’d like to see the same with other decades!!

@bartmitsfer Год назад

It’s funny. I listened to Hysteria on repeat. 1 of my fav albums but my now fav Def Lep song is AlI want is Everything. Great trip down memory lane from high school to working years for me.

@AnthonySforza Год назад

Weird he mentioned Adrenalize, but not Retro-Active.

@davidcross701 11 месяцев назад

Thanks KURT!!!!!! The alternative and underground music Revolution!

@davidcross701 11 месяцев назад

3:00 Grudgey adaption, skid row. 80s rock purest hate it. 5:15 Poison same thing. 6:30, Another trying to be relevant, falsely. 9:02 pathetic sound.11:00 gawd ... wow glad I stop listening to these bans in 1991. Hope Def doesn't' play any of these albums in the 1990s at concerts.... awesome critique.

@LuchaLibertaria 5 месяцев назад

Alternative Revolution happened in the late 70s. Nirvana turned Alternative Rock into another form of Corporate Rock.

@mangogoat4691 Год назад

Lovin your content! Fresh stuff!

@mrflipperinvader7922 11 месяцев назад

the one band who was very interesting is Firehouse, as in 1994 they had that hit "I Live My Life For You", and it charted high, waaaaay past hair metal's prime days. It was able to enter that adult contemporary vein just like Bon Jovi and the Goo Goo Dolls

@freaklives Год назад

Worth mentioning though that these 80s bands may have done weird stuff to fit in in the 90s, but almost all of them are still filling stadiums today. How many 90s bands can you say that about? In fact, apart from Pearl Jam, what 90s bands are still going?

@mojohead7954 Год назад

Smashing Pumpkins still puts out albums and tours. Alice in chains doing fine with new singer for past 15 years. Soundgarden reunited in late 2000s, recorded album and toured until Chris Cornell suicide just after their gig in 2017. Stone Temple Pilots also reunited with original singer Scott Weiland in late 2000s but fired him again in 2013 and in 2015 he died from overdose. They are still exist but not as successful

@mtc5 Год назад

most of the bands associated with grunge are no more or went through a hiatus that virtually ended their story as we know, but emerged as something different, not so hungry. I don't blame the bands really. None of the ones that became active again played nostalgia angle unlike KISS or 80's bands. - Nirvana: Obviously done with Kurt's suicide. We got Foo Fighters out of it though, which is undoubtably one of the biggest arena band. - Alice in Chains: Long hiatus after their frontman Layne, came back years later with high quality albums, but didn't really attempt to grow their audience. - Soundgarden: Disbanded before even 90;s were over. Chris Cornell came back with a successful solo album and went on to form Audioslave, which was a massive success and arena band. Soundgarden reformed in 2012 but again, they didn't really attempt to grow their audience or make nostalgia tours. - Stone Temple Pilots: Similar to Alice in Chains really, frontman dies, new frontman comes, they don't really play nostalgia angle. But the new frontman dies as well. cursed band really. - Smashing Pumpkins: Musically most flexible of these bands, but they couldn't retain the quality songwriting with new songs. Many lineup changes, inconsistent band overall.

@nykcarnsew2238 11 месяцев назад

Tool’s 2019 album went to Number 1 on the pop charts, briefly beating Taylor Swift

@BVRNERMVSIC 11 месяцев назад

The biggest 90s bands all lost their frontmen...and AIC is still pulling huge numbers nowadays

@MrPapaj82 4 месяца назад

I binged a few videos of your videos and I love it. Your bit about Bon Jovi was amazing and hilarious. Subscribed.

@ChannelBerpindah Год назад

Genius video man. Very rarely touched topic, people always talk about how grunge killed hair bands but none talked about what happened to most of the hair bands trying to survive the 90s.

