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Mount Rushmore - 80s rock bands

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Scout, Aug 14, 2019.

  1. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    1980s GnR or all GnR?
     
  2. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Making a point. I like Guns 'n' Roses, by and large.

    But they're no more "rock" than U2 is "rock" ... they're something but is that something rock? What the fuck is rock?

    I believe the first post stated Guitars and drums. Guitars and drums.

    Here's '80s "guitars and drums" without the glam and makeup and screech. He's not on the mountain though.

     
  3. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    John Cougar was a face of '80s "rock" ...
     
  4. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    I know Rush was mentioned but they're instantly disqualified.

    You should be able to fuck to rock music and you can't fuck to Rush.
     
  5. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    This thread is a good reminder that people have developed an incredibly narrow view of what rock is. It's been whittled down to "if you heard it coming out of a stoner's Camaro at lunch in high school, it's rock."

    It used to be that rock was this great, varied thing that included all kinds of sounds. Then FM radio determined that rock was 3 to 5 white guys with guitars trying to sound like Led Zeppelin and anything else was just weird and foreign. Goddamn, that's boring.
     
  6. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Hey, I tend to agree.

    If Welcome to the Jungle is "rock" then Allentown is "rock" then Sweat (by Oingo Boingo) is "rock" ...

    If you ever need motivation at the gym ...

     
  7. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    "Beat It" is rock, but 98% of Michael Jackson's catalog isn't.
     
  8. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Not a single mention of Springsteen?
     
  9. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    He's boring.
     
  10. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    1970s Bruce >>>>>>> 1980s Bruce.

    1980s Bruce isn't the best of the best when it comes to rock, so he doesn't belong either.
     
  11. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    I sort of agree with this.

    'Rock' is a slightly smaller umbrella under the big umbrella of 'pop.'

    But we were having these categorical arguments among ourselves in the 70s and 80s, too.

    The result of which is the nearly infinite/nonsensical sub-categorization of popular music we suffer today.
     
  12. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    I've heard the argument The Beatles were pop, not rock.
     
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