Most Overrated Act To Get More Than Two Songs On Pitchfork's Best Songs Of The 80s

i'm just saying fellow gnr non-fans, the ship sailed already, why not focus on trying to figure how/when motley crue snuck into the rock god canon

they didn't

"The Dirt" raised their profile to some degree but no one cites their music as canonical

hair metal canon sure

i don't necessarily mean critically, but doesn't it seem like they've sidled up into this status level that they really don't belong to? this probably sounds like total hair splitting.

idk name names/cite sources

eh i'm just pulling stuff out of my ass. do you watch tv?

I don't really watch stuff they might show up on - their popularity seems p restricted to a subset of my generation. I never hear their stuff on the radio, none of my younger coworkers would know who they even are unless it's because of reality tv/the sex tape or a passing reference in Rock of Ages or something.

Which is not the case when it comes to Zeppelin, Sabbath, the Stones etc.

or GnR for that matter

yeah motley and poison are definitely better remembered than richard marx as far as late '80s hitmakers go but i don't see jann s wenner rolling out the hall of fame red carpet for either any time soon

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Not the best metric but their most popular song on spotify is 'kickstart my heart' with 21M plays. For comparison GnR version of 'knockin on heavens door' has 38M. Sweet child o mine has 86M.

Not hair metal but kind of influenced it, Cheap Trick's most famous song only has 8M. People are idiots.

I'm sure "The Flame" has more than eight million.

And yet still no-one will defend Bono and the lads.

Making a case for G'n'R has proven quite sufficiently unrewarding, thanks. I'm done with the pro bono work for this week. (See what I did there?)
I think U2 made some superlative rock records over the course of a decade or so, but there's no point trying to establish a reasoned debate on that. Between the singer's attempts to make the world a better place and the whole iTunes debacle, all people want to do nowadays is dump on them from a height. So it goes.