I promised a hard-rocking selection of 80s greatest hairband rock hits. I will deliver. ;) This may also serve as a little tour of Young Flutterby's psyche during her adolescent years. It's amazing I did not ruin myself entirely.
I recall that my best friend had snuck a copy of this album into her room. And like true rebels, we would listen to it at night... very quietly. Cause we wouldn't want to wake up her parents, you know.
For serious? How can this song not fire you up and make the room just a little bit warmer? Just as an aside, I love how their drummer adapted to his injury and how his pared down, powerhouse sound really became one of the band's signature elements.
I remember the first time I heard this song at my second cousins house in a basement bedroom. I was young and impressionable and my older twin cousins were way too cool, and even though I knew I "SHOULDN'T LISTEN TO BAD MUSIC LIKE THIS"... I kinda loved it. It is also possible that in a moment of weakness, I did a karaoke duet to this song. If loving Bret Michael's is wrong, I don't want to be right. lol
OMIGOSH. This video is all kinds of disaster... which is why I probably can't stop grinning the whole time I hear this song. But seriously now... why can't chainmail still be in style??
I remember rollerskating to this song back when our little city had a rink. I'm pretty sure it was songs like this that made my parent's discourage me from rollerskating. And look where that got me... ;)
It must be said. Going to an Alice Cooper concert is a bucket list item of mine. His gift for the theatrical is tremendous.
I kinda love how campy and fun the video is, classic, bawdy 80s rock.
Parts of the beginning conversation remind me of muppet voices. I can't help but giggle. And while I heard this song back when I was but a wee teen Flutterby... I probably rocked it best every week when I trained Krav. It was often on the playlist during stress drills.
And this, dear readers, concludes our little journey through the 80s with your guide, Flutterby. Please sign the guestbook on your way out.
6 comments:
It's amazing how you can hear a song and it takes you back to a specific moment in your personal history. Every time I hear Def Leppard, it's 1983 and I'm at Sherman House Disruption 2. Don't ask!
most of my younger memories involve 70's pop. it's all they played at home or on the uncle's farm ....
flood of '73. the beatles and elvis, all day long. or so it seemed
Bijoux -- Sherman House Disruption, you say? I feel like I should google this, but am afraid I may forever look at you differently. lol So true about how music can link you instantly to moments in the past.
Xavier -- Some 70s music is a part of my earlier memories, too. In fact, I kinda kill at SongPop with that decade. It was the Top 40 of my childhood and got lots of play through my teens as the "oldies" mix. Might have to do a fun 70s tour sometime, too!
Lol.....I googled it to protect my own identity and alas, old Sherman House is long gone......
The 80s were great.
'(You Make Me) Rock Hard'. . .
There's a double meaning in that. . .
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