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Interesting thread. I'm inclined to agree with pro-fusion.
Even though I'm not so old (yet [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]) I was born in '81, started listening to AC/DC in 1986, pretty soon went from there to Metallica and was die-hard fan for years....I have a broader listening tolerance now (in lack of a better term..) I listen mostly to metal but a lot of rock also, like audioslave, chili peppers etc.
Anyway recently I've been checking out some of the famous 80's stuff...and I agree with pro-fusion, most of them seem to me to have followed a recipe both on image and music...but I actually like White Lion [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Thanks to Vito Bratta, his stuff is great...Very melodic and he can rip it up with very nice phrasing. You guys are probably gonna laugh/want to kill me (or both [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]) but I don't even dig most of the VH albums...some of the songs are cool but I think a lot of it's not very good, I can see that VH was probably -the- live rock band back then..but a few of the albums are pretty weak to my ears! [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
It's true though that a few bands set the standard and create something new, then everybody else will try to copy that...and then it just contiunes and kinda forces everything to be recycled every once in a while...which is probably good.
I quote Primus' song The Year of The Parrot:
"You take a Zeppelin song, alter it a bit - and you've got yourself a hit"
[img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] those guys rule.
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See and I am the opposite, I LOVED the first white lion CD, one of my favorite of that time period, but after that i just lost interest in them. However I loved VH's albums back then, right up to 5150 and then after that i just lost interest. My favorite two VH albums are VH1 and 5150 with VH2 coming in very close behind.
There are alot of bands from the 80's that i completly loved one of there albums, but after that i just kinda lost interest. Some of the bands were poisen and there first CD, Whitesnake, the cd with still of the night etc.. Cinderella was another one of these bands, loved the first but after, blah, few songs here or there i would like.
I might also contribute this to my changing of tastes back then, alot of these bands were putting out second albums as the hey day of metal was coming to a end and my tastes were starting to change as well.
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Interesting thread. I'm inclined to agree with pro-fusion.
Even though I'm not so old (yet [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]) I was born in '81, started listening to AC/DC in 1986, pretty soon went from there to Metallica and was die-hard fan for years....I have a broader listening tolerance now (in lack of a better term..) I listen mostly to metal but a lot of rock also, like audioslave, chili peppers etc.
Anyway recently I've been checking out some of the famous 80's stuff...and I agree with pro-fusion, most of them seem to me to have followed a recipe both on image and music...but I actually like White Lion [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Thanks to Vito Bratta, his stuff is great...Very melodic and he can rip it up with very nice phrasing. You guys are probably gonna laugh/want to kill me (or both [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]) but I don't even dig most of the VH albums...some of the songs are cool but I think a lot of it's not very good, I can see that VH was probably -the- live rock band back then..but a few of the albums are pretty weak to my ears! [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
It's true though that a few bands set the standard and create something new, then everybody else will try to copy that...and then it just contiunes and kinda forces everything to be recycled every once in a while...which is probably good.
I quote Primus' song The Year of The Parrot:
"You take a Zeppelin song, alter it a bit - and you've got yourself a hit"
[img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] those guys rule.
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See and I am the opposite, I LOVED the first white lion CD, one of my favorite of that time period, but after that i just lost interest in them. However I loved VH's albums back then, right up to 5150 and then after that i just lost interest. My favorite two VH albums are VH1 and 5150 with VH2 coming in very close behind.
There are alot of bands from the 80's that i completly loved one of there albums, but after that i just kinda lost interest. Some of the bands were poisen and there first CD, Whitesnake, the cd with still of the night etc.. Cinderella was another one of these bands, loved the first but after, blah, few songs here or there i would like.
I might also contribute this to my changing of tastes back then, alot of these bands were putting out second albums as the hey day of metal was coming to a end and my tastes were starting to change as well.
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