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

[jhale667]

And, yeah, there's actually a lot of shit on my list. Many of those bands had only songs or just pieces of songs that I really enjoyed at the time. Tesla, Badlands, Bullet Boys and King's X are still in heavy rotation for me. The bulk of the rest was pretty disposable, mostly.

Same here and totally agree.

[FORD]

I definitely would never lump Kings X in with the hair bands. It's bad enough they got pigeon-holed (to some extent) as "Christian rock" which scared off most FM rock stations. And then got dumped by the "Christian" audience once Doug came out of the closet.

Wish some of that early "Sneak Preview" stuff was still on YouTube, but it looks like it's been disappeared, probably out of embarrassment.

This is obviously a cover, but it's probably the oldest recording of them that you're going to find anymore....

[LoungeMachine]

It does if you happen to be in a gay pseudo metal band.

Hipster Chick with the 642 Chats gets to pretend to be above it all in another thread



Every band in the is thread was less of a failure than you, and less ghey than you.



I love how you post pics of women other than yourself in your avatar, but call out LZ for plagiarism

Use your own pic, Trixie.

[ashstralia]

i remember hearing that 'gretchen' album and being impressed by it's dark dropped tuning thing. and these massive vocal harmonies. hairband? no way.

[LoungeMachine]

FYI.....

When I knew them, gigged with them, and practiced next door to them at The Music Bank, Alice In Chains was a glam/hair band......



Only Hipster wannabe failed critics who chat apply labels to music.

[ashstralia]

oy vey... there you go with the name-dropping again!

:yiddishmum:

[LoungeMachine]

oy vey... there you go with the name-dropping again!

:yiddishmum:

I think I hurt my back picking up that name I dropped....



Maybe Krusty can spare a Dilaudid......

[fraroc]

Make-up, hairspray, unfuckable loser suburban idiots like fraroc posting about them - in the end it was all GAY

I would normally be pissed off at you, but then I realize that I'm getting insulted by a $2 craigslist PUTTANA.

[vh rides again]

Dunno if krokus could be labeled as a hair band but they had a pretty good sound, few good songs.

The singer for krokus should have replaced Bon Scott .

[ashstralia]

Bon is irreplaceable.

[Dave's Bitch]

Bon is irreplaceable.

Scott or Jovi?

[ashstralia]

you and me both know.

[DLR Bridge]

It is true that King's X do not deserve to be lumped in with the likes of, say, Warrant, but, they rose up during that time and catered to the same audience, for the most part. People knew that they were a band with more depth and talent than many others of the time, but they weren't quite alternative either. They had the look and the hair of the hair "movement" so to speak.

Dug is awesome. When they hit it with "Over My Head" I remember thinking, damn, check this guy out. Lefty bass player tuned way the hell down, singing with soul (something severely lacking back then) belting out Roth-esque screams while sporting a Mohawk and a Jimi Hendrix marching band jacket. Under fucking rated in my book!

[ashstralia]

[TFM_Dale]

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!~

Hell yeah, I really liked Corabi, liked the Crüe album he did a lot to, sure they shouldn't have called it a Mötley Crüe album but fuck it, it rocked.