Heil Hitler!
Show some respect, you dumb hipster trash.

Whites are fun.

Van Damme is permanently fucked up too.

Bette Davis
in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane." She was never really pretty by Hollywood standards, but Baby Jane was a hideous character.

Mickey Rourke?
Would've expected "The Wrestler" to be mentioned. Rourke is a former prettyboy whose face displays some serious mileage these days, and that's exactly what "The Wrestler" needed. Really good performance too.

Murdered?
Think about it. America kills Al Qaeda's greatest hero, and shortly afterwards America's greatest hero dies in an "accident." It's all too convenient. Looks like payback to me.

The question to ask was
why Sixx let his career be inextricably associated with as weak a singer as Vince Neil. Sixx was a very good rock songwriter in his prime and he would be widely recognized as such if his compositions were sung better. The ideal 80's glam-metal band would have been Crue with Sebastion Bach on…

Mad About You was fucking horrible.

PBC had some psych/rock influence in some songs, but they also did plenty of straight-up sunshine pop as well. One of my PBC favorites is "Dark on You Now." That song is as sunshiney as anything the Mamas and Papas ever did.

I'd count Polyphonic Spree's "Together We're Heavy" as mostly sunshine pop, with a Broadway sort of feel, though a Broadway vibe was never really unusual for the genre. I love that record. Too bad the Spree has never been able to produce anything as good since then.

The Brady Bunch?
They qualify, I think, at least so far as fitting the genre. For quality, not so much. And I recall Marcia mentioning the Fifth Dimension in the show, so they got that going for them. Which is nice.

Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Nice primer, but I think PBC deserved a mention. They made a handful of songs that are classics of the genre. "Living, Loving" and "Lonely Leaf" are my favorites.

Dr. Feelgood
No love for Crue around here? This was their most popular record, and maybe the biggest-selling rock record of 1989.

Zombie Ramones
Not a Ramones fan really, but zombie Ramones playing the same tunes would be infinity more cool than live Ramones.

Judas Priest would be a vastly better G2G than Ramones. Priest meets all the requirements: iconic band with large catalogue, wide stylistic variation, soaring highs and cringe-inducing lows quality-wise. Ramones? Just not enough there for a G2G.

Ramones are "forbidding?"
Why do you need a gateway for something as simplistic and repetitive as the Ramones catalogue? Isn't the purpose of gateways to make the forbidding less forbidding? Why is that even necessary here?

Wild Gift might be my all-time favorite of 1981.

If you're talking '83 then I'd take Big Country's The Crossing over anything. I was crazy about that record when it came out and still love it.

'81 had very promising starts by Duran Duran and Dead Kennedies, but they made better records in '82.

How did I forget Screaming for Vengeance by Priest? That's a 1982 record I still listen to today. It's a better mainstream rock record than anything I can think of from 1981.