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

[fraroc]

Cinderella is really underrated in terms of musical talent. Tom Keifer is one hell of a singer, guitarist and pianist. I mean, just listen to this preformance from the Moscow Peace Festival. Before "Nobody's Fool" he plays probably one of the most beautiful guitar solos I have ever heard. People say that it sucks because he's not "shredding" well, screw you. Speed dosen't matter, it's the beauty of the melody just makes the solo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT7VsJ595QM

The 1990 lineup of Whitesnake was like an All-Star team. Vai and Vandenberg, two fucking LEGENDARY guitarists. Rudy Sarzo who is an INCREDIBLE bassist and of course, Tommy Aldridge who is no more than fucking awesome. "Slip of the Tounge" is their absolute BEST album, the title track and Judgement Day are just....badass.


So what do you guys think?


PS.
I know a certain bitch is going to open up her mouth on this thread (cough)krusty(cough) so before you even think of opening your mouth, no one wants to hear your fucking shit, so just shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous]

Bullet Boys.

They got piled up with the rest of the shit that started spewing out of everywhere after Poison, but they were actually VERY good, there was some real talent there.

I love it.

Cheers! :bottle:

[Dave's Bitch]

Ok confession time.

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Flame away

[Dave's Bitch]

Also I love these guys

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[Anonymous]

Ok confession time.

Flame away

Hey, what's Hair Metal if not a guilty pleasure?

I feel like a total man slut every time I listen to it.

Like getting drunk & having unprotected sex with an ugly fat sow just for the orgasm.

I feel dirty & I regret it, but an orgasm always feels good, no matter what drove me to it or what the outcome will be.

Hair Metal is those 2-3 seconds. And all the regrets & self-loathing will come later.

Cheers! :bottle:

[cadaverdog]

When I was working for Hyundai all the cars had satellite radio. Hair Nation was the station for me. Hair bands for the most part weren't that bad. A little fem sometimes but not bad.

[DLR Bridge]

As the hair metal years were happening, particularly '88 to '90, I gravitated towards a mixed bag of hair. Some for their classic rock sound, some for the cheese and sleeze beasts they'd attract at their shows. I'm sure a vet can tell which provided which:

Love Hate
Tesla
Badlands
Bullet Boys
Dangerous Toys
Bang Tango
Britney Fox
Law & Order
Xenon
American Angel
Warrior Soul
Cinderella
Extreme
King's X
Lynch Mob
Mr. Big
White Lion
Sea Hags
Vain
L.A. Guns
Enuff Z' Nuff

And probably ten or so others that escape me at the moment.

[cadaverdog]

It's funny how open minded some people get as they get older. I find myself listening to some music now I never would have allowed to play on my stereo when I was younger. And changing station on something I once found listenable.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

i liked faster pussycat and shotgun messiah back in the day, as well as cinderella

[Dave's Bitch]

Always dug Vinnie Vincent Invasion.Vinnie has wrote some awesome stuff.Also,I like Poison.The king of all hair metal is the first Motley Crue album

[cadaverdog]

Always dug Vinnie Vincent Invasion.Vinnie has wrote some awesome stuff.Also,I like Poison.The king of all hair metal is the first Motley Crue album

Motley was glam. Did glam morph into hair?

[Dave's Bitch]

The lines between the two blur very easy

[DLR Bridge]

Motley was glam. Did glam morph into hair?

Glam, hair, whatever. When you think about it, none of this stuff was metal either. Hard rock and pop rock really.

[Dave's Bitch]

I guess if you want to split hairs () you could say there is a difference.Slade are a glam band,Poison are a hair band.But there is far too much of that shit in music anyway.I recently learned there was such a thing as melodic death metal


Anyway,This song and the album kick serious ass

[Kristy]

Hair bands (of the late 80's) were nothing more than an avenue for young, confused suburban white boys to live out their homoerotic fantasies to. None of them "rocked" they all sucked balls.

[Dave's Bitch]

I heard Vinnie Vincent sucks balls

[FORD]

Glam, hair, whatever. When you think about it, none of this stuff was metal either. Hard rock and pop rock really.

