― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
so far: motley crue - dr feelgood, poison - talk dirty to me, w.a.s.p. - animal (fuck like the beast), cinderella - nobody's fool, enuff z'nuff - mother's eyes, def leppard - pour some sugar on me, hanoi rocks - people like me, warrant - cherry pie, skid row - i remember you, love/hate - blackout in the red room, faster pussycat, pretty boy floyd and some other stuff.
i'm mainly relying on the popular audiogalaxy choices here and, typically, i keep getting the lighter-in-the-air crap. if anyone can come up with the harder, rockier stuff that'd be good.
also were there any GOOD female fronted bands of this type? I remember Phantom Blue, but not, er, for musical reasons. Vixen were typically dismissed as 'female Bon Jovi' and the only Lita Ford I know is the Ozzy duet..
― Wyndham Earl, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Destroy: Motley Spew (they suck ass)
― jel --, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
he he Ned, you should let Bon Jovi pollute your soul!
I must find that Love/Hate album!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
And that's precisely why Klosterman's the better book, as its not caught up in ridiculous theory (as if the genre in question lent itself to hours of chin-scratching, enigmatic pondering? It's not like it's fuckin' Free Jazz or something) Chuck Eddy, moreover, has loads of bizarre theories that just don't add up (why are Kix mentioned in his book so often?!?! Why does he consider certain artists -- like fuckin' Teena Marie -- metal and others not?) It's an interesting read, but it's just not credible. Chuck Klosterman, however, is the real deal: a white guy from the rural Midwest for whom Metal was much more than just some cultural phenomenon to be pompously ruminated over.
One more thing: Redd Kross were *NEVER* a Glam Metal/Hair Metal band.
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Uh, I think you missed my point! I actually think Klosterman is trying to pack more theory and justification and more into his book than Eddy is with his. There's this striving in Klosterman from the point of view of his later years that is all about screaming (if politely), "This MEANS something! I know it did! I'm going to prove it!" Whereas Eddy seems to be mostly about suggesting things and changing his opinions with time -- which is why the Teena Marie suggestion so gets up your nose and that of many others! His book now would be a much different thing if he completely rewrote it; as it was the revised edition suggested a slew of new paths.
Maybe they should be read less as detailing/analyses of a culture as autobiographies, though -- which Klosterman's more openly is, but Eddy's is as much, the references are scattered throughout (it's even more clear in Accidental History, natch).
Moreover, Eddy's writing is often needlessly dense and pompously convoluted (from his review of WHAT'S THIS FOR by Killing Joke: "The funkless 'groove' doesn't 'go' anywhere --it just is --, but these artsy Eeyores really did get a meritorious rump-bump beneath all their echoplex churn.....The most illegible Weltasnschauung is your usual end-is-near Weltschmerz, so it's shallower idea-wise that it thinks it is, but maybe that's where its humanness -- and maybe even its rock'n'roll -- comes from."
Now, this may sound like sour grapes coming from me (being a zealous Killing Joke fan) but nine-tenths of the above passage add up to nothing.
― nabisco%%, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― s woods, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Search: Femme Fatale-"Waiting for the Big One"
God, remember Starz? Wrong era, I know, but "Pull the Plug", the Karen Ann Quinlan-inspired euthanasia power ballad--what a song! I think. I should download it first before I start making these outrageous claims.
― Arthur, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rock Bastard, Saturday, 20 March 2004 04:03 (twenty years ago) link
Revive. I spent a very long time without hearing Def Leppard's Pyromania (25 years?) and I heard it this past weekend and I'm kinda feeling it. Also ISO RIYL Ratt "Round and Round".
