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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostThat list has made me realize that I don’t rate Van Halen at all and believe, more or less, that they represent everything I despise about the worst excessss of America, about the worst excesses of the 80s, and about so many of the people I went to school with. It also makes me reflect on how much of my youth was spent listening to music I didn’t really like just because it was the least bad thing on the radio at the time.
Pretty much everyone else who followed in VH’s wake were pygmies who lacked Dave’s wit, charm and intelligence or the musicianship of the other guys. The hair metal hordes bear as much resemblance to Van Halen as the Oi bands do to Ramones.Last edited by Ray de Galles; 06-09-2018, 15:46.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostRepresent =/= are responsible for
It might be more generous to say that *I associate* VH with all those awful things. It’s contextual. Somebody just hearing them now for the first time would not be transported back to shitty memories of junior high in middle America in 1985.
Their massive popularity as well as the gross strip-club aesthetic they promoted were a symptom of bigger problems, rather than a cause. They were partly responsible for the popularity of hair metal, most of which is awful. But to pin that all on them is like blaming Nirvana for Nickelback and Staind.Last edited by Hot Pepsi; 06-09-2018, 17:00.
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"Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band. The band's name was inspired by a conversation with Rick Parfitt of the British band Status Quo, who expressed desire to name a band "Quite Right", and his thick English accent made it sound like he was saying "Quiet Riot"
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Originally posted by Auntie Beryl View Post
That was shocking. This is much better:
I have no comment about Van Halen.
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Originally posted by WOM View PostWhen my kids got into Michael Jackson - in the weeks after his death - Beat It came on the car stereo and I said "And that...of course...is Eddie Van Halen doing that guitar solo" and my wife was like "What? Really?" I"m like 'how did you get through the '80s not knowing that?' I thought everyone knew that.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostThat fact is something I may possibly have known briefly back then, but obviously I haven't remembered it. And indeed why should I.
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