Eh The problem with this si that its done in the 70's metal style. And although released in the 80's harkens back to the old days.

That riff is classic jam band material licks. Nothing wrong about that, it is just in stark contrast to the glam-flavoured over produced crap that came in the middle to later 80's.

And of course having Randy on board never hurt.

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Yeah. I was actually gonna put up a link to Quiet Riot - Feel the Noise... I like some of that 80's hair metal crap, but most of it is terrible. I do miss the rock star attitude and the excess' that are associated with being a rock star. I think showmanship and attitude are generally missing from most bands these days. Show me a band that can put on a real concert, or a rock opera, or shit, just a plain awesome performance!

Music these days is full of wannabe performers; its just a bunch of dudes in t-shirts on a stage crying their hearts out about how creul the world is or screaming their head off about some mundande garbage. Its not to say that just about every song in the 80's wasnt about partying, fucking, girls, and drugs, and alot of those songs were balads... but... they fucking rocked. I just think that there are no personalities anymore, no defining bands, no new styles, no newer-er bigger-er more bad-ass huge-er crazy assed musicians. Its just a buch of whiney pussies with guitars. Even our pop stars suck ass. The only real big shows these days are older established artists.

Its like we decided to stop doing anything new, and simply started recycling our older recycled music. The only problem is that everything has been recycled so many times its all the same bullshit, and its tired and worn out. Sure there are variants that have brnached off here and there, but whats the differance betweeen punk, pop-punk,emo,screamo, etc? Its not as good as the original. What the differance between Metal, Nu-Metal, Hardcore, Deathmetal, Grindcore, etc? Basically the only differance is how much screaming is involved. The more screaming, the more aggressive and fast the songs, and the more repetative garbage there is. Its like metal has turned into fucking headache music. Breakbeat double-bass drumming on every song, with sludgy basslines, and soul-less guitar riffs, and screaming.

At least back then if you wanted to listen to metal you had alot of distinct choices. Thrash metal was different from hair metal which was diffreent from hard rock, which was different from heavy metal. Even bands mixed it up from song to song.

While there was alot of crap music then, there we many legendary players and artists who can still sell out a fucking staduim. Who do we have now? Nobody. The vacuum has been filled by lots of tiny talentless pissants. You cant even blow shit up anymore on stage. Hell, half of a metal concert was the fucking fireworks and explosions and shit. You went to a concert to see what kind of crazy shit they would do.

Jimmy set his guitar on fire in the 60's and by the time we got to the 80's we were sitting the stage on fire with pyrotechnics... now thats just a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Politically correct music is crap. Even the garbage pop of hte 80's was better than the garbage pop of today. Who are you going to remember 10 years from now, Brittney Spears or Madonna?

"Quiet Riot - Feel the Noise"

Again old metal... 70's in fact.

And the reason why that was popular? Because it was a basic four on the floor hooked up song. That's why its pop.

That's why the stars now do so many covers or sample so many old songs, because they just can't make it on their own merits.

And I agree the manufactured angst is overdone now. I don't care if they had a rough life. I did too. As Denis Leary says... Life's hard, get a helmet!

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