Honestly. I'm a child of the 80's, and in my opinion music was very diverse back then. Really you had the early stages of rap/hip hop, the early stages of heavy metal, pop 40 stations were filled with multitudes of genres. The artists from the 70's were still popping out hits, to go along with the new artists, and we as kids listened to it all. There's so much great music out there, and I feel like the generations after me got deprived of much of it, and for a multitude of reasons, didn't quite stray away from listening to one sole genre.
All of the songs from the 80's that you have reviewed were played on the radio along with many more that you guys do not even know about. I graduated in 86 and back then there were rock concerts that filled arenas every month. Ticket price about $15 which was comparatively speaking much cheaper than the concerts today. You seem to like groups that have a message so you should react to Queensrÿche Empire from the album"Empire". Also check out their album "Operation: Mindcrime" a classic concept album. I like watching your reactions but what you do not realize is that you have been viewing the very tip (and I do mean tip) of the iceberg of the guitar rock Era! Keep reacting, it is a delight to hear your perspectives from another generation and culture.
I agree. I am also a child of the 80's and that decade of music is unlike any other. I would count at least 10 basic genres, and those were split by 5 or 6 subgenres each. There was much blending as well. That's how you get Aerosmith working with Run DMC doing Walk This Way or Michael and Janet Jackson doing Dirty Diana and Black Cat. Plus MTV , which premiered on Aug. 1, 1981, just played videos, and the record industry followed introducing more people to more genres.
That was NOT a mullet!!! We loved the guys with long hair!!! They were considered an 80’s hair band. So were Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Slaughter, Dokken, Kix, Faster Pussycat, Kid Row, Ratt, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, and Poison.
i remember watching a show at night with my father 1986 live on TV loved this song and their ballad Carrie, i was 9 years old, Magasins like Kerrang div music magasin and mouth to mouth or tv shows about music thats how we discovered music radio as well
As a Swede I had to come through and check out the reaction for this. This is basically the "Jump Around" of classic rock, play it in any rock club and watch the people go nuttsos! Great reaction guys!
Yes they were all on the radio. We had to physically go out and buy our albums, records, cassette tapes. Sometimes people waited in line to get the next greatest hit.
This is just another example of what music was back in the day. It was real. It was live. It was not auto tuned. I miss those days but so happy you younger guys are listening to it and reacting with bangers, and mostly, loving it! Keep Rockin!!!
Wife here.., "Living on a Prairie"..LOL..,Loved this group "Europe" As a teenager!!! You Guys have am Awesome Selection and You're all extremely talented!!!..Thanks !!!🙂😎
Concerts were plentiful, and the radio played all these great tunes. We also had Night Tracks (1983-1992) and MTV. You guys are great. Enjoy watching you all enjoy some great 80s hits. We had plenty!
I love watching you guys reacting to music from a time when they had to actually be able to sing and do it well. Y'all compliment each other as well, its fun to watch.
I still have my cassette tape of "The Final Countdown" album from when it first released...and an updated CD of course. The whole album was fire and I played it repeatedly!
This reminds me, Kee Marcello, their guitar player, played Flight of the Bumblebee on the electric guitar (which is crazy when you think about it.) You should check that out sometime. Amazing guitar solo.
Europe is one of my favorite bands! I graduated from high school in 1985, so I heard all of these songs when they came out. Unfortunately, in our house we didn’t have cable, but we had a top ten music videos show on a local network.
It was, WISH I could go back and live it again. If I could I'd choose to be 18 years old and start off in Southern California just after WWII. You couldn't pay me enough to live there NOW!!!!
@@Nigelmcgregor-w4q Same here, also born in 69. Totally agree with you. I am very grateful for being a teenager in the 80s, it was such a fun time for me - totally different "vibe" compared to nowadays. God, I really miss the 1980s.
LOL Brandon is so cute sometimes, "there is no way all these songs played on the radio"... We lived on the radio in the 80s and 90s... kids would sneak little FM radios into class and it was literally radio from breakfast til bed time... Europe was a one hit wonder with this song... but it must have played at least twice an hour for MONTHS... it was in a million movies too...
I really like watching your videos. I was a teenager through the 80s, there's nothing quite like that anymore. Good music plus a cool group of guys reacting. I find myself smiling a lot in a good way while I'm watching. You 5 vibe real well together, keep it coming.:-)
We had MTV and the radio. The thing is that radio was way bigger of a deal back then compared to now, so much so that every city had like 5 or 6 MAIN stations each dedicated to a specific genre more or less.
I saw Europe almost 10 years ago at Download Festival. They were so much fun. Me and the crowd around were basically you guys. Probably one the happiest crowds I've ever been in at a festival. Everyone was on a natural high.