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
No serenade, no fire brigade.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
Steel Panther are kind of the worst
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 August 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
They certainly seem like it, but I've never actually heard their music. Satchel is one of my favorite stage names though.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 19 August 2019 12:25 (four years ago) link
i hate them so much lol
― maura, Monday, 19 August 2019 12:25 (four years ago) link
Chuck Eddy vs. Chuck Klosterman: some other universe.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 August 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
Steel Panther made a half second of sense back in early 2000s Metal Sludge days, maybe.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 August 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
I keep hoping Justin Quirk is going to get his last 3% funding on Unbound to publish.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Friday, 23 August 2019 08:07 (four years ago) link
are Diemonds glam metal?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 25 April 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
I found the track listing for the five-CD set I made for a girl who did an '80s glam night at the High Five back when I lived in Ohio. In retrospect I might have included some of the original '70s glam bands to mix things up but still, not a bad box set if I say so myself:
DISC ONE1. Kix - Cold Shower2. Alice Cooper - Poison3. Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild4. Firehouse - Love Of A Lifetime5. Judas Priest - The Hellion6. Judas Priest - Electric Eye7. Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin8. Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine9. White Lion - Wait10. Arcade - Nothing To Lose11. Enuff Z'Nuff - New Thing12. Cinderella - Shake Me13. Killingbird - Just Like Heaven14. Faster Pussycat - You're So Vain15. Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer16. Great White - Once Bitten, Twice Shy17. Bon Jovi - Runaway18. Steelheart - I'll Never Let You Go19. Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages
DISC TWO1. Dirty Looks - It's Not The Way That You Rock2. Vixen - Edge Of A Broken Heart3. Tesla - Gettin' Better4. The Poor - More Wine Waiter Please5. Keel - The Right To Rock6. Bang Tango - Dancin' On Coals7. Buckcherry - Lit Up8. Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil9. Dokken - In My Dreams10. Britney Fox - Long Way To Love11. Kingdom Come - Get It On12. Mötley Crüe - Smokin' In The Boys Room13. Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It14. Poison - Talk Dirty To Me15. Katmandu - The Way You Make Me Feel16. Def Leppard - Foolin'17. Beautiful Creatures - 1 A.M.18. Every Mother's Nightmare - EZ Come EZ Go19. Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
DISC THREE1. Whitesnake - Still Of The Night2. Mr. Big - Addicted To That Rush3. Hanoi Rocks - Teenangels Outsiders4. Shotgun Messiah - Babylon5. The Cult - Fire Woman6. Whitesnake - Here I Go Again7. The Honey’s - Pink Velvet Cocaine8. Mötley Crüe - Live Wire9. Extreme - Get The Funk Out10. Trixter - Bad Girl11. Aerosmith - Dude (Look Like A Lady)12. Winger - Seventeen13. Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine14. Killer Dwarfs = Dirty Weapons15. Firehouse - Don't Treat Me Bad16. Accept - Balls To The Wall17. Nelson - (I Can’t Live Without Your) Love And Affection18. Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
DISC FOUR1. Danger Danger - Slipped Her The Big One2. Van Halen - Hot For Teacher3. Manda And The Marbles - Sex Object4. Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me5. Hericane Alice - Tear The House Down6. Loudermilk - Estrogen Oxygen7. Krokus - Midnight Maniac8. Drivin' N' Cryin' - Fly My Courageous9. Warrant - Cherry Pie10. Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly11. Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle12. Pretty Boy Floyd - Rock & Roll13. Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize14. AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long15. Gene Loves Jezebel - Jealous16. Zodiac Mindwarp - Prime Mover17. Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You18. Dogs D'Amour - I Don't Want You To Go19. Poison - Every Rose Has It’s Thorn20. Ratt - Round And Round
DISC FIVE1. Kik Tracee - Mrs. Robinson2. Skid Row - I Remember You3. Dangerous Toys - Pissed4. Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name5. Ozzy Osbourne - Shot In The Dark6. Hardline - Hot Cherie7. Jesse Camp - See You Around8. Slaughter - Up All Night9. Poison - Nothin' But A Good Time10. Kiss - Heaven's On Fire11. Kix - Blow My Fuse12. Love / Hate - Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?13. Poison - Unskinny Bop14. Bonham - Wait For You15. Heavy Pettin' - Love On The Run16. Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane17. Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall18. L.A. Guns - Sex Action19. Michael Monroe - Dead, Jail, or Rock 'n Roll
There are a couple of nods to local (at the time) Columbus bands that made the list which may explain some bands most don't know; the rest isn't very obscure, I don't think.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
I love everything about this track list
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
People really don't have enough Krokus in their lives
― p.j.b. (pj), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 05:31 (three years ago) link
otm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 05:36 (three years ago) link
Oh man, just saw these posts...
Redd Kross were never a glam metal/hair metal band, though they did sometimes do shows with various mid-Eighties Sunset Strip Starz. My friend Kim has a flyer for a show they headlined at a tacky club in the Valley in 1985 with Poison as the opening act! ― Arthur, Sunday, June 16, 2002 8:00 PMHaha I didnt know Poison once supported Redd Kross. ― Rock Bastard, Friday, March 19, 2004 11:03 PM
Haha I didnt know Poison once supported Redd Kross. ― Rock Bastard, Friday, March 19, 2004 11:03 PM
One of the McDonald brothers gave me a great story about what is probably that show - they said they played a gig with Poison. At the show, Poison - who was unsigned at the time - had a limo and champagne backstage and a sign on the dressing room door that said they were the "Glitter Glam Slam Kings of Rock & Roll."
