Most Terrifyingly Inspirational '80s Songs
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When I was a kid I watched Short Circuit 2 so many times I can practically RECITE 'I need a Hero'. There's actually a Browncoat (Firefly) music video set to that song.
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I guess it's no shock that the 80's had enough inspirational songs on the charts to be able to actually compile a list of them, whereas in the 90's, you'd get further listing mumbly defeatist alt-rock anthems.
I prefer it this way. The "inspiration" they're thinking of seems to be more compatible with determined yuppies. Do you want to cheapen the best metal songs that way?Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:However, a list ranking 19-freakin'-80s songs about how much they inspire you to kick ass that not only has no Iron Maiden, but no metal at all is seriously fucked.
Painkiller may well be the most fucking metal album ever, but it was released in 1990."Hell Patrol"?
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I dunno about you lot, but all most metal inspires me to do is change the station.
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I also nominate "We Will Rock You" as a replacement for one of the songs that I can't even remember the lyrics to now.DEATH wrote:I'd have chosen another Queen song though, "We Will rock You", "Princes of The Universe", "I want it all", I can think of a half dozen better suited songs.
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"We Will Rock You" was released in 1977.
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That list is what I would describe as "Dad music," music you can imagine people's dads dancing to at a wedding or perhaps birthday party when some overpaid parasite called a DJ does the job a laptop with winamp and 4 clicks could do.
Anyway, any list about 80s music that doesn't mention Slayer, Carcass and Run DMC is written by an enemy or someone's dad (or both).
Anyway, any list about 80s music that doesn't mention Slayer, Carcass and Run DMC is written by an enemy or someone's dad (or both).
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Slayer and Carcass weren't exactly "inspirational". Terrifying, yes.
Slayer and Carcass weren't exactly "inspirational". Terrifying, yes.
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Cat's In The Cradle always makes me feel uneasy because It was used here in the 80's as an anti-terrorist advert. AT the time it was very contravercial.The Yosemite Bear wrote:of course as far as terriffying to dads, little can beat Harry Chapin's "Cats in the Cradle" but that was from the 70s
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To me, Queen's "Don't stop me now" beats all of them.
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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