Archive Favorite Hair Metal Band

darbypitcher22

Posts: 8,000

Nov 23, 2009 1:33pm

Since I'm constantly informed that Hair Metal is not real metal, but its a genre of music I like to listen to, I thought I'd give it its own thread.

I thought that the 80s scene was a great time for music and produced some great bands and songs out of that Sunset Strip/L.A. scene, bands that are still producing music to this day and still on the road performing and doing what they love to do and they're still entertaining.

Some of my favorites:

Poison
RATT
Warrant
Motley Crue
Def Leppard
Whitesnake
Winger
Firehouse

Any other fans out there?

ernest_t_bass

Posts: 24,984

Nov 23, 2009 1:42pm

GNR
Def Leppard
Poison

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charliehustle14

Posts: 2,224

Nov 23, 2009 1:43pm

Skid Row and Motley Crue

Don't really care for the rest of it.

fish82

Posts: 4,111

Nov 23, 2009 1:43pm

darbypitcher22 wrote: Since I'm constantly informed that Hair Metal is not real metal, but its a genre of music I like to listen to, I thought I'd give it its own thread.

I thought that the 80s scene was a great time for music and produced some great bands and songs out of that Sunset Strip/L.A. scene, bands that are still producing music to this day and still on the road performing and doing what they love to do and they're still entertaining.

Some of my favorites:

Poison
RATT
Warrant
Motley Crue
Def Leppard
Whitesnake
Winger
Firehouse

Any other fans out there?

I still have all those guys on my iPod...with the exception of Whitesnake. For some reason, they never really did it for me.

Speedofsand

Posts: 5,529

Nov 23, 2009 1:48pm

good list. I'd add

Quiet Riot
Guns n Roses
Twisted Sister

I used to know all the guys in Warrant when they were 'Dorian Gray'. Joey Allen was one of the most talented musicians I ever met.

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Arapahoe

Posts: 21

Nov 23, 2009 1:51pm

Guns N' Roses
Skid Row
Poison
L.A. Guns
Motley Crue
Ratt
Dokken

all great bands. the '80s had some of the best music.

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Tinkertrain

Posts: 407

Nov 23, 2009 2:08pm

nirvana

GoChiefs

Posts: 16,754

Nov 23, 2009 2:11pm

Kick Axe
Skid Row
Motley Crue
Poison
Damn Yankees
Def Leppard
Scorpions
RATT
Bon Jovi
Cinderella
Quiet Riot
Stryper
Twisted Sister
Warrant
Faster Pussycat
Slaughter
L.A. Guns
White Lion
Winger
Night Ranger
Steelheart
Saigon Kick
Britny Fox
Jackyl

Just to name a few..my favorite kind of music!

GoChiefs

Posts: 16,754

Nov 23, 2009 2:11pm

Tinkertrain wrote: nirvana

Not hair metal..grunge. Screw Nirvana! They killed the best damn genre of music ever! Lol

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Thee Dogs

Posts: 59

Nov 23, 2009 2:37pm

Bullet Boys - smooth up in ya
Jackyl - the lumberjack

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charliehustle14

Posts: 2,224

Nov 23, 2009 4:33pm

If were including GnR in this, then I'd have to add them. Even though I've never considered them hair metal. More just hard rock/punk/heavy metal.

GoChiefs

Posts: 16,754

Nov 23, 2009 5:09pm

I'm in the minority..I've never actually liked GnR.

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tigerballonline

Posts: 125

Nov 23, 2009 5:21pm

No doubt Nirvana put an end to rock as it was known in the 80's and early 90's.

darbypitcher22

Posts: 8,000

Nov 23, 2009 5:30pm

That whole grunge scene killed hair metal, which has had a revival since the late 90's early 2000's, some of the topgrossing tours each sumemr

GoChiefs

Posts: 16,754

Nov 23, 2009 5:31pm

That's because some of us can't let go of our past.

darbypitcher22

Posts: 8,000

Nov 23, 2009 5:32pm

which is a totally great thing

Strapping Young Lad

Posts: 2,453

Nov 23, 2009 5:35pm

God love Nirvana!!! They killed the worst music (hair metal) in history of rock and brought the second coming of the best (punk)...

G'n'R was NOT hair metal....

darbypitcher22

Posts: 8,000

Nov 23, 2009 5:49pm

Fuck Nirvana.

GoChiefs

Posts: 16,754

Nov 23, 2009 5:57pm

darbypitcher22 wrote: Fuck Nirvana.

I'll second that. Never really could get into them. Of course..I never felt like killing myself either. And that's all there music ever made me think of.

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charliehustle14

Posts: 2,224

Nov 23, 2009 6:01pm

Ha, Darby, although Nirvana had a lot to do with it, the entire grunge scene contributed to the collective death of hair metal. Hair metal had to die sometime. People tend to think grunge was basically a bunch of sad dudes who couldn't play their instruments right....but there's a hell of a lot of talent from that era (Grohl, Cobain, Cantrell, Staley, Inez, Veder, Cornell, Arm, The Melvins, etc.) So at least you can live with the fact that hair metal was killed by a troupe of some very talented bands and musicians.

Curly J

Posts: 7,282

Nov 23, 2009 6:01pm

darbypitcher22 wrote: Fuck Nirvana.

I'll 3rd it....motion carried. All those in favor say Aye.

darbypitcher22

Posts: 8,000

Nov 23, 2009 6:05pm

That grunge stuff just wasn't fun to listen to... just really morose all of the time

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charliehustle14

Posts: 2,224

Nov 23, 2009 6:15pm

A lot of the grunge bands were very punk driven. Like with Nirvana, you'd be surprised to find that they did a lot more aggressive punk songs than the melancholy, depressing songs people typically associate with them. Of course those songs never made it to the radio.

osudarby08

Posts: 734

Nov 23, 2009 6:46pm

thrash metal>poser hair band "metal"

go to :30 into the video...classic!

osudarby08

Posts: 734

Nov 23, 2009 6:47pm

GLAM= Gay LA Metal