FourT6and2":33pvk3xa said:
Okay, so I just went next door to the neighborhood market and asked like 8 random people if they could name a Van Halen song. Their ages ranged from like mid 20s to like 38 or 40 years old.
One person was able to name 1 song: "Uhmm.... hmmm.... oh oh... like... Jump? Yeah... Jump."
Nobody was able to name more than 2 EVH songs. Jump was the one most people knew. The other songs people were able to name were Panama and Hot For Teacher. But those were the only three songs.
And nobody could sing or hum them other than "Jump!" or "Panama! Panama-ah-ah-ah!"
I'm starting to think the people on this lonely corner of the internet are overestimating the importance of Van Halen... Not that they weren't talented. But people really just don't care anymore unless it's karaoke night.
Not that any other band from the '80s or '90s would fair any better. But it's music. Only musicians like the us on internet forums care that much about this stuff.
I see your fake supermarket poll and raise you any Steel Panther show nowadays. Most of the people there are about my age. There may not be a lot be there is definitely a scene throughout the world that actually like 80's metal and travel great distance to see the one band playing it.
But why does it matter? I like AIC, SOAD, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Halestorm, MCR, Used, Macklemore etc who cares if I also add Motley Crue and shit on that list? People nowadays are so divided on such subjective things as genre. "Hey, I hear a guitar solo... Exactly how tight are the pants of the singer and how high the hair of the bassist before I can deem if I like it or not"
Look at fucking Download; Slipknot, Steel Panther, GWAR, Twisted Sister, Iron Maiden... The crowd sings along to each band because outside the internet people don't give a shit what genre something is. If it's good it is good. One hour they are all singing to Community Property the next People = Shit.