Before FM radio became too corporate the stations would play a really diverse mix of songs. Bands did get a chance to be discovered. FM radio did not play top 40. There were top 40 stations but the AOR fm stations played a variety of stuff, so we found a lot of these bands.
Called record stores, REAL concerts,and radio play. But usually opening acts got recognized from opening for big acts. Like Def leopard opening with Judy's priest, etc...and back then big bands didn't have to play 50 band festivals...they would have opening act for 20 mins, 2nd act usually 35 to 45 mins....then headlines around 1 to 1 1/2 hours...good old days before internet messed up....well, everything
I was a teenager in the 80s and we found out about groups from radio, mtv and word of mouth. In the late 80s tower records used to have these listening areas where you could listen to albums before buying them. you could just go around checking out things you never heard before. A lot of groups would tour colleges and put on performances there and gain popularity that way.
Back in my day it was all about the radio, MTV, and word of mouth but I was born in 75. Such a different world back then. Love seeing you guys digging music that i grew up on!!! Keep rocking fellas! Love your reactions
Literally pissing myself laughing watching you guys! Gen X here... I was bopping the first time around! Doodle-ooh do, doodle-ooh-doo-doo! Hahahaha! Still a banger!
Oh guys, great to see you rocking out to Europe, this was huge back in the UK in the 80s, remember rocking out to it down the local clubs! We had a top 40 music chart back in the day so if the tunes were riding high in the charts we'd hear them on the radio or watch the videos on the music shows or we'd buy the records or cassettes and play them!
YES. ALL these bands played on the radio and MTV. Cable and videos were a new venture..Artist quickly learned that way the new way to promote..much like social media aka RUclips is todays promotion..Madonna was actually one of the first artist to ALWAYS make videos of her songs..helped her skyrocket to the top...
VH1 and MTV used to do music videos and they would have a metal countdown or Just a couple of hours of playing it... Or if you're in a lucky town that happens to play it on the radio station... Also pirate radio used to do some hard ass stuff... Possibly college radio as well
Gentlemen, I love what you do! The metal reactions are my favorites. I was born in the 1960's, in Los Angeles I know a thing or 2 about finding new music. We relied on radio, MTV, magazines and mostly passing tapes, cassette tapes of bands that weren't signed yet. We also went to clubs, metal bars were big back then. The 80s & 90s were a blast.
Joey Tempest is way too underrated in present time. One of the best voices of the 80s, phenomenal songwriter, stage presence and beautiful looks to match. The perfect frontman for a band like Europe
@@gingerty9628 Joey is one of the best songwriters in rock and metal music. Ever! And to think he still has so much energy to perform is mindblowing! However, I thought his solo albums were absolutely shitty. At least that first one he did in the 90s. I really wanted to like it the music just seemed inspired to me 😅
To answer Youngblood’s question around the 7:30 re: how people discovered new music in the 80’s...MTV was not only in full swing, but it was as close to the internet as we had at that point in terms of visual media. It was also an extension of what many artists started doing as early as the inception of TV, which was promote their albums by whatever means were available to them via the record company. Sometimes, you had to know someone, sometimes they just needed money. Additionally, the entire industry is based on laws that rarely match the actual accounting. Throughout the history of the music industry, music has been a product. That means there has to be marketing behind the product, and at least targeted sales to recoup the investments in that product. As long as there is commerce, there will also be ‘distribution channels.’
I'm born in 1994, but I'm with you. In my childhood I listened and knew about songs and artists in MTV (and some other TV channels from here in Brazil). Afterwards RUclips came and made really easy to know new bands and artists.
The first time I heard this song was the spring of 87, and my buddy Bobby Johnson rolled up to my front door step with his BMX bike, which had a Sony "Boom Box" strapped to it with bungee chords , and he was playing this at 10 volume and Max Bass Boost.
I’ve seen a few of you guys reacting and EVERY time the guy on the far left of the screen pauses and goes on a tangent at the most epic moments of a song - ffs to do it right before the first drop of “the final countdown” after all the build up to it! So friggin anticlimactic- you can’t fully enjoy a song doing that! Also the say this is one of the best vocalists he’s heard... maybe if you didn’t pause every 20 seconds during the Queen reactions and actually LISTENED to Freddie Mercury and his range and the emotional journey he takes you on you could appreciate one of the REAL best vocalists ever
This, along with all the glam bands back in the 80's were on MTV and their good looks had the girls go nuts. This song went on to become an anthem at nearly all sports events. If you want to hear great vocals, listen to Skid Row. Their lead singer, Sebastian Bach, is probably one of the best out there. Their song, 16 and Life, showcases his vocals. He went on to perform on Broadway in the musical Jeckyl and Hyde. He is incredible.
