Foxhound
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I'm a big fan of 80's hair metal bands.. And I have no problem being a majority on that.. 80's ballads!! YOU BET!! I think the stigma Hair Bands live under draws a line in the Rock appreciation world.. Some feel betrayed about the whole 80's Hair band thing like it was the fall of Rock and the 90's came around and saved the day.. BAH!!!
I'm not nearly the fan of eighties hair metal as are some people on this forum but I basically agree with you. Rock didn't need to be "rescued" from power ballads, whatever the contrived definition. Ballads have been part of rock since the beginning in the fifties. Lennon/McCartney penned bushels of ballads. The first few compositions by Jagger/Richards were ballads.
The only problem I had with eighties "hair metal" bands is that their hair and makeup were way over the top for my taste - but so long as the music was good I just dismissed it all as rock theater, an attempt to offend the "straights" and I certainly wasn't going to allow them to get me. A look of wry amusement was all they were going to get from me.
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