Most of it was slightly-louder bubblegum crap. Seriously, the only difference between Poison and the Bay City Rollers, is that the Rollers didn't wear makeup or try to look like chicks.

[Kristy]

I heard Vinnie Vincent sucks balls

Everyone of them sucked balls

[Dave's Bitch]

The bay City Rollers didn't go to bed too late and get up too soon

[Anonymous]

Hair bands (of the late 80's) were nothing more than an avenue for young, confused suburban white boys to live out their homoerotic fantasies to. None of them "rocked" they all sucked balls.

Most of it was slightly-louder bubblegum crap. Seriously, the only difference between Poison and the Bay City Rollers, is that the Rollers didn't wear makeup or try to look like chicks.

In light of these extremely pertinent & true statements, let me make it QUITE CLEAR that Poison & the like was/will never be on my speakers on purpose. The lowest I go is Bullet Boys, Skid Row, Mr. Big, Motley Crue & similar shit.

And that already makes me feel somewhat shameful, like I described above. Can't help it, though.

Cheers! :bottle:

[Anonymous]

The bay City Rollers didn't go to bed too late and get up too soon

Weren't those guys Sesh's old band?

Cheers! :bottle:

[Zing!]

I thought Skid Row's Slave To The Grind was a damn good album.

[Anonymous]

I thought Skid Row's Slave To The Grind was a damn good album.

All due to Sebastian's imaginative, insanely intense vocals.

Try to listen to only the instruments & laff (or cry, as may be the case).

Cheers! :bottle:

[FORD]

I'll admit to owning Motley Crue's first two albums. Couldn't really stand them after that though. As for Mr. Big, what a damn shame to have that much talent in a band and waste it on shitty music.

[Anonymous]

I'll admit to owning Motley Crue's first two albums. Couldn't really stand them after that though. As for Mr. Big, what a damn shame to have that much talent in a band and waste it on shitty music.

I think it adds to the guilty pleasure.

Like wanking in the stall next to Cindy Crawford while she's doin' her business.

I don't think this post is a good idea.

Cheers! :bottle:

[FORD]

The bay City Rollers didn't go to bed too late and get up too soon

Well, of course not. They had to be awake early on Saturday morning to do their TV show, which came on before the cartoons, at least around here.....

[Mr. Vengeance]

Tesla is a band that had fantastic talent. Great band. WASP's debut I put up there with the best debuts of all time. Not a single throwaway track on it. Ratt was superb.

[jhale667]

Bullet Boys.

They got piled up with the rest of the shit that started spewing out of everywhere after Poison, but they were actually VERY good, there was some real talent there.

I love it.

Cheers! :bottle:

The first three BulletBoys CDs are awesome. Very underrated band.
One of my best friends was their drummer up until a couple o' weeks ago, actually -he bailed for greener pa$ture$. Said every time they played "THC Groove" he flashed back to us trolling Hollywood back in the day, when "Freakshow" was kinda the soundtrack..


First 3 Skids records are cool, too.

[Mr. Vengeance]

A band from that era that I thought was vastly underated.

[jhale667]

It's way hard to find, since it's been out-of-print since the late 90s, but John Corabi's pre-Motley band the Scream (with Bruce Boullett of Racer X who rips) was pretty kick ass too... kinda similar to how the Motley record he did (IMO still their best overall effort since Shout at the Devil, and far superior musically) turned out, but even bluesier.




Correction: Looks like someone's uploaded most of the CD on YouTube... cool!~

[Anonymous]

The first three BulletBoys CDs are awesome. Very underrated band.
One of my best friends was their drummer up until a couple o' weeks ago, actually -he bailed for greener pa$ture$. Said every time they played "THC Groove" he flashed back to us trolling Hollywood back in the day, when "Freakshow" was kinda the soundtrack..


First 3 Skids records are cool, too.

There's a lot of bands from around that time that were actually very good & unfortunately, not all have risen to the top of the shit-pile. Some because they weren't backed up by their recording label, others because they didn't have time before Nirvana killed entertainment forever.

