Originally Posted by: iamthe_eggmanI'd say that the whole hair band era was pretty lame to begin with. It basically summarized the whole problem with the 80s; excess in excess and flash over substance. A local radio station has a "Hair Band Hour", and it makes me feel ill listening to some of these songs. Basically these songs were all vehicles for extended guitar solos, which, in theory, sounds great, but which were generally poorly executed. When the lead guitarist wasn't fiddling away at some neoclassical riff at 345435 nps, the singer was screeching like his life depended on it.

Was anything revolutionary or novel done in that musical era? Nope. At least, not in the rock genre. Personally, I'm glad that Nirvana came along and destroyed the hair band scene; put it out of its misery. They came and brought music back to what it really was about; the songs, not the solos. Call it blasphemy, but a wicked solo can't save a crappy song, whereas a great song can live without a solo. And a mindblowing solo will just exponentially increase the value of a great song (e.g. Stairway). Nirvana spoke for a generation that was fed up with all the stupid solos and showing off, and showed that people really wanted to hear great rock music, not some wanker noodling on a guitar for 5 mins of a 5:15 song.

talk about crapy songs there songs were crapy songs without solos
I mean the same thing over and over its like listening to a brocken record.
shure I like to listen to nirvana every now and then but thats not rock
not reall rock anyway
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