MTV, record stores, friends, we found plenty of great music because there was plenty of great music in the '80's, it was hard to go wrong buying a new album ~ this is a great rock anthem, heard it played during sports matches
You guys are so funny. I grew up during this era and watching you guys reaction and commentary makes it seem so much cooler lol! Keep entertaining us all👏🏼 So enjoy it!
I'm 51 but when I was a teenager, you'd go to the mall and listen in the store. You'd watch MTV, listen to ZROCK, and once in awhile your boyfriend's sister's boyfriend comes back from Cali with a bootleg G&R cassette 6 mo before they hit the airways and you'd already were struck before their first video ever played. It was a crazy time in the world.
I was born in 74 so12 when this came out. We did hear about these bands on the radio because everyone listened to the radio WAY more than they do today. People were far less in their own little worlds - radio channels playing the latest sounds were the main background noise in workplaces, shops, cars, on the street etc. As you rightly said, we had no streaming, no Internet, no cellphones ... in the UK where I was, there was just radio and 3 or 4 TV channels. :)
Between the diverse amount of radio stations and MTV, plus some record stores allowing you to check out new music via headphones that's how we discovered most of this music in the 80s. Of course, it was Top 40 heavy so you had to either know some hardcore music fans or dig around yourself to discover the hidden gems.
We had MTV, radio, the record store. Every record store had one employee that would try to turn you on to new bands. My friends it was a glorious era the 70's and 80's. Great times and great music.
Bands like this was mainly Mtv (when they played music)/radio and bands like Metallica was all underground word of mouth. My first exposure to Metallica was a friend gave me a bootleg tape in like '87 in middle school. Metallica was around a long time before they hit Mtv with One.
Before I check this out, in hopes you'll see this comment, a couple recommendation... "Arms Wide Open" by Creed.. also "Where It's At" by Beck. You will love these, I guarantee it. :) Edit: This song played on the radio A LOT... and it seems like it was in a popular movie.. (Rocky? ) The way I discovered music was either through the radio or from friends. Or someone would give me a "mixed tape" or I'd hear a tape playing in someone's car.. one of my strongest memories of hearing a song for the first time was when I was in a car with a group of friends and someone was playing a mixed tape and "Linger" by The Cranberries came on.... will never forget it, felt like she was singing everything in my heart. I had to know who it was.. bought it as soon as I had enough money. (Linger by The Cranberries is another great song to check out.)
It amazes me how so many people have not heard classic music like this song and others. They seem so shocked when they hear it and sometimes impressed. The 80's and 90's were filled with great music in all types of music. I'm white and I listened to hip hop and early rap as well as heavy metal, classic rock, etc. You could be diverse back then because you turned on MTV and saw videos of all types of music back then. Sometimes it pays to be diverse, you might just hear something you like.
I love you guys!! You're so cool!! Your reactions to these songs are really something else! You all are too funny and you crack me up! Great job fellas!
Yes, we heard all the bands you’re listening to on the radio, MTV and our local record store. I hung out at the record store so that’s how we found out about concerts. I camped out for 3 days at the record store waiting on the Thriller album to be released. I got one of the first ones sold in my hometown. I love watching you guys discover new music, well new to you. Enjoy all your videos! ✌️✌️
Everyone listened to the Rock stations on the radio back then, plus when these bands started out they played in the Bars and Clubs and then became more popular on the radio and then on MTV when music videos first started in the 80's
Not mullets, just 80's hair bands. We watched when MTV played music videos 24/7 not all the junk they have on it now, also listened on the radio. Great reaction guys!!
HOW did we find out about new music and bands back then? One thing: MTv Darlin's !!! I was in my beanbag on August 1, 1981 awaiting its arrival! It! Was! AWESOME!!! 😀🤘 As for their hair, only the keyboard player had the true mullet. This was in the era known as the "Hair bands"." But yeah, this tune was insanely popular! Rock on! Aszneth " Asz"
Lol you guys are classic!! I grew up in the 80s 90s before internet... Bros I stayed up late nights to watch Night Tracks...which was music videos...Mtv came out we had radio...but best of all we had record stores....you go into ur neighborhood record store look through albums...look at the cassette tapes...find different bands of whatever genre your into...you took a chance buying a $10 tape with maybe only 1 good song on the whole tape...it was cool though!!! Keep up the good work fellas!!! Much love from Sacramento Cali!!!! One love
And... we also had what in the time was called "discotheques" with great DJs looking for new content all the time, as back in the 80s the better the DJ the the more popular the discotheque. It was like they were constantly ""fighting"" to find the next big song/group...cheers. love your reaction videos.
