We were cooler and funnier than subby will ever hope to be.

The 70's bred lameness into the 80's; and so on, and so on, and so on.

It was the coke.

Please tell me it's not a Rickroll....

At least they farken TRIED to make a soundtrack, styles and such for their generation. Today most of the kids are picking the bones of the past. Just the headline is telling. In the 70's or 80's (when they made they're own stuff) no one gave a flying fark about music of the 40's or 50's. It was off the table even for discussion because they had their own.

Now get off my lawn and make your own soundtrack.

Nothing, now straighten your hat and pull up your pants. You look like a douche.

/It was also back when MTV played videos, too
//get off my lawn

JC

optikeye: At least they farken TRIED to make a soundtrack

And actually knew HOW to play an instrument instead of some tech cutting and pasting samples of someone else's music.

Has there been any recent group from the past ten years that's capable of filling a stadium? A real stadium, not some "CostCo/Verizon/UFIA" field?

Dufus: optikeye: At least they farken TRIED to make a soundtrack

And actually knew HOW to play an instrument instead of some tech cutting and pasting samples of someone else's music.

Its tragic how badly my generation is getting it's ass kicked when it comes to music. There's some really amazing underground/indie stuff going on today, but the vast majority of what is on the airwaves is filth.

optikeye: Has there been any recent group from the past ten years that's capable of filling a stadium?

A lot of the teeny bopper groups seem to pull it off. Sadly.

Dufus: optikeye: At least they farken TRIED to make a soundtrack

And actually knew HOW to play an instrument instead of some tech cutting and pasting samples of someone else's music.
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Yupper, that's a roger, and you can certainly do worse than having Billy Sheehan on bass, and Steve Vai on guitar. Both are highly talented, and respected. It's called having chops Subby.

By the way Subby, in the 80s, the drinking age was 18, sex was not yet declared toxic, and good drugs were cheap and plentiful.

Every generation has it's regrets about what they chose to call fashion, but it sure was a great time to be working at, or hanging out in Rock rock clubs.

You didn't even have to pass through a metal detector.

Emogeek: Its tragic how badly my generation is getting it's ass kicked when it comes to music. There's some really amazing underground/indie stuff going on today, but the vast majority of what is on the airwaves is filth.

The recording industry figured it was cheaper to pay a tech to sample than to pay a band of 4 or 5 people to play and sing. Unfortunately, it has taken too long for them to realize the result sucked.

Perhaps some of the indies will someday claw their way to national/international recognition and bring us true music again. In the mean time, I'll keep listening to the CDs I pick up from the bargain bin of the old stuff at the dollar store. A $5 CD of old Stevie Ray Vaughan, AC/DC, or even Bread is much better than samples of their work played over and over.

Emogeek: Dufus: optikeye: At least they farken TRIED to make a soundtrack

And actually knew HOW to play an instrument instead of some tech cutting and pasting samples of someone else's music.

Its tragic how badly my generation is getting it's ass kicked when it comes to music. There's some really amazing underground/indie stuff going on today, but the vast majority of what is on the airwaves is filth.

optikeye: Has there been any recent group from the past ten years that's capable of filling a stadium?

A lot of the teeny bopper groups seem to pull it off. Sadly.

If you have a Sirius unit, try channel 26. Left of Center is about the only place to hear any new good stuff.

A little bit about Steve Vai here: Link (new window)

This just in, Subby, he's good.

I'd say we didn't know better, but the truth is: WE DID.

We knew that a Kurzweil, a drum machine and some asshole dicking around on a guitar sounded tacky. We knew that.

We knew that our cartoons used frequently copied, cheap animation.

We knew shoulder pads looked bad on women, but we didn't care.

Even then we knew our computers sucked and programs were unnecessarily bad. Ask anyone who had to work with Peachtree or Lotus 1-2-3 back then and they KNEW that something as easy as Office was just around the corner.

We were just biding our time.

