Remember the famous rock bands of the 80s

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Rock of the eighties is characterized by the fact that new genres achieve the greatest success, and the directions of the previous years fade into the background. Rock bands of the 80s, created by very young musicians thanks to the desire to express themselves brightly, become the founders of new trends in rock.

The Dire Straits achieved their greatest success in the 80s, performing blues-rock compositions with jazz elements. Depeche Mode musicians created their own unique style in the genre of electronic rock music. In the mid-eighties, the "Irish Invasion" begins. Dublin rock bands of the 80s, led by U2, bring their style to post-punk performances, adding echoes of Irish ballads. Their album "The Joshua Tree", released in 1987, has been called one of rock's greatest albums.

In these years, rock music seems to be divided into two directions: there is just rock, and there is hard rock. The brightest representatives of the rock band of the 80s in the style of hard rock are the Americans "Guns N' Roses". The band gained worldwide popularity in 1987 with the release of their first album, Appetite for Destruction.

British heavy metal band"Iron Maiden" was perhaps the most famous of the representatives of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWBHM). This new trend in rock music had a huge impact on the development of heavy metal in general. In 1981, the album "Iron Maiden" under the name "Killers" went gold in all countries of the world.

In the eighties, a new direction in the style of heavy metal - thrash was formed. He combined heavy metal with its melodiousness and punk rock with its brutality and speed. Thrash in these years was the heaviest direction in rock music. Game speed has been pushed to the physical limit, guitar sound

as distorted as possible. Metallica not only spearheaded a new heavy direction, but also gained a reputation as a supergroup. The music of the 80s rock band "Metallica" is more complex than anything ever written in rock. Such complex constructions, which were performed by "Metallica", did not yet know the world of heavy metal. "Metallica" is the most commercially successful rock band. She has sold over 100 million copies of her albums worldwide.

In the 80s, the USSR developed its own rock wave

The first centers of the rock movement are being created. In Moscow in 1985, the "Rock Laboratory" was opened at the Palace of Culture. Gorbunov. The brightest Moscow musical groups of the 80s are "Time Machine", "Resurrection", "Sounds of Mu", "Brigade S", "Krematorium", "Bravo". During these years in Moscowthere are groups playing heavy metal: "Aria", "Metal Corrosion", "Master", "Cruise", "Black Coffee". A rock club operates in Leningrad, which includes the Aquarium, Alisa, and Kino groups. The Sverdlovsk rock club was represented by "Agatha Christie", "Nautilus Pompilius", "Nastya", "Chayf", "Urfin Juice". The groups DDT (Yuri Shevchuk), Alisa (Konstantin Kinchev), Kino (Viktor Tsoi), Aquarium (Boris Grebenshchikov) became cult among fans. A feature of Russian rock was that the texts carried the main load. This was due to the expression of the strongest social protest that was seething in the minds and hearts of the people of that time. In 1986, an album was released in America, in which the most popular bands of the 80s in the USSR were presented. Russian rockers such as Gorky Park, E. S. T and others receive invitations to tour and record albums abroad.