Glam Metal / Hair Metal -

[RichardMongler]

The title says it all. Share songs from your favorite Glam bands!

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

 

[ShittyRecolor]

Dedicated to Dobson (also, Andy Timmons is GOD):

 

[LiveFromNS]

OK! Here is a start from my end. I was in my mid to late teens during the glory years when metal ruled the land. So all these songs were coming out just as I was at that right age, <cough> <cough> . Got to see a few of these acts in their heyday. Good music, I still every so often get the air guitar out and rock out to a few hours of early to late 80s metal.

So join with me, and...

 

[LiveFromNS]

Part 2

 

[Dysnomia]

This is the first video I ever saw on MTV. I've always had a soft spot for poison. Some people say C.C.'s guitar playing is obnoxious and bad. But it fits the band's style. Plus he's actually a classically trained musician and is more talented than people give him credit for. He was colossally coked up during the 80s and 90s. There's no way anyone could have that kind of insane energy without copious amounts of nose candy. This led to him being fired after a disastrous performance at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/p...t-mtv-video-music-awards-1991-cocaine-0981172

Poison weren't exactly the coolest band in the world in 1991, and their disastrous performance at the MTV Video Music Awards that year did little to earn them new fans. The were supposed to play "Unskinny Bop," but guitarist C.C. DeVille – then in the midst of a horrible cocaine addiction – went into "Talk Dirty to Me" instead. At one point, his guitar became completely unplugged. It was a huge moment for the band, and they absolutely blew it. Bret Michaels and C.C. had a huge fight backstage, and the guitarist was fired. He returned five years later.

Sad but epic at the same time.

Bobby Dall looks like a grandpa now.

Young, thin Vince Neil. Still waiting for him to lose a foot to the beetus. It's inevitable at this point. He's been singing every third word for years. Probably has an oxygen tank backstage.

I think this is Motley Crue's song.

Some people think this video looks bad. But I always thought it was cool. Matthew Trippe claimed that it was him and not Nikki Sixx in the video. I think there may be some credibility in his story about playing Nikki Sixx for a short time. Possibly in a photoshoot or appearance somewhere. There are people that swear up and down this did happen. Plus you have to take into account the striped suit and the professional level tattoos. But I think he ended up overblowing his story to gigantic proportions. It was rumored that he had undiagnosed autism. So there you go.

I think that even without Nirvana putting out Nevermind the hair metal scene was heading towards collapse. MTV was still playing hair metal when grunge hit big. But eventually it petered out more and more. Some bands were still making good money for a few years. But yeah, it was pretty much over.

I think I enjoyed this kind of music more though. It as more exciting than the grunge and alternative scene, which got a bit boring. More of those guys ended up self destructing than the hair metal guys who should have been dead in a ditch with needles sticking out of them. It's very surprising. I guess the scenes and the generation were just too different.

It's a shame what happened to Jani Lane. Being found dead of alcohol poisoning in a hotel room. But it was probably inevitable. Dog Eat Dog was criminally underrated. It just came out at such a bad time for a Warrant album.

 

[LiveFromNS]

Yeah, lots of good shit posted! I like Dokken a lot, so glad to see others do too! Trying not to post too much from bands you guys are covering. Or else Dokken would be up there! Here are some more of my favs. So turn it up muthafuckers!!
Remember when KC cam,e out, compared to Zep hard. But they had some good tunes I thought. This one rocks me out for some reason! LOL

Yngwie was more metal but the Odyssey LP with JLT was good and I consider somewhat hair metal. This song for example:

Same with JS. Hair metal because...well he had hair at that point!

White Lion were kind of wimpy, but when I saw this video, it impressed me. So, yeah, a little bit soft metal for my liking. Except for this song.

Ditto Winger. I remember seeing Metallica on the Black LP tour and the pre-show video they played had a scene where they were throwing darts at Kip! LOL He was a bit much in the Seventeen vid. But I liked their sound a bit and he had a diff voice. The followup was same kind of pop metal, but then the next LP came out in 91 I think, and man, it blew me away. Way harder. That is one of my favorite LPs from that glory period of 83-90 or so. The LP is Pull, and trust me, listen to Seventeen and then that entire LP and you will get my point. Anyway, here is one of the better tracks from it. Cooks too!

Anyway, as @Dysnomia mentioned, grunge came along, then metal sadly joined the other aeons of music that have come and gone. But after the Psychedelic period, the hair metal era is my second favorite. I guess living it in real time helped. I had the long hair, wore the denim and leather, had the spiked wristband etc. Ate lots of magic mushrooms on pizza, in tea, dropped Blue Star, Purple Microdot, Orange Doublebarrel LSD. Did cartoon blotter acid a few times. It was a fucking good time! LOL And the music was perfect!

Ever since that metal era ended, I haven't listened to any new music for the most part. A handful of newer musical acts is all I like. I have my solid core of music and groups I like, I just don't need anything else. I get serious enjoyment out of my interests, which include almost every band posted in this thread!!

For my tastes, most of the current "music" sucks balls and is horseshit. I know there are a lot of minor and independent music that would be great, but crap rules the airwaves now. I don't even call it music. Its manufactured entertainment. Music is like the above acts or groups like Floyd, Hendrix, Santana all those bands that just got up and played. No BS shake your ass nonsense, just rock out and jam!

