Monday, November 1, 2010
80s Power Ballads (with some early 90s rock ballads thrown in)
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
The Big 80s Rock Tribute Show: Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and Van Halen - Platinum Rockstars
From: Platinum Rockstars
The PLATINUM ROCKSTARS multi-tribute band are proud to present a tribute to the great platinum rock artists of the 1980s: BON JOVI, DEF LEPPARD and the mighty VAN HALEN!
With incredible classic rock albums such as 'New Jersey' and 'Slippery When Wet' BON JOVI defines the 80s melodic rock sound. PLATINUM ROCKSTARS features Bon Jovi hits like "Livin’ On A Prayer", "You Give Love A Bad Name", "Wanted Dead Or Alive", "Runaway", "It’s My Life", "Lay Your Hands On Me" and "Bad Medicine". Don't miss PRS' incredible Bon Jovi tribute live.
Check out PLATINUM ROCKSTARS' version of "Runaway".
Platinum rock albums such as 'High and Dry', 'Pyromania' and 'Hysteria' established DEF LEPPARD as 80s rock icons. PLATINUM ROCKSTARS' Lead Vocalist David Victor says "Def Leppard is my all-time favorite rock band, hands down. Their sound defines the term 'classic rock'. Def Leppard's hits included "Rock Rock!", " Photograph", " Rock Of Ages", " Pour Some Sugar On Me", " Hysteria" and " Let It Go".
Check out PLATINUM ROCKSTARS' version of "Photograph".
And what would 80s rock music have been without the mighty VAN HALEN? While technically issuing their first (and some might say finest) albums in the late 70s, Van Halen's party rock vibe and David Lee Roth's on stage and off stage antics set the table for countless 80s rock imitators. With hits like "Panama", "Hot For Teacher", "Runnin' With The Devil", "Unchained" and countless others, Van Halen defined the 80s rock ethos.
Check out PLATINUM ROCKSTARS' version of the Van Halen classic "Panama".
The PLATINUM ROCKSTARS multi-tribute band are proud to present a tribute to the great platinum rock artists of the 1980s: BON JOVI, DEF LEPPARD and the mighty VAN HALEN!
With incredible classic rock albums such as 'New Jersey' and 'Slippery When Wet' BON JOVI defines the 80s melodic rock sound. PLATINUM ROCKSTARS features Bon Jovi hits like "Livin’ On A Prayer", "You Give Love A Bad Name", "Wanted Dead Or Alive", "Runaway", "It’s My Life", "Lay Your Hands On Me" and "Bad Medicine". Don't miss PRS' incredible Bon Jovi tribute live.
Check out PLATINUM ROCKSTARS' version of "Runaway".
Platinum rock albums such as 'High and Dry', 'Pyromania' and 'Hysteria' established DEF LEPPARD as 80s rock icons. PLATINUM ROCKSTARS' Lead Vocalist David Victor says "Def Leppard is my all-time favorite rock band, hands down. Their sound defines the term 'classic rock'. Def Leppard's hits included "Rock Rock!", " Photograph", " Rock Of Ages", " Pour Some Sugar On Me", " Hysteria" and " Let It Go".
Check out PLATINUM ROCKSTARS' version of "Photograph".
And what would 80s rock music have been without the mighty VAN HALEN? While technically issuing their first (and some might say finest) albums in the late 70s, Van Halen's party rock vibe and David Lee Roth's on stage and off stage antics set the table for countless 80s rock imitators. With hits like "Panama", "Hot For Teacher", "Runnin' With The Devil", "Unchained" and countless others, Van Halen defined the 80s rock ethos.
Check out PLATINUM ROCKSTARS' version of the Van Halen classic "Panama".
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Australian rock music
Rennie Ellis (1940-2003), Angus Young, Los Angeles, 1978, colour photograph. Image courtesy of the Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive and the National Library of Australia: nla.pic-vn4103400.