@rcknrol7258 Год назад

It's ironic that Bon Jovi and Areosmith did very well in the 90s into the 2000s . You could say Aerosmith helped usher in glam and sleaze in the 70s and Bon Jovi was the pinnacle of it in the 80s....so it's bizarre that these were the two bands that continued to do well. Metallica fared well as a live act but load and reload weren't nearly as big as the black album. I think Bon Jovi pulled alot of females and that was a big contributor. With Aerosmith I remember my family called and we all went to see Mrs Doubtfire and when dude looks like a lady was cranking, I looked back and you see all these Grey heads bobbing to the music...Aerosmith has that way of tickling everybody's funnybone . That and the fact that they bring in horn sections Yada Yada.... My two favorites managed to survive the 90s , barely. Scorpions and Van Halen. I was surprised Van Halen balance in 95 sold 5 million . Scorpions admitted that they were almost toast as a band/business in 99. They somehow pulled through. 55 to 97 rock and roll was open for business ...after that it was a struggle. I think social media and youtube revived the nostalgia in through about 2012...after that it's only huge legacy acts slogging it out . Not a bad run for a style of music . If you said 55 through 2012 - 57 years of a run isn't bad . Jazz didn't last that long ...country western has it beat . That's still popular although I don't consider any new country as authentic. It's sad. I wish rock and roll had revolutionized itself again but I guess it's testament to sound is a les paul or super strat through a marshall. It's dad music now.

@RockLibertyWarrior Год назад

Don't care if its Dad music, at least most of it wasn't auto tuned and written to an algorithm, that is why most pop and rap music all sounds the same these days, not because we're old but because they've found a formula that will sell more downloads, get more hits on their social media accounts and more views on their youtube videos.

@rcknrol7258 Год назад

@RockLibertyWarrior we may like that but the younger set needs something new . Look what Eddie Van Halen did for the guitar...we are still milking that today. It's like if Eddie van halen came out with a 50s les paul and a fender champ ...do you think he'd be groundbreaking? Synth guitar is highly underrated . The technology has advanced , now there are plugins where you can litteraly create your own sound. There are also modern looking guitars , steinburgers still look modern , Strandergs are a trip . And kids could break the mold with songwriting. No more typical intro verse verse chorus verse chorus break solo verse chorus out or variations of that. The mold can be broken, but the industry is shot and kids are lazy. It's going to take a go getter to start another musical revolution.

@MLBlue30 11 месяцев назад

Jesus, are you saying ALL rock is Dad rock? That's grim.

@rcknrol7258 11 месяцев назад

@MLBlue30 Most classic rock hard rock classic metal is dad rock . There are some kids into it but it's mainly for the 45 50 and above set . New rock bands ? Mostly indy and limp wristed crap...or you could say Nickelback but they are pretty cringe . I still like the old sht , but it's time for the kids to do some revolutionary sht . I'm not so old that I'm closed minded but what is considered new rock is pretty weak. So is newer metal...chugga chugga sht with screamo lyrics is terrible.

@MrNeilphipps Год назад

Warrants dog eat dog album in 1992 is badass.

@jimcooper1320 Год назад

Yeah. I don't know how they skipped this album and went to Ultraphobic

@jamesknighton8658 3 месяца назад

Extraordinary editing!

@aquascenic5751 11 месяцев назад

Great video! Really enjoyed it

@shaunmarsh7113 Год назад

Def Leppard’s Slang album contained a lot of emotion. It’s like it was meant to happen - and it’s a masterpiece. Work It Out is one of the best songs they ever produced. 🤘

@retropyro Год назад

I'm still pissed they made Move With Me Slowly a Japanese only track for the album and putting out as a B-side. Such a great track.

@MithunOnTheNet Год назад

Loved 'Slang'!

@ChrisS62976 11 месяцев назад

Slang is extremely underrated…

@young-jaechong6045 11 месяцев назад

@@retropyroi love absolutely love the groove on this track as well as the guitar solo between Phil and Viv! 🔥🚀

@drexelmarz7144 Год назад

What if any of these bands adapted to a Power Metal sound? Which was becoming a huge thing in Europe. That would have been cool!

@KaptRocket 11 месяцев назад

Blind guardian CARRIED the European power metal movement

@nykcarnsew2238 11 месяцев назад

Trouble is they aren’t in Europe

@drexelmarz7144 11 месяцев назад

@@nykcarnsew2238 back in the 90s & early 00s it was a big thing, they even claimed that they viewed grunge as competition on their careers

@LuchaLibertaria 5 месяцев назад

Malmsteen went Power Metal with The Seventh Sign

@Breakbeats92.5 2 месяца назад

I remember reading a magazine and in an article the writer said, "in 1991 Nirvana released their debut LP Nevermind and hair metal melted overnight." I thought that just about summed it up.

