Mine: Sweet Child O’ Mine
Also, I may posed this question in the past.
Also, also, it’s most definitely an excuse for me to listen to guns and roses. I love me some GnR from time to time.
kleinbl00 lil steve ecib ButterflyEffect and anyone else...
What I am most interested in is how much, if at all, your tastes have changed.
Music was despicable in 1981. MTV started in August of that year, and music was just the shittiest corporate MTV-whoring pusillanimous-so-they–can-fit-more-ads-on-the-radio caca.
Think Phil Collins, "Something In The Air Tonight", and Kim Carnes "Bette Davis Eyes", and Rick Springfield's "Jesse's Girl".
There were glimmers at the edges - The Stray Cats, Adam and the Ants, "Taintend Love".
The Clash were a bright bit of light when they rocked the casbah in 1982.
1983 Cyndi Lauper said Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and Quiet Riot made metal a thing that got played on the radio with "Cum on Feel the Noize". (Yeah, you kids today think you are so cool with your alt-spellings...)
It was a Dark Time for music.
But, this dark time did a lot for the future of music...
A few of the bands founded in the 81-83 timeframe:
Anthrax
Foetus
Front 242
Beastie Boys
Butthole Surfers
Dead Can Dance
Loudness
Metallica
Throwing Muses
Tom Tom Club
Pantera
Run DMC
Shonen Knife
Dio
Crazy 8s
The Lords of the New Church
Nitzer Ebb
They Might Be Giants
The Pogues
Public Enemy
Voivod
Queensryche
WASP
Art of Noise
Bronski Beat
Bon Jovi
The Housemartins (say hi to Fatboy Slim's first band!)
The Dead Milkmen
The L.A. Guns (1/2 of Guns and Roses, later on)
Megadeth
Melvins
My Bloody Valentine
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Phish
Red Hot Chili Peppers
So yeah... the suck of the early 1980's drove people off the their asses, and got them to form many of the bands that still define many genres of music today.
And that's just over 3 years...