[Free Vulcan]

Well I’ll give you that Duran Duran appealed to a niche. Even though popular, they weren’t popular enough to really reach the masses beyond a certain segment and alot of people outside that simply aren’t going to like them, which is totally understandable.

Alot of women in rock have beautiful voices. Pat Benatar could literally seduce a man into bed with the power of her voice alone. Kate Pierson is a close second in that department.

[the invisib1e hand]

I think big hair and MTV go together; I hadn't really made the connection until a few posts ago (well, look, it's not like I spend too much time thinking about glam bands). And there reason that most of these bands, while here and there delivered a catchy hook, or in some cases had real talent, don't make me want to play the drums again is because...it's all too visual, too commercial, too MTV. MTV is disgusting, and what it does to good music -- my opinion, my experience -- is, at best, distracts from it.

I recall that early video by Michael Nesmith, "the talented Monkee," and it was cool and novel but it wasn't big hair and bs. The MTV thing is top 40 TV, and top 40 radio is hard enough to endure for long.

[RockinRight]

Too bad Kate prefers to seduce women...she plays for the other team.

Great voice though.

Grace Slick also had that type of voice...not the same as Benatar, but her voice was also captivating. Although she’s thought of as a 60s artist, she did have hits in the 80s with Starship, so I think she can be counted in this discussion.

Her hair was relatively normal though.