Australian rock music has its roots in the 1950s and '60s when the style of music was growing in popularity around the world.
In the 1970s Australian rock bands became well known for classic hard rock. By the 1980s Australian music developed its own distinctive rock sound and became popular the world over.
First appearing in the United States of America, rock music was a fusion of white country and western music with black rhythm and blues music. These days, rock music is harder to define. Over the years it has influenced and been influenced by many other styles - elements of pop, funk, folk and world music can all be heard in many songs that are classified as rock songs.
The first Australian rock 'n rollers
In these early days, performers like Johnny O'Keefe and The Easybeats were easy to categorise as rockers, with songs such as Wild One, Shout and Friday on My Mind mimicking the heavy-guitar sound and strong beat produced by rock performers in the USA and Britain.
Johnny O'Keefe went on to become the first Australian artist to appear in the Australian Top 40 (Wild One), the first to be signed and record for an international label (US Liberty) and was the first rock and roll artist to host his own radio program (Rockville Junction on ABC Radio).
The Easybeats, who met as immigrants at Sydney's Villawood Migrant Hostel in 1964, became famous worldwide. Other Australian rock bands to hit the big time during the 1960s and the 1970s included The Masters Apprentices, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Daddy Cool and Skyhooks.
Classic Australian rock
Jimmy Barnes onstage.
Image courtesy of Cold Chisel.
Cold Chisel formed in Adelaide in 1973 under the name of Orange. Their music was characterised by meaningful lyrics, catchy tune and the aggressive singing style of their lead singer, Jimmy Barnes. One of their classic songs, Khe Sanh, tells the story of a Vietnam veteran and his struggles after the war. Cold Chisel is also responsible for many other Australian rock anthems.
Perhaps the most internationally well known hard rock band Australia has produced is AC/DC. Formed in 1973, the band began with brothers Angus and Malcolm Young and Dave Evans. Although the band's lead singer Bon Scott died in 1980, AC/DC has lived on for over three decades, performing to packed halls and rapt fans around the world. They deliver no-nonsense, hard rock - the oddity being the school boy uniform worn by now legendary guitarist Angus Young.
Intriguing Australian rock and the 1980s
The 1980s was a decade when Australian rock gained confidence and world-wide attention. Nick Cave, Melbourne musician and lead singer of alternative rock band The Bad Seeds, said that before the 1980s 'Australia still needed America or England to tell them what was good.'
The 'Aussie Assault' on the world rock stage included bands such as Men At Work, Midnight Oil, INXS, Crowded House and New Zealand's Split Enz. Alternative Australian rock bands such as The Triffids, The Church, Hunters and Collectors, Celibate Rifles, The Saints and Laughing Clowns also contributed a great deal to the unique sound evolving in Australian music.
'The fickle European rock press devoured the unusual sounds and, intriguing lyrics that captured Australia's intimidating landscape' that belonged to The Triffids and other bands. The Triffids were big business in England, Holland, Germany, France and particularly Scandinavia, particularly with their album Born Sandy Devotional. In Belgium, they played to 70,000 fans. Midnight Oil, then one of the biggest names in Australia, was billed below the band. Bernard Zuel wrote (Sydney Morning Herald, 26 Jun 2006); 'the band that was seen internationally as capturing the Australian landscape and personality better than anyone else couldn't get past the myopic radio and mainstream media back home'. A remastered Born Sandy Devotional described by Uncut magazine as 'a desolate masterpiece from one of the great lost bands of the 80's' was released in July 2006.
In the 1980s, The Church, with their paisley shirts and catchy melodies, built a devoted fan base in both Europe and America. The commercial high point for The Church was in 1988 with the album Starfish and the single Under the Milky Way which was a hit in the USA, and sold more than a million copies. On the back of Starfish, The Church toured Europe and the US relentlessly.
