Talk:Music history of the United States in the 1980s

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I'm curious about how effeminate bands like Motley Crue and Guns N Roses, with perms, lipstick, blush, eyeliner and all that jazz can really be called "hypermasculine." Sure, it's not as bad as the glam rock "boys just want to be girls" trend, but hypermasculine it's not.

The punk rock section is also sadly under-done, and in need of some revision. I guess I could do that sometime...
 * Appearances aside, those bands were macho, sang loud, aggressive, nuance and subtlety-free songs with vulgarity, undisguised lust and anger. Tuf-Kat 07:57, Dec 23, 2003 (UTC)

A few issues...
I'd personally disagree with categorizing Guns 'N Roses as "hair metal", but there is a rather big error re:the Stone Roses. How would a band (from the UK, not US, but that is not an issue) whose biggest success took place in 1989 and who disbanded in the mid-90s be considered a 2000s phenomenon? Wouldn't it be more accurate to put the White Stripes, BRMC or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs as representing the US 2000s neo-garage movement rather than the Stone Roses? I do like the Stone Roses and they were quite influential (not necessarily on those aforementioned bands, and more in the UK than US) but they were long gone by the 2000s
 * I agree on both counts. Tuf-Kat 07:54, Dec 23, 2003 (UTC)

=Suggestions= Just a few suggestions:

The grunge movement and subsequent death of said movement deserves more coverage than a couple of sentences. A form of music that changed the entirety of rock forever deserves heavy coverage.

Also, Korn is not widely accepted as a rapcore band. Nü-metal, yes. Rapcore, not so much.

There is also a large lack of mention of the "mall-goth" musical styles, with Marilyn Manson hardly being mentioned. I'm not a big Manson fan, but he is extremely popular and at least deserves mention on that part.

And as somebody else noticed, the punk rock section is missing a lot of information. Glossing over some of the most important musical contributions just doesn't seem right somehow.

2000s
This section seems just about completely wrong (as well as only covering rock). REwrite anyone? Rmhermen 00:56, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Punk rock
This section is largely a mess. Aside from early Husker Du, nothing here is punk rock. Additionally, heavy metal is discussed in the section a lot. It seems like this section should be about alternative rock and the legacy of punk but it really doesn't convey the point effectively. WesleyDodds 09:30, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Electroclash
Los Angeles Electroclash? in the 1980's? This writer seems pretty confused... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.234.153.158 (talk) 03:53, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposal
In my opinion, it would be best to merge all of the content in this article into this article, this article and this article, since we do not need two different articles which would cover the exact same topic in detail. What do you think? TheCuriousGnome (talk) 01:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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