I think I remember the exact quote: "We heard they were into the Dolls, but really they just liked Van Halen. And we decided then that we never, ever wanted to be associated with that again."
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
those cds are great!
― maura, Thursday, 23 July 2020 12:10 (three years ago) link
I've been reading that hair metal oral history, and tbh forgot what most of these bands sounded like. And the answer is ... they sounded like garbage. Bad songs, terrible production, everything bad but the image, which wasn't bad so much as lazy and stupid. Like, I just spent a bit listening to stuff on youtube by Faster Pussycat and Cinderella and Poison and White Lion and Warrant and Winger and it's pretty much all soooo bad, made probably more embarrassing when the guys can actually sing kinda cool (like Tom in Cinderella) or play (like the guitar solo on White Lion's "Wait," which is super cool) and yet are so beholden to a certain sound that it still sounds like shit. And then the videos ... woof. Even as a middle schooler smack dab in the middle of this particular marketing bullseye I thought this music was shit, and with few exceptions it's aged terribly. It's all so thin and shrill and treble-y, with huge marshmallow snares that take up half the mix (and try to make up for the fact that there's nothing to hide in there anyway).
Imo.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
I will stan for Cinderella, wtf!!!!
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
mostly their later, bloosier stuff, but even the more glammy stuff.
It's gonna be a long cold lonely winter without Josh in Chicago's love.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
Note: I saved some of my limited praise for Cinderella specifically.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
the solo for "Wait" is really cool, like Vito Bratta figured out some way forward from EVH that was actually interesting
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
Tom Keifer doing his Cinderella thing solo has been *sad* from the videos I saw, though. He screeeeeeeamed his heart out for a wee bit too long
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
~cries, clutches aquanet~YOURE TERRIBLE
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
I went on a glam/hair metal kick after seeing GNR a few years back and I discovered that I do like eaaaarly Motley Crue, and Dangerous Toys (somewhat), and Black 'n Blue, and I think Ratt, but I hate a lot of it. do not care for Dokken!
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
Tooth and Nail!!! Cmon
― brimstead, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
Enuff Z'nuff were the best of these bands, more like Redd Kross musically speaking (if not lyrically).
― did you hear about the midnight ambler gambler? (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
― did you hear about the midnight ambler gambler? (Matt #2), Wednesday, May 12, 2021 4:07 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
haha they were such the "best pop metal band" for people who didn't like pop metal, kinda bored me personally
Dokken rules
this is the most underrated hair metal album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSV6R9ZVFFY
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
I'll ride for Ratt, the first Skid Row record, early Crue.
One other unexpected record I pull out when I'm in the mood for glam metal is Whatever Gets You Off, a Nikki Sixx produced record by The Last Vegas. Their records before and after it aren't worth much at all, but they somehow managed to capture some hair metal magic in a bottle in 2009 for one record.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
Dokken are great, also: Cinderella LA GunsWASP The Leathür Records release of Too Fast For Love sounds a lot better than the “official” Elektra remixed version, ie hearing vince’s voice semi-normal/not-sped-up makes it much more enjoyable Faster Pussycat’s albums suck, their singles are the only thing you should listen to Enuff z Nuff are awesome but so far at the end of the period, timewise as to not reallllly fall within the genre. They’re closer to the hippie pop revival than pure glam metal. But they have A+ hooks and def have a slight Cheap Trick vibe and i love that first album SO fucking much
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
i fucking hate Ratt but i think i’m already on the record for that
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
oh and Twisted Sister rule also
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
Enuff Z'nuff were sort of the Cheap Trick contingent, whereas a lot of these acts started and ended with Kiss.
It's amazing in this book how many times you hear some variation of "they couldn't play, but ... " The quotes from Poison producer Ric Browde alone: "And Bret, you know, is to be commended because up to Poison I think the ability to carry a note and sing in tune had been a barrier to entry." Or (again) re: the first Poison record: "It's a piece of shit, that album. It sucks. Sonically, as a producer? It's the worst record ever. And I became known as a garbage producer because of it."
Most interesting bit I've come across is that Kip Winger was more or less classically trained (and also took ballet lessons), and that his own pre-Winger demos were much closer to prog and Peter Gabriel, at least as he describes them. That's sort of what I mean. Some of these people are pretty talented, and yet they have no vision or integrity. It's just about the chicks and free beer. I mean, Kip Winger might have been classically trained, but he still signed off on Winger, and he's such a wuss that in the book he claims he always hated the band name, which may say a little about how he thinks of himself.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link
that song rules, one of my favorite crue songs. v fun to karaoke.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 May 2022 04:59 (one year ago) link
Don't Go Away Mad, but yeah, that's a catchy tune.