Anyway, glad to see some headbangers are still defending the faith on KF!

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Cinderella - Nobody's Fool

Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Boyz Are Gonna Rock

Y&T Summertime Girls

Saxon - Ride Like the Wind

TRIUMPH - Fight the Good Fight (Live in HALIFAX)

Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe

W.A.S.P. Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)

Whether or not WASP works, dunno. But I like 'em and they were there.

The Power Station - Get It On (Bang A Gong)

This one might be pushing the definition of "glam metal," but screw it, I like it.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Judas Priest - Turbo Lover

I have a friend who is a Priest fanatic. Hates this album with a passion. I think a lot of Judas Priest purists do. Meh, kinda like it myself. Normally wouldn't put them in the glam category.

Kingdom Come - Get It On

The second coming of Led Zeppelin. Or not.

LA Guns - Electric Gypsy

I think Axl Rose was in this group for a bit. Too lazy to look it up.

Warlock - All We Are

Autograph - Turn Up the Radio

Can't find a decent version of Lita Ford's Kiss Me Deadly. Swear there was an "official" video made. Best I can do.

Would we put Queensrÿche in the category or not? Yes they have the umlaut thing going on, but I kind think they're too serious thematically for Glam, of whatever flavor.

 

[LiveFromNS]

There was an official Lita vid for that song. I probably have about 6 or 7 VHS tapes that are filled with MM videos that I taped during the 80s. I do remember there is a vid for that song and its prob on one of the tapes.

I was at that Triumph concert in the video! Saw them on that tour (TSoK) and the Thunder 7 tour in Halifax.

Does anyone remember Thor from Canada? I remember him on MM being interviewed, doing this:

I agree about Queensryche. They were on the periphery to me when it comes to hair metal. A few bands were like that, not really hair/glam, but not "heavy" metal ala Priest, Maiden etc. But Empire was my fav LP.

WASP is one of my big favs. When they did Blind in Texas, Wild Child etc. that LP was kind of hair/glam. I thought the Crimson Idol was a top LP, although Blackie leaned a bit heavily on the Who/Tommy/Quadrophenia.. But he did thank Pete Townshend in the liner notes at least! Crimson is a good heavy metal rock opera. The Neon God Parts 1 and 2 are ok too.

 

[RichardMongler]

There was an official Lita vid for that song. I probably have about 6 or 7 VHS tapes that are filled with MM videos that I taped during the 80s. I do remember there is a vid for that song and its prob on one of the tapes.

I was at that Triumph concert in the video! Saw them on that tour (TSoK) and the Thunder 7 tour in Halifax.

Does anyone remember Thor from Canada? I remember him on MM being interviewed, doing this:

I agree about Queensryche. They were on the periphery to me when it comes to hair metal. A few bands were like that, not really hair/glam, but not "heavy" metal ala Priest, Maiden etc. But Empire was my fav LP.

WASP is one of my big favs. When they did Blind in Texas, Wild Child etc. that LP was kind of hair/glam. I thought the Crimson Idol was a top LP, although Blackie leaned a bit heavily on the Who/Tommy/Quadrophenia.. But he did thank Pete Townshend in the liner notes at least! Crimson is a good heavy metal rock opera. The Neon God Parts 1 and 2 are ok too.

Early Queensrÿche was pretty heavy. They started doing Hard Rock ballads by the time they released "Empire" and, boy, was it a descent into mediocrity for every subsequent album. "Promised Land" was okay, but "Hear in the Now Frontier" was awful.

 

[Christopher Robin]

Great thread, but needs more real music

 

[AnOminous]

Would we put Queensrÿche in the category or not? Yes they have the umlaut thing going on, but I kind think they're too serious thematically for Glam, of whatever flavor.

They were almost heavy concept rather than heavy metal. Particularly Operation: Mindcrime.

At the same time, though, they definitely have the hair going on.

 

[QE 757]

Hair metal doesn't get any better from this :

This is perhaps half hair metal,half arena rock :

 

[sbm1990]

^Criminally underrated Skid Row song.

Even Pantera, the stereotypical "tough guy" metal band had a glam metal past, and an awesome one at that.

A couple more of my personal favorites.

 

[The Great Citracett]

Catchy Russian hair metal, it's not Cousin Olaf singing Berserker but it's close enough. Coming from Russia once the Berlin wall fell, they were seen as something like musical goodwill ambassadors and got quite a bit of promotion because of their novelty. They never really made it big though.

A few years ago there was a guy on my local Craigslist selling an original officially licensed Kramer Gorky Park triangle guitar for like $200. Looked just like the one in the video. Had the band logo on it and came with its own special case. I never knew such a thing existed, let alone that there was ever a demand for them. I kinda wish I'd bought it.

 

[LiveFromNS]

Can't find a decent version of Lita Ford's Kiss Me Deadly. Swear there was an "official" video made. Best I can do.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Thanks for the link, bu tit is blocked in the US, sadly. And kind of curiously, given how old that song is. 1987 or '88, IIRC.

 

[RichardMongler]

Wanna know what Alice in Chains and Pantera have in common? Both used to be Glam bands:

 

[Dick Pooman]

I love me some god damn Glam Metal. I also love me some god damn Jap Glam Metal.