Glam Rock/Metal Appreciation thread

[MetalBlade]

Sorry, been on a glam kick lately. So let's appreciate some of the best bands. What's your favorite glam band? Glam album? Song?

Fav glam band = Poison
Glam Album = Skid Row - S/t
Song = I can name a few dozen

Here are my top 3 though:

1.Cinderella - Back Home Again
2. Dokken - Tooth and Nail
3. Skid Row - 18 and Life

 

[Z500]

pantera's hair metal stuff wasn't bad. i haven't heard Projects in the Jungle, but the singer on I Am the Night just sounded ridiculous

 

[MetalBlade]

pantera's hair metal stuff wasn't bad. i haven't heard Projects in the Jungle, but the singer on I Am the Night just sounded ridiculous

haha Terry Glaze! He's awesome! Yeah Pantera's old-old-stuff rules. Projects in the Jungle is one of my fav Pantera albums. Great choice!

 

[MoreInSorrow]

You can never go wrong with Poison, Motley Crue, or Skid Row (old stuff, that is).

 

[Qyöt27]

I have a particular weakness for the stuff. There's just too many to pick from, though.

 

[absolutely_lost_86]

gotta love 18 and Life,, thts a classic. i love the glam,,, Stryper, Motley Crue, Skid Row, Quiet Riot.

i love metal health - QR, too young to fall in love - crue, youth gone wild,, thts a mad song

 

[MetalBlade]

gotta love 18 and Life,, thts a classic. i love the glam,,, Stryper, Motley Crue, Skid Row, Quiet Riot.

i love metal health - QR, too young to fall in love - crue, youth gone wild,, thts a mad song

Those are some good ones. Stryper rules as well. I got the original To Hell With The Devil cover lp hanging on my wall in one of those glass frames!

 

[MoreInSorrow]

Those are some good ones. Stryper rules as well. I got the original To Hell With The Devil cover lp hanging on my wall in one of those glass frames!

Nice.

I actually went to see their reunion tour last year.......I was smiling the whole time. Awesome.

 

[imawebmonkey]

Ratt, Motley Crue, Poison, Kiss, Dokken

 

[foo-oswald]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and give my opinion very strongly.

*climbs up on soapbox*

There would be no such thing as hair-metal or glam-metal without Def Leppard. When Pyromania was released in '83, nobody was doing the "huge-sounding-drums-and-polished-background-vocals" thing. After Pyromania, everybody hopped on that bandwagon, and hair-metal was born.

Think about all the glam-metal bands that came after the Pyromania record was released: Dokken, Poison, Cinderella, Scorpions, Vixen, Ratt, Slaughter, Warrant, Faster Pussycat, Firehouse, Kix, Guns N Roses, Danger Danger, Trixter, Winger, Britney Fox; etc.

Def Leppard- helped by Mutt Lange's production, of course- became the benchmark...

*climbs down off of soapbox*

 

[thenewageriseth]

Yeah. I like "Come on, Feel The Noise". Harmonic, a little. Funny... although I learned it was not Quiet Riot's song but their version of Twisted Sister's song, and that other song called "Wer'e Not Gonna Take It" is funny. Twisted Sister does look twisted.

 

[MetalBlade]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and give my opinion very strongly.

*climbs up on soapbox*

There would be no such thing as hair-metal or glam-metal without Def Leppard. When Pyromania was released in '83, nobody was doing the "huge-sounding-drums-and-polished-background-vocals" thing. After Pyromania, everybody hopped on that bandwagon, and hair-metal was born.

Think about all the glam-metal bands that came after the Pyromania record was released: Dokken, Poison, Cinderella, Scorpions, Vixen, Ratt, Slaughter, Warrant, Faster Pussycat, Firehouse, Kix, Guns N Roses, Danger Danger, Trixter, Winger, Britney Fox; etc.

Def Leppard- helped by Mutt Lange's production, of course- became the benchmark...

*climbs down off of soapbox*

well said. Yeah I think Def Leppard really capitalized on that sound, and paved the way for most bands. You have to remember that Def Leppard was, at first, a NWOBHM (new wave of british heavy metal) band.

 

[imawebmonkey]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and give my opinion very strongly.

*climbs up on soapbox*

There would be no such thing as hair-metal or glam-metal without Def Leppard. When Pyromania was released in '83, nobody was doing the "huge-sounding-drums-and-polished-background-vocals" thing. After Pyromania, everybody hopped on that bandwagon, and hair-metal was born.

Think about all the glam-metal bands that came after the Pyromania record was released: Dokken, Poison, Cinderella, Scorpions, Vixen, Ratt, Slaughter, Warrant, Faster Pussycat, Firehouse, Kix, Guns N Roses, Danger Danger, Trixter, Winger, Britney Fox; etc.

Def Leppard- helped by Mutt Lange's production, of course- became the benchmark...

*climbs down off of soapbox*

Def Leppard has been one of my all time fave bands since Pyromania's release. I never really lumped them in the hair metal category although I don't know why. They sure had enough hair in the early 80's.

 

[cygnusx1]

T.REX and The Sweet were the best of Glam Rock .


some think Queen fit that catagory ......... I think Queen were a thousand times higher and more complex than that.

 

[absolutely_lost_86]

Yeah. I like "Come on, Feel The Noise". Harmonic, a little. Funny... although I learned it was not Quiet Riot's song but their version of Twisted Sister's song, and that other song called "Wer'e Not Gonna Take It" is funny. Twisted Sister does look twisted.

na it was actually a cover of Slade's "Come on, Feel The Noise". same lyrics, they just made it more metal

 

[fish_eyes]

uh i'm oblivious is nirvana and guns n roses csidered that cause i like them.....*laughs in emberassment

 

[foo-oswald]

uh i'm oblivious is nirvana and guns n roses csidered that cause i like them.....*laughs in emberassment

Guns N Roses: Hair Metal
Nirvana: Grunge Rock

 

[Oblivious]

uh i'm oblivious is nirvana and guns n roses csidered that cause i like them.....*laughs in emberassment

IMO Nirvana and the other grunge bands killed the hair band era.

I love metal - Cinderalla, Def Leppard, Queensryche are some of my favs.

 

[MetalBlade]

uh i'm oblivious is nirvana and guns n roses csidered that cause i like them.....*laughs in emberassment

I really hope you know better!

Actually Guns N'Roses is not hair metal. Maybe there real early stuff, but they started to stear the way for 90's hard rock. And Nirvana is grunge/alternative, this is what killed hair metal!!!

 

[foo-oswald]

Actually Guns N'Roses is not hair metal.

Peace & love, MetalBlade, but, trust me on this one. GNR was hair metal.

Watch the videos for Welcome To The Jungle, Sweet Child Of Mine, Patience, or Paradise City, and you'll see what I mean. Wall-to-wall "mall-bangs", man...

Granted, the Use You Illusion records were sort-of a blend of late-80's-glam and early-90's-grunge, but GNR will always be associated with hairspray-rock...