80s metal might have been corny and over the top but those guitarists absolutely annihilated. You had to be really good to play guitar in a rock band back then.
@@xviphoenix69 I thought grunge sucked. You didn't really have to know the instruments to play it well. But that's just me. If you liked it, thats great. The lyrics weren't very fun either.
Funniest part about Bills rant against this 80s music and his seemingly, apparent criticism of hair metal, glam rock, is deep down, you can tell, Billy still LOVES this crap!! Classic NOSTALGIC Bill
As an avid fan of 80s rock myself, listening to Bill Burr roast it mercilessly is absolutely hilarious in every sense of the word. I can't stop laughing, seriously, hands down, one of the best comedians ever!
I still play JUDAS PRIEST, DIO, IRON MAIDEN, DOKKEN, Lita Ford, Scorpions in my cars, the best driving music. I had hair almost to my waist in the 80's but now at 54 have to do the shaved head dome, it works.
The thing is Judas Priest, Dio, and Maiden are actually good bands, they weren't this hair metal shit lol. Same with like Metallica, Slayer, and Pantera. These bands never went out of popularity like the hair bands did.
I had to sit through Warrant and Poison for a little blond girl that I just could not get enough of. She was one of those girls from the 80's that you saw on posters. Slaughter, was when she realized I was running out of patience. It was like a BS story out of Penthouse. We had a Geology class together at the end of the day and she asked me if I would ditch it with her and take her home. I said sure. When we got to her house she told me that they had just gotten a new pool and asked if I wanted to check it out, sure. This was in early April and it was still chilly out, so my dumb ass didn't put two and two together. We checked out the pool and then she asked if I wanted to see the bikinis she bought for the summer. It was that time in your life when you thought maybe, but your not sure, and you just hope, but don't have it figured out yet. That is how hard that question hit me! I was like OK!!!! Three hours later, right before her Mom was going to be getting home, I HAPPILY agreed to take her to see Janet Jackson. That's right! She liked Janet Jackson too. That was a great summer. I took her to see Maiden just to turn her to the dark side, she didn't care. What a GREAT summer! I still like Janet Jackson.
I'm 55 and listened to all this back then and still do to this day. To me it was the best. I guess I'm just an old man stuck in his ways, but I will be banging my head till the day I die. Now, get off my lawn!!! 🤘🎸🖕
I got the Shout At The Devil album for Christmas 1983 when I was 17. Imagine unwrapping that in front of your religious parents and smart-ass siblings.
Anyone ever notice that Bill has PERFECT pitch?!? Whenever he sings a song, and you go to the clip, it's (almost) always in the right key, & right on pitch! Impressive. Noticed in other videos too like the "Star is Born" one...
Not only that, but I always noticed he has really good recollection in general, from word for word lines said in tv shows/movies and tv ads, details in clothing , etc.
I was watching Saturday Night Fever today, and it dawned on me that the lyrics are "More than a woman". As a kid I thought it was "Bald headed woman". Live and learn.
I have just stopped to justifying my love for them. Fuck that what the others think. Maybe I'm an adult now. I don't give a fuck. Try have a happy 2021 my brother.
@@davidpierce9949 always thought yeah a lot of 80s music was terrible and a lot of bands had like 5 good songs and a lot of cheesy horrible music. But Bill loves AC DC which is also terrible music 😂
I was never into these bands back in the day, but I think this stuff is better than most of the current music today. Iron Maiden Number of the Beast. One of the greatest metal albums ever! 😈
Thanks for having this 80's recovery meeting. It's just good to know that I am not alone in the struggles with my/our past. Thanks for sharing, it was brave of you. I kicked in 1989 with the help of 60's music and Janes Addiction.All we can do is admit to our past to try to show others there is hope for recovery. Remember kicking the 80's is not done through attending reunion tours because first it will be Ratt or Poison then you will find yourself banging your head to Winger or Jackyl thinking how bad ass you still are.
This was my high school in the '80s. All this music sucked, and everyone loved it. Some of us had no fucking clue what was going on because this music truly sucks.
