Yeah I feel like they were always kinda whispered about as being "legends" among hair metal kids back in junior high, but no one had really ever heard them because you didn't see their records around.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 May 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
They never really toured America, right? Until '84 or whatever? But yeah, they're definitely in the sub-genre's sleazy DNA.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 May 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
Hanoi Rocks were the only glam/hair band that had a saxophone
― Josefa, Thursday, 13 May 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
Obv. Johnny Thunders was the patron saint to a lot of these folks, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 May 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
Haha, I didn't realize (or forgot) that that was the same Kip Winger!
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 May 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
Litterer Band was from northern Iowa and played the MN circuit some, always liked this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMia4oEwbi4
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
Johnny Thunders was basically the pivot point between Faster Pussycat and The Replacements, not that the latter would have liked to admit it.
― did you hear about the midnight ambler gambler? (Matt #2), Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
Angel of course were another massive 70s-era influence on all this stuff, and also spawned both Giuffria and House of Lords. More satin and silk than scarves and bangles though, image-wise.
― did you hear about the midnight ambler gambler? (Matt #2), Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
Starz too
Girl was the early 80s NWOBHM attempt at emulating the NY Dolls, featuring later members of LA Guns and Def Leppard. Hair metal was never likely to be done successfully by Brits though, later bands like Dogs D'Amour and the Quireboys were more sleazy rock'n'roll than shred-glam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pWGrvt8yM
― did you hear about the midnight ambler gambler? (Matt #2), Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
Although let's not forget Wrathchild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwT2X93BrKc
― did you hear about the midnight ambler gambler? (Matt #2), Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
what about.... Disney After Dark (D.A.D.) from Denmark?
― brimstead, Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
xpost Points for bringing out a bazooka, minus points for having it fire confetti. I think they can be safely forgotten.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
Wrathchild was fantastic, imaging a universe where even the LA Strip bands loved Motorhead.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
I guess there were some serious Motorhead vibes.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
Great band!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
were there two Wrathchilds? because I swear I remember Wrathchild America
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1359235-Wrathchild-America
Shannon Larkin left the band in 1994 to fill the drum seat in Ugly Kid Joe; and some time later in Godsmack as well.
Red carded for that alone
― did you hear about the midnight ambler gambler? (Matt #2), Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
DAD are great, def on the tail-end
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
way @ ugly kid joe connectionVG - I always detected a hint of surfy/gothy guitar in DAD, like they might have been into some new wave stuff
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
Yeah, 1987 was (in my estimation) hair metal's peak year, and starting in 1988 onward everything began drying up or getting lame except for a few upstarts like D.A.D. and Bang Tango, etc.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
yeah Sleeping My Day Away has that awesome low-tuned guitar that kinda pushes into a different vibe than just straight hair metaltheir hair def qualifies them though, lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, May 13, 2021 5:32 PM bookmarkflaglink
Yea they were a progressive thrash band who got sued by another country's Wrathchild, which derailed their career until they rebranded as Wrathchild America.
Then some of them split off to form the groove metal band Souls at Zero.
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
oh shit one of the weirdo dudes who I used to skate with and got me into janes addiction somehow ended up with a SLAVE RAIDER t-shirt and nobody had any idea who or what they werealso huge lols at LITTERER as a threatening sounding metal band name
― joygoat, Friday, 14 May 2021 03:11 (two years ago) link
haha I love it, a Slave Raider t-shirt in the wild
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 May 2021 03:12 (two years ago) link
https://kcrr.com/iowa-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-to-induct-the-litterer-band/
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 14 May 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
xxxxxpost -
I should defend the Litterer name a bit (though it's ridiculous to expect that anyone would know this) - it was a family band three of the four are the Litterer siblings. They were known as the Litterer Band before.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 May 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
Litterer siblings
So for a time they were ... kiddie Litterers.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 May 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
lol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 May 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
historic night:
In 1986, Slave Raider won all four Heavy Metal honors at the Minnesota Music Awards; that year Prince performed at the ceremony and Soul Asylum won for Best New Band.[1]
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 May 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
Re: Hanoi Rocks--IIRC in Get in the Van Henry Rollins talks about seeing them and liking the show. He compliments the lead singer, saying something like "he hit some Bowie, some Iggy, and some Jagger".
