Motley Crue even though they are my favorite band of all time sold out with "Smokin in the boys room".
Top 5 80's "sellout" songs
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Hah ha! Luckily for you "Dead Heads" are too busy getting stoned right now to reply to your post. :laugh:
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I had to chuck my bong across the room in a fit of rage before I could respond.
I know live near and work in Sioux City and someone told me about this song/video and how awful it was. Not only did 80's music suck but the song they are using here and the way it was put together is a disaster. A modern classic? You were joking - right?
Didn't Blondie get killed by the press for Heart of Glass? Before that they were kind of an underground band, but that single blew up and it was maybe a little too disco-y for some people.
I would have sent a strongly worded reply earlier but I was too busy selling grilled cheese sandwiches so I could follow Phish to their next concert.
Nobody had ever heard of Blondie before Heart of Glass. Sometimes "sell out" is incorrectly used interchangeably for "actually sold some records." Probably most often with R.E.M. If you aren't content to play concerts for 500 people at a time and actually have the ability to move above that level, you are labeled a "sell out" by those who refuse to move above that level, a.k.a. 30-year-old college music fans.
This is wrong. Ratt never covered Slade. Quiet Riot did. Ratt's "Out of the Cellar" and "Invasion of your Privacy" were must haves for any 80's metal guy.
Love Ratt. Not sure where this Ratt hate comes from. They had 2 great albums.
How about KISS. The biggest sellouts of all time. They even admitt that.
How about KISS. The biggest sellouts of all time. They even admitt that.
KISS sold out in the seventies.
In no particular order:
1. Billy Joel (more so in the nineties now that I think about it)
2. Phil Collins/Genesis (late decade stuff is rubbish)
3. Elton John
4. Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Starship - Starship
5. Kenny Logins
6. Paul Simon
7. Aerosmith
8. Heart
9. Chicago
10. Eric Clapton
I can't believe one has mentioned Def Leppard yet. They have to be the biggest pop sellouts of all time. Listen to Pyromania, then Hysteria, and its very obvious they wanted radio play.
Listen to High N Dry, then listen to that garbage single "Let's Get Rocked". You won't even be able to tell it is the same band. Def Leppard is the definition of selling out to make pop music.
Listen to High N Dry, then listen to that garbage single "Let's Get Rocked". You won't even be able to tell it is the same band. Def Leppard is the definition of selling out to make pop music.
Not so sure I'd call it a sell out so much as a result of Terry Kath's death and Pete Cetera thinking the band was his.
Leaving Messina was when Kenny Loggins sold out to be movies what Alan Thicke was to sitcoms. He never had any non sellout music solo.
Paul Simon's music may have been less poppy in the 80's when compared to 'Kodachrome' and 'Me & Julio'.
