― brenda, Friday, 30 August 2002 14:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
Weird, most of the female metal fans that I knew in the eighties wore T-shirts and blue jeans everyday.
Oh, and Cinderella were Classic, but mostly in their later, bluesier period. Ratt were Classic because they blessed us with "Round And Round." Guns And Roses were Classic because they fooled everyone into believing that they were Classic. All of the others that you mentioned are Duds.
Then again, my idea of a real man is Tom Verlaine or Kurt Cobain, so what do I know?
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
And they're total fucking dumbasses.
And the metal ballad - my god, the pinnacle of shit. Fuckin hacks, all.
― dave (Dave225), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave (Dave225), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/2786/poison1.jpghttp://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c471/c47120fa169.jpg
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
Kreators of Destruction would be the best band name ever of all time.
Kitchens Of Destruktion would be even better surely?
― Ian, Friday, 30 August 2002 14:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian, Friday, 30 August 2002 14:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
and i wore black jeans, not blue, most days.
anyway.
on the headbangers' ball tip:
classic: love/hate, la guns, tesla, faster pussycat pre-industrialization, cinderella, 'someone like you' by bang tango, the day i cut school to be in the crowd for a trixter video, 'thc groove' by the bulletboys, electric angels, 'i do u' by kingofthehill, 'all lips 'n hips' by electric boys, enuff z'nuff (even though they were hardly metal, but eh), spread eagle, dangerous toys, 'seventeen' by winger, the second skid row album, warrior soul, 'stranger than paradise' by sleeze beez, 'down boys' by warrant, metal-sludge.com.
dud: most of the ballads (excepting 'don't know what you got ('til it's gone),' 'the ballad of jayne,' ), hericane alice, those cleopatra vocalists-meet-industrial-dudes tribute comps, tora tora, that whole jackyl-lumberjack thing, any band with a keyboard player except those listed under 'classic.'
― maura (maura), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
As for "The music you speak of was what the industry served the masses to keep them away from the good music of the 80s. It was obedience training for the slavish 90s."
Give me cinderella,twisted sister,G N R , Ratt,Dokken, Scorpions, Motley Crue,Poison,Warrant and their pop metal musings ahead of overrated media darlings like Husker Du,Pixies,Smiths,Wedding Present,MBV, Primal Scream ANY day.
― brad, Friday, 30 August 2002 14:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― maura (maura), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyone else remember John Mendelsson's explaination for this? He said that they dressed that way so that groupies would know how they should be dressed when they went backstage.
Maura: I saw black jeans occasionally, too. I should have just said jeans.
Also, I thought that Jackyl was an nineties band. They're classic, too: any metal band that has the sense of humor to put a chainsaw on one of their records is a classic in my book.
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Those hairspray bands sucked. Freakin' Dio or Accept was a whole lot better than any of those bands.
I am so glad SST used to run those ads in Hit Parader.
― earlnash, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― maura (maura), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
Looking back, Judas Priest has to be one of the most subversive groups ever. You have definitely got another thing coming.
― earlnash, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― maura (maura), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd900/d933/d93311eg41h.jpg
I quickly moved on to the Cure (love those eyeliner boys) after a brief stop in Anthraxville, and yes, it was way too much at a time, but there's some great stuff there to be rediscovered.
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― earlnash, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Friday, 30 August 2002 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 August 2002 20:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 August 2002 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
Subject for discussion: The eighties were the decade in which hard rock/heavy metal replaced pop as the mainstream of rock music. Or should I say the nineties?
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 August 2002 20:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― tim1, Friday, 30 August 2002 23:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 30 August 2002 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 31 August 2002 07:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 31 August 2002 10:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 31 August 2002 10:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 31 August 2002 10:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 31 August 2002 10:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
80s metal worries me, mainly because it's become too enshrined with smug, self-satisfied, Top Shop irony in the past few years. "Hey, Tara, Krispin, Emily, let's go listen to some Poison records!" "Smashing idea Tarquin, I can wear my stupid fucking poncey ironic Iron Madien top whilst we're doing it"
Most of the people that I know that like 80s hair metal like it for nostalgic reasons, not ironic ones.
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Saturday, 31 August 2002 11:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
From the BM list:
Poison: Germany 1982-1987 # Right, not *that* Poison Sons of Evil/demo/1984 Black Angel/demo/1984 # A promo Bestial Death/demo/1985 Awakening of the Dead/demo/1986 Live Terror/demo/1986 Into The Abyss/1986 [Music Collection/?] # Re-released on CD in 1993. This is not an EP although there are only # four tracks
I'm still searching for the CD rerelease of the debut, so if anyone has it....
― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Sunday, 1 September 2002 10:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
going through my mp3s, and my filepile list, made me realize just how much of a classic love/hate is. their first two album are great, if you can get a hold of them.
― maura (maura), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 01:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Shouldn't this be a "Search & Destroy"?
Classic: Guns 'N' Roses (duh), Megadeath (more Punk than Metal), "Pour Some Sugar On Me" (more Pop than Metal), "Ace Of Spades", Ozzy, "Back In Black", Basket Full Of Puppies.
Dud: METALLICA (yes, I hated them pre-Napster. Yes, pre-"Load", too.)
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
top class trolling...
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
But most metal fans don't dress like that. So you don't know they're metal fans.
Other music have dress codes too.
Punk, Goth, Indie, Rap...
― mei (mei), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
As a producer (and that is his job, isn't it), he is really good. Doesn't mean that every single album he has ever produced is great though, because that depends on the songs therein. But I have a lot of respect for Mutt Lange anyway.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― OCP (OCP), Friday, 9 January 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago) link
But 80s metal = still classic. More NWOBHM nostalgia: Angel Witch, Witchfynde, Agent Steel, Cloven Hoof, Razor, Jag Panzer...
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
-- Andy K (), August 30th, 2002 3:06 PM. (link)
Someone help. I just peed a little bit.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago) link
Poison wasn't 80's metal - they were 80's drip.
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link
Wow!
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
Wow, Jel = otm x 1000
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Candy, Friday, 9 January 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 January 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Candy, Friday, 9 January 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
You can probably tell I really love that album. Its an all-time favorite. I hope theyre iTunes friendly too. Whatever that means.
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 10 January 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 10 January 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Rock bastard, Saturday, 20 March 2004 04:04 (twenty years ago) link