I don't hate Bon Jovi, but they were a sign, in the mid-eighties, that hard rock was going awry. This was due to their commercial blandness.
My third candidate for Room 101 is the almost entire nineteen-eighties, because I hated them: the big hair, lip gloss, gaudy colours, shoulder pads, spandex, studded wrist bands . . . and that was just the men. Don't even get me started on the music, suffice to say heavy and progressive rock were the babies thrown out with the bathwater. In their place? Synth pop, acid house and Jive Bunny!
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