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| Title: | HEAVY_METAL - Talent Round-Up Day Day |
| Notice: | Rules-2.*,Directory-7.*,Roster-3.*,Garbage-99.* |
| Moderator: | BUSY::SLAB B |
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| Created: | Thu May 05 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1238 |
| Total number of notes: | 65616 |
412.0. "The Year In Metal - 1988" by HAZEL::STARR (Like a fool, fell in love with you...) Tue Jan 03 1989 20:05
Well, another year has some and gone, and it time to reflect on the
past, and to evaluate what has come and gone.
1988 was, IMO, the year when Heavy Metal music really exploded into
the public eye. At no time before now has the music been so popular.
Let's look at the sales: Def Leppard (6 million), Poison (multi-platinum),
Bon Jovi (multi-platinum), Metallica (multi-platinum), Guns and Roses
(multi-platinum), Cinderella (platinum), and many more.
The older warhorses were still kicking around; Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne,
Van Halen, Scorpions, and AC/DC all had major chart success.
And the young guns out there also didn't do so badly; Vixen, Britny Fox,
Bulletboys, Hurricane, House of Lords, Jane's Addiction, Circus of Power,
and Living Colour were all hot this year.
Guitars were back in the spotlight more than ever, with Joe 'Satch'
Satriani leading the way. Following closely were guys like Paul Gilbert
and Vinnie Moore, among others.
Overall, I can't remember another year that HM, from pop/fake/metal to
hardcore/speed/metal, made such an impact in the media, on the charts,
and in the industry as a whole.
Let's keep it rockin' into 1989!
cat
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| 412.1 | It was a good year | PARITY::STACIE | Cult of Personality | Wed Jan 04 1989 10:55 | 14 |
| There were a lot of good tunes being kicked around out there. I'm
really proud of MTV for finally acknowledging what was staring them
in the face for so long. They do tend to play the lighter side
of "metal," if you even want to call it that (but that's another
topic altogether), but they're trying. The Headbanger's Ball is
pretty good. I guess they had no choice. No matter what they did,
the Dial MTV countdown was consistently hard rock.
It was the year of Guns & Roses, for sure. Personally, I liked
Kix, Living Colour, Faster Pussycat & Jetboy. The best of the
best was Sam Kinison's "Wild Thing." Talk about scenery!!! (And
I don't mean Jessica Hahn.
Stacie
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| 412.2 | | 56860::GALLANT | Pink satin banana split... | Wed Jan 04 1989 11:29 | 13 |
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Now Stacie...I know who YOU were looking at in the
Wild Thing video!! SShhh....our secret (^;
I must say I wasn't totally disappointed with 1988.
Musically, like Cat says, metal exploded...whether
it was glam or the "real" thing, I loved every minute
of it!!!
Tig~~
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| 412.3 | Couldn't have chosen them better myself! | PARITY::STACIE | Cult of Personality | Wed Jan 04 1989 13:24 | 8 |
| IMO, 3 of the nicest looking guys in rock!!!
Yum Yum YUM!!!!!
Of course, all the guys didn't notice Jessica Hahn's big.......
ah...ah...big fingernails, right?
Stacie
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| 412.4 | It was always heavy to me | RAVEN1::ROSENBERG | won't get fooled again | Wed Jan 04 1989 18:41 | 8 |
| Yea 1988 was the year that I find out that Heavy Metal was supposed
to be something new. I always thought that I was always listening
to HM when I heard Boston,Black Sabbath,Blue Oyster Cult,Uriha Heep
and any number of other hard rock'en bands. Sh*t we were playing
in air bands and sweating our ass off in Detroit long before the
lip sinc shows were out. IMO heavy Metal has been around for years.
Ray
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| 412.5 | harcore | CAINE::MINARDI | Chromatic Death | Wed Jan 04 1989 23:04 | 7 |
| Yeah 1988 was a great HM year.
Look for the "in" thing in 1989 to be hardcore metal.
yeeha!
/Motorbreath
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| 412.6 | If hardcore is "in" check me "out" | PARITY::STACIE | Cult of Personality | Thu Jan 05 1989 16:10 | 12 |
| Re.5
Oh, great.
As if Metallica at 5:30am isn't enough.
(I have a 16 year old headbanging brother who showers to the likes
of Megadeth, Metallica & Anthrax)
This morning I awoke to "It's a madhouse, or so they claim..."
Or whatever it is. God help us.
Stacie
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| 412.7 | Nothing like SLAYER in the morning to get ya up. | BUSY::KELLY | Rot in hell... 291-9089 | Thu Jan 05 1989 16:40 | 11 |
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re .6
So what's wrong with that??? I at one time had a timer hooked
up to Pops' stero whilst they were on Vac. I awoke to Metal Church
and Metallica..and Megadeth..etc etc. And for those of you who
have heard the gnads that pops stero has you can bet your as* the
the ENTIRE neighborhood was up with me. 8^)
BK
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| 412.8 | to begin whipping dance of the dead.. | SACMAN::FRANCINE | blackened | Thu Jan 05 1989 18:39 | 10 |
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Sorry .5
But Amen Bri...
Metallica is my fav. band..
F.
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