Hard Rock and Heavy Metal were the main sounds of the 80’s, Rock n’ Roll variations that had a heavier sound and a harder look. This music was loud, unapologetic and wild with heavy electric guitars and driving beats; bands like Poison, AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, and Bon Jovi represented this rock style. There could be lighter and more mainstream sounds and also angry and dark music, for example like Metallica (theclassic80s.com).
A very important point is that Rock n’ Roll wasn’t all about men in the 80s. There were female rockers like Joan Jett, Lita Ford and Pat Benatar who made a name for themselves and contributed to Rock n’ Roll history with their special styles. There were bands like Vixen, Blondie, and Heart that put female rock on the map and made the 80s the decade where the ladies rocked just as hard as the guys. That opened a door for new female bands after the 80s. I will dedicate another post to talk about this! (theclassic80s.com).
Another new sound that was created was soft rock or light rock. It had a sound that was friendlier to conservative and older listeners and the radio was filled with the lighter sounds of bands like Foreigner, Journey, Hall & Oates and REO Speedwagon (theclassic80s.com).
Rock n’ Roll bands occupied a place the same or even more important than pop bands, in the charts and in the society in general, a lot of people was interested in it…….(Now this becomes sentimental)………..Unlike today, what I see in my school and my city is that now people prefer pop and hip hop music, almost just the people that were teenagers in the 80’s really like Rock n’ Roll. It is ok, I guess, what they like, but sometimes I would like to go back in time when the majority of people appreciated Rock n’ Roll music, when everybody thought it was the best thing :D
I like Rock n’ Roll so much as you can see, besides from its amazing music, skill and creativeness, because it is like freedom to me, as I said in the first post, and because it is fun. Scorpions along with my favorite band Van Halen is an amazing band that played the Rock n’ Roll I like. With the fun and positivism of their music they make me love it (: For example, with this song and video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmE_l_dN9UM&ob=av2e (tell me what you think about it : P), I can dream that I leave IB and become a rock star XD…..no but I won’t leave IB, because I like it ;) I like being both a nerd and a rocker.
Anyways o.o all what I have said is mainly the reason why I started the blog, because I love Rock n’ Roll and because I would like to make other people like it..! :}
Works cited
“Rock and Roll in the 80s” theclassic80s.com. TheClassic80s.com. n.p., n.d. Web. September 22, 2011.
“Rock and Roll in the 80’s” library.thinkquest.org. Oracle Think Quest. Oracle, May 2, 2009. Web. September 22, 2011.
Hello Caro! Waw! Your blog is so interesting! I really love it! I like rock & roll music too (: and I also love Scorpions! Other important fact that you mention is that there also were female rockers, because some people just see rock & roll, like something for men, I mean, they think that a women can not be playing the guitar with a rock style when in reality, there are a lot of women that play the guitar better than men. :P!
ResponderEliminarI agree with you, that in our city and in our school people prefer pop and hip hop music, but I guess that it is because it’s a trend of nowadays, also I think that it is because we don’t have a lot of good rock & roll bands.
And about the video, wow, I love that song. That song makes me feel happy or something like that and also I love the voice of the singer. The video is kind of weird because of all the women that are almost naked haha :P! but it is cool anyway. I am kind of sad because I didn’t go to the concert of Scorpions when they came to Monterrey ): but well, I hope that somday they come back.
Well, I was reading the last post and it is really interesting, I hope that sometime you could talk about Aerosmith because it is one of my favorite bands :3!
PS: Your fishes are so cute!
There's no way i couln't stop to see your blog Carooo. Sure you have made it so attractive so any true rocker could stop to take a glance of this gallery. I agree with you that the 80's were the best times of all human history!!. In my opinion, i would like to have been born on Napoleon's time; around those time of sixteen or seventenn century, and also in the 80's, because are those times in which you can you can imagine such a tremendous peace where there were just dances, good music and a good life ahead. In the other hand, technology has brought its advantages and disadvantages to the music company due that today's music is just a replay of the 80's music in which new artists leave everything to the drift of technology, forgetting that their job is the persuit of creativity, leaving the "rock" out of the "& roll". However, technology has also contributed to raise new genders such as alternative and without mentioning electronic. I want to share with you some of my favorite 80's bands, if you have time i would like you to see them:
ResponderEliminarBobby Darin(Beyond the sea)
The Clash(Should I stay or should I go)
AC/DC(Any of their music is awesome)
Steppenwolf(Born to be wild)
Queen(Rapsodia Bohemia)
By the way,I think that i overfeed one of your fish, that one of them is now not moving, srry about that D: I didn't want to kill it. I also wanted to tell you that Metallica is playing alive today on youtube's webpage if Festival Rock in Rio, so if you time just to see around, but i do not think you would because right now we are dealing with that annoying "Tarea Tipo 1.". Good Job Caro and i think that you get me caught with your great topic that you are covering, i'll see you around very often.
¡Long live to Freddie Mercury!!!