Ozzy Osbourne died

[zymurgy]

Nonsense - it dominated the first half of the 90's

I agree with him. the peak was late 80's. it was basically a joke by 92 (thankfully!)

 

[Cypress]

Nonsense - it dominated the first half of the 90's

You must have been living in a rural part of the country that is five years behind everyone else.

The rock scene in early 1990s was dominated by Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Black Crows, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice and Chains, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Soundgarden.

The guy who was still wearing a Winger t-shirt was getting laughed out of the room.

View: https://youtu.be/Irc5j1gkihY?si=ByNE3iUY3aR0a9U2

 

[Cypress]

but nobody ever laughed at black Sabbath.

Sabbath wasn't hair metal.

Poison was.

 

[Jarod]

And #3 is Chuck Mangione - RIP

Or Theo Huxtable

 

[Uncensored2008]

You must have been living in a rural part of the country that is five years behind everyone else.

The rock scene in early 1990s was dominated by Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Black Crows, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice and Chains, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Soundgarden.

The guy who was still wearing a Winger t-shirt was getting laughed out of the room.

View: https://youtu.be/Irc5j1gkihY?si=ByNE3iUY3aR0a9U2

Yeah, they played a different MTV in rural Los Angeles...

I lump grunge in as another flavor of metal. It was an evolutionary shift. Obviously Nirvana was highly popular and the Seattle Sound was replacing the Strip sound.

But that isn't what killed MTV - it was the shift to rap and hip-hop that destroyed it.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Sabbath wasn't hair metal.

Poison was.

What amazes me is that so many girls of the time went for that look.

 

[Cypress]

I lump grunge in as another flavor of metal.

You're trying to retroactively change what your original claim was.

You stated in post #177 that the heyday of Hair Metal was in the 1990s, during the Clinton years.

Nobody on the planet considers Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Smashing Pumpkins hair metal.

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Yesterday at 11:51 AM

Nah, I just recognize rock from marketed rock, anytime someone has to wear heavy makeup and sing about the devil it is easily recognized as a commodity, ain’t my fault you were a frustrated youth

No one cares if you like it or not - you didn't know it existed - despite it being the fuel that MTV ran on.

It's amusing that when MTV switched from Hair Metal to Rap - it died. Yeah, it does trash reality shows, but music TV was Hair Metal. Great White, Damn Yankees, White Lion, Cinderella, Def Leppard, et al.

It was the Clinton years of decadent excess.

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