@anadraham2995 Год назад

Absolutely fantastic content 💯💯👏💯💯

@eclecticx Год назад

Though the 90s had some great music, I never thought Grunge was a part of the great. To me, Grunge sucked. It was depressing and boring. Give me the hard rock bands of the 80s any day, including the hair bands.

@mikemurphy1208 11 месяцев назад

KISS had an interesting entry to the grunge genre but reunited mid-production and it just got absolutely steamrolled by the reunion. Definitely a valiant attempt. Some great tunes. I don't know if it ever would have been a commercial success, but on music alone, I really dig the album.

@andyspencer4786 11 месяцев назад

Not to mention "Revenge" was their best album in over a decade, in my opinion. Cool seeing Ace and Peter back in the band, but considering what happened after, the reunion cursed the band.

11 месяцев назад

I didn`t even bother to listen to the album back then bc everyone said it was just KISS doing grunge. Under the pandemic I dug into a lot of music I ignored for stupid reasons in my 20s (I was 20 in 1990) and CARNIVAL OF SOUL is actually not a bad album and has some really good and some really interesting songs on it. Probably because they TRIED to make a grunge album but failed on the grunge style, but it became almost a new genre of it`s own. Like a hybrid of alternative metal and glam metal. They should have gone back to this after 5-6 years on the reunion thing. Being a KISS fan today is almost as embarrassing as in the 80s.

@brianhuffman2070 11 месяцев назад

I like most of carnival of souls personally I think it's a solid record

@diegorivas1991 11 месяцев назад

Carnival of Souls was meant to be released in 1994 but named "Head". The record got rejected by Mercury and later reworked in late 1995 as a Plan B if the reunion didn't came to fruition.

@jack9nine586 4 месяца назад

your content is so awesome glad i found you

@Dominicesquire Год назад

Really surprised that you’ve only got 800 subs. Glad that I was recommended this video. Subscribed!

@brandonjackson5865 Год назад

Listen to Motley Crue 94 today and it’s a pretty good album, it was ahead of its time and some one could probably argue it’s their best creative and performance wise, the drums and guitars are somehow even bigger than on Feelgood . If that album came out around the year 2000 and it wasn’t known that it was Motley it would’ve fit in with rock radio perfectly from 2000-2010 , it’s kinda a proto Nickelback lol I love the first two Skid Row albums and everyone says Subhuman Race is good but I can’t get into it. I’ll be the first to admit I really didn’t take them seriously until I saw them in The Vulgar Video, Skip Rope ha ha and Dime and Vinny loved Nickelback too Richie Kotzen is one of the baddest guitarists to walk the earth. The craziest thing in all of this is all of these glam guys who celebrated the excess of rock n roll are still alive raking in cash touring on nostalgia and people coming back to music that’s just fun. The saddest part is a lot of our grunge heroes are dead, the “big four” of grunge only has one front man still standing, RIP , Layne, Kurt, and Chris. Hard to believe Cherry Pie is on the same album as Uncle Tom’s Cabin not hard to believe the record company chose Cherry Pie over Uncle Tom’s Cabin and a year later were really pushing AIC, instead of Warrant

@mdluk199 11 месяцев назад

Ultraphobic by Warrant is an awesome album in my opinion. Also, I think you summed up Bon Jovi wrong they just went down the classic rock road. These Days is an awesome album as was Keep The Faith. Def Leppards Slang is also a fine album.

@FLtrailblazer Год назад

Great to look back on this

@John-pc3cx 5 месяцев назад

You have a great sense of humor about these bands. Nailed the Bon Jovi part.

@shawnstarks1743 Год назад

Now, this is a cool subject. I have to say Poison and Skid Row did a good job transitioning into the 90s. Where as someone like David Coverdale and the Whitesnake camp just said fuck it all together disbanded and threw in the towel. Didn’t even attempt. Which was really smart. Honestly. Dave came back with Coverdale/Page. Which was Killer.. Queensryche also did good transitioning from the 80’s to 90’s

@MadSciRexieFi Год назад

Queensrÿche's Promised Land was strangely awesome, kind of defiant and acknowledging at the same time. I never had that Coverdale/Page record that's one I should check out all these years later!

@shawnstarks1743 Год назад

@@MadSciRexieFi It’s very bluesy and groovy to say the least. Hell, Jimmy Page is playing guitar on it, so you already know. Yes, that Promised Land is killer.