RADIO & TV... This is how the world heard new songs and bands. I remember my mother liked it and we went to the music store to buy the vinyl... Better than tape. It was an intentional HIT!!!! Waiting for your reaction to CARRIE.
I was a long haired, guitar player in garage bands. Saw Elvis. Twice thank to my parents. Started my lifelong love of music. I found so many bands early 80s on what they called compilation albums. Full albums of unknown bands. Either independent, small labels or signed but unknown. MTV actually was 24/7 music in the 80s as well. No mullets in that band. Just guys with bangs. My long hair and actually ability to play guitar and in garage, party bands as a teen wasn't to bad with the gals...those were the days. So much diverse music. Gorge Lynch. Mega shredding. Please? His playing on that will blow you away. Guarantee. Peace.
Honestly. I'm a child of the 80's, and in my opinion music was very diverse back then. Really you had the early stages of rap/hip hop, the early stages of heavy metal, pop 40 stations were filled with multitudes of genres. The artists from the 70's were still popping out hits, to go along with the new artists, and we as kids listened to it all. There's so much great music out there, and I feel like the generations after me got deprived of much of it, and for a multitude of reasons, didn't quite stray away from listening to one sole genre.
All of the songs from the 80's that you have reviewed were played on the radio along with many more that you guys do not even know about.
I graduated in 86 and back then there were rock concerts that filled arenas every month. Ticket price about $15 which was comparatively speaking much cheaper than the concerts today.
You seem to like groups that have a message so you should react to Queensrÿche Empire from the album"Empire". Also check out their album "Operation: Mindcrime" a classic concept album.
I like watching your reactions but what you do not realize is that you have been viewing the very tip (and I do mean tip) of the iceberg of the guitar rock Era!
Keep reacting, it is a delight to hear your perspectives from another generation and culture.
Early 90s were great also. Hip hop evolved into its best form, grunge, alternative, lots of metal, punk, techno.
Pop got worse though
Now it’s dumbed down horse shit to brainwash the youth into being little satanic communist cunts
I agree. I am also a child of the 80's and that decade of music is unlike any other. I would count at least 10 basic genres, and those were split by 5 or 6 subgenres each. There was much blending as well. That's how you get Aerosmith working with Run DMC doing Walk This Way or Michael and Janet Jackson doing Dirty Diana and Black Cat. Plus MTV , which premiered on Aug. 1, 1981, just played videos, and the record industry followed introducing more people to more genres.
With streaming you got access with more types of music than ever before, but it some how feels more segregated.
This is not just a hit, but a timeless rock anthem... Europe forever!!! Greetings from Italy
Technically it's not timeless. It didn't exist in the 70's and backwards. lol, just kidding.
Classic. You guys liked this, you'd love "Rock you like a hurricane" by the scorpions . Another epic banger
Bro check out alice in chains
Them too lol
It would be amazing if they reacted to a Scorpions song!! 🔥Any song of theirs would be great!
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Or this: ruclips.net/video/qAxKilg76XE/видео.html
Epic 80's anthem....no matter how many times I've listened to this song, I never get tired of it. 80's defines my life...
That was NOT a mullet!!! We loved the guys with long hair!!!
They were considered an 80’s hair band. So were Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Slaughter, Dokken, Kix, Faster Pussycat, Kid Row, Ratt, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, and Poison.
That’s awesome you got Dokken in there. Most have forgotten them totally
@@mikeeberhardt9172 😊 I remember my hair bands! Though I have to admit I remembered Warrant but forgot to list them! 😭
Thank you I was watching this video screaming that's not a mullet
@@lette9525 I was too!!!
Hair bands was the best
i remember watching a show at night with my father 1986 live on TV loved this song and their ballad Carrie, i was 9 years old, Magasins like Kerrang div music magasin and mouth to mouth or tv shows about music thats how we discovered music radio as well
As a Swede I had to come through and check out the reaction for this. This is basically the "Jump Around" of classic rock, play it in any rock club and watch the people go nuttsos! Great reaction guys!
Swede here too, and Sweden have some great rock bands if you ask me and of course other artists. 😃
that's real
wtf are you talking about
ajjemän!
this band is Swedish and thay are still extremely famous here@@drobichaud1000
The guy with “the voice” is Joey Tempest….and we had the radio, MuchMusic and MTV and a little thing called “word of mouth”
Yes they were all on the radio. We had to physically go out and buy our albums, records, cassette tapes. Sometimes people waited in line to get the next greatest hit.
those were the days ☺
I miss record stores & physical copies of albums!
