ITT: 70's rock acts that didn't become a joke in the 80's
>>63790976
you first, OP
>>63790976
Born in the u.s.a my g
Ozzy?
Johnny Rotten
He went from being a joke in the '70s to a patrician in the '80s.
Judas Priest
Dio
Scorpions
>>63790976
Gary Moore
Michael Schenker
Robert Plant
>my love is in league with the freeway
joy division / new order
Dire Straits
>>63790976
The Clash.
Tom fuckin Waits. 70s material was strong, 80s was god tier.
Phil Collins
I think 80's rock acts that didn't become a joke in the 90's would be a more interesting thread
Journey
>>63791924
Depeche Mode (they're not really rock but still)
AC/DC
Aerosmith...debatable. They did have the big late 80s comeback but only by turning into saccharine pop rock done with professional songwriters.
>>63791924
RHCP
Megadeth
U2
REM
Bon Jovi
>>63791924
REM, although their 80s material is way better imo
>>63792057
Those are all jokes except REM and REM's output post-'92 when Michael became "le bald man" is terrible
>>63792057
try again
does joy division/new order count?
they became something that in theory SHOULD have been a total joke but in practice was amazing
When I think of 70s acts that really fell by the wayside in the 80s...
>Bee Gees
Completely banned from the radio in the US and Britain
>Eagles
Broke up. None of their post-Eagles work amounted to anything.
>Kiss
Revolving door guitarists and fad-jumping.
>Aerosmith
Totally irrelevant from 80-85, then came back by becoming massive corporate sellouts.
>Blue Oyster Cult
They really weren't relevant after the early 70s anyway.
>REO Speedwagon
Went from a thumping redneck country rock act to sappy ballads.
>Doobie Brothers
Pfffff....
>Foreigner
Turned into sappy ballads.
>Blondie
Once they got their music on the radio, they considered it Mission Accomplished and retreated back into obscurity.
>>63792092
>I don't like it therefore it's a joke
>>63792193
Black Sabbath is debatable. The 80-84 period was a renaissance for them after falling into irrelevance in the late 70s, but everything post Ian Gillan was kind of a joke. Ozzy's solo career was a lot bigger than his former bandmates.
>>63792057
I think the better question is "Were these artists relevant after the GHW Bush years?" since that was still mostly a period of 80s leftovers. I don't consider Metallica to have not become a joke in the 90s despite their biggest selling album being released after January 1, 1990.
If you managed to be relevant in the Clinton years, then I'd say you survived the transition from the 80s to the 90s.
>>63791924
Pantera. They actually went from joke status to awesome.
>>63792265
Sabbath were actually getting credibility back with Tony Martin and Cozy Powell in the late '80s and very nearly '90s, until Iommi just wanted the instant dollars and tore down any progress that line-up was making to run back to Dio for Dehumanizer.
And we all know how that shitstorm ended.
>>63791806
They eventually became a joke though, sadly
Roky Erickson. Tom Waits. David Bowie (the strength of his output during the early 80s cancels out the weakness of his late 80s material.) Talking Heads.
>>63792378
>Sabbath were actually getting credibility back with Tony Martin and Cozy Powell in the late '80s and very nearly '90s
While true, those albums were only a thing in Europe and Japan while being largely ignored in the US where everything was thrash metal.
>>63792385
Talking Heads isn't rock, and David Bowie's overall 80s quality is debatable imo
>>63792193
Styx. Their only notable 80s accomplishment was the horrifying Mr. Roboto.
>>63790976
Motorhead obviously.
>>63792434
Oh actually, I think I know you. You're the guy from the Heaven & Hell and Van Hagar thread a few weeks back, yeah?
Does Van Halen count as 70s? Their first two albums came out in 78-79 and they were already a household name by the time Reagan became president.
>>63792441
I guess you're right but if we're splitting hairs here, Tom Waits isn't rock either. At least not his 70s-80s music.
I knew I was pushing it putting Bowie and Talking Heads in there.
How about I switch out Bowie with Can and Talking Heads with Yes and take Tom out entirely.
>>63790976
Sammy Hagar
:^)
>>63791193
I would say that this technically doesn't count because he was in Sabbath in the 70s and solo for the 80s. So two different bands. As a singer he did stay relevant though.
Not rock, but Billy Joel.
>>63790976
Alice Cooper
>>63792576
Everything Hagar ever did was downhill after that amazing Montrose debut.
Terrific singer, but extremely hit and miss as a writer.
>>63792664
Half and half. Pre his hairspray and Desmond Child-led reinvention in the latter half of the decade, Cooper was doing bizarre pseudo-new wave albums that were critically and commercially panned almost universally.
>>63792716
See, that's the thing. Many 70s acts were relevant for only a portion of the 80s (Black Sabbath, Journey, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith) But that's still enough to count them as retaining 80s relevance.
>>63792057
Pretty sure Von Jovi has been a novelty since inception.
David Coverdale
>>63792553
I'd say so. Van Halen's image and sound were firmly rooted in the 70s...they picked up where Led Zeppelin left off.
>>63792627
Soft rock? Pop rock?
I think he counts.
>>63792057
I'm questioning the idea that rhcp and megadeth were around in the 70s but I'm too lazy to google it.
>>63792347
Metallica was always a joke. One of the most overrated bands of all time right beside Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Pantera, AC/DC and FUCKING PEARL JAM, GODDAMN IT. And Genesis, pre and post Phil Collins. Overrated and bad aren't nessicarily the same thing, but Metallica is all the same, except the slow songs, which also sound the same as each other and are whiny and annoying as piss.
>>63792810
Fair call, though with Cooper I'd say it was more a case of him working his mojo back as opposed to actually retaining it.
