No, no, the hair made the musicianship. Everyone hatez on the hair. It was good hair. And makeup! Eyeliner on boys!
But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?
Fred ,'Smile Time'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Liese S. - May 10, 2007 6:51:04 am PDT #6559 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Daisy Jane - May 10, 2007 7:00:20 am PDT #6560 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
No, no, the hair made the musicianship. Everyone hatez on the hair. It was good hair. And makeup! Eyeliner on boys!
This. Pretty, pretty boys with makeup and leather pants and the hair and sleazy lyrics. Love!
§ ita § - May 10, 2007 7:00:24 am PDT #6561 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
makeup! Eyeliner on boys!
I spent the 80s in London. Absolutely positively no shortage of boys in eyeliner. Or full makeup either. And sometimes they wore suits!
But the music often stood on its own.
Daisy Jane - May 10, 2007 7:06:28 am PDT #6562 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
But the music often stood on its own.
And the hair band greats' don't? How can you deny the brilliance of Unskinny Bop or Once Bitten, Twice Shy? How about Girl Don't Go Away Mad (Girl, Just Go Away)?
Vortex - May 10, 2007 7:06:33 am PDT #6563 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I really need to memorise the whole spoken bit on the front of Baby Got Back. More than once I've let the side down in recitals.
oh. mah. god. Becky, look at her butt! It is so big! She looks like one of those rap guys' girlfriends. They only talk to her because she looks like a total prostitute.
I might be missing something in there
Pix - May 10, 2007 7:08:05 am PDT #6564 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Three of the ninth-grade girls performed (in song and complete with a choreographed dance) all of "Baby Got Back" at one of the evening campfires last week. It was...disturbing. And oddly mesmerizing.
§ ita § - May 10, 2007 7:09:55 am PDT #6565 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But the music often stood on its own.
And the hair band greats' don't?
I was just going from this:
the hair made the musicianship
As for:
How can you deny the brilliance of Unskinny Bop or Once Bitten, Twice Shy? How about Girl Don't Go Away Mad (Girl, Just Go Away)?
I got nothing. Never having heard the songs.
Ailleann - May 10, 2007 7:10:15 am PDT #6566 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Mmm, the things that I Google. (Note that I lose massive points for not repeating from memory...)
Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her butt.
It is so big. *scoff* She looks like,
one of those rap guys' girlfriends.
But, y'know, who understands those rap guys? *scoff*
They only talk to her, because,
she looks like a total prostitute, 'kay?
I mean, her butt, is just so big. *scoff*
I can't believe it's just so round, it's like,
out there, I mean - gross. Look!
She's just so ... black!
Kathy A - May 10, 2007 7:10:38 am PDT #6567 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Isn't Deadliest Catch using a Bon Jovi tune for its theme song?
On the water,
Dead or alive...
I'm noticing that a lot of "kids" today cite the 80s among their favourite music. I figure there are three main interpretations: a) 80s music is that good b) The 80s're so long ago they've gone through uncool right back to cool c) Huh. I could've sworn there were three.
My brother and SIL raised all of their kids listening to her favorite singer (Bruce--she's seen him in concert over 100 times, and the kids could identify every member of the E-Street Band by the time they were three) and his oldies (everything from '50s to about 1985--U2 was the last band he really liked). My 8th-grade niece went through a Pink Floyd phase a few years back, but she's really into the Beatles right now. A few years ago, I was in the car with Kip and the then-seven-year-old nephew who wanted to listen to his usual range of favorite songs, so he popped in the mix CD of everything from Chuck Berry (Dylan was banging out the air guitar) to Yes to Talking Heads.
Vortex - May 10, 2007 7:13:33 am PDT #6568 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
There's a lot of quality singing/harmony in the hair bands. Dokken had some brilliant harmonies, as did Winger. Some of those power ballads were very well sung. (Can You Take Me) High Enough , for example, had some nice voice blends. (notwithstanding Ted Nugent, but he didnt' sing, he just played the guitar.