"If only more strippers voted." - the Hard Rock and Hair Metal tracks poll nominations thread (not a current poll - just random hair metal chat)

It does say "hard rock" in the thread title. They all qualify under that surely?

^ watch this guy, he'll be nomming the Manics next

Black Sabbath and certain aspects of LZ got their due in the metal poll.

Did the Manic Street Preachers wear spandex?

I can't really picture strippers dancing to Mob Rules or Achilles Last Stand.

More ideas:

Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town

they lived their (richey era) life by the new york dolls manual
http://exclaim.ca/images/up-manic.jpg

Thank you Darin, for thinking of the poor strippers.

http://arca.spex.de/files/2009/12/manic-street-preachers-341.jpg

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Manic Street Preachers - You Love Us

is there a youtube companion thread?

the Hard Rock and Hair Metal nominations - YOUTUBE companion thread.

Now there is.

http://www.goodkarma.fr/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/richey-edwards.jpg

I'm going to have to review this MSP track, because the one in the last poll sounded like shoegazer or something.

if you veto stuff for being wimpy then there wont be much hair stuff!!! ;)

The following criteria will have to be met:

1.) Blues-based rock and roll.
2.) Created between the mid-70s and 1993 (release date of The Spaghetti Incident, which slammed the door on the whole enterprise AFAIC).
3.) By performers wearing makeup/hairspray/spandex/leather/gypsy scarves and jewelry
4.) Probably been heard in one or more of the following: strip club/tilt-a-whirl/pool hall/Camaro.

It seems like a real outlier. I can't listen to it now, because I'm at work, but I'll check it out.

btw how are you weighting the votes? and what are the min & max amount of tracks everyone can vote for?

Don't know how I'm weighing the votes or the max # of tracks yet. I should probably cap the nominations at 50 songs per person, unless anyone objects?

The following criteria will have to be met:

1.) Blues-based rock and roll.
2.) Created between the mid-70s and 1993 (release date of The Spaghetti Incident, which slammed the door on the whole enterprise AFAIC).
3.) By performers wearing makeup/hairspray/spandex/leather/gypsy scarves and jewelry
4.) Probably been heard in one or more of the following: strip club/tilt-a-whirl/pool hall/Camaro.

5) sexist lyrics/videos?

;)

"what's wrong with being sexy?"

Spinal Tap is on UK GOLD tonight btw

lol xpost

lol

Guns 'N Roses - It's So Easy

hey is anything from the 1st izzy stradlin & the ju ju hounds album allowed?

I nominated every song on Appetite somewhere upthread.

That first Ju Ju Hounds album is really good. I don't see why it wouldn't qualify.

Guns N' Roses - One in a Million
Guns N' Roses - Patience
Aerosmith - Dream On
Van Halen - Jump
Alice Cooper - Only Women Bleed
Black Sabbath - Changes
Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days

I kind of hate it myself, but this poll would be incomplete without...

Europe - The Final Countdown

Do Queen qualify?

they qualify on all 4 counts easy

Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er
Cheap Trick - I Want You to Want Me
KISS - Strutter
Heart - Barracuda
Queen - Killer Queen

New York Dolls - Frankenstein

Prince - Purple Rain

Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Heart - Magic Man
Heart - Straight On
Queen - We Are the Champions

xhuxk to thread btw imo iirc

i love that Ju Ju Hounds record but i think it'd be kinda silly to nominate anything from it here tbh

I say go ahead and nominate some tracks from the juju hnds. what is it - 1994 or something? i hqavent heard it, but it probably fits the spirit.

Feel free to veto if you want to slam shut the glam-goth door but it's not like anyone else will vote for...

Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire

GLJ is really in a gray area. Around that time, they looked really hair metal but still sounded kind of new wave-y and postmodern. Hell, I still don't know how to classify the first couple GLJ albums.

gene loves jeZebel was totally on hard rock radio, although I had only heqard Jealous at the time.

Yeah, by the time "Jealous" came out they'd morphed into a legitimate hard rock band (oddly kind of like Drivin' N Cryin' at the same time). Go back a couple years and they were harder to define.

I would and will vote for GLJ but it's a goth vote and not a hair metal one.

'Jealous' kind of reminds me of a poppier Jane's Addiction tbh

Somewhere a stripper is crying because there are no Aerosmith nominations on this thread

Aerosmith - Dream On

Thank goodness

Billy Idol - White Wedding

I wonder if "Dude Looks Like a Lady" is a stripper fave. Depends on the club, I guess.

"shooby-dooby-do-wah!" oh, this is great! :D

Fortunately this one's on Spotify. Turn of the Screw isn't, though, so I might never hear it.

Mechanical Resonance has always been the Tesla album that I stan for the hardest, but when I got to really looking at the songs, I realized The Great Radio Controversy has a lot more standouts.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, August 20, 2010 4:03 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I gotta confess, this is the kind of the post that makes ILM "worth it". like I was just wondering, "who in the 2010s stans for Tesla" & I found my answer. love will find a way.

(was gonna talk about "Love Song" & its ur-Zep structure but it's more fun to think about Tesla standom, which I have like 100% respect for, rock on)