― peace, man, Monday, 30 May 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
lyric stolen from Blondie, but whatev
― Josefa, Monday, 30 May 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dx-PrDQej8
I love the melody on the pre-chorus, I still demand hair metal justice for Vain!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
lol the drummer and guitarist is the only one who looks like they could still step into a music video from that era
lol people slow dancing at 1:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpeePEUz0bw
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 October 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
Britney Fox lead singer = melted Steven Tyler
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2024 00:05 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbEIi46NAno
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2024 00:06 (two months ago) link
That was a weird time. No one could tell where Dizzy Dean ended and Tom Keifer began.
Annoying voice, great freaking song.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 17 February 2024 05:08 (two months ago) link
how dare uhe sounds like a dollar store Tom Keifer
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2024 05:10 (two months ago) link
(how dare u = as in how dare u say no one could tell the difference)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2024 05:16 (two months ago) link
i have been watching a lot of Vevo’s “Hair and Heavy” and nothing makes me reach for the remote faster than Dangerous Toys. Truly dire Axl-mimicryFirehouse are super boring and i think their Dad must own Vevo bc they have more videos on here than any band except maybe Kiss lol So far not even one Kix video. I am furious.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 06:06 (three weeks ago) link
Kix is for the people
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 March 2024 07:00 (three weeks ago) link
Dangerous Toys was baffling given Jason McMaster's pedigree. I can't think of too many better examples of a guy jumping on a trend, forfeiting all of their cred in the process, a thing we used to call a "sellout" move. At least when Celtic Frost went glam, the results were listenable in a surreal outsider art kinda way
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 28 March 2024 10:56 (three weeks ago) link
I will not listen to this slander of the authors of Demon Bell (The Ballad of Horace Pinker)*!
Television was my mom and dadThe six o'clock news told me how to be badAnd when you're really bad the ratings go upThat's why this damn country's getting really corrupt, yeaaaah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1bsYkAS02Q
*ballad not included
― meatster of puppets (peace, man), Thursday, 28 March 2024 11:22 (three weeks ago) link
Breaking glam news: turns out the amazing "Two Heads Are Better Than One" song from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is by a prototype version of Nelson! Now that I never knew.
― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Thursday, 28 March 2024 11:39 (three weeks ago) link
yes! and cowritten w Dweezil Zappa!per wikipedia, “Since the band was in the process of being signed up to Geffen, (John) Kalodner recommended them not to use their names for the song, so they were billed as Power Tool instead”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:16 (three weeks ago) link
xxpost lmao i forgot about that songDEMON BELLDEE MON BEEEEEELLL
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:18 (three weeks ago) link
Firehouse are super boring
it's insane how ubiquitous they were for a few months on chicago's 103.5 THE BLAZE, and they were so boring. they made Slaughter sound like Motorhead, Steelheart's "I'll Never Let You Go" sounded like "Stairway to Heaven" next to "Love of a Lifetime", etc
― omar little, Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:23 (three weeks ago) link
yeah they have like, five or six videos on vevo and i’m like, why were they ever pushing these guys, they blow! they’re normcore looking dudes, not even a hot lead singer! their styling is just jeans and vests, like a bar band.he can sing ok but no better or worse than anyone else who “Can Sing”? i find them baffling
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:06 (three weeks ago) link
They're still around. Playing North Tonawanda, NY in two days.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:41 (three weeks ago) link
Still Boring ‘24 tour
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:48 (three weeks ago) link
i think they were probably filling an empty space between big glam metal releases in 1990 perfectly somehow, like a movie getting released on an otherwise vacant weekend in a dead part of the year. plus they were jacking the style from others, for example they frequently sounded like Motley Crue at their most tepid -- love of a lifetime is sort of a home sweet home ripoff. i cannot believe that shit went double platinum tbh, i mean i don't like the Crue either but at least they had energy and momentum.
