One of the biggest misconceptions about the 90s is that grunge completely killed old school hard rock. People didn't only listen to grunge back then. Aerosmith was bigger than ever, for example.
One of the biggest misconceptions about the 90s is that grunge completely killed old school hard rock...
Brandon Powell
Brayden Clark
Bon Jovi survived the 90s too. But bands like Aerosmith and Bon Jovi survived the decade off their power ballads, which were basically guaranteed hits among their female fans.
Nathan Anderson
that album is basically nickelback aka proto-post-grunge
Jeremiah Bailey
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Damn you're retarded.
Henry Gray
Are you people stupid? Weren't Pantera and Sepultura at their peak in the 90s?
Ethan Campbell
could you elaborate?
zoomers. i'm not surprised
Joshua Gonzalez
Pantera was my savior in an otherwise shitfuckcumfart
Adam Torres
It was never that grunge killed hard rock as a whole, but rather glam metal, which is also false. It just petered out over time cause everyone realized it sucked
Levi Long
Based. Aerosmith rules
Robert Murphy
>listening to post-'70s Aerosmith
Joseph Campbell
Fuck off they kicked ass in the late 80s and 90s
Connor Sanders
this, and glam metal bands just had to tone down the "glam" to survive, look at Guns N Roses and Pantera.
Nolan Cox
pantera and sepultura are metal not rock lol
Easton Morgan
the fans of hair metal liked Nirvana and STP and Alice In Chains just fine, and both alternative and hair metal played alongside each other on rock stations. alternative didn't kill rock fan's liking of the hits that hair bands already had. but without the major backing of the industry, hair metal didn't have many new hits into the 90s.
hair metal is the type of genre where the biggest hits tend to be the best, and there are no hidden gems. if hair metal bands didn't have the best producers and songwriters, their music fell flat. if they had been great songwriters on their own, they could have kept putting out successful material even though grunge was the new hot thing that the labels really cared about.
Luke Powell
whatever this song is a banger
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Thomas Campbell
>hair metal is the type of genre where the biggest hits tend to be the best, and there are no hidden gems
Total bullshit
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Austin Lopez
This shit was popular with 35+ year old vh1 types. Aerosmith and Guns N’ Roses were dead when it came to the teens - 30 year olds
Joshua Collins
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this one too
Owen Jenkins
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Tyler Watson
Some bands did fine in the 90's one way or another but the bulk didn't. and it was pretty much all of "80's hard rock and heavy metal" that was affected, not just hair bands
The only band from the thrash scene to prosper in the 90s was Metallica who gained a new fanbase with The Black Album, other bands tried to but didn't have the same success. Pantera may as well have been a new band as far as MTV was concerned and they had a "new style" that was tailor made for the 90s, Sepultura wasn't in the worst shape but really got their little fame boost later on when they jumped on the nu metal bandwagon with "Roots" plus they also sort of shifted to "grooove metal" prior which helped them
Traditional heavy metal bands who were huge in the 80's like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden were also not doing well in the 90's at all, it wasn't until like the early 00's that they had a renaissance in popularity again.
Guns n Roses was a much newer band than Aerosmith, their debut was 1987, and the early 90s is literally their peak of fame, them and Metallica were easily the two biggest rock bands of the time (consider, Nirvana a hip new band, was supposed to open up their tour, Nirvana wasn't more popular than them yet)
Xavier Brooks
lots of grunge bands namechecked aerosmith, sabbath and kiss as stuff they grew up listening to, they were referring more to their 70s stuff but the nostalgia stopped those bands getting the same backlash as purely 80s bands.
Aerosmith's actual sales in the 90s came more from their run of god tier radio momrock ballads.