>>63792872
Coverdale going from soulful Paul Rodgers wannabe to pseudo-Plant hair metal screecher really makes me wonder if Glenn Hughes would've had to completely alter his vocal style to crack the American rock world as well (Well, assuming of course he didn't blow all his chances with his crack cocaine and Mars Bar addiction).
>>63792954
>I'm questioning the idea that rhcp and megadeth were around in the 70s
I was replying to the question "80s acts that stayed relevant in the 90s", you ding-dong.
>>63792956
Loosen the headband on your fedora, dude. It's cutting off the oxygen to your brain.
Michael Jackson
:-)))
green day
>>63793100
Goddamn it, I'm illiterate.
ZZ Top
Hall & Oates
Donna Summer (though not after 83)
>>63792716
Uh, well then that also applies to Heart. They became irrelevant in the early 80s and then had a late decade comeback courtesy of song doctors.
The Cure
Graham Bonnet? Went from an easy-listening pop star in the 60s and 70s to one of the most powerful metal singers of the 80s.
>>63793519
Just how many careers of '70s rockers did Desmond Child/Diane Warren/Holly Knight save?
>>63791820
best answer
>>63793622
>Just how many careers of '70s rockers did Desmond Child/Diane Warren/Holly Knight save?
Also wanna throw Ron Nevison in that list since he produced a lot of those albums.
Amusingly, the Rolling Stones had their biggest charting hit ever in the 80s.
A lot of 70s artists failed to adapt to the MTV age often because they were too unattractive. Bands like Journey just embarrassed themselves when they tried music videos. Alice Cooper and David Coverdale were good-looking guys so they were well-suited to the video format (also AC was always a very visual artist).
Aerosmith are an odd case because they were neither good-looking nor did they have youth on their side (compared to Dave Coverdale restocking his band with fresh 20-somethings).
>>63793777
>Steve Perry didn't make women's panties literally melt right off of them back in the day
If they sucked at music videos, it was for reasons other than looks.
>>63793828
My cousin used to be told that he looked like SP. While this was a pretty good way to get laid back then, it wouldn't have ended so well for him if he'd opened his mouth and tried to sing.
>>63793699
Yeh, on an album that was just leftover songs written in the mid-70s they'd never bothered recording.
>>63793777
It's kind of hard to take bands like Journey that had a mostly female fanbase seriously. I mean how many people could take Bon Jovi seriously?
>>63793777
It's funny that Coverdale managed to reinvent himself into a pretty prominent '80s sex symbol, considering that Blackmore was originally hesitant in recruiting him into Purple due to thinking that he was too fat and ugly to replace a handsome bastard like Ian Gillan.
>>63793828
Perry was good looking in a kind of cute and fluffy way that some girls love, but the rest of MTV-era Journey were a pretty average looking bunch, with the possible exception of Jonathan Cain. Schon was a 30 something year old manlet, Ross Vallory had pretty prominent acne scarring and bad teeth, and Steve Smith had one of the worst bald spots and receding hairline I've ever seen on a guy with long hair.
>>63791746
They were always a fucking joke
>>63791924
Pantera went from shit that no one knows or cares about to god-tier metal
>>63791924
GRATEFUL DEAD
>>63791318
The Sex Pistols weren't a joke in '77 you silly child.
>>63794164
It depends, which part of the eighties are we talking about? The part where their frontman went into a coma? Or the part after he came out of the coma and they were good again for 3-4 years?
>>63794306
yes
>>63794239
Dude yes they were
>>63793777
I don't think it's completely about looks because see above about Aerosmith, also Madonna was a very mediocre-looking white trash slag but she had the best producers and choreographers in the business.
>>63791862
Truth.
>>63794390
As he's gotten older he's looking like Alec Baldwin's long-lost twin brother.
>>63794390
>>63794420
>>63792193
>Bee Gees
>Completely banned from the radio in the US and Britain
I doubt they would have translated well onto the 80s anyway even if they hadn't been blacklisted. Their ooshy-gooshy lounge lizard/Quaalude sound wasn't really going to fly in the Reagan years. Besides, people were horribly burned out on them by the time the new decade started.
>>63794466
I admit, for being uglier to begin with, he has a lot better skin. Steve looks like he's been out in the sun too long.
Tom Petty. Heck, he was still making relevant music into the 2000s.
>>63794343
Really? How so? They shook the music industry like a rabid pitbull. They freaked out the conservative british populace and scared the shit out of the queen. They had the #1 song in the charts but it was banned. Some joke.
>>63794572
"I'd say the punk bands gave the business a much-needed kick in the arse because things had gotten very...complacent back then. I liked some of them, for example the Sex Pistols...not so much The Clash, I wasn't into them."
-- Lemmy
>>63794466
JUST
>>63793997
I've always been a little surprised that Deep Purple didn't try to use Gillan to milk the sex appeal angle with audiences like Zeppelin did with Plant. He was no less attractive, really.
>>63793551
Not disputing their status, but a lot of bands from the 80s are from the 70s.
>>63794164
Dylan and the Dead was the nadir of both groups/artists
>>63794662
Purple were never big mainstream normalfag arena rock which is a genre that relies a lot on sex appeal and having an attractive frontman (well, not so much AC/DC). They targeted more of the angry teenage male crowd ala Black Sabbath. I mean, neither band had the kinds of songs that women like.
>>63794774
Oh shit nigger what are you doing. Neil Young had his lowest point in the 80s.
>>63790976
Devo (though only up to ONID)
Genesis
Go ahead and laugh. They sold millions of albums in the '80s. They were yuge.
>>63794891
Devo only barely makes the cut for 80s relevance as their most notable material came out in the Carter years.