My dad hated hair metal bands cuz he said they have no talent but come on! They all had a guitar virtuoso and even the shittiest bands had at least one absolute banger. Those guitarists had great tone too, love that hair metal guitar tone. Metal health is an absolute banger and David Lee Roth’s solo career is criminally underrated, so much fun!
@@Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King I never said anything about the solos tho. I like the riffs, the singing style the lyrics. I think when it’s good it’s really fun to listen to, when it sucks it all sounds the same but honestly none of that has to do with the solos. That’s honestly the least important part of the song to me, a great solo in a shitty song is still a shitty song
Bill and I are about five years apart and when I hear him talk about living in the 80s and 90s I know we would have been friends. Now when I hear him reflect on the 80s and 90s he reminds me of my grandpa.
In 1980 I was 14 but my memories are very fond because I liked a wide variety of music. As for rock, I loved a few of the new metal songs (not a fanboy of any band) but mostly listened to old school heavy and prog rock. Great memories! 👍
I know the BeeGee's weren't cool, but they were brilliant songwriters. They just had their biggest hits in a genre that's aged poorly. (Disco, anyone?)
I think the hate for disco was a bit unwarranted. Maybe at the time there was a lot of bad disco that has since disappeared, but to me it seems the era came and went. It was short, sweet, had some nice things to offer but didn't overstay its welcome. But that's hindsight. Probably at the time people wished it would just end already.
"I'm going to do a bunch of dishes in an evil-way gloves." Holy hell. hahaha There is always one random line in these short Bill Burr videos that just kills me.
Bill couldn't be more off about girls not being into hair/glam metal in the 80's. That was the fanbase. Girls ate up that music which was all about love and guys who wore makeup and teased their hair like they did. That's a known fact. The heavier shit of that time (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, etc) is the music that did not attract the girl fan base, but bands like Van Halen, Ratt, Dokken, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Poison, Cinderella, Warrant, etc, DID.
That's actually really true. I think really the women didn't like the music, but more so the shallow appeal of it, which were just all about the looks. Hell even Megadeth Metallic etc were still visually pleasing at the time lol.
Yeah this Bill guy is a loudmouth prick that's pissing all over something that a lot of us love. And all because this Bill loser couldn't get laid. Hell he probably still doesn't get laid and own a blow up doll and has a cabinet stocked full of lotion. F@ck you Bill. You $uck dumb@$$. 🖕🤬🖕
Shit I lost mine to A Touch of Evil by Judas Priest and Half of Rock You To Hell by Grim Reaper 😂 Although I'm only 25, my dad always said what I listen to was just a phase but I still have yet to grow out of it
You're absolutely right, Bill. I can only listen to about 10% of the shit I liked when I was younger. And I'd also like to take a moment to damn the late 80's completely to hell, just in general.
Come on bill you are two years older you can not can not fuck up wasp with motley and those guys got à LOT of pussy locking like bitches and you did not get laid in high school well thats brutal.
I loved all these bands back in the day.....Sometimes still a guilty pleasure....The music isn't the best but it makes me remember the simple times rocking out in my room at my parents house. My father called it too. Came home one day and all my records were gone.....But little were they ready for the Gangsta Rap revolution that happened next.
Honestly if you couldn’t get laid as rocker/metal head in the 80s, that really says something lmao. Let’s face it, it has never been easier since then. Not even close.
You said it best when you said “roofing in July as a dorky redhead” is the most difficult job in the world. That statement also applies to when you were in high school trying to get laid. It wouldn’t have mattered what music you listened to...you still wouldn’t have gotten laid.
Ratt songs actually hold up over time, compared to the rest. Definitely more cheese than whizz as a whole. But, the music today ain't gonna hold up either. Talk about cringe.
@@thefirstkitandkaboodle No, just no to the Crue and Cinderella holding up. I mean to 'hold up', you'd have had to be something in the first place. No offense, but the whole hair metal period was atrocious.