Cheers! :bottle:

[chefcraig]

It's way hard to find, since it's been out-of-print since the late 90s, but John Corabi's pre-Motley band the Scream (with Bruce Boullett of Racer X who rips) was pretty kick ass too...

I honestly don't believe it...I've been talking about that band for years, and since no one else had ever seemed to recall 'em, I began to believe I'd made them up in some drug/alcohol fueled daze. (Naturally, when I went to find the CD in my collection several years ago, it wasn't there.)

Shit brother, you really are the only guy I've run into in decades that ever heard of them. Thanks for the confirmation.

[jhale667]

Happy to help...lol Loved 'em!

[jhale667]

THIS was one of my faves by them...

[Seshmeister]

Weren't those guys Sesh's old band?

Cheers! :bottle:

Less funny joke since their drummer got convicted for child pornography a few years back but I'll take it in the spirit it was meant...

[DLR Bridge]

All due to Sebastian's imaginative, insanely intense vocals.

Try to listen to only the instruments & laff (or cry, as may be the case).

Cheers! :bottle:

The entire band was responsible for how great their 3rd (and final, in my opinion) CD, Subhuman Race was.

[DLR Bridge]

I'll admit to owning Motley Crue's first two albums. Couldn't really stand them after that though. As for Mr. Big, what a damn shame to have that much talent in a band and waste it on shitty music.

Agree totally regarding Crue. Mr. Big really never had a chance with the girly voiced singer. Green Tinted Sixties Mind was their swan song and they did like 5 CDs of aimless, sub-par shit after that. Japan ate it up though, apparently.

[Terry]

As the hair metal years were happening, particularly '88 to '90, I gravitated towards a mixed bag of hair. Some for their classic rock sound, some for the cheese and sleeze beasts they'd attract at their shows. I'm sure a vet can tell which provided which:

Love Hate
Tesla
Badlands
Bullet Boys
Dangerous Toys
Bang Tango
Britney Fox
Law & Order
Xenon
American Angel
Warrior Soul
Cinderella
Extreme
King's X
Lynch Mob
Mr. Big
White Lion
Sea Hags
Vain
L.A. Guns
Enuff Z' Nuff

And probably ten or so others that escape me at the moment.

Tesla had too much talent and ability for me to consider than a hair-metal band, although I recognize that they are lumped into that category in the general public mind regardless.

Bullet Boys fucking rocked.

Cinderella, and Tom Keifer specifically...good, good band. Good songs. That they got lumped into that category and got ignored by their record company when grunge took off was a shame.

Whitesnake...I gotta say that I enjoyed the performances on the 1987 Whitesnake album. Dunbar, Murray and Sykes did a great job. The thing that kinda killed it for me were Coverdale's lyrics, which...I dunno, it seemed like he was intent on throwing in as many mundane rock cliches as he could in each song. Put it this way: if I saw some local band in a club around the mid-to-late 1980s and the Whitesnake 1987 songs were said bands originals, I wouldn't necessarily think that band deserved to be signed. However, Whitesnake 1987 was miles above the sludge that was Slip of the Tongue. Some say that Steve Vai was the only thing that made that album worthwhile, but to me Vai's playing was just as flashy yet uninspired as everything else on the record.

[DLR Bridge]

I agree Terry. I appreciated the '87 Whitesnake album a whole lot more once I saw Blue Murder in '89 and Sykes blew the doors off of Still Of The Night both on guitar and vocals, no less! Vai stepped into a cash grab (I'm having deja vu. Didn't we talk about this a few months ago?) and basically churned out already written Vandenburg compositions that lacked the oomph of the Sykes years.

[Anonymous]

Less funny joke since their drummer got convicted for child pornography a few years back but I'll take it in the spirit it was meant...

Well, I didn't know that. In fact, I don't think anybody who's not from Ireland knows that.

Anyways, I guess that rules out a reunion, so maybe you could form a super group with your country's OTHER major talent...

... I'm sure you could use the recent buzz about the film adaptation of Les Miserábles to boost sales.

Cheers! :bottle: