Favorite Hair Metal Band

• Speedofsand

  

  Here is an 80's - 90's band that kicked ass. Stranger rocked many a Spring Breaker in their day. They were/are really good friends of mine. They had a handful of cd's. They were a fun band and had fun when they entertained a crowd. They could party like no other guys I knew. The bass player and singer still play, The Greg Billings Band out of Tampa.
  
  2 of Stranger's biggest tunes rocked hard , these are from Spring Break 1990 in Daytona Beach
  
  Okeechobee Whiskey
  
  
  Swamp Woman
  
• Tinkertrain

  darbypitcher22 wrote: That grunge stuff just wasn't fun to listen to... just really morose all of the time

  Yes because they sang about real thing's in life instead of objectifying women and sleezy cheesy song's about having a good time. Grunge was a direct response to everything that generation hated about the generation the proceeded them.
• tcarrier32

  

  if push came to shove, i would admit that Pantera was a glam metal band at its true beginnings, and i love me some Pantera
• Tinkertrain

  Pantera's glam day's are a disgrace to metal but they redeemed themselves by producing something worthwhile.
• Upper90

  I honestly think, and I could write a very long, fact based piece that I'll spare all of you, that hair metal would have died whether grunge came along or not. The hair metal fanatics just needed someone to pin that one on, and it just so happened that grunge was there.
  
  Hair Metal as it was, wouldn't have lasted much past 1993 or so. The musicianship wasn't there, the songwriting wasn't there....that's really what the 90's seemed to pull back towards.
• Tinkertrain

  Bingo upper90
• capninsano

  Def Leppard
  Poison
  Whitesnake
  Twisted Sister
  Motley Crue
  Judas Priest
  Van Halen
• charliehustle14

  Yeah, I agree Upper. Hair metal would have flamed out one way or another. Mostly just because people would get tired of it and expand their musical horizons eventually. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll only get you so far...eventually, you have to start writing music based on reality.
• CenterBHSFan

  

  Oh you guys! They all did whatever got them into a deal. Including bands like GnR.
  
  
  
  And if the companies wanted makeup, they put on makeup.
  If they wanted hairspray hair, they got that too.
• Heretic

  

  Upper90 wrote: I honestly think, and I could write a very long, fact based piece that I'll spare all of you, that hair metal would have died whether grunge came along or not. The hair metal fanatics just needed someone to pin that one on, and it just so happened that grunge was there.
  
  Hair Metal as it was, wouldn't have lasted much past 1993 or so. The musicianship wasn't there, the songwriting wasn't there....that's really what the 90's seemed to pull back towards.

  I agree with that. Hair metal was essentially sex, drugs and rock with a particular sound... And when you limit yourself that much, you're not going to have a huge shelf life. I'd say my favorite of that genre might have been Ratt. They essentially released the same album over and over with as little deviation as possible. Even a fan of that sound will get tired of it eventually and want some versatility. And these groups weren't equipped with the ability to proficiently change their angle. When the grunge era started, a number of them went for a more serious angle. Those albums pretty much universally flopped when you compare them to the "heyday" ones.
• nc52

  

  quiet riot
  the godz
  
  nirvana may have had a lot to do with killing hair metal but they backed it up with nothing but shit
• Strapping Young Lad

  

  "hair metal" was pop music, MTV and bullshit, no substance, and that's why many shallow people loved it (I did too, but I was in 3rd grd. and dropped it for Nirvana's Nevermind and the Low End Theory in 5th grd.)
  
  ....it shouldn't be allowed to have the distinction of calling itself metal.
• nc52

  

  i can live with that but the only way nirvana had any substance was through a needle. cobain mumbled most of the time. his wife's band was better
• ZeroCool

  AYE!
• ZeroCool

  my favs are
  
  1 Poison best ever
  2 Motley Crue
  
  and the rest of my collection:
  motley crue
  poison
  def leppard
  ratt
  dokken
  skid row
  van halen
  bon jovi
  britny fox
  cinderella
  journey
  styx
  scorpions
  tesla
  white lion
  whitesnake
  warrant
  ugly kid joe
  twisted sister
  slaughter
  reo speedwagon
  quiet riot
  night ranger
  loverboy
  guns n roses
  great white
  foreigner
  europe
  autograph
  trixter
  l a guns
  steelheart
  
  grunge sucks!
  
  the hair/glam metal era was great. this was back when mtv was actually worth watching. the songs were fun and we all knew it. it was a chance to put on some headphones and lose yourself in the music. some were one hit wonders but thats better than a never was. the serious bs of the 90's and still today sickens me. nickelback reminds me of these hair metal bands. nothing better than a power ballad to set the mood!
• darbypitcher22

  

  You all say that Hair Metal was shit but none of you can explain why Grunge died and none of those bands are still out there performing and releasing new material. Def Leppard has had new material over the last few years, RATT is set to drop an album in 2010
• tiger1990

  Motley Crue is my pick - the end all/be all of hair bands
• Riders12

  Def leppard
  Motley crue
  V.H.
• visionquest

  I didn't read much in here...so, if someone pointed this out, I apologize, but Guns and Roses is NOT hair metal as it's been strictly defined. For those of you that would point to the "welcome to the jungle" video as proof of their hair metal credence, I'd point out that it's been well established that they were taking the piss out of hair metal when they made that video. GnR is simply a rock band that put out the greatest rock album ever in "appetite for destruction". Pure rock that is.
• krazie45

  

  They also put out another classic album in Use Your Illusion I and II. First album I believe to ever debut at #1 and #2. I would also agree that GNR is not hair metal
• Tinkertrain

  darbypitcher22 wrote: You all say that Hair Metal was shit but none of you can explain why Grunge died and none of those bands are still out there performing and releasing new material. Def Leppard has had new material over the last few years, RATT is set to drop an album in 2010

  When you open your mouth about music does stupid just poor out naturally or do you have to work at it? After reading that post it's no wonder you listen to the most brain dead form of music ever to be created.
  
  Alice in Chains- New Album + Tour
  Pearl Jam- New Album + Tour
  Stone Temple Pilots- Recording + Tour Planned
  Nirvana- Well Kurt's dead
  Smashing Pumpkins- Recording + Recently Toured
  Mudhoney- Recording and touring regularly
  Hole- I'm not quite sure what Cortney Love is doing now? I'd imagine it's some kind of drug though.
  The Melvins- Grunge originator's...... still touring
• osudarby08

  

  ^owned. Glam should NEVER EVER be considered metal.
• thavoice

  I still rock out to Dokken......its my fav channel i created on Pandora.
• ricola

  

  Bay City Rollers
• CenterBHSFan

  

  All arguments would be fine if there was a "one true definition" of rock/metal. But there is not. Definitions are subjective.