@@angelgr76
I wish I had saved mine. Who knew. 40 to 50 yrs later, it all still sounds good. Crazy. Lol.
This is just another example of what music was back in the day. It was real. It was live. It was not auto tuned. I miss those days but so happy you younger guys are listening to it and reacting with bangers, and mostly, loving it! Keep Rockin!!!
We found out about rock bands from MTV, back when it played music videos. Headbangers ball was for the heavy metal bands.
We,found these bands through radio and back when MTV only had one channel.
I remember the day mtv came on
Wife here.., "Living on a Prairie"..LOL..,Loved this group "Europe" As a teenager!!! You Guys have am Awesome Selection and You're all extremely talented!!!..Thanks !!!🙂😎
Concerts were plentiful, and the radio played all these great tunes. We also had Night Tracks (1983-1992) and MTV. You guys are great. Enjoy watching you all enjoy some great 80s hits. We had plenty!
I love watching you guys reacting to music from a time when they had to actually be able to sing and do it well. Y'all compliment each other as well, its fun to watch.
LOVE THIS BAND !!!! LOVE THE 80's and the 80's hair,,,,
Ahhh my 80’s childhood . This was a banger back then and still a banger today! The Detroit Pistons come out to this every home game .
The singer is Joey Tempest. He is so amazing xx
I still have my cassette tape of "The Final Countdown" album from when it first released...and an updated CD of course. The whole album was fire and I played it repeatedly!
One of Swedens biggest bands and this song is a classic to play when the clock is about to hit midnight on new years eve.
It's even better if you time it right lol.
This reminds me, Kee Marcello, their guitar player, played Flight of the Bumblebee on the electric guitar (which is crazy when you think about it.) You should check that out sometime. Amazing guitar solo.
Europe is one of my favorite bands! I graduated from high school in 1985, so I heard all of these songs when they came out. Unfortunately, in our house we didn’t have cable, but we had a top ten music videos show on a local network.
I was born in 1992, but I feel so nostalgic for the 80s. It seemed like such a great time to grow up!
i was born in 69 boy it was awesome during the 70s and 80s i miss those days they were the best
It was, WISH I could go back and live it again.
If I could I'd choose to be 18 years old and start off in Southern California just after WWII.
You couldn't pay me enough to live there NOW!!!!
It was. I was a teenager in the 80s for the whole decade long. Music was very diverse. Today’s music is uncreative and boring for lots of reasons.
@@Nigelmcgregor-w4q Same here, also born in 69. Totally agree with you. I am very grateful for being a teenager in the 80s, it was such a fun time for me - totally different "vibe" compared to nowadays. God, I really miss the 1980s.
LOL Brandon is so cute sometimes, "there is no way all these songs played on the radio"... We lived on the radio in the 80s and 90s... kids would sneak little FM radios into class and it was literally radio from breakfast til bed time... Europe was a one hit wonder with this song... but it must have played at least twice an hour for MONTHS... it was in a million movies too...
They werent 1 hit wonder
Got Billions of views for this Music Video.
They were not a one hit wonder. 2 other big hit from the band were "Carrie" and "Superstitious"....
Correction: Brandon is so cute always. 😁
They were not a 1 hit wonder. Rock the Night was huge as well.
ALL the bands played on the radio. Your young. We were blessed with real music!
This was the '87 Eurobasket song. I was 7 . Greece, were i'm from, won against all odds. I still get tingles down my spine when i listen to it.
I remember that
I really like watching your videos. I was a teenager through the 80s, there's nothing quite like that anymore. Good music plus a cool group of guys reacting. I find myself smiling a lot in a good way while I'm watching. You 5 vibe real well together, keep it coming.:-)
We had MTV and the radio. The thing is that radio was way bigger of a deal back then compared to now, so much so that every city had like 5 or 6 MAIN stations each dedicated to a specific genre more or less.
I saw Europe almost 10 years ago at Download Festival. They were so much fun. Me and the crowd around were basically you guys. Probably one the happiest crowds I've ever been in at a festival. Everyone was on a natural high.
Before FM radio became too corporate the stations would play a really diverse mix of songs. Bands did get a chance to be discovered. FM radio did not play top 40. There were top 40 stations but the AOR fm stations played a variety of stuff, so we found a lot of these bands.
Called record stores, REAL concerts,and radio play. But usually opening acts got recognized from opening for big acts. Like Def leopard opening with Judy's priest, etc...and back then big bands didn't have to play 50 band festivals...they would have opening act for 20 mins, 2nd act usually 35 to 45 mins....then headlines around 1 to 1 1/2 hours...good old days before internet messed up....well, everything
I was a teenager in the 80s and we found out about groups from radio, mtv and word of mouth. In the late 80s tower records used to have these listening areas where you could listen to albums before buying them. you could just go around checking out things you never heard before. A lot of groups would tour colleges and put on performances there and gain popularity that way.