Australian band Men At Work were part of the worldwide popularity of Australian rock in the early 1980s, with their anthem Down Under introducing listeners around the world to Vegemite sandwiches. Their sound was an interesting mix of styles, with a slight reggae beat, very Australian lyrics and the shrill sounds of a flute. Other hits they produced included Who Can it be Now? and It's a Mistake. Men At Work are still the only Australian artists with No.1 singles and albums in both America and England.
Midnight Oil performing at a concert at the Orange Town Hall, November 1985. Photo by Ant Healy. Image courtesy of Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hunters and Collectors carved a path and place for themselves in Australian rock culture as 'the thinking man's pub band'. Many of their songs, such as Throw Your Arms Around Me are Australian rock classics.
Midnight Oil used rock music to tell a story and send a message. Songs such as Put Down that Weapon, Blue Sky Mining, Beds are Burning and River Runs Red made popular music charts around the world.
The band's lead singer Peter Garrett said, 'Rock and Roll has traditionally been about cars and girls and now we were... trying to make it about something else as well.' The band used music to raise awareness of environmental and political issues, often performing with Aboriginal rock bands such as Warumpi.
INXS toured around the world, to huge crowds. Their lead singer Michael Hutchence had rock-star attitude, looks and a voice to match. In Australia alone, over a period of 25 years, INXS had 38 Top 40 hits. On top of this they received Grammy nominations and MTV music awards in the USA, six consecutive top ten UK and US albums, 17 Billboard hits and 23 UK Top 40 songs. In 2005 they launched a worldwide search for a permanent new lead singer, replacing Michael Hutchence who died in 1997.
Female led bands such as The Divinyls, The Baby Animals, Do-Re-Mi and more recently Spiderbait and Killing Heidi are also responsible for many Australian and international hits. Chrissie Amphlett, lead singer of The Divinyls said of the 1980s, 'You didn't have to be a really slick singer but you could develop your style. Everything was very possible again and it was raw... it was a really great period that bred a lot of creativity.'
The new generation
The lines where rock music ends and other styles begin is blurring today. Bands like Regurgitator use heavy guitar and electronic music to create their own unique sound, while Yothu Yindi, who had hits in the 1990s, use traditional Aboriginal music and language as the basis for their songs.
Janet from Spiderbait recording at Radio star studios in 2003. Image courtesy of Spiderbait.
The new generation band Spiderbait had their first Australian number one hit in 2004. Black Betty, an African American work song first recorded in 1933, was later recorded by various artists including Ram Jam (1977), Nick Cave (1986) and Tom Jones (2002). Spiderbait's version has a fast beat and heavy guitar rock sound. Other bands such as Jet, Bodyrockers, Magic Dirt, Powderfinger and Jebediah are just a few of the latest batch of Aussie rock bands that are charting hits in the new millennium, many of them, like Spiderbait, coming back to the heavy rock sound that was forged in the 1970s and '80s.
Top 10 Hard Rock Songs of the '80s
From: About.com
By Steve Peake
1. Tesla - "Modern Day Cowboy"
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Geffen
Built on some fantastic riffing and a powerful twin-guitar attack, this somewhat futuristic-sounding offering from Tesla's 1986 debut release, Mechanical Resonance, still stands as the band's finest moment. The quintet never quite fit into the pop-metal strain in vogue at the time, projecting something intriguing and distinctive in its sound as well as in its place of origin, Sacramento instead of Los Angeles. This solid track likewise stood a breed apart from its rock radio peers of the time in the sense that it actually rocked hard. My only complaint would be Jeff Keith's somewhat thin voice, but an inaccurate association with hair metal couldn't spoil this
band's prime spot at the top of the '80s hard rock heap.
Listen/Download
Album Cover Photo Courtesy of Elektra/Asylum Records
This L.A. band transcended its hair metal visual image and propensity toward sappy romantic lyrics and power ballads for one reason and one reason only: the contributions of guitarist George Lynch. Without Lynch's powerful, imaginative riffing and speedy, exhilarating solos, Dokken would have never escaped the heap of moderately talented melodic metal bands of the mid-'80s. After all, Don Dokken's vocals never really exceeded competence, though his sense of melody was strong. No, it's all about Lynch, and on this track his
gorgeous solo still shines as one of the most dazzling in all of '80s hard rock's considerable fretwork.