― omar little, Thursday, 28 March 2024 20:50 (three weeks ago) link
other topics of interest prompted by VevoTrixster “Don’t Treat Me Bad” literally look like the end of the line with their bare-chested flannel & Timotei Shampoo hair commercial shiny hair & & dirt bikes Blue Murder “Jelly Roll”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmxK9CS3RV0DISCUSS THIS ENTIRE VIDEO it is so hilarious and weirdif Sykes didn’t come up with the concept himself i’d be very surprised
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 21:28 (three weeks ago) link
Her hair - so straight and golden, right out of a shampoo commercialHis hair - gigantic and fluffy like a Muppet sheepdog
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 28 March 2024 21:31 (three weeks ago) link
the ponytail! SO funny, i loled
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 21:37 (three weeks ago) link
wait til he sings in the rainits like I Still Believe 2.0
also xposts to me i meant Trixster GIVE IT TO ME GOOD not Dont Treat Me Badi have firehouse brainworms
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 21:38 (three weeks ago) link
The rain stuff is great but I also really like when they're arguing in the car and she opens the door and gets out but instead of opening his own door he climbs out for some reason.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 28 March 2024 21:40 (three weeks ago) link
i like that she forgives him seemingly because..(checks notes) he sang shirtless in the rain
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 21:52 (three weeks ago) link
that video is wild, so many glam dudes took their style cues from Cave Dwellers-era Miles O'Keeffe
― omar little, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:27 (three weeks ago) link
loool totally
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:29 (three weeks ago) link
Some magnificent comments on that Blue Murder video. Damn.
Hi Fans of Blue Murder "JellyRoll". I'm the girl in the video. yes it's true. I skidded in late to the video shoot in my brand new whilte corvette, dust flying off the dirt road. The production assistant said I couldn't park there so I threw it into reverse and saw a crew member in my rear view window dive into the bushes out of my way. As for John, What a great guitarist, vocalist, song writer and kisser ; ) John if you listening, How about a sequel? xoxo, Meg Register
I can’t believe that after all the years since this song was released, I still remember every word of the song. That’s even after I almost died in a coma because my brain was swelling and the doctors didn’t know why. I have trouble with my short term memory, but I’ve gotten back my long term memory. ❤❤❤
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 29 March 2024 19:09 (three weeks ago) link
A lot of the comments read as if they were ghostwritten by Sykes…!
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2024 19:26 (three weeks ago) link
Was it a Bon Jovi thing that started all the glam dudes playing acoustic guitars on the back porch in their videos? I'm sure Crue and Poison never used to do that, although feel free to supply evidence to the contrary.
― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Friday, 29 March 2024 20:14 (three weeks ago) link
every cowboy sings a sad, sad song
― President Keyes, Friday, 29 March 2024 20:22 (three weeks ago) link
I remember being so excited for Blue Murder. Sykes was the man back then: a wicked NWOBHM shredder with Tygers of Pan Tang, he carried Thin Lizzy's Thunder & Lightning, and he literally saved David Coverdale's career. Then Jelly Roll came out, and we were, WTF JOHN?! What a disappointment. That video died as soon as it came out.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 29 March 2024 20:31 (three weeks ago) link
He is horribly abusing that 12-string to be right honest.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 29 March 2024 20:54 (three weeks ago) link
and then there’s “Valley of the Kings” which is a hard left turn into harem pants town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfsZ4EzSn80
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:11 (three weeks ago) link
Every hard rock band must have their piss-poor Kashmir ripoff number
― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:22 (three weeks ago) link
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:39 (three weeks ago) link
speaking of Kashmir ripoffs, two recurring videos on Vevo Robert Plant “Heaven Knows”i always kinda dug this song but the video is like an SNL parody of 80’s music videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Omu_QYb4Qand then there’s this utter shite Coverdale Page “Take Me For A Little While the song sucks so bad but the video is full of weird lols: lady who turns into a lizard! AND turns into a candle!and Jimbo is playing some nonsensical looking harp-guitar like a stupid goblin twat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ooOf_rih0
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 March 2024 02:32 (three weeks ago) link
Five singles were released, all of which charted. The highest-charting singles were "Pride and Joy" and "Shake My Tree", which reached numbers one and three, respectively, on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart.[33] Music videos were produced for "Pride and Joy" and "Take Me for a Little While", both directed by Andy Morahan.[34][35] While "Pride and Joy" reportedly did well on MTV (also being featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head[36]), "Take Me for a Little While" received minimal airplay according to Coverdale, as the video was deemed too gothic by the channel.[37]
― omar little, Saturday, 30 March 2024 02:38 (three weeks ago) link
too gothic is how he remembers it orly looool no it received minimal airplay because it SUCKED DOGS BALLS
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 March 2024 02:39 (three weeks ago) link
i wish beavis & butthead had done this video, it was RIPE for it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 March 2024 02:41 (three weeks ago) link
anyway those videos kinda stray from the purview of this thread so i’ll bring it back on topic to say Vevo introduced me to a previously overlooked late -period Y&T track i hadn’t heard from 1990https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA7Bawrpb9Qi’d always considered “Summertime Girls” to be the cutoff (1985) but this one is really good imothen again Mr Veg is a big Y&T fan & he kinda hates this so ymmv lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 March 2024 02:53 (three weeks ago) link