"Livin' on a prairie!" 😂😂 You are a precious young man and that innocence must be protected. ❤
Back in my day it was all about the radio, MTV, and word of mouth but I was born in 75. Such a different world back then. Love seeing you guys digging music that i grew up on!!! Keep rocking fellas! Love your reactions
Literally pissing myself laughing watching you guys! Gen X here... I was bopping the first time around! Doodle-ooh do, doodle-ooh-doo-doo! Hahahaha! Still a banger!
Oh guys, great to see you rocking out to Europe, this was huge back in the UK in the 80s, remember rocking out to it down the local clubs! We had a top 40 music chart back in the day so if the tunes were riding high in the charts we'd hear them on the radio or watch the videos on the music shows or we'd buy the records or cassettes and play them!
YES. ALL these bands played on the radio and MTV. Cable and videos were a new venture..Artist quickly learned that way the new way to promote..much like social media aka RUclips is todays promotion..Madonna was actually one of the first artist to ALWAYS make videos of her songs..helped her skyrocket to the top...
Yes fantastic time, heard them all on radio and smallness all over uk
I have heard this tune a million times, but never really noticed how good dudes voices is , yeh its pretty fire to be honest
Yes, all these bands & artists WERE on the radio. This one is truly a rock ANTHEM. Thanks for your reaction.
VH1 and MTV used to do music videos and they would have a metal countdown or Just a couple of hours of playing it... Or if you're in a lucky town that happens to play it on the radio station... Also pirate radio used to do some hard ass stuff... Possibly college radio as well
Best react ever seen!!! You rock guys! The lead singer is wonderful❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
MTV ruled and so did the 80’s videos. That’s where most of us were introduced to hair bands 💜😎☮️👵🏼
my grandfather born in this era he's told me if you born in 80's,90's era you will see how best this era is❤️❤️
*One of the iconic rock song ever. 🔥❤️🤟*
*Love from India. 😇*
Gentlemen, I love what you do! The metal reactions are my favorites. I was born in the 1960's, in Los Angeles I know a thing or 2 about finding new music. We relied on radio, MTV, magazines and mostly passing tapes, cassette tapes of bands that weren't signed yet. We also went to clubs, metal bars were big back then. The 80s & 90s were a blast.
Joey Tempest is way too underrated in present time. One of the best voices of the 80s, phenomenal songwriter, stage presence and beautiful looks to match. The perfect frontman for a band like Europe
He's still cute and still can sing
@@lunarodriguez7590 Yeah he is among the few singers of that era who still got it!
Hes such a great singer and songwriter. I love his solo albums to.
@@gingerty9628 Joey is one of the best songwriters in rock and metal music. Ever! And to think he still has so much energy to perform is mindblowing! However, I thought his solo albums were absolutely shitty. At least that first one he did in the 90s. I really wanted to like it the music just seemed inspired to me 😅
Sigue teniendo una voz impresionante
Love you guys; your commentary is fun to hear as we all are learning all the time, just perfect.
To answer Youngblood’s question around the 7:30 re: how people discovered new music in the 80’s...MTV was not only in full swing, but it was as close to the internet as we had at that point in terms of visual media. It was also an extension of what many artists started doing as early as the inception of TV, which was promote their albums by whatever means were available to them via the record company. Sometimes, you had to know someone, sometimes they just needed money. Additionally, the entire industry is based on laws that rarely match the actual accounting. Throughout the history of the music industry, music has been a product. That means there has to be marketing behind the product, and at least targeted sales to recoup the investments in that product. As long as there is commerce, there will also be ‘distribution channels.’
I'm born in 1994, but I'm with you. In my childhood I listened and knew about songs and artists in MTV (and some other TV channels from here in Brazil). Afterwards RUclips came and made really easy to know new bands and artists.
The first time I heard this song was the spring of 87, and my buddy Bobby Johnson rolled up to my front door step with his BMX bike, which had a Sony "Boom Box" strapped to it with bungee chords , and he was playing this at 10 volume and Max Bass Boost.
Y'all have done "Eye of the Tiger" right?
That's one of those that's still a banger!... Timeless!
(Made for the Rocky 3 soundtrack)
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far for a Rocky mention!
