S&D: Glam Metal/Hair Metal

lmao

o_O

I just played the Noel Redding bassline anyway.

“hendrix aint shit, winger is where it’s at man”

that's hilarious. that's like doing the Whitesnake version of "Day Tripper"

i thought the crüe helter skelter was the funkiest song i ever heard when i was a kid

my high school choir teacher (amazing teacher, still keep in touch w/ her) had this weird habit of making us do the non-iconic versions of songs, usually cos she often would play the recording for us before we learned it and sometimes the only tape she had was a cover version.

Freshman boys were doing "Duke of Earl" and instead of Gene Chandler, she had the New Edition version on tape, so she made our accompanist (a very pretentious, nerdy, straight-laced classically trained dude who scoffed at such music) learn all the cheesy synth parts and play it on the KORG>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcu0eHDDyis

xpost I like that cover!

Revolver mag did a list of the 10 Heaviest Glam Tracks:
http://www.revolvermag.com/music/10-heaviest-hair-metal-songs-all-time

Sorry but I think a bunch of things I linked to above are way heavier than this list.

i am amused that Poison made the list
i mean it’s a cool track but “heavy”? lol

surprised Twisted Sister aren’t on this list

also “feh” at Ratt but that’s just bc of my personal hatred of them

Not much love for Tesla itt.

BANG BANG

BANG BANG

BLOW YOU AWAY

I've never stopped listening to Mechanical Resonance for the last 36 years. The albums that followed have some highlights, but damn that debut is nearly perfect.

yeah it rules

nobody's mentioned king kobra since keith back in 2002, i've been into them ever since finding out that lead vocalist marcie free is a trans woman. absolute mad respect for marcie!

here's the amazing video video for iron eagle (never say die):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-DIhXTGifU

Someone needs to put together a Nuggets style comp for post-94 hair metal music

and instead of Nuggets you could call it Bollocks

xxp: rushomancy, I mentioned them last year, but I spelled their name wrong!

S&D: Glam Metal/Hair Metal

whoops, so you did! so much for ctrl-f :)

Fucking hair metal. My local “classic rock” radio station used to like 15-20 years ago be all strictly late 60s early 70s classic rock like Zep, Yes, CCR, and Hendrix, and well now I guess they gotta change with their older audience and now they play fuckin’ “Dr. Feelgood” and “Nothing but a Good Time” and “Break the Law” and “Girls Girls Girls” every goddamn day. Motley Crue is considered classic rock now!

idk sounds ok to me

I’ve been really into Motley Crue’s “don’t walk away mad” lately

that song rules, one of my favorite crue songs. v fun to karaoke.

Don't Go Away Mad, but yeah, that's a catchy tune.

lyric stolen from Blondie, but whatev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dx-PrDQej8

I love the melody on the pre-chorus, I still demand hair metal justice for Vain!

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

Britney Fox lead singer = melted Steven Tyler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbEIi46NAno

That was a weird time. No one could tell where Dizzy Dean ended and Tom Keifer began.

Annoying voice, great freaking song.

how dare u
he sounds like a dollar store Tom Keifer

(how dare u = as in how dare u say no one could tell the difference)

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-mimicry

Firehouse 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.

Kix is for the people

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

I will not listen to this slander of the authors of Demon Bell (The Ballad of Horace Pinker)*!

Television was my mom and dad
The six o'clock news told me how to be bad
And when you're really bad the ratings go up
That's why this damn country's getting really corrupt, yeaaaah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1bsYkAS02Q

*ballad not included

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.

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”

xxpost lmao i forgot about that song

DEMON BELL
DEE MON BEEEEEELLL

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

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

They're still around. Playing North Tonawanda, NY in two days.

Still Boring ‘24 tour

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.

other topics of interest prompted by Vevo

Trixster “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=GmxK9CS3RV0

DISCUSS THIS ENTIRE VIDEO it is so hilarious and weird
if Sykes didn’t come up with the concept himself i’d be very surprised

Her hair - so straight and golden, right out of a shampoo commercial
His hair - gigantic and fluffy like a Muppet sheepdog

the ponytail! SO funny, i loled

wait til he sings in the rain

its like I Still Believe 2.0

also xposts to me i meant Trixster GIVE IT TO ME GOOD
not Dont Treat Me Bad
i have firehouse brainworms