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The 1980s saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. As disco fell out of fashion in the decade's early years, [ 1 ] genres such as post-disco, Italo disco, Euro disco, and dance-pop became more popular. Rock music continued to enjoy a wide audience. [ 2 ] Soft rock, [ 3 ] glam metal, thrash metal ...
— Marr, on arriving at Morrissey's door By late 1982, Morrissey had chosen the band name the Smiths. He said later that "it was the most ordinary name and I thought it was time that the ordinary folk of the world showed their faces". Around the time of the band's formation, Morrissey decided that he would be publicly known only by his surname, with Marr referring to him as "Mozzer" or "Moz ...
Public Enemy's first four albums during the late 1980s and early 1990s were all certified either gold or platinum and were, according to music critic Robert Hilburn in 1998, "the most acclaimed body of work ever by a hip hop act". [7] Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine called them "the most influential and radical band of their time". [8]
This cover was rejected by the band's label (Decca Records), [126] which prevented the album from being released for several months, until a new cover was designed. [127] [128] Van Halen – Balance (1995) The cover in most markets features two nude conjoined twins sitting on a teeter-totter.
The The's music continued to appear on British radio and television such as in Shane Meadows' 2010 Channel 4 miniseries This Is England '86 and in 2013 in the award-winning British comedy-drama television series Fresh Meat. In 2011, "This Is the Day" was covered by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers.
The 2 Live Crew is an American hip hop group from Miami, Florida, that had its greatest commercial success from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. The group's best-known lineup was composed of Uncle Luke, Fresh Kid Ice, Mr. Mixx, and Brother Marquis. They were considerably controversial in the U.S. due to the sexually explicit content in their ...
The band used its music as a vehicle for social activism, as lead singer Zack de la Rocha espoused: "Music has the power to cross borders, to break military sieges and to establish real dialogue". [60] The 1990s also saw a sizable movement of pro-women's rights protest songs from many musical genres as part of the Third-wave feminism movement.
Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 1980s built on the post-punk and new wave movements, incorporating different sources of inspiration from subgenres and what is now classed as world music in the shape of Jamaican and Indian music. It also explored the consequences of new technology and social change in the electronic music of synthpop.