@@longbeach7623 Well, it was crap when it came out, and it’s still crap today - so I guess, it’s holding up.🙂 Listen, maybe you were 14 then and rocking out to Crüe, so I get the nostalgia. But while new generations are discovering the brilliance of the Beatles or Joy Division or Radiohead or Pixies or Nirvana - again and again - nobody today (or 10 or 20 years ago) are discovering hair Metal - and should they by accident hear and see some it, they are perplexed (and, frankly, horrified), that it was ever popular.
@@dandansen571 let me guess, hipster sjw, occupy Wall Street, Bernie Bro underachiever with a studio apartment full of pinterest coffee art? Oh and gender neutral bathrooms, that’s a given.
I can't help but bow my head listening back to the Bee Gees. More Than a Woman is a great song along with all their hits. We just hated them at the time because of over exposure. They stand up so much better than a lot of the 80's party "metal" music. I hated the Bee Gees back then but at least I hated that 80's "metal" music too.
I waited a long time for Bill Burr to arrive and say what I was saying back in 84 when this shit broke into the mainstream. Suffice it to say,a lot of people really hated me back then. No regrets. Who wants to be liked by fools in the first place?
the difference between Bill and i when it comes to musical tastes of our youth is my musical revolution roots start at my brother literally throwing a London Calling CD at my head and saying "listen to good music". my mom would let me listen to the couple of Green Day and Blink-182 songs on the radio (and this was just barely pre-internet so if you were cool with 1 song, you had to buy the whole album hoping more jams than duds)...and the nail in my nostalgia coffin was not long after, a friend who sent me a care package of 90's MA/RI local punk/hardcore/emo bands. i know the music i listened to in HS was bad....but that was the point, and the bands i liked were really good at being bad. it wasn't to impress anyone, it was a giant FUCK YOU to society. when you're a pissed off disenfranchised kid hitting high school the same time as the myspace boom, all the hair metal shit really looks like a dated waste of time.
If you graduated high school before 1989, then you probably love this music just like I do (class of 1988). If you're 1990 or later then you probably like Tone Loc, Vanilla Ice, Bel-bib Devoe, and all that shit from the early 90's in that short time window between 80's metal and Grunge. I feel bad for those people. They probably liked the Power Rangers too... ugh... Listen, we're all guilty of liking what ever was popular when we were between 15-18 years old. As a 51 year old man, I've seen this cycle over and over and over. I see it today with my kids. I play 80's & 90's music for them, but they keep going back to the current shit thinking it's the best... You could do a whole comedy special on this... so many things to cover, so much that's relatable to everyone... Thanks Bill... you fuck'n fuck!!!
90 here. And the last concert I saw was Ratt, October before the pandemic. (My first was Monsters of Rock L.A.Coliseum 1988. Yes, two riots that day. Watch ICONS w Kirk from Metallica. There’s a part of it in there. Plus it’s really great.) Anyways, Heavy F’in’ Metal! 🤘🏼
Nah... I'm the same age and other than maybe Def Leppard I never liked this shit. I listened to a lot of music 50's/60's/70's, country, Blues, Rockn Blues, but hair metal turned my stomach at age 14.
Music is obviously very personal but I agree a lot of this music is not listenable any more. It looked so easy to jump on board and write a tacky song that so many bands were writing terrible things that would fly. Its like the fact it was so tacky and artificial a lot of the time is what helped eventually push bands like Nirvana and Metallica to fame as they tried to represent the opposite of what people didn't like of the heavy music then.
@@FrancescoDiMauro True.. took the great "I wanna party & have a good time!" Trend. To depressing..." Life really sucks & I want to die!" Strange how a great deal of Seattle stars kill themselves
Shout at the Devil was an absolute classic! Awesome song! (Teaser? Not so much...) Round & Round was catchy as hell! Hair metal was one of the funnest eras ever! All about showmanship & having a good time! Everybody LOVES looking back on that time & music cuz it kicked ass!!! The country song playing at the end of this vid is 10X worse than any song you could find from that genre!