Then the 90's came, and we over compensated. Nobody really thought we'd live passed the year 2000. We thought that the manatees being skinned alive by boats in Florida would rise up and combine forces with all the woodland creatures of the vanishing rainforests and kill us all, starting with the Republicans.

suck it subby that was a great album.. EAT EM AND SMILE

optikeye: Just the headline is telling. In the 70's or 80's (when they made they're own stuff) no one gave a flying fark about music of the 40's or 50's. It was off the table even for discussion because they had their own.

Sha Na Na, The Ramones, The Honeydrippers, and any number of bands doing cover songs disagree.

TommyymmoT: By the way Subby, in the 80s, the drinking age was 18

Well, sort of. Many states were already at 21. The feds raised it in 1984 so it was 21+ for less than 1/2 of the 80s.

Fortunately, we had music videos near the end of the decade to set us straight. Much more serious, and meaningful.
like this. (new window)
/Not a Rick Roll

2:40 of bullshiat before the goddam song starts.

This wasn't particularly popular even when it was brand new.
It was #12 on the "Mainstream Rock" chart, but didn't even make the top 50 on the Hot 100 (#66.)

This is just Diamond Dave trying to be "crazy."
Few people were buying it.

Having maintained a strict "No David Lee Roth" zone throughout that decade, I don't know what you're talking about. And even at that, there were worse things to pick on than him. Like A Flock Of Seagulls, for instance, and parachute pants...

Subby:

My lawn; Take your Ipod and your shoes with the wheel in the heel and get off if it!

Amen, doctorwormwood. Eat em and smile was one the best albums of the 80s. True, Roth is goofy, but that is probably the most skilled rock band in history.

And if you think the clothes look silly, wait till you see the pictures of you in your baggy pants in 20 years. You'll wish you'd picked spandex and aquanet.

You think that's wretched, try Nitro's music video for "Freight Train" on for size.

/worst hair ever
//worst guitar solo ever, too

Difference between 80's and 00's

Brettster808: Well, sort of. Many states were already at 21. The feds raised it in 1984 so it was 21+ for less than 1/2 of the 80s.

The Feds didn't raise it. They blackmailed the states into raising it by threatening to revoke their federal highway funds if they didn't raise it to 21.

Heh, I don't even have to watch that video I saw it so many times. I think I was 11 or 12 years old when that video came out, and two women with half-boobs showing equals a full set of boobs showing, woohoo.

Anyway, I'll take the internet over a stadium anyday. I can have my real life and my musician life and keep them separate. Say somebody's rude to me at the grocery, they don't know about my secret songs.

It was way more entertaining than 99% of what's out there now. Anybody else remember when you would actually WANT to watch a video, and there was a network that actually showed them?

/off to polish my dubs
//then to the club

Dufus: optikeye: At least they farken TRIED to make a soundtrack

And actually knew HOW to play an instrument instead of some tech cutting and pasting samples of someone else's music.

THIS!!!

I'm gonna look it up, but I could almost swear the guy playing the other Picasso brother is Paul Zaloom aka Beakman.

To all the morans complaining about modern rock music:

Pop music has always sucked. Take a serious look at what was playing on the radio when you were a kid, for every Beatle there were a thousand Debbie Boones. Same exact thing is happening today - there's quite a bit of good music around, you just don't see it on MTV.

/I am now doing donuts on your lawn

Subby: What the hell was wrong with you people in the 80's?

Not a damn thing. I quite enjoyed that!

Hahahaha you people are OLD. OLD OLD OLD. And getting older. Now go get yourselves some tapioca- we need to air this thread out for a while to get rid of the smell.

/You're old.

Dufus: optikeye: At least they farken TRIED to make a soundtrack

And actually knew HOW to play an instrument instead of some tech cutting and pasting samples of someone else's music.

I know that we here at Fark pride ourselves on the overuse of cliches, but give me a break, you can't seriously believe this. Did you stop listening to music in 1978 or something?

And don't get me started on hacks like Jimmy Page stealing other people's songs. At least when Timbaland samples an old motown standard he has the decency to give them credit.

