This song, strangely, IMO, is an example of why hair rock, and glam etc finally ended. It finished the genre, it really could get no better for the sonic architecture which was building to epics like this song. The bands of LA, basically finished the evolution of what a great balled was about for that age. Steelheart, Kix, Skid Row, Poison, Motley and others may have lamented the rise of grunge, engulfing hair rock as a super market for music, but strangely again, the perfection of the craft is what did it, it was done, and the songs themselves could be a categor unto themselves, but the power ballad symetry, opened the door to the strange abstract darkness of Nirvana, Soundgarden and others, the rock dream turned into a secret nightmare, which grunge in many ways is, insane lyrics, punk, neo blues and psychedilc in a heroine soup. Somehow the prettiness of glam, invited the ugliness of grunge, so called. It really was a change in mood as well, music left the bright lights, the sexual overkill, and went up north to rot in the mind fully. The gloom, fog and strange depression followed, from pretension to symbolic suicide, from understandable, to abstractions not only in lyric, but how a word could be painted sepia, with several meanings as a song meandered. Grunge, in many examples is surreal insanity, of those who recognized what glam was not: miserable.
That's why both genres, are perfectly related, and still great artistic periods in the evolution of rock n roll. From glam to.... black.
you truly hit the nail right on the head. i'd never really given much thought to how each genre evolved, but your description paints the picture perfectly.
you truly hit the nail right on the head. i'd never really given much thought to how each genre evolved, but your description paints the picture perfectly.
This song, strangely, IMO, is an example of why hair rock, and glam etc finally ended. It finished the genre, it really could get no better for the sonic architecture which was building to epics like this song. The bands of LA, basically finished the evolution of what a great balled was about for that age. Steelheart, Kix, Skid Row, Poison, Motley and others may have lamented the rise of grunge, engulfing hair rock as a super market for music, but strangely again, the perfection of the craft is what did it, it was done, and the songs themselves could be a categor unto themselves, but the power ballad symetry, opened the door to the strange abstract darkness of Nirvana, Soundgarden and others, the rock dream turned into a secret nightmare, which grunge in many ways is, insane lyrics, punk, neo blues and psychedilc in a heroine soup. Somehow the prettiness of glam, invited the ugliness of grunge, so called. It really was a change in mood as well, music left the bright lights, the sexual overkill, and went up north to rot in the mind fully. The gloom, fog and strange depression followed, from pretension to symbolic suicide, from understandable, to abstractions not only in lyric, but how a word could be painted sepia, with several meanings as a song meandered. Grunge, in many examples is surreal insanity, of those who recognized what glam was not: miserable.
That's why both genres, are perfectly related, and still great artistic periods in the evolution of rock n roll. From glam to.... black.
you truly hit the nail right on the head. i'd never really given much thought to how each genre evolved, but your description paints the picture perfectly.
you truly hit the nail right on the head. i'd never really given much thought to how each genre evolved, but your description paints the picture perfectly.