Listen/Download
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Geffen Records
When trying to cull one song from probably the best hard rock album by the best hard rock band of the '80s, I could have picked any of a dozen tracks and not gone wrong. I choose this one, however, because it's the best approximation of the menace, threat and breakneck assault Guns N' Roses delivered in its blend of old-school hard rock, metal and punk. And it's not just Axl Rose's liberal use of profanity and confrontational lyrics that bring a consistent sense of danger; the entire band starts a collective sonic riot that sounds as fresh and exciting today as it did more than two decades ago when the L.A. quintet emerged.
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Elektra Records
In my mind, metal in the '80s never seemed more broodingly gothic, precise or intelligent than in the work of Metallica, one of the most important of America's thrash pioneers. The San Francisco-area quartet deliberately stayed quite removed from L.A.'s Sunset Strip scene, developing a speedy and brutal sonic assault informed by both punk and classical influences. This epic track from the band's 1986 classic album of the same name crystallized perfectly all of Metallica's originality and sonic intensity from prime ingredients like
James Hetfield's distinctive growl and crunching riffs.
Listen/Download
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Sanctuary/Classic
If Metallica represented the refined, intellectual side of speed metal, England's Motorhead went for the jugular with a biker-bar, broken-bottle-attack kind of ferocity. This 1980 title track to one of the band's and heavy metal's most signature albums simply pummels the listener with uncontrolled riffing, a merciless rhythmic assault and the throat-ripping vocal exploits of Lemmy. Hard rock literally can't get much harder than this, even when the music stops about halfway through for one of metal's all-time classic lines: "You know I'm going to lose and gambling's for fools, but that's the way I like it, baby, I don't wanna live forever."
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Metal-Is Records
Well, of course there's going to be a song on this list from Iron Maiden, the perfect manifestation of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Deciding which one, however, is both the hard part and the fun part. I've always been a huge fan of this tight, melodic track that chronicles a key tale from Greek mythology with economy and dramatic tension. The song's musical attributes are plentiful as well, from the familiar, galloping rhythm section to the twin-guitar attack of Adrian Smith and Dave Murray. But lead singer Bruce Dickinson's primal wail at the end of the song truly puts this one over the top.
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Columbia Records
Here's another curveball for you, a sleeper track from this other great British metal band's masterpiece, 1980's British Steel. There are plenty of more prominent Judas Priest tracks to settle on for this list, but I like this one because it proves beyond a doubt that some heavy metal was of high enough quality to generate deep album cuts that deserve to be revered as classics. Frontman Rob Halford's vocal performance here is typically powerful and impressively piercing, and the twin guitars of K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton always work incredibly well on both riffing and solos.
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Capitol/EMI
Genuine hard rock received a real threat from the dominion of hair metal during the late '80s, but luckily bands like Guns N' Roses, Tesla and Queensryche maintained the form's punishing sonic integrity through each band's distinctive sound. This Seattle band worked effectively as an outsider, injecting elements of progressive metal into a cerebral concept album of melodic hard rock, 1988's Operation: Mindcrime. This track effectively spotlights the group's strengths: precise, often complex songwriting, dense dual guitars, and the powerful vocals of frontman Geoff Tate. A hard rock classic of any era.
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Island Def Jam
Germany's Scorpions became hugely popular in America during the mid-'80s, riding in on a wave of melodic, slightly operatic metal that always remained highly accessible for mass audiences. There are several of the band's tunes more well-known than this fine album track from 1984's Love at First Sting, but I don't know if there any that are better. The band has been known to rock harder than on this mid-tempo track, but I've always felt the group is at its best when its approach is more deliberate and lingering. This one doesn't have the fury of a hurricane perhaps, but it's a powerful showpiece nonetheless.
