What is the chance that Motley Crue, Poison, Krokus, Stryper, Kix, GnR type music will make a comeback. I will never forgive Nirvana for killing big hair glam metal and I just cant get into the crap that is out there today. Moder rock just aint as good! Is there a chance that the good stuff will come back?

> What is the chance that Motley Crue, Poison, Krokus, Stryper, Kix, GnR
> type music will make a comeback. I will never forgive Nirvana for killing
> big hair glam metal and I just cant get into the crap that is out there
> today. Moder rock just aint as good! Is there a chance that the good stuff
> will come back?

Depends on how you define "comeback" megashows and sold out stadiums - Not likely, at least for most of the bands. 80s metal already has come back from the depths of disdain that it sunk circa 1993-1997 or so where here in Cleveland you couldnt find anything from the 80's until around 1997 when mix 106 started wtih a new format but we of course had 3 stations that did "alternative" (the leader of which was "107.9 the end" is now rap and hip hop.) Here in Cleveland we have 2 stations that play 80s music some (including 80s metal). Akron has 1 and so does Canton. One even has a hair band hour. The Poison / Night Ranger / etc tours were apparently successess for the most part so you can probably expact a repeat this summer.

Much of music today is driven by hype. For the mega-shows and such you need the record company to hype up the band. Record cos. are too busy hyping their boy bamds and rap acts to bother. You have to get lucky with a song such as Lenny Kravits did this past fall and winter to climb over the lack of hype. Its a VERY tall mountain to get over.

> What is the chance that Motley Crue, Poison, Krokus, Stryper, Kix, GnR
> type music will make a comeback. I will never forgive Nirvana for killing
> big hair glam metal and I just cant get into the crap that is out there
> today. Moder rock just aint as good! Is there a chance that the good stuff
> will come back? I think its on its way back.Poison is coming back as well as other glam bands.Metal is also on its way back,iron maiden has reunited its original lineup and metallica's always been going strong.Im working on a band[british metal,glam,80'sthrash]and I hope to bring back the 80's in my own original way.Stick in there,80's are coming back for sure.Especially the metal and glam!!!!

A friend of mine who was into metal in high school and is still into it now has been telling me lately that he thinks metal might make a come back. While he wasn't into the pop metal bands (Poison, White Lion, Ratt, etc), preferring groups like Savatage, Kreator, and Metallica he also feels that the metal of the 80s was the coolest thing and would like to see it come back.

He also says that even though metal is not that big in the U.S. at present, overseas it is huge . . . and that metal acts from the 80s that are still together do very well in Europe, playing to huge audiences.

Myself, back in the 80s I wasn't a big metal fan. I was a huge New Wave fan. However, during the 90s I became disenchanted with pop music and started looking back to the 80s. Having never stopped being a fan of New Wave, I found my listening supplemented with a lot of 80s hard rock and metal.

I remember back in high school, this kid went to see KISS in concert (maybe it was the Animalize tour?) and he came to school with this T-Shirt that said on the back "If it's too loud, you'ree too old." Well, imagine my surprise when the 90s came along. Here I was, a few years older, and not going "it's too loud!" but instead complaining, "What's going on here? This music ISN'T LOUD ENOUGH!"

Just what someone who posted above said, 90s music lacks the drive and intensity and charisma of the music of the 80s. To that I will add one more thing: It also lacks the FUN. For example, Motley Crue might have thought they were a bunch of bada---s, but in the end, their music was just plain fun. Twisted Sister understood the concept and purposely created a cartoon image for the band. Today's music just isn't fun like the 80s.

So, this is coming from a New Waver, I hope 80s metal makes a comeback. It's better than Matchboring 20 and their ilk.

By the way, you DO know that both Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith have rejoined Iron Maiden and they have been doing shows and are supposed to do an album, right?

> What is the chance that Motley Crue, Poison, Krokus, Stryper, Kix, GnR
> type music will make a comeback. I will never forgive Nirvana for killing
> big hair glam metal and I just cant get into the crap that is out there
> today. Moder rock just aint as good! Is there a chance that the good stuff
> will come back?

Gosh I hope so!!! I like a little of the music out there today, but not too much of it! I would still rather listen to my old 80's stuff!! I know that there are still "hair bands" out there making music, but it's like no one will show it. I read awhile back that Slaughter took a new video to MTV (Granted this was a couple years back) and was told "Sorry, rap is what everyone wants now", and they wouldn't play it. Rap sure wasn't what I wanted!! I do blame the whole rap/grunge scene for killing the glam rock scene--but MTV is A BIG blame for that. I remember the countown used to be OWNED by Warrant, Slaughter, the Crue, Poison, etc. Then it just "went away"..Those were the concerts I lived to see, and I can only hope they'll be able to come back again!

> What is the chance that Motley Crue, Poison, Krokus, Stryper, Kix, GnR
> type music will make a comeback. I will never forgive Nirvana for killing
> big hair glam metal and I just cant get into the crap that is out there
> today. Moder rock just aint as good! Is there a chance that the good stuff
> will come back?

Guns n' Roses has a new album coming out now, but I doubt that it will make any kind of major headway in this music environment.. that and the fact that it's really more like Axl Rose and a cast of guest musicians... I'm sure glam metal will see a resurgance in a few years though.. heck, if they can bring back swing, anything is possible

Will 80's metal make a comeback? Please, Lord, let's hope not. One decade of Great White, White Lion, and Cinderella is one too many in my opinion!

> Will 80's metal make a comeback? Please, Lord, let's hope not. One decade
> of Great White, White Lion, and Cinderella is one too many in my opinion!

Stephanie, opinions are like a**holes, everybodys got one..... But 80s metal like Kix, Dokken and Motley Crue just kicked! 90s music like Fastball, Smashmouth, Green Day and such lacks intensity. 80s metal was the stuff!