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Favorite Hair Metal Band

  • darbypitcher22
    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
    GNR
    Def Leppard
    Poison
  • charliehustle14
    Skid Row and Motley Crue

    Don't really care for the rest of it.
  • fish82
    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
    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.
  • Arapahoe
    Guns N' Roses
    Skid Row
    Poison
    L.A. Guns
    Motley Crue
    Ratt
    Dokken

    all great bands. the '80s had some of the best music.
  • Tinkertrain
    nirvana
  • GoChiefs
    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! :D
  • GoChiefs
    Tinkertrain wrote: nirvana
    Not hair metal..grunge. Screw Nirvana! They killed the best damn genre of music ever! Lol
  • Thee Dogs
    Bullet Boys - smooth up in ya
    Jackyl - the lumberjack
  • charliehustle14
    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
    I'm in the minority..I've never actually liked GnR.
  • tigerballonline
    No doubt Nirvana put an end to rock as it was known in the 80's and early 90's.
  • darbypitcher22
    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
    That's because some of us can't let go of our past. :D
  • darbypitcher22
    which is a totally great thing :) :)
  • Strapping Young Lad
    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
    Fuck Nirvana.
  • GoChiefs
    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.
  • charliehustle14
    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
    darbypitcher22 wrote: Fuck Nirvana.
    I'll 3rd it....motion carried. All those in favor say Aye.
  • darbypitcher22
    That grunge stuff just wasn't fun to listen to... just really morose all of the time
  • charliehustle14
    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
    thrash metal>poser hair band "metal"

    go to :30 into the video...classic!
  • osudarby08
    GLAM= Gay LA Metal