Generation gap

The following video has most everything a mid-40's old fart like me was into in the late 80's. Sleazy metal, big riffs, a soundtrack to [what now seems pretty stupid but kicked ass at the time!] sequel, Sam Kinison and Pauly Shore throwing in their vibes, big-haired fine-ass chix, and flashbang pyro and lazers.

Not so much a poll as a cultural experiment - where you at at and your age?

Late 80s...I was probably jamming something more along these lines:



No makeup, no spandex, no bandanas hanging from microphone stands...just heavy jams played by good musicians...letting the music do the talking.

If i got the topic right, then this

I had just gotten my heart-broken by my first love and happened upon that Babylon AD record. That thing got me through that miserable summer. Which today I look back upon with a kind fondness.

These two were also on the playlist at the time....

When I was 18 or 19 and just starting to get served at bars, my buddies and I decided to try our luck getting into the local strip club. We walked right in, no questions asked. My life changed that night.

When I got home later that evening, I played this song over and over on my Sony Walkman.



After that, I spent allot of time and money in places like that. I also heard tons of music that I'd go and buy (or sometimes shoplift) from Tower Records the next day. My tape colletion was a bunch of stripper anthems.

Can't believe I forgot about this one from the same time. Kinda hurts seeing Brian Jack in his prime though. Oh what should've and could've been for Childs Play. RIP.

We followed these guys around pretty heavily too. We thought they were gonna be the next big thing outta Philly. Too bad they were a day late and a dollar short.

Back when Headbangers Ball was in its prime,alot of this stuff was regular players for me.I remeber my girlfriend at the time gave me this cassette.I've loved Vesceras voice ever since.



When this album came out I played the hell out of it.It was good to hear some good gritty southern tinged metal in the sea of all the makeup and hairspray.

Just thought of another one

I'm not exactly sure of the question originally posted, but I love that Babylon AD song. However, at the time it was released I had never heard their record. I was familiar with them by name, because I bought Cricus, Metal Edge, Rip, Hit Parader, and so on. But I don't think I'd ever heard a song.

At that time, though, I did love Robocop, Sam Kinison and Pauly Shore. I was 12.

On a similar note.....

A generation thang-o-sorts

I am a KISS fan

but not much of anything regarding Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, or any of those face painted extreme bands.

Would that differ if I was a "tween" nowadays as opposed to the mid 70's ?

Man, there are alot of bands I missed in the time frame of the topic at hand. In going back and revisiting those bands, I have come to conclude that alot of the "unknown" groups were just as good as or even better than the bands that broke huge. This goes for glam, thrash, and AOR alike.


If I got the gest of Sax's initial question, my addition to the list of band names would include the the first Warrior Soul album and probably "Fly me Courageous" by Drivin n Cryin.

James B. wrote:

I am a KISS fan

but not much of anything regarding Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, or any of those face painted extreme bands.

Would that differ if I was a "tween" nowadays as opposed to the mid 70's ?

I am pretty sure bands like Slipknot and Manson are not specifically cool among teenagers now. They had their place in the 90s, and obviously they still have their fans.

But I don't think they are the 'in' thing now, as far as kids go.

And I was a teenager during the height of Manson's popularity, and I never got into him (though my younger brother did). The 90s for me were about punk rock, metal and Wu Tang Clan.

I can appreciate some of Manson's music now though. There were some pretty heavy tunes on some of his records.

I had a generation gap even when I was strapping young lad, I preferred bands like AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, etc over Motley Crue, Poison, etc, it was not til I discovered heavier bands such as Venom, Metallica, Overkill, that I did feel my music tastes were so different from my peers.

As of today's music, while I like those overrated assclowns in Slipknot, it does not mean as much to me as a new KISS album.

ZombieHavoc wrote:

James B. wrote:

I am a KISS fan

but not much of anything regarding Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, or any of those face painted extreme bands.

Would that differ if I was a "tween" nowadays as opposed to the mid 70's ?

I am pretty sure bands like Slipknot and Manson are not specifically cool among teenagers now. They had their place in the 90s, and obviously they still have their fans.

But I don't think they are the 'in' thing now, as far as kids go.

And I was a teenager during the height of Manson's popularity, and I never got into him (though my younger brother did). The 90s for me were about punk rock, metal and Wu Tang Clan.

I can appreciate some of Manson's music now though. There were some pretty heavy tunes on some of his records.

My question was more geared towards the attraction of image based bands in my time frame experience as opposed to similar image based bands of latter eras. As well as do/did others have the same experieince/attitude as mine ?

I was already kind of into classic and melodic metal, but if we're speaking of being part of a 'scene', well this was the latest craze in Finland around '97 or '98:



Still a good song. Those were the times when I was 16-18 years old and it suddenly became not just acceptable to be into power metal, but it kind of bursted into mainstream. I liked Maiden and Megadeth even earlier, even Helloween and they were power metal, but for sure my love of METAL as a whole became stronger because of the whole power metal movement that happened in Europe at the time.

James B. wrote:

My question was more geared towards the attraction of image based bands in my time frame experience as opposed to similar image based bands of latter eras. As well as do/did others have the same experieince/attitude as mine ?

About the same as you I guess. Got into KISS when I was 6 years old, the image surely attracted me at first, but the music kept me around.

Around the time I started getting into Metallica, Motorhead, etc. I started avoiding "image bands" like the plague. I was very anti-glam for the rest of the 80s and till this day. The only real exception to that was Mercyful Fate but their music attracted me, I could care less about the face paint.

I'm still of the opinion that most bands that focused primarily on image were trying to compensate for their lack of musical skill. There are exceptions of course like Alice Cooper whose music was clearly equal to his stage persona.

S.D. wrote:

I'm still of the opinion that most bands that focused primarily on image were trying to compensate for their lack of musical skill. There are exceptions of course like Alice Cooper whose music was clearly equal to his stage persona.

Lack of musical skills doesn't mean a person/band cannot write a catchy tune.

I know alot of musicians who are very talented at playing their instruments but cannot write their way out of a wet paper bag.

Seems ya kinda/sorta said that already, oh well. "redunancy" is my word-o-day.

James B. wrote:

Lack of musical skills doesn't mean a person/band cannot write a catchy tune.

I know alot of musicians who are very talented at playing their instruments but cannot write their way out of a wet paper bag.

Seems ya kinda/sorta said that already, oh well. "redunancy" is my word-o-day.

I should have worded that more accurately, when I said musical skill I wasn't speaking strictly about playing ability, I was referring to the entire package writing/arranging/playing.

A band like Iron Maiden had a large visual component to their music and stage show, but take all that away and they would still have been a fantastic band just standing in front of a wall of amplifiers wearing jeans and t-shirts. Their showmanship enhanced the experience but wasn't there to hide anything.

I hope that makes some sort of sense.

Late 80s I was serving my mandatory military duty protecting the communism behind the iron curtain from the evil capitalists (and secretly listening to radio Luxembourg on the RDF pelengator station, which had 3-hour heavy metal block every evening).

I became a hard rock fan in 1988. It all started with Kiss, Bulletboys and Winger. Then I discovered thrash in '90.