Posted On: Saturday - August 3rd 2024 2:25PM MST
In Topics: Music
This band name came to me for reasons, today, and I know we haven't featured Poison before here. This '80s band* has a lead singer, Bret Michaels, who looked very much like contemporaneous band Guns & Roses' lead singer Axl Rose. I mean, the bandana, long hair, tattoos (only a couple, '88, '89...it was a different time, you understand...) One of these guys was imitating the other.
Even the band members probably looked like their counterparts. It was the look for bands like that, and I don't know if it was that or the sound that made me thing for a couple of decades that this song, Every Rose Has Its Thorn was by Guns &, excuse me, G&R. It's a ballad, but it's still got a good sound you'd expect from "this kind" of band.
I didn't need to see about the whole guy naked, but the hot bikini-underwear-clad chick makes up for it. She appears for a couple of seconds twice. I think the deal was to get viewers to watch/listen to the whole thing, expecting another look at black-bikini-underwear woman.
Yep, good music, good music videos and hot chicks (you try) were in my mind back 35 years ago, not all the discouraging stuff you've read here lately. I wish the country had paid attention a few decades early.
On that note, let say that we'll just have to get into the Curmudgeonry next week, as I've got too many to pass up. I hope I can make them entertaining at least. These do fit in well with our site Mission Statement, but so does one more about the Genderbender nonsense. Then, maybe we'll get to that last post on the Deep State. Others will pop up.
Thanks for reading and commenting. Happy Sunday to all!
* They played through the '90s and beyond, but that was no longer my time to listen.
Comments:
The Alarmist
Monday - August 5th 2024 1:24AM MST
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Definitely DLR, Hagar not so much.
Definitely DLR, Hagar not so much.
Moderator
Sunday - August 4th 2024 4:27PM MST
PS: I don't mind the punk stuff, Mr. Anon, but there was a whole lot better out there, even during that time. (I like the "alternative rock", such as 10,000 Maniacs. That stuff went into the '90s a ways.)
Peak America was probably 1950 to 1990, if stick to round numbers. You're talking music though, I think, so that's about right for me too. At the end of that '77 or maybe late that year or '78, that Disco music put a real damper on the good rock music. I guess one could say it recovered in '80, but maybe not ever to full strength.
Funny thing is, compared to (c)rap, which has gone on for 10 times longer, Disco music is heaven.
Yes, I'd say Van Halen is "Hair Metal". They had some great stuff.
Peak America was probably 1950 to 1990, if stick to round numbers. You're talking music though, I think, so that's about right for me too. At the end of that '77 or maybe late that year or '78, that Disco music put a real damper on the good rock music. I guess one could say it recovered in '80, but maybe not ever to full strength.
Funny thing is, compared to (c)rap, which has gone on for 10 times longer, Disco music is heaven.
Yes, I'd say Van Halen is "Hair Metal". They had some great stuff.
Mr. Anon
Sunday - August 4th 2024 2:14PM MST
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"Steve Sailer might know the answer - he knows music from that era, and he writes about hair a lot."
Sailer's taste in music runs to punk and punk-adjacent stuff (I couldn't tell you the difference): The Ramones, The Clash, ............stuff like that. I don't care for it. I hate The Clash.
I think some of the Hair Metal stuff is pretty good. I like Van Halen. Van Halen is Hair Metal, isn't it? They certainly had big hair. It was fun music.
Myself, I'd say that 1968 - 1976 was "Peak America". The 80s was slightly off peak, but still pretty good. And, as the 80s was the time when I hit adulthood, I'm still quite fond of it.
"Steve Sailer might know the answer - he knows music from that era, and he writes about hair a lot."
Sailer's taste in music runs to punk and punk-adjacent stuff (I couldn't tell you the difference): The Ramones, The Clash, ............stuff like that. I don't care for it. I hate The Clash.
I think some of the Hair Metal stuff is pretty good. I like Van Halen. Van Halen is Hair Metal, isn't it? They certainly had big hair. It was fun music.
Myself, I'd say that 1968 - 1976 was "Peak America". The 80s was slightly off peak, but still pretty good. And, as the 80s was the time when I hit adulthood, I'm still quite fond of it.
The Alarmist
Sunday - August 4th 2024 3:37AM MST
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Good music, hot chicks, and a President interested in defusing world tensions. The ‘80s were the last Golden Age of the USA.
Wishing all Peakers a happy weekend.
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Good music, hot chicks, and a President interested in defusing world tensions. The ‘80s were the last Golden Age of the USA.
Wishing all Peakers a happy weekend.
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Adam Smith
Saturday - August 3rd 2024 11:17PM MST
PS: Good night to you too, Mr. Moderator! ☮️
Moderator
Saturday - August 3rd 2024 7:29PM MST
PS: Yes, Bon Jovi from the same general time. Were these people all "hair bands"? I imagine more like REO Speedwagon and Journey. Steve Sailer might know the answer - he knows music from that era, and he writes about hair a lot.
Have a good night, Adam.
Have a good night, Adam.
Adam Smith
Saturday - August 3rd 2024 4:08PM MST
PS: Good evening, Achmed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7H6yMy1Ks
Happy Sunday! ☮️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7H6yMy1Ks
Happy Sunday! ☮️
Apart from the nostalgia it evokes, I think a lot of 70s era Disco is quite good: Barry White's "Love's Theme", Harry Casey and George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby", "Rock the Boat" by the Hughes Corporation, Kool and the Gang's "Get Down with the Genie", KC and the Sunshine Band, the BeeGees, and - yes - even ABBA.
They were real musicians making real music.