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Originally Posted by MicShazam
And if yo happen to think of "real rock" as something more sleazy and 80's inspired, then Sweden, for some reason, has been overflowing with bands like this for the last 10 years or more - especially of the sort of metalized, hard rock variety:
Throw a dart in Sweden and you're likely to hit a member of a hard rock band.
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I wish Heavy Metal songs could be top 10 hits on the Hot 100 again played along with the pop and rap songs on radio stations. I just wish that rock/metal ruled the world again. Metal's glory years were 1980-1992. I'm a big fan of those years in Metal .'Hair Metal' was SOOO huge that top 10 Billboard charts and MTV most requested videos we're metal almost top to bottom for a few years. That's why I pick up Hair metal over Grunge. I never liked music only to be depressing, pessimist or dull. Never been a fan or existentialism in music
Of course "serious" magazines and bull**** judgements by the comitee (Rolling Stone and others) media only pick up music to depress like indie, grunge, punk, etc
Give me Kiss over Sex Pistols, give me Bon Jovi over The Cure, Def Leppard over Nirvana, Poison over Pixies, Guns n Roses over Sonic Youth, etc. For me the late 80s/early 90s were a great time to be a metal fan. I think it was a lot of fun, got our fists pumping and blood flowing...unlike grunge that came after it, with it's gloomy outlook on life. People can laugh at the haircuts, videos, outfits, lyrics and album covers and the banality of power chords but there was a reason why this stuff was popular - it had some fine hooks, riffs and great singers. How I originally got into metal was through my cousin giving me Motley Crue's "Shout at the Devil" and Metallica's "Ride the Lightning" when I was a youngin in 1985. Also Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet" made a huge impact on me. I was deeply into it in my teens,lived the sex ,drugs and rock and roll lifestyle during those years with metal being the soundtrack of said years. You can't just listen to metal as background, like with most other music. With background music it doesn't really matter what is playing, while with metal you actually listen to it and if you like it you will keep going back to it and wanting more and more. After 1994 I found it harder to get excited about newer metal bands. I still love and listen to the older 80's and early 90's metal.