Bands that sucked with the turn of a decade | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

I wanted to make a list that you may add to of great bands that sucked balls in the following decade, let’s go:

Queen:

A great band, both live and in the studio, turned to dogshit with the transition from 70’s to 80’s after The Game. The songs went from classic pump uppers, such as the powerful and progressive Bohemian Rhapsody, the hard rocking Tie Your Mother Down, and the stadium sing alongs We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions to songs such as the 80’s style dance/poppy Radio Ga Ga, a collaboration that made both artists sound bad in Under Pressure, the song where the singer describes how the bassist likes his women in Body Language, and who can forget I Want To Break Free. Although, to be fair, they started to get better in 1986 with A Kind Of Magic, although half the album is still rubbish.

ZZ Top:

A great 70’s blues influenced hard rock band that decided to become a pop band when the 80’s came around. So instead of great rockers like La Grange, Just Got Paid, Tush, and Waiting For The Bus/Jesus Left Chicago, we get dance songs straight from hell that make you want to stick your balls in a shark’s mouth such as Sharp Dressed Man, Gimme All Your Loving, and Legs. That last one especially makes me want to throw up and it pisses me off that I’d always hear it outside while walking past the strip club that was near my house back in the 80’s. To think that such a great band would drop so low just to get more popular.

Journey:

I think Infinity, Evolution, and Departure are great albums, with tracks like Wheel In The Sky, Any Way You Want It, and Lights. However, I think the 80’s killed them. To start, Don’t Stop Belevin’ is so overplayed that the airplay this turd gets is enough to make me hate it (I once heard it 6 times in 1 day and I wasn’t even trying), then there’s the rest of Escape, which, with the excpetion of the title track, Open Arms, and maybe 1 or 2 other songs, is god awful. Frontiers is an improvement, but it still sucks and the singles chosen were especially poor, the “metal song that isn’t metal” Separate Ways, and the awful ballad Faithfully. I haven’t listened to Raised On Radio yet, but my friends tell me it’s even worse than Escape and Frontiers.

Any others you’d like to add.