Skid Row, OTOH, is very underrated. I assume you've never heard their second album, Slave to the Grind.
Skid Row's actually not bad. And I'm kinda embarassed to admit it...but I owned a Cinderella album.
Now, GnR...first time I heard "Welcome to the Jungle," I was blown away. Then I bought "Appetite for Destruction" and was REALLY blown away. I'm no musician or music expert, but that album was abso-freaking-lutely incredible. It was the ultimate antidote to the Poisons of the world. You had those guys walking around with lip gloss trying to look like female porn stars, and then here comes GnR, almost the anti-glam, loud, ugly, no makeup, just balls-out metal. To somebody like me that knew nothing about any sort of big-city music scene, they were great.
Then they started believing their own press, and got pretentious, and Axl went nutbar, and they jumped the shark. And then we got grunge, and grunge begat the five thousand identical-sounding Nickelback/Staind clone bands on the radio nowadays. But that one magical GnR album...whoa Nellie. I never was a STP fan, but I admit that I like hearing Velvet Revolver songs on the radio, just to hear Slash and Duff.
Of course, I had musical whiplash in college 20 years ago. In the room on one side of mine were two guys who preferred either REM (the white guy) or DC call-and-response go-go music (the black guy, and talk about feeding your cowbell fever). On the other side the occupants preferred pre-Phil Collins Genesis, and Black Flag/Dead Kennedys punk.
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