How did you treat your dysphoria before coming to terms?

[VeronicaLynn]

I ask myself this everyday. Rap has repeated itself for over twenty years and no one is coplaining about a lack of evolution. In just ten years - from 1983 to 1993 - rock/metal went from no frills denim and long hair (Maiden, Motorhead, Metallica) to peroxide, hairspray, femme clothing and outlandish makeup (Crue, Poison, Enuff Z' Nuff) to toned down clothes that embraced mutli-colours as oppose to just black (Warrant, Firehouse, Van Halen) as well as from NWOBHM to thrash to pop-friendly, good-time rock and to progressive and yet it was considered to be 'done'.

I always wondered who were these fans abandoning  G'n' R, Jovi and Iron Maiden (the biggest bands in the world at the time) to embrace Nirvana and co.

I was one of the last people at my school to jump ship. Really, the bigger problem was that no one else I knew still wanted to play music in that style, and I wanted to be in a band, so I had to go with the flow to find anyone to jam with.

Might check out some of those bands. I'm mostly past this now. I do watch a lot of videos on YouTube, though lately mostly female pop artists, including ones from the 80's, practicing dancing in heels. Didn't allow myself to watch these much back in the day...

[Artesia]

I ask myself this everyday. Rap has repeated itself for over twenty years and no one is coplaining about a lack of evolution. In just ten years - from 1983 to 1993 - rock/metal went from no frills denim and long hair (Maiden, Motorhead, Metallica) to peroxide, hairspray, femme clothing and outlandish makeup (Crue, Poison, Enuff Z' Nuff) to toned down clothes that embraced mutli-colours as oppose to just black (Warrant, Firehouse, Van Halen) as well as from NWOBHM to thrash to pop-friendly, good-time rock and to progressive and yet it was considered to be 'done'.

I always wondered who were these fans abandoning  G'n' R, Jovi and Iron Maiden (the biggest bands in the world at the time) to embrace Nirvana and co.

The good news is there's plenty of gold to be found on You Tube from bands that were missed back in the day as well as a plethora of modern bands playing that 80s style. Some suggestions:

Back in the Day:
Blue Tears - True Romance, Rocking With The Radio
Tigertailz - Love Bomb Baby
Silent Rage - Rebel With a Cause
Signal - Does it Feel Like Love
Wildside - How Many Lies
Tyketto - Forever Young, Wings, Standing Alone
Dare - Wild Heart, Lies
Baton Rouge - There Was a Time, Walks Like a Woman


Modern Bands:
Stranded - Tonight
All I Know - Asphyxia
Steel Panther - Community Property, Death to All But Metal, If You Really, Really Love Me
Wig Wam - In My Dreams, At The End of the Day
H.E.A.T - 1000 Miles, Cry, Keep on Dreaming, Late Night Lady, Living on the Run, Point of no Return

My wife would kill me if I didn't add Nonpoint to that list.  To be fair, they are a pretty good band IMHO, and are very friendly.  They have an array of styles in their songs, but you can tell it's the same band, the tunes just have different feels.  I  really like Bullet(with a name on it) and my wife really likes El Diablo.