I’ve seen a few of you guys reacting and EVERY time the guy on the far left of the screen pauses and goes on a tangent at the most epic moments of a song - ffs to do it right before the first drop of “the final countdown” after all the build up to it! So friggin anticlimactic- you can’t fully enjoy a song doing that! Also the say this is one of the best vocalists he’s heard... maybe if you didn’t pause every 20 seconds during the Queen reactions and actually LISTENED to Freddie Mercury and his range and the emotional journey he takes you on you could appreciate one of the REAL best vocalists ever
This, along with all the glam bands back in the 80's were on MTV and their good looks had the girls go nuts. This song went on to become an anthem at nearly all sports events. If you want to hear great vocals, listen to Skid Row. Their lead singer, Sebastian Bach, is probably one of the best out there. Their song, 16 and Life, showcases his vocals. He went on to perform on Broadway in the musical Jeckyl and Hyde. He is incredible.
Find a link to the video and send it to them maybe they'll do a reaction. I have to agree with you about Sebastian Bach, that man had a voice.
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18 and life
It’s great to see you guys genuinely enjoying the music..jamming and vibing!
The Singer of Europe is Joey Tempest, they took the number one spot in the World in the early 80's before Bon Jovi....
MTV, record stores, friends, we found plenty of great music because there was plenty of great music in the '80's, it was hard to go wrong buying a new album ~ this is a great rock anthem, heard it played during sports matches
You guys are so funny. I grew up during this era and watching you guys reaction and commentary makes it seem so much cooler lol! Keep entertaining us all👏🏼 So enjoy it!
Great tune, lived the 80s, what a time to be a teen!
I'm 51 but when I was a teenager, you'd go to the mall and listen in the store. You'd watch MTV, listen to ZROCK, and once in awhile your boyfriend's sister's boyfriend comes back from Cali with a bootleg G&R cassette 6 mo before they hit the airways and you'd already were struck before their first video ever played. It was a crazy time in the world.
I was born in 74 so12 when this came out. We did hear about these bands on the radio because everyone listened to the radio WAY more than they do today. People were far less in their own little worlds - radio channels playing the latest sounds were the main background noise in workplaces, shops, cars, on the street etc. As you rightly said, we had no streaming, no Internet, no cellphones ... in the UK where I was, there was just radio and 3 or 4 TV channels. :)
Man, love the diversity and you guys’ excitement on all the songs, from Eminem to Europe :)
I watch a lot of Reaction Videos and you guys are One of the Best! Always entertaining, funny and I discover new music along with you.
Between the diverse amount of radio stations and MTV, plus some record stores allowing you to check out new music via headphones that's how we discovered most of this music in the 80s. Of course, it was Top 40 heavy so you had to either know some hardcore music fans or dig around yourself to discover the hidden gems.
We had MTV, radio, the record store. Every record store had one employee that would try to turn you on to new bands. My friends it was a glorious era the 70's and 80's. Great times and great music.
I’m an 80’s child. Peaches and Tower Records were the bomb. 🙌
This song will always be epic
80's teen here. You heard everything on the radio, and MTV and VH1 on television...record stores.
Bands like this was mainly Mtv (when they played music)/radio and bands like Metallica was all underground word of mouth. My first exposure to Metallica was a friend gave me a bootleg tape in like '87 in middle school. Metallica was around a long time before they hit Mtv with One.
There were a lot of bands like that. They just travelled by word of mouth and buying, trading and copying tapes for friends and such.
The time this song came out was when the space age started... And we heard these songs on am transistor radios and vinal records...
You guys should check out "We're not gonna take it" by Twisted Sister.
Mtv and the Radio... was MORE than enough for all of us to be aware of ALL bands and new songs out. They were the BEST TIMES EVER. 🙌
Get ready to have this stuck in your heads for the next day or so.
More like for the rest of there life! I’ve heard this song since 2014 and i still have this stuck in my head at times!
I've never liked this song, especially for that reason. I put this song alongside of We Built This City as ear worms that die hard
Lol,, naive white people!
We listened to radio and these songs were played through out the day and mostly the first stanza only. Got the LP's and cassettes.
Before I check this out, in hopes you'll see this comment, a couple recommendation... "Arms Wide Open" by Creed.. also "Where It's At" by Beck. You will love these, I guarantee it. :) Edit: This song played on the radio A LOT... and it seems like it was in a popular movie.. (Rocky? ) The way I discovered music was either through the radio or from friends. Or someone would give me a "mixed tape" or I'd hear a tape playing in someone's car.. one of my strongest memories of hearing a song for the first time was when I was in a car with a group of friends and someone was playing a mixed tape and "Linger" by The Cranberries came on.... will never forget it, felt like she was singing everything in my heart. I had to know who it was.. bought it as soon as I had enough money. (Linger by The Cranberries is another great song to check out.)
Anything by Creed or Scott Stapp!!!!
