Quiz lies
Your Taste in Music:
80's Alternative: Highest InfluenceAlternative Rock: Highest Influence80's Pop: High Influence80's Rock: High Influence90's R&B: High Influence90's Rock: High InfluenceClassic Rock: High InfluenceOld School Hip Hop: High InfluencePunk: High Influence80's R&B: Medium Influence90's Pop: Medium InfluenceAdult Alternative: Medium InfluenceDance: Medium InfluenceProgressive Rock: Medium InfluenceSka: Medium Influence90's Alternative: Low Influence90's Hip Hop: Low InfluenceHair Bands: Low Influence
How's Your Taste in Music?
It says that hair bands have a low influence on me, which is a lie. I grew up in an isolated town of 30,000 in the late 80s/early 90s. Hair bands were everything. Warrant, Poison, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Motley Crue, Guns 'n' Roses, Def Leppard, Skid Row - these were the primary sounds on the radio and at dances. Some of us branched out toward rap - NWA, Digital Underground, LL Cool J - and some of us embraced Depeche Mode, The Cure, Social Distortion, The Pixies, Violent Femmes, and all things New Wave (5 years too late). All of us, though, all of us absorbed the hair bands. You couldn't get away from it. Warrant's DirtyRottenFilthyStinkin'Rich Tour was the biggest social event of my sophomore year. Even those of us who didn't really like them went, because everyone else did.
These days, I don't choose to listen to hair bands. As my cheese tolerance is high, especially for All Things 80s, I don't mind hearing them - I just don't seek it out. But to say they had no influence? Wrong. At the very least, my lyric recall is perfect on most of the hit songs, and I can sing them at karaoke. Also, my "men in eyeliner" fetish was most certainly helped along by their penchant for flamboyancy (David Bowie remains the catalyst for that little kink).
Heaven isn't too far away......