Terry K. Wrote:
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> I've got three off the top of my head that should
> have been all over rock radio in the late 80's
> /early 90's:
>
> King's X
> Mr. Big
> Company Of Wolves
>
> And there are many examples of already
> established acts that had their new music 'fade
> away' from rock radio. Suddenly it was as if all
> these listeners didn't care about melrock in any
> form anymore.B-ship! Now,to be cool you had to
> just adore Soundgarden,Pear Jam,Alice In
> Chains,Stone Temple Pilots,etcetc.
> Downtuned,depressing / crap vocalist junk. And all
> the melrock acts felt they had to tune down and
> write in that vein to stay successful. And they
> were partially right,but most didn't have a chance
> due to their former melrock status. I lost respect
> for lots of bands who jumped ship back then.I
> realize that rock radio got too caught up in the
> hair band scene.Every band looked/sounded the
> same,it seemed. And that was part of it all,too.
> But this is a good point...how many other acts
> were around then that should have been lauded on
> radio and promoted? Maybe not too many as grunge
> was 'all that' by then. Who has some other
> examples? T


Some good points there Terry, however the following all COULD of saved melodic rock if promoted properly:


HAREM SCAREM: "Mood Swings" was EXACTLY the type of record that mel rock needed at that time - huge guitars but loads of melody to keep everybody happy - I'll say it again - I honestly believe that this was the perfect record at the time

GIANT: "Time to Burn" was heavier and, as above still had the melodic side to it

UNRULY CHILD: Ditto both the above - tougher sounding than Signal, had everything. Most of the above was not too cliche-ridden either (apart from "Take me down nasty")

Suprised you didn't mention the above Terry, what do you think to my choices?