My kids have absorbed my obsession with 80s music - we are often in stores and hear an 80s song on a light music station and they will say "that's the song you like." They know all about Rickrolling.
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My son WAS raised on the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers, as well as Dylan, Michael Bloomfield, and Captain Beefheart.Quote:
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And he turned out pretty well.
The only group he didn't get was the Hampton Grease Band - but I'm willing to admit that they were an acquired taste :)
Who is "Iron Maiden"?
Are you being serious about Iron Maiden? Honest question.
They’re one of the great metal bands of all time. Part of the handful of artists who ushered in the “New Wave of British Heavy Metal” in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, when metal was first being defined and acknowledged as a thing. Known for their rich and melodic, but heavy and hard-charging sound, as well as their operatic sense of performance style and lavish live shows. Still touring now in their late 60s and early 70s. My favorite metal band, emerging from a metal epiphany I had several years ago.
Honest answer: The operative phrase is "metal band." Bunch of cosplaying posers. In the same category as "hair band." If you have something to say (or play) you don't need to dress up and pretend. See "Spinal Tap" It's good fun, I guess, but I have a hard time taking it seriously.
On the other hand, I used to have the same attitude about ZZ Top. The gimmicks got in the way. It took me time to realize that the Gibbons were really accomplished blues guitarists. Now, I can appreciate their music without having to remember their music videos from the 80s.
So, maybe metal bands are somehow similar. Still it has been a few years now and it still hasn't happened, so I'm not holding my breath.
Music, fashion, and performance has gone hand in hand in hand forever. Do you discount the Beatles because they had their mop-tops, The Ramones for their even longer mop-tops? How about Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Soundgarden for their shared preference for jeans and flannel?
I don't recall David Bowie being considered as a leader of a "hair band", but he sure had the look in the 70s. Same with Queen.