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Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes How the power ballad destroyed metal music in the late '80s

"Every Rose has its Thorn" - a popular lyric from a popular 80's Glam-hair Metal band Poison. And a popular lyric that was one of multiple cataclysmic events in the horrendous downfall of "Hair Metal" genre that somehow dominated suburban boomboxes and tapedecks, heck, even the T-Top Trans Ams of the 1980's. Let's face it. Not every teenager in the 1980's was marveled by Slash's melodic guitar introduction to "Sweet Child O'Mine". It gave me a headache every time I heard it. I remember sitting in my Orchestra class one day, only to be repulsed by that infamous solo being played on a violin...

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