Rock groups that hit their commercial peak when their best work was behind them
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I want you to want me and Dream Police were big hits.Purple_Pills said:El_K said:
Cheap Trick. Granted their #1 song was it. They then went back to making not good albums.JoeEDangerously said:
I think The Flame is Cheap Tricks only number one hit and they had to get an outside songwriter for it.El_K said:These are just off the top of my head. Not sure about the numbers and such
Aerosmith. I remember buying Permanent Vacation on a whim. Turned out to be I was onto something. Then Aerosmith became huge again.
Heart. I liked early Heart. Then it got really MTV-ized.
Sammy Hagar.
Cheap Trick. Granted their #1 song was it. They then went back to making not good albums.
My first introduction to Cheap Trick was via MTV and their lame cover of “Don’t Be Cruel.” It wasn’t until years later that I heard “Surrender” and realized they were once something before being lame.
Never heard of “The Flame.” I’ve always assumed “Surrender” was the hit that carried that band.
Surrender got little if any airplay though easily their best tune.
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That goes without saying. But they were big players in the 80s power ballad genre.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
Foreigner suckschuck said:
Great suggestions. I never liked Aerosmith and still don't, but couldn't agree more that their peak period was pre 80s.El_K said:These are just off the top of my head. Not sure about the numbers and such
Aerosmith. I remember buying Permanent Vacation on a whim. Turned out to be I was onto something. Then Aerosmith became huge again.
Heart. I liked early Heart. Then it got really MTV-ized.
Sammy Hagar.
Cheap Trick. Granted their #1 song was it. They then went back to making not good albums.
Heart owned the 80s big hair, power ballad genre. They weren't as prolific as Chicago (another candidate for this) or Foreigner, but better than both.
I hated them for it back then. Nowadays I even appreciate how good they were at that.
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I’m too young to know that. I was a kid when they made their lame attempt to grab my generation’s attention via MTV music videos with “Don’t Be Cruel.” It just made them look old and lame. It would have served them better to re-lease “Surrender” with the band wearing flannel shirts and donning ZZ Top beards. It worked with Aerosmith. I thought “Sweet Emotion” was a hot new track when I first saw that video, on MTV, in the 90’s.PurpleThrobber said:
I want you to want me.Purple_Pills said:El_K said:
Cheap Trick. Granted their #1 song was it. They then went back to making not good albums.JoeEDangerously said:
I think The Flame is Cheap Tricks only number one hit and they had to get an outside songwriter for it.El_K said:These are just off the top of my head. Not sure about the numbers and such
Aerosmith. I remember buying Permanent Vacation on a whim. Turned out to be I was onto something. Then Aerosmith became huge again.
Heart. I liked early Heart. Then it got really MTV-ized.
Sammy Hagar.
Cheap Trick. Granted their #1 song was it. They then went back to making not good albums.
My first introduction to Cheap Trick was via MTV and their lame cover of “Don’t Be Cruel.” It wasn’t until years later that I heard “Surrender” and realized they were once something before being lame.
Never heard of “The Flame.” I’ve always assumed “Surrender” was the hit that carried that band.
Surrender got little if any airplay.
Classic Rock radio is where I was introduced to less lame, non-cover band Cheap Trick. “Surrender” and “I Want You to Want Me” seem to be the only songs in the regular rotation. I also know of “Dream Police” via pop culture osmosis. Probably from some TV commercial or from “The Simpsons.”
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Power ballads killed my love for a lot of good bands...
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My intro to Cheap Trick was buying Live at Budokon at Tower Records on the Ave in the late 90s. I was looking for Beastie Boys samples.Purple_Pills said:
I’m too young to know that. I was a kid when they made their lame attempt to grab my generation’s attention via MTV music videos with “Don’t Be Cruel.” It just made them look old and lame. It would have served them better to re-lease “Surrender” with the band wearing flannel shirts and donning ZZ Top beards. It worked with Aerosmith. I thought “Sweet Emotion” was a hot new track when I first saw that video, on MTV, in the 90’s.PurpleThrobber said:
I want you to want me.Purple_Pills said:El_K said:
Cheap Trick. Granted their #1 song was it. They then went back to making not good albums.JoeEDangerously said:
I think The Flame is Cheap Tricks only number one hit and they had to get an outside songwriter for it.El_K said:These are just off the top of my head. Not sure about the numbers and such
Aerosmith. I remember buying Permanent Vacation on a whim. Turned out to be I was onto something. Then Aerosmith became huge again.
Heart. I liked early Heart. Then it got really MTV-ized.
Sammy Hagar.
Cheap Trick. Granted their #1 song was it. They then went back to making not good albums.
My first introduction to Cheap Trick was via MTV and their lame cover of “Don’t Be Cruel.” It wasn’t until years later that I heard “Surrender” and realized they were once something before being lame.
Never heard of “The Flame.” I’ve always assumed “Surrender” was the hit that carried that band.
Surrender got little if any airplay.
Classic Rock radio is where I was introduced to less lame, non-cover band Cheap Trick. “Surrender” and “I Want You to Want Me” seem to be the only songs in the regular rotation. I also know of “Dream Police” via pop culture osmosis. Probably from some TV commercial or from “The Simpsons.”
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