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Good Documentary with shortcomings

posted 17 years ago by world03famous
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Overall good, thought it was a BBC special with most praise lavished on Brit Bands. We shouldn't dwell on what is or isn't metal, this chnges every decade or so. Surely EARLY Aerosmith 1972-1979 put out more kick ass songs that definitely fit into the "metal" category than crappy groups like Warrant & Poison. Unfortunately the addition of the dreaded keyboard or piano (horns) excludes many bands from contributing to this documentary.

Inaccuracies: The first "power ballad" came out at least 10 years prior than stated. Nazareth's Love Hurts. Zeppelin's Thank You can qualify.

Anthrax & Public Enemy the first to break down the rap/rock barrier, not quite. Try Aerosmith & Run DMC about 5 years earlier with Walk This Way.

Enjoyable viewing but shouldn't have been as narrow with band selection and so "UKcentric".

[–] Mosepipe 15 years ago

To call it UKcentric would be a tad harsh

They had an episode about the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, yes, but they also had a whole episode on the Hollywood Boulevard scene

[–] rohan-shroff 14 years ago

true, just that the hollywood scene happened after the NWOBHM so they showed it in part 3.