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Atlantic/WEA
Because I prefer this quintessential hard rock band's Bon Scott era to the still successful and ongoing Brian Johnson version, I tried to squeeze AC/DC off this list. But ultimately I had to include a track from one of hard rock's all-time classics, 1980's Back in Black. Angus Young clearly lost no riffing chops following the sudden death of Scott, and Johnson jumped right in as a sensible, organic replacement. And even though he lacked the menace of his predecessor, Johnson gives a spirited performance of a vintage AC/DC tune at the band's artistic peak. This isn't metal, but it's premium hard rock without a doubt.
By Steve Peake
For the purposes of this list of premium '80s hard rock songs, I consider the broad term of hard rock to apply to loud, guitar-heavy rock music generally played by long-haired, somewhat menacing male musicians. I make that distinction to explain why I leave punk rock and hardcore out of the equation for this particular list. In addition, while any music that is genuine heavy metal falls into this category, some subgenres of metal like pop metal or hair metal may not constitute hard rock at all (consider Bon Jovi or Poison, for example). Here's a look at some '80s hard rock classics, in no particular order.
1. Tesla - "Modern Day Cowboy"
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Geffen
Built on some fantastic riffing and a powerful twin-guitar attack, this somewhat futuristic-sounding offering from Tesla's 1986 debut release, Mechanical Resonance, still stands as the band's finest moment. The quintet never quite fit into the pop-metal strain in vogue at the time, projecting something intriguing and distinctive in its sound as well as in its place of origin, Sacramento instead of Los Angeles. This solid track likewise stood a breed apart from its rock radio peers of the time in the sense that it actually rocked hard. My only complaint would be Jeff Keith's somewhat thin voice, but an inaccurate association with hair metal couldn't spoil this
band's prime spot at the top of the '80s hard rock heap.
Listen/Download
Album Cover Photo Courtesy of Elektra/Asylum Records
This L.A. band transcended its hair metal visual image and propensity toward sappy romantic lyrics and power ballads for one reason and one reason only: the contributions of guitarist George Lynch. Without Lynch's powerful, imaginative riffing and speedy, exhilarating solos, Dokken would have never escaped the heap of moderately talented melodic metal bands of the mid-'80s. After all, Don Dokken's vocals never really exceeded competence, though his sense of melody was strong. No, it's all about Lynch, and on this track his
gorgeous solo still shines as one of the most dazzling in all of '80s hard rock's considerable fretwork.
Listen/Download
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Geffen Records
When trying to cull one song from probably the best hard rock album by the best hard rock band of the '80s, I could have picked any of a dozen tracks and not gone wrong. I choose this one, however, because it's the best approximation of the menace, threat and breakneck assault Guns N' Roses delivered in its blend of old-school hard rock, metal and punk. And it's not just Axl Rose's liberal use of profanity and confrontational lyrics that bring a consistent sense of danger; the entire band starts a collective sonic riot that sounds as fresh and exciting today as it did more than two decades ago when the L.A. quintet emerged.
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Elektra Records
In my mind, metal in the '80s never seemed more broodingly gothic, precise or intelligent than in the work of Metallica, one of the most important of America's thrash pioneers. The San Francisco-area quartet deliberately stayed quite removed from L.A.'s Sunset Strip scene, developing a speedy and brutal sonic assault informed by both punk and classical influences. This epic track from the band's 1986 classic album of the same name crystallized perfectly all of Metallica's originality and sonic intensity from prime ingredients like
James Hetfield's distinctive growl and crunching riffs.