Beck's Where's it at Live is amazing. He dances like James Brown when performing it. Electrifying!
I had a huge poster of Joey tempest when I was a teenager.He had the best hair❣️I ❤ this song.I was a head banger.Love your channel🥰
7:05. MTV. When they actually played music. :)
Right in the feels when they said that. 😂
It amazes me how so many people have not heard classic music like this song and others. They seem so shocked when they hear it and sometimes impressed. The 80's and 90's were filled with great music in all types of music. I'm white and I listened to hip hop and early rap as well as heavy metal, classic rock, etc. You could be diverse back then because you turned on MTV and saw videos of all types of music back then. Sometimes it pays to be diverse, you might just hear something you like.
I love you guys!! You're so cool!! Your reactions to these songs are really something else! You all are too funny and you crack me up! Great job fellas!
You need more european music for sure
Yes, we heard all the bands you’re listening to on the radio, MTV and our local record store. I hung out at the record store so that’s how we found out about concerts. I camped out for 3 days at the record store waiting on the Thriller album to be released. I got one of the first ones sold in my hometown. I love watching you guys discover new music, well new to you. Enjoy all your videos! ✌️✌️
Radio and MTV that's it! Love the reaction, keep it up!
Everyone listened to the Rock stations on the radio back then, plus when these bands started out they played in the Bars and Clubs and then became more popular on the radio and then on MTV when music videos first started in the 80's
I love watching you guys rocking to an 80's hair band!!!
MTV started in 1982 and that's when they actually played music videos on MTV....THAT is where they all got their exposure.
Not mullets, just 80's hair bands. We watched when MTV played music videos 24/7 not all the junk they have on it now, also listened on the radio. Great reaction guys!!
This band was my first live concert in 1988 - when I was 8 years old - on the Superstitious Tour :) rock child turned extreme metalhead ;)
Over here in England this is a New Year's Eve anthem, played in every pub, bar, nightclub, party at about 4 minutes to midnight
I absolutely loved this reaction.
HOW did we find out about new music and bands back then? One thing: MTv Darlin's !!!
I was in my beanbag on August 1, 1981 awaiting its arrival! It! Was! AWESOME!!! 😀🤘
As for their hair, only the keyboard player had the true mullet. This was in the era known as the "Hair bands"."
But yeah, this tune was insanely popular!
Rock on!
Aszneth
" Asz"
Im from Argentina and I love american and europeans bands of 80 and 90s
Yes, the hair and makeup was popular in the 80's. Spandex, bandanas. @ Sweden Rock is the one.
Playing on the radio! Heard all these songs yu have reacted too.
Lol you guys are classic!! I grew up in the 80s 90s before internet... Bros I stayed up late nights to watch Night Tracks...which was music videos...Mtv came out we had radio...but best of all we had record stores....you go into ur neighborhood record store look through albums...look at the cassette tapes...find different bands of whatever genre your into...you took a chance buying a $10 tape with maybe only 1 good song on the whole tape...it was cool though!!! Keep up the good work fellas!!! Much love from Sacramento Cali!!!! One love
This song was heard at. so many sports events back in the day. It was such a fantastic song, brings back memories.
And... we also had what in the time was called "discotheques" with great DJs looking for new content all the time, as back in the 80s the better the DJ the the more popular the discotheque. It was like they were constantly ""fighting"" to find the next big song/group...cheers. love your reaction videos.
RADIO & TV... This is how the world heard new songs and bands. I remember my mother liked it and we went to the music store to buy the vinyl... Better than tape. It was an intentional HIT!!!! Waiting for your reaction to CARRIE.
I loved this song and this band when I was 13-14. The Final Countdown was a huge hit in 1986-87, and was no 1 in 25 countries!
They use this song for Sports and on ESPN today, awesome cool jam yeah, good review by u guys 👍😎👌🎤🎸🥁
They used play the intro to this song at every Detroit Pistons game in the late 1980's when announcing the players!
I was a long haired, guitar player in garage bands. Saw Elvis. Twice thank to my parents. Started my lifelong love of music. I found so many bands early 80s on what they called compilation albums. Full albums of unknown bands. Either independent, small labels or signed but unknown. MTV actually was 24/7 music in the 80s as well. No mullets in that band. Just guys with bangs. My long hair and actually ability to play guitar and in garage, party bands as a teen wasn't to bad with the gals...those were the days. So much diverse music. Gorge Lynch. Mega shredding. Please? His playing on that will blow you away. Guarantee. Peace.
MTV, Rock Radio & Music Magazines is how we found out about new bands & music. But the 80's were a blast! Music, Chicks & Good Buddies!! 🤘