― JRN, Friday, 14 May 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
Good point about Hanoi Rocks upthread, i.e. "your favorite band's favorite band." If you read interviews in Hit Parader and Circus and RIP with just about anybody, Hanoi Rocks would come up more than half the time.
But when I went to the store? Zilch. Granted, I lived in smalltown north Alabama with a mall that had only two record stores, but it seems like it might have been hard for everybody to find those albums. When I finally got to hear Hanoi Rocks sometime well into my twenties, I feel like I missed out on what might have been so great about them that I might have recognized better at age 15.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 May 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
Hanoi Rocks were definitely a band I looked for but didn't find at my mall when I was a kid.
― peace, man, Friday, 14 May 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
is there a rhino-type various artists box set for this stuff?
― brimstead, Friday, 14 May 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
probably lots of ghastly budget gas station ones out there lol
― brimstead, Friday, 14 May 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
Don't think Light In The Attic have got quite there yet
― remind me not to read the comments on that one (Matt #2), Friday, 14 May 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
I've been eyeing a Cinderella box set for a while.
Fenriz having a Hanoi Rocks tattoo probably increased their cult status.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 14 May 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
hair metal needs it's Nuggets.
― peace, man, Friday, 14 May 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
Hanoi Rocks were def keeping the New York Dolls dream alive by doing throwback music in a messy fun kinda way. It was. kind of funny to hear them for the first time; i always heard *about* them as a teen but never got my hands on any music until the early 90’s and i was like wait THIS is what they were all talking about? it was a way different vibe than i expected
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 May 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
Yeah all of that sounds OTM about Hanoi Rocks. I do enjoy the songs I finally heard in my 20s, though. Sort of trashy glam rock/power pop, hit some of the same buttons for me that Cheap Trick and Redd Kross do, not that I was inspired to dig very deep.xps
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 14 May 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
It was actually the exact vibe I was hoping for.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 14 May 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
Yeah, VG and Johnny Fever's experiences matched mine. We definitely all heard of and read namechecks of Hanoi Rocks well before any of us actually heard a note. In fact, I don't think I heard them until I found a cheap vinyl copy of Back to Mystery City in 2005 or 2006. It was not what I expected at all.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 May 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
Rhino have 4 compilations in the Youth Gone Wild series.
― Siegbran, Friday, 14 May 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/various-artists/youth-gone-wild-heavy-metal-hits-of-the-80s-volume-2.p/
― Siegbran, Friday, 14 May 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
being talked about in the metal thread but Tracii Guns and Michael Sweet from Stryper have a new band together called Sunbomb and their new album is great. not glam though, like heavy traditional euro metal/doom/power metal stuff
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 May 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link
How many Hanoi Rocks albums were even issued in the US back in the '80s? I think only the last one from before their breakup; the others were only available on import iirc. That partially explains their low profile (ofc I realize we're not all Americans here). The Sunset Strip crowd could just go to Tower or Amoeba and find them, but it'd be a different situation in suburbia.
― Josefa, Friday, 14 May 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
They were always more of a cult band in the UK as far as I recall it, Kerrang! were into them but the sleaze rock thing hadn't really kicked off yet. Probably helped that drummer Razzle had been in a band with Kerrang! cartoonist Ray Zell, hence the similarity in names!
― remind me not to read the comments on that one (Matt #2), Friday, 14 May 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
Malibu Beach and their Up Around the Bend cover got a bit of UK airplay but didn't make the top 40. Wikipedia says the Two Steps From the Move album squeezed into the top 30 here though.
― remind me not to read the comments on that one (Matt #2), Friday, 14 May 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
xxpost damn Michael Sweet sounds fucking great still. thx for the rec, ums, will def check this out
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 May 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
Michael Sweet gets around! I just noticed by clicking on "fans also like" that he and George Lynch released a couple albums together as Sweet & Lynch. It's definitely in the more American vein of 80s metal than Sunbomb, but damn do I love hearing George Lynch do George Lynchy things (instead of whatever that dumb band was he had with Dug Pinnick).
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 15 May 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link