Hair Metal bands that actually ROCKED (opinion war starts NOW!)

[binnie]

I'm pretty sure that even Jani Lane's mom doesn't think that he was a good songwriter......

[Coyote]

All that hair... But no Pretty Maids?

[Coyote]

TNT...

[sonrisa salvaje]

I always thought hair metal referred to the 87-89 era of hard rock music. That is why i don't consider Crue, Ratt, Dokken and QR as hair metal. I think of hair metal as Warrant, Winger, White Lion and Poison. I always thought Ratt and Dokken's music stayed true but the Crue's music evolved into hair metal by Dr. Feelgood. Without You makes me sick. I think most people that blindly throw a term like hair metal out would probably say that DLR was hair metal and that would equally be wrong.

[sonrisa salvaje]

Anyone remember a band called Tangier?

[vh rides again]

Anyone remember a band called Tangier?

Yeah, they sucked big time.

[sonrisa salvaje]

Yeah, they sucked big time.

I thought their first record was decent but they kicked the lead singer out going into their 2nd record which was horrible. I think they were from Mississippi so i didn't know if anyone really had heard of them. I saw them open for Cinderella on the Long Cold Winter tour.

[Terry]

I always thought hair metal referred to the 87-89 era of hard rock music. That is why i don't consider Crue, Ratt, Dokken and QR as hair metal. I think of hair metal as Warrant, Winger, White Lion and Poison. I always thought Ratt and Dokken's music stayed true but the Crue's music evolved into hair metal by Dr. Feelgood. Without You makes me sick. I think most people that blindly throw a term like hair metal out would probably say that DLR was hair metal and that would equally be wrong.

Early Crue (Too Fast For Love, Shout At The Devil) was good.

I like Ratt...pretty much liked Dokken only for what Lynch brought to the table: Don Dokken, Jeff Pilson and Mick Brown were fairly non-descript as players, and a lot of Dokken's tunes were kinda mundane, so it's really a testament to Lynch's abilities that I've listened to Dokken as much as I have.

Quiet Riot...yeah, I wouldn't quite put them in the hair metal genre, either...I'd tend to agree with you that the hair metal era is usually defined as 1987-1989...perhaps even 1986 to 1990. I mean, far as Quiet Riot, I think Metal Health was a solid hard rock album. Haven't listened to a ton of their stuff with RR, and post-Metal Health the output was weak.

Hey, at least they were better than Trixter...