Remember back in the 80's when every metal band had a love ballad?

[Lethe]

what do kids slow dance to today?

[Nevernose]

1. Why have THE 80s come back? Those bands SUCKED

MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP! Please, God, make it stop!

Those 80s bands you're listening to? Most of them sucked. SUCKED. SUCK, SUCK, SUCK, SUCKED.

[Lethe]

2. lol yeah they all sucked

but we still slow danced to their ballads at dances

[Nevernose]

6. Metallica didn't suck

Neither did Anthrax or Motorhead, and a couple of others at least had talent. It was a good decade for punk, too. NOFX formed, Black Flag, Reagan Youth, Suicidal Tendencies...

The songs I remeber slow dancing to were by Lionel Ritchie and guys like that. Everyone else was the butt of jokes. Maybe it's just my personal problem, but I really, really hate pseudo-metal "power" ballads.

[Lethe]

10. metallica didnt suck up until the black album

even on Justice for All they totally cut the bass guitar from the recording. All you can hear is Lars double bass. Why hire a new bass player if you cant even hear him on the record?

[Emops]

3. Mostly true...

...although I admit to loving Motley Crue and The Scorpions.

[Nevernose]

4. afew songs, yeah, but the be-all end-all?

Turn on some Metallica, or Suicidal, or Motorhead. Get some taste, you little whippersnappers.

[ComerPerro]

9. nostalgia works in 20 year cycles

just wait till 2010.

REALLY cheesy rap and grunge!

[Common Sense Party]

11. You could not be more wrong. I'll take some of the suckiest

80s bands over the "greatest" artists that critics rave over today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=5248648

[lildreamer316]

12. Right with ya there...

sometimes real musical talent goes unnoticed in the glare of popularity.

[Richard Steele]

5. The horror...the horror........

[begin_within]

7. "Beth" was the only song Kiss ever did that I liked.

And even that was mid-1970s, not 1980s.

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Once in awhile, it worked

On "Just a Game," Triumph had a slow one called "Suitcase Blues" about a rock star missing his girlfriend while on the road. Achingly beautiful song.

[petronius]

13. Well, I was trying not to; thanks for bringing it up... Jerk!

I'm not sure kids slow dance anymore - I think now they skip straight to the sex...

[Lethe]

15. yeah i think slow dancing is an anachronism

oh well.

[idgiehkt]

14. I still love Skid Row's "I Remember You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYrxMTrsW3U

One I never got into was "Sweet Child of Mine" by Guns and Roses