TommyymmoT: You didn't even have to pass through a metal detector.

THIS.


in the 80s, the drinking age was 18, sex was not yet declared toxic, and good drugs were cheap and plentiful.

AND THAT.


Go ahead, make my day.

Thosw: I'm gonna look it up, but I could almost swear the guy playing the other Picasso brother is Paul Zaloom aka Beakman.

Nevermind. It appears that his name is Pete Angelus, and he was Dave's manager.

I remember resenting the 80's growing in them , thinking the previous decades (60s 70s) had infinitely better music... then the 90's happened, which made me appreciate the 80's a lot more, especially midway thru the 90's with the rise of nu-metal: rich, Whiny, white pieces of shiat with nothing to say....ugh

then since the 2ooo's I just feel sorry for you kids. Almost every rock band is pretty much cookie-cutter mass-marketed crap.. It started in the 80s and its gottten worse and worse

There is exceptions, dont get me wrong, i am generalizing here.
BUt it is truly what I feel:
IN the 80's we had Public Enemy and Black Flag, you guys are stuck with 50 cent and Artic Monkeys


/in case you young punks are looking at my lawn:

Okay, you know what? I saw Dave live when he was touring behind Skyscraper (the second full solo album) and it may not have been the best concert I've ever been to, but it was definitely the biggest damn party that I've ever attended.

What was wrong with us? We were too busy having a damn good time to give a rat's ass what you'd be thinking twenty years later. Now kindly DIAF, subby.

/You, my lawn, off.

Thread so far:

"20 year old crap is better than crap nowadays"
"Crap nowadays is better than 20 year old crap"

Nothing. Nothing was wrong with anyone and anything in the 80s.

I was a lame high school student, in the late 80's, and a lamer junior high student before that.

BTW, I can't watch videos here, but I remember a Joe Piscapo routine where he parodies David Lee Roth, singing a song called "I wish I was you, so I could make love to me".

chickyraptor: Thread so far:

"20 year old crap is better than crap nowadays"
"Crap nowadays is better than 20 year old crap"

I wouldn't say that the twenty-year-old crap is better, I just don't see where I need to defend my twenty-year-old tastes in music because somebody looking at it from outside the moment doesn't understand why anybody would like it.

props to the post, as I havent' seen that video in probably 20 years.

The fashions from the 90s were terrible because it was all about putting a lot of effort into looking like you don't care.

Cocaine's one helluva drug, that's all I got say. And women didn't shave their poonanies!

The only thing the 80s has to apologize for is hair bands

Were really sorry about that

the voices in your head: And don't get me started on hacks like Jimmy Page stealing other people's songs. At least when Timbaland samples an old motown standard he has the decency to give them credit.

The difference being that Page did the songs justice, while Timbaland makes me want to gouge my own eyes out with my keyboard. The Who, Zepp, Stones, Ramones, Floyd, et al., were all before my time - but they are still counted among the best bands ever. Now, who from the last 20 years falls into that category? And don't even think of saying Nirvana.

HappyHarryHardOn
The only thing the 80s has to apologize for is hair bands

Were really sorry about that

Speak for yourself. That era of music gets disrespected too much for their image. The music and songwritng were good for alot of those bands. Not to mention too many bands from the 80's, like Tesla get lumped in a as hairbands, that weren't. Plus, they still have legions of fans, just look at the attendence for rocklahoma.

/Miss the days when songs had guitar solos

the voices in your head:

To all the morans complaining about modern rock music:

Pop music has always sucked. Take a serious look at what was playing on the radio when you were a kid, for every Beatle there were a thousand Debbie Boones. Same exact thing is happening today - there's quite a bit of good music around, you just don't see it on MTV.

/I am now doing donuts on your lawn


Jeez, if you're going to rant about music past, at least keep your decades straight, you ignorant little douche.

But thanks for the donuts. Mmmm, tasty.

There was nothing wrong with us. We wanted to have fun, and we did.