[MetalForever]

Hey

Bands like Motley Crue, Skid Row, etc are often considered "80s bands" as their popularity, musical style and outlook, etc generally date from that era. But I was wondering what you consider GN'R
While GN'R was most active and most functional in the late 80s, they didn't arguably reach their peak of mainstream popularity until late 1991-mid 1992 and were still pretty popular from 1993-1994. However, GN'R didn't last long in the '90s either--the band was effectively over after December 1994 (the release of Sympathy for the Devil);

Yet from 1980-1985, GN'R didn't exist, so unlike other bands, they didn't dominate the '80s either; They weren't known in the mainstream until the Summer of 1988--When SCOM went to #1 on the charts.

So what do you think? Are GN'R a '80s or '90s band?

Consider:
80s Activity:

Tours/Concerts:
Hell Tour (1985-1986)
AFD Tour (1987-1988)
Opening for the Stones (1989)

Albums:
Appetite for Destruction (1987)
Lies (1988)

EPs:
Live Like a Suicide (1986)
Live from the Jungle (1988)

Notable Singles:
It's So Easy (1987)
Welcome to the Jungle (1987)
Sweet Child O' Mine (1988)
Patience (1989)
Paradise City (1989)
Nightrain (1989)


90s Activity:

Tours/Concerts:
Farm Aid (1990)
Use Your Illusion Tour (1991-1993)

Albums:
Use Your Illusion I (1991)
Use Your Illusion II (1991)
"The Spaghetti Incident" (1993)
Live Era '87-93 (live) (1999)

Notable singles:

Civil War (1990)
You Could Be Mine (1991/Music Video 1991)
Don't Cry (1991/Music Video 1991)
Live and Let Die (1991/Music Video 1991)
The Garden (1991/Music Video 1991)
November Rain (1992/Music Video 1992)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1992/Music Video 1992)
Yesterdays (1992/Music Video 1992)
Estranged (1993/Music Video 1994)
Ain't it Fun (1994)
Hair of the Dog (1994)
Since I Don't Have You (1994/Music Video 1994)
Sympathy for the Devil (1994)




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This post has been edited by MetalForever: 12 October 2009 - 04:34 PM

[Conor]

I've always thought of them as a "Late 80's/Early 90's" band, I see no reason to round them off.

[AnEskimo]

I'd say a good combo of both.

[eschman]

They are a bridge between the dominant genres of the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s.

[seely]

Agreed, they bridged the gap

[fransesselaar92]

80s was the original band so 80s!

[The Glow Inc.]

GnR is the band that put an end to the 80's.

Thankfully.

[Scaramouche]

Conor, on 12 October 2009 - 10:28 PM, said:

I've always thought of them as a "Late 80's/Early 90's" band, I see no reason to round them off.

this

[LCG]

eschman, on 13 October 2009 - 06:53 AM, said:

They are a bridge between the dominant genres of the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s.

I agree.

The Glow Inc., on 18 October 2009 - 06:30 PM, said:

GnR is the band that put an end to the 80's.

Thankfully.

[Soulseller]

It doesn't matter. And they don't fit a stereotype for either anyway...

[Shackler's November Rain]

both, but also an 2000's band!

[Gibbz]

I would say it's an 80's band, because they started in the 80's.
But I guess it could go both ways.

[drtydane]

I too say 80s/90s, but when talking about gnr, i usually talk about them in the 90s, thats when they made their best music imo, and thats the era im most interested in.

[mrandyk]

They are in their own category. They were around more in the 80s, but also put an end to 80s music. They were around in the 90s but their music was nothing like everything else in the 90s. They are Guns N Roses.

[GivenToFly]

They are a melting pot and the apex of everything rock had been up to that point. They have everything (punk, rock'n'roll, blues, metal, country, pop-rock, progressive etc) in music, style, attitude, everyting! all combined into one larger-than-life monster of a band that was so big nothing could contain it, could not even contain itself. Nothing up to it or after it touches it.