Listen/Download
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Sanctuary/Classic
If Metallica represented the refined, intellectual side of speed metal, England's Motorhead went for the jugular with a biker-bar, broken-bottle-attack kind of ferocity. This 1980 title track to one of the band's and heavy metal's most signature albums simply pummels the listener with uncontrolled riffing, a merciless rhythmic assault and the throat-ripping vocal exploits of Lemmy. Hard rock literally can't get much harder than this, even when the music stops about halfway through for one of metal's all-time classic lines: "You know I'm going to lose and gambling's for fools, but that's the way I like it, baby, I don't wanna live forever."
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Metal-Is Records
Well, of course there's going to be a song on this list from Iron Maiden, the perfect manifestation of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Deciding which one, however, is both the hard part and the fun part. I've always been a huge fan of this tight, melodic track that chronicles a key tale from Greek mythology with economy and dramatic tension. The song's musical attributes are plentiful as well, from the familiar, galloping rhythm section to the twin-guitar attack of Adrian Smith and Dave Murray. But lead singer Bruce Dickinson's primal wail at the end of the song truly puts this one over the top.
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Columbia Records
Here's another curveball for you, a sleeper track from this other great British metal band's masterpiece, 1980's British Steel. There are plenty of more prominent Judas Priest tracks to settle on for this list, but I like this one because it proves beyond a doubt that some heavy metal was of high enough quality to generate deep album cuts that deserve to be revered as classics. Frontman Rob Halford's vocal performance here is typically powerful and impressively piercing, and the twin guitars of K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton always work incredibly well on both riffing and solos.
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Capitol/EMI
Genuine hard rock received a real threat from the dominion of hair metal during the late '80s, but luckily bands like Guns N' Roses, Tesla and Queensryche maintained the form's punishing sonic integrity through each band's distinctive sound. This Seattle band worked effectively as an outsider, injecting elements of progressive metal into a cerebral concept album of melodic hard rock, 1988's Operation: Mindcrime. This track effectively spotlights the group's strengths: precise, often complex songwriting, dense dual guitars, and the powerful vocals of frontman Geoff Tate. A hard rock classic of any era.
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Island Def Jam
Germany's Scorpions became hugely popular in America during the mid-'80s, riding in on a wave of melodic, slightly operatic metal that always remained highly accessible for mass audiences. There are several of the band's tunes more well-known than this fine album track from 1984's Love at First Sting, but I don't know if there any that are better. The band has been known to rock harder than on this mid-tempo track, but I've always felt the group is at its best when its approach is more deliberate and lingering. This one doesn't have the fury of a hurricane perhaps, but it's a powerful showpiece nonetheless.
Album Cover Image Courtesy of Atlantic/WEA
Because I prefer this quintessential hard rock band's Bon Scott era to the still successful and ongoing Brian Johnson version, I tried to squeeze AC/DC off this list. But ultimately I had to include a track from one of hard rock's all-time classics, 1980's Back in Black. Angus Young clearly lost no riffing chops following the sudden death of Scott, and Johnson jumped right in as a sensible, organic replacement. And even though he lacked the menace of his predecessor, Johnson gives a spirited performance of a vintage AC/DC tune at the band's artistic peak. This isn't metal, but it's premium hard rock without a doubt.
Breakfast Club - Never Be The Same
Label: MCA Records
Catalog#: MCA-23797
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1987
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
Tracklist
A Never Be The Same (The Shep Pettibone Mix) 6:45
B1 Never Be The Same (The Club Dub) 8:38
B2 Never Be The Same (The Breakfast Beats) 4:44
Credits
Edited By - Junior Vasquez , Shep Pettibone
Engineer [Remix] - Steve Peck
Producer - Michael Verdick , Stephen Bray
Remix , Producer [Additional] - Shep Pettibone
Written-By - D. Gilroy* , S. Bray*
Notes
Original version appears on the Breakfast Club Album, MCA-5821
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 0 7674-23797-1 1
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Best Rock Songs of the 80s
- Michael Jackson - Thriller
- Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
- AC/DC - Back in Black
- Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
- AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
- Scorpions - Still Loving You
- Europe - The Final Countdown
- Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane
- U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Motorhead - Ace of Spades
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