Dear god, we're in the 80's again.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Epiphany!

 

Everyone remembers the 80's and the horrid hair metal scene, with bands that just sounded alike, with cheeseball solos and lyrics that weren't well-thought or meaningful? Well friends, it is upon us again in the form of Nu Metal.

 

Think about it..All these bands coming out today look and sound alike in almost every way! The big difference, back then they wore spandex and played solos that sucked, now, they all wear black and suck too much to play solos.

 

Let's look at it in terms of longevity.

Bands like Kix were popular at the time with members of the core hair band audience, compare them to, say, Neurotica today.

Both bands are completely unremarkable, and only serve their purpose by blending in with the current trend in music. No one remembers or cares about Kix anymore (although I'm sure SOMEONE does, but you get the point.) Fast forward fifteen years or so, is ANYONE going to remember or care about Neurotica? I mean, they're damn sure not going to be around at that point. I think both "movements" are like the flu. Generally unpleasant, but run their course in due time.

 

Now, hair bands started dying out when the public grasped onto a well-hyped style well all know and love as grunge. Stripped down, nothing fancy, a definite change of pace from all the lip gloss and feathers coming out of everyone's ass.

 

Let's look at the new garage movement going on today. totally different than nu metal, but destined to have a short shelf-life much like grunge, relying on hype and people just generally sick of pop music for most of its fanbase.

 

Pop is still around, much like herpes, and flaring up in ugly fashion in the form of the blonde bitches, and boy bands. Compare that to way back when, where Tiffany and the New kids were all giving us headaches.

 

My conclusion, we're in the 80's and early 90's all over again, only the bands are wearing different colored makeup.

[Guest Eagan469]

My conclusion, we're in the 80's and early 90's all over again, only the bands are wearing different colored makeup.

case in point: "Locomotion" singer Kylie Manogue

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Oh my, you're right...only I've said stuff like this since the summer of 2000

 

And you forgot a valuable point: Slayer is still owning everybody's ass.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

"case in point: "Locomotion" singer Kylie Manogue"

 

Hey there, watch it. She's been huge everywhere but America since then. Damn Americans not wanting to accept foreign music!!!!!

 

Just lay off of Kylie. She is above trends.

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

[Guest Incandenza]

I find it odd that many stories and articles in U.S. publications about Kylie overlook the fact that she already had a hit in this country over a decade ago.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

This can't be the '80s... where are the new wave bands? I want my Duran Duran, dammit! A little Blondie and Devo wouldn't hurt either...

[Guest benoitrules2000]

I haven't noticed that at all, if it were the 80's again, i'd actually LIKE most of today's music.

[Guest starvenger]

This can't be the '80s... where are the new wave bands? I want my Duran Duran, dammit! A little Blondie and Devo wouldn't hurt either...

Well, Depeche Mode and New Order are still hanging around... and for $5,000 you can probably have Devo do a private gig for you...

[Guest redbaron51]

I haven't noticed that at all, if it were the 80's again, i'd actually LIKE most of today's music.

i agree, i mean people say if Iron Maiden started hair metal (which they didn't) then korn started nu-metal (which they didn't), and that means people are comparing Iron Maiden to Korn....

 

 

:shudders:

[Guest Kinetic]

Every decade since the dawn of rock music has been like this. It's all cyclical. There were an absolute assload of British Invasion bands that sounded exactly like The Beatles or the The Kinks that no one remembers anymore. It's just a matter of a lot of people not being all that creative but having the ability to play instruments. Record companies see that and figure, quite correctly, that there's a group that'll be easy to manipulate and will probably produce a few hits.

[Guest redbaron51]

the end of the 70's starting to die in punk, and begun the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

 

end of the 80's was the end of hair metal and nails grunge.

 

end of the 90's it was the end of grunge, begin of new metal and gone and now garage rock

[Guest Cerebus The Aardvark]

Well, Depeche Mode and New Order are still hanging around...

 

New Order even released the best album to come out in 2001. But I digress.

 

I'd kill for the New Wave and post-punk bands from the 80s to return to prominence right now; it would be much better than the same derivative pseudo-metal you hear 24/7 these days.

 

Ah well.

[Guest NoCalMike]

Nu-Metal is like a mix between Grunge and Arena rock. It is a weird mix that ultimately comes out sucking....for my ears at least.