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Grunge really started the downfall of headbangers ball



Yes MTV was part of the reason, but the show really started to jump the shark when that *beep* grunge, don't get me wrong, I Only like a few bands, the rest are pretty much horrible and it started the downward spiral of rock in the 90's and headbangers ball all went downhill to, there was nothing headbanging about nu metal, pop punk nor any of those crappy rock genres that hurt music as rap did.

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I think you're right. Once Nirvana showed up, the pussification of music began. Those were the good ol' days!

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I think you're right. Once Nirvana showed up, the pussification of music began. Those were the good ol' days!

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https://www.datalounge.com/thread/27615619-pick-a-television-show-and-tell-us-the-point-where-it-went-off-the-rails

HEADBANGER'S BALL, mid-late 1991-early 1992 i.e., the death of '80s rock.

As early as Fall/Hallowe'en of '91, it was obvious there had just been a major sea-change in the prevailing trends of youth fashion, music & TV culture, and suddenly all the music videos and all the newest breakthrough bands skewed very, very dark and industrial. The fun, party-metal and uplifting romantic bombastic balladeering styles of the mid-late '80s was swept aside in a matter of months to make way for driving thrash-rock, spooky alternative, chilly industrial, and thundering black/death/gothic metal. There was also a sudden noticeable desperation to promote and sell 'classic' rock and hair metal; in previous years it was a given that songs and acts in the genre would be popular, no matter whether they were properly and obviously pushed or not.

The old glammy big-stadium '80s rockers who generally starred in episodes started showing up on the Ball looking dour dressed in plaid, shorts and jumpsuits, muted-color thrifted shirts, white socks with black lace-ups, and barefaced with their hair unteased. All the guest hosts started being self-deprecating and sarcastic and mumbly and downbeat, where before they had been high-energy and yelling everything with enthusiasm or braggadocio a la Riki Rachtman. Some hosts even took to telling long boring stories about their touring days that just fell flat, sounded tone-deaf, and made them seem like dinosaurs.

The change was amazingly fast, and seemed to come out of nowhere.

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