@kospandx Год назад

To be fair to Dave, he folded Whitesnake before grunge blew up bigtime, so I don't think there is a casual link there. What IS true is that a lot of the big glam acts were MIA as grunge made it big, which probably facilitated grunge taking their place.

@shawnstarks1743 Год назад

@@kospandx I must say your right about David Coverdale’s decision to disband Whitesnake in 90. It was shortly after Monsters of Rock. I don’t think Nirvana had dropped yet. David definitely had foresight. Cause he went back to the blues with Coverdale/Page. He knew the glam era was done.

@jessielakes8118 Год назад

I love all the hair metal bands. But so do I love Nirvana and Alice In Chains. And Guns n Roses was and still is my favorite band with the Misfits. I love punk. Fuck man I love outlaw country. I love all music! Hip hop too. It's the best way to be. I got to give the narrator credit for what he said about the mullet becoming self-aware on the bon Jovi part. I was almost going to wreck the guy but he actually did a good job. His words were well chosen and he was right with about every band he talked about

@ByTorSnowDog65098 11 месяцев назад

I was a teen all through the 80s and when the 90s came I was disillusioned by my favorite bands chasing new sounds. Now that I'm 50, I find I listen to the 90s output pretty frequently. It has just enough maturity in it (especially Def Leppard's Slang and Winger's Pull) to hold my interest with my much broader musical tastes now.

@rafuxec Год назад

Great video, this subject is hardly covered by other music channels. Made me subscribe.

@colerieger7300 Год назад

Sarcasm is so hard to detect in the written word. If you don't get the joke, almost every human being who has ever written about music has written how Nirvana "killed" Mötley Crüe. Even though Mötley was inactive the entire time grunge was around and in between their self-titled album and Generation Swine, grunge came and went. By the time GS came out, chick rock was dominating the airwaves and Tommy and Pam were all over the media. Swine flopped, but it had little to do with grunge and more to do with writing an album for one singer, having another sing it and trying to be too much at once.

@MrVortex1313 Год назад

Shotgun Messiah is a great example as Tim Skold went on to KMFDM and Marilyn Manson.

@Sandman60077 11 месяцев назад

I think Bon Jovi is the only band that made the right decision on how to evolve. As all those other bands tried to stay cool and relevant with metal kids, (which is like when your dad tries to be cool), Bon Jovi targeted middle aged moms. They were the only band smart enough to realize that they weren't going to be accepted by the new generation of music lovers and their best course is to stick with their aging fan base and just write music they'll like.

@dechardy3093 7 месяцев назад

They panicked mostly,the bands of the 80s and sunset strip were about fun and Rock and girls, and thank God those days returned along with the bands,just recently saw Pretty Boy Floyd and an amazing Glam night it was ..Rock on😀

@SuiGenerisMan Год назад

I have always thought this subject would make a great video, over a decade, Thank you!

@natt.helland 11 месяцев назад

Thank u 4 this. 80s glam metal is my obsession

@michaelwills1926 Год назад

It all makes sense when you figure “hair to grunge” was an ‘implementation’ rather than an organic musical progression. Otherwise, no reason music of all genres couldn’t coexist simultaneously, just like in the 80’s

@ethompson9107 Год назад

Well, I have to say that I was in high school when "grunge" broke. However, I started listening to bands like Mother Love Bone, Jane's Addiction, AIC, and Soundgarden while I also listened to the bands from the 80s. Bands like Skid Row, GnR, Metallica, Ozzy and Danzig to name a few at the same time to me gave those "grunge" bands a run for their money. Let's also not forget that a lot of those 80s hard rock bands had a resurgence by the late 90s into the early 00s. I never saw a resurgence for the "grunge bands.

@jonthehermit8082 Год назад

The inventors stayed though, just went back underground, the pixies, belly, the breeders, throwing muses still going, mother love one probably would to if dude wasn’t dead. Sound garden and Pearl Jam played neoclassical rock imo , gnr was grunge before grunge. When I think of hair bands I think of the industry produced stuff like motley crew and poison and all the bands that were like that. I don’t think of Ozzie who was metal before there was such a thing.

@kospandx Год назад

I think there has never been a resurgence because there was never a backlash. The nineties is the first post-war decade that was not really criticised after the fact, so a revaluation of them has never really been relevant.