Music doesn't always need to be deep and meaningful. Sometimes I just want to listen to a good solid rockin' song... plus it's excellent pole dancing music.
The summer of '88 I sat in front of the tv watching videos in between baseball and skateboarding. (Powell Peralta ftw!)
Queensryche - "I Don't Believe in Love"
Anthrax - "Antisocial"
Metallica "One"
Bullet Boys - "Smooth Up In Ya"
Skid Row - "18 and Life"
Faith No More - "Epic"
They all came out that summer and were on steady rotation. That was the last cool thing MTV did.
i was 9 1/2, thats why i have nostalgia for those songs rather than the contempt i should have for their first in a continuing line of bullshit false metal releases.
except for enter sandman, im pretty much completely sick of hearing that fuckin song thanks to the radio.
I never really cared for the glam/hard-rock scene till a month or two ago when i started listening to anything by Jorn Lande especially Ark and JORN, and a lot of Tarot and Ayreon. so i've been getting into the traditional heavy metal/hard-rock thing so i would probably really enjoy some Skid Row right now.
"The Real Thing" was released in '89 and 'Epic' as a single not before '90.
Back to the skids: I might even slightly prefer the début to "STTG". It's filled with an awful lot more hairspray and Bon Jovi, but damn, every song on that is so catchy that it's "single worthy" IMHO.
With "STTG" we got more METHULZ but also punk (the bands latter demise) started to creep in more obviously. If you listen to that album - the titeltrack especially - and you don't instantaneously dig the hell out of it, then you're a fag. FACT.
It was '89, actually. And "Epic" came out that summer, not in 1990. Maybe in Germany it came out later but not in the US. I remember freaking out over it.