One day I hope the mods can merge a 9 page thread into a parent thread that currently has a lively discussion going on just to screw with people.
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Is Europe still big here? Yes, but not as big as they were in the 80s. Primarily because their music was just apart of a sound that was popular at the time? Were all their songs happy? Have you not heard their song "Cherokee"? Pretty much banned in the US if I remember right. Nelson's "After the Rain"? Not very happy. But on the whole , yes, Hair Metal was happy. But maybe people on the whole were not happy or looking for something to identify their generation from the previous one ie Alternative rock. Plus you had alternatives to alternative rock getting mainstream play then such as Industrial..but that is a whole nother subject. Hair Metal was awesome. I am glad you found your genre. You don't have to like all genres of music. (And I am assuming the whole Eurodance phase of the 90s pretty much won't be mentioned here...although that was awesome people! ) |
This is how the people who hate mumble rap sound to me.
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Also add Guns N Roses' "November Rain" as a non-happy song, and don't forget Bon Jovi's entire These Days album. Not a single happy song on that. |
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Everything "Hair Metal" did was first explored by Zeppelin, down to the power ballad structure. I also liked the sincerity and lack of irony in hair metal. When grunge and alternative came in, a sense of irony and we-know-better crept into rock that never really left. Some ugly classism was present in all this too. Metal was the music of lower-class kids (mostly white guys), while grunge and alternative was music that kids from the colleges "approved" of. So college-educated rock critics, for the most part, dismissed the hair bands and offered high-holy praise for grunge. But that just means they could relate to the latter better on a more cultural level; doesn't necessarily mean it was better. The dismissive attitude of critics is a large reason the music isn't thought of highly today. I'll grant you that the other big reason is the ridiculous hair and clothes the groups wore. But, then again, when didn't pop musicians trade in ridiculous styles? Speaking of grunge, its politics might have been more "correct" and the lyrics better. But with a few notable exceptions, the songs themselves were simply not as catchy nor as pop-friendly. Which is why by 1998 we had a new wave of Disney-pop that pretty much wiped rock off the map as a cultural force. Permanently. IMO the 80s/early 90s was the golden era of heavy metal and glam is the most honest genre in all of metal. |
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Maybe he is Eddie Vedder.
Note: my comment about talent didn't (necessarily) refer to anyone other than Warrant. I had the misfortune to listen to their latest, Louder, Faster, Harder, recently, and it's a real misnomer, unless you append to the title "some of the many things this album is not". They're an embarrassment, and they should be forgotten and just **** off. Oh, and... https://media2.giphy.com/media/d2lcHJTG5Tscg/200.gif It should be noted I have no time for grunge bands either: I'm a prog head. But your concerns do not worry me in the slightest. |
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Glam was embarassing and I'm glad it didn't stay in the mainstream. I'd take the pop music that's on the radio now over 80's cock metal any day of the week.
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Theres the European school: Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Budgie, Rainbow, Judas Priest, etc. There's the US school: Van Halen, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Kiss, Alice Cooper, etc. In the 80s the stuff generally considered to be "heavy metal" was bands influenced by the European school and the slightly later NWOBHM offshoot. This extended into newer genres like thrash, doom, power metal (the 80s definition of the term, not the modern definition of the term), etc. Thrash then later begat further offshoots like death metal. The "hair metal" stuff was generally bands influenced by the US school...and mostly Van Halen to be honest. The US school to me has always been right on that cusp of hard rock/heavy metal, generally being more focused on upbeat party rock and stuff that "chicks dig". The influence of Led Zeppelin kind of falls somewhere in between the two schools as Plant's stage presence was a popular influential thing for hair metal vocalists to emulate...if you could mix Plant and Steven Tyler together you basically have every frontman for every commercial metal act during the entire decade. This is of course an over-simplification, but I think it works from a cursory standpoint. If you read interviews with Motley Crue or Ratt during the 80s they always listed bands like Kiss and Aerosmith as primary influences. If you read interviews with bands like Metallica or Slayer they usually mentioned Sabbath, Deep Purple and all the NWOBHM bands. Anybody who thinks hair metal bands didn't care about the music is just ignorant. They cared no more or less than musicians in any other rock genre. Not saying it was all gold, but the implication that because of their appearance they didn't care about the songs is just asinine. Any thought that musicians in thrash or speed metal or just rock bands didn't care about the way they looked is also completely misguided. FWIW, as someone who grew up as a metal kid in the 80s/early 90s the genres weren't nearly as defined as they are now. We'd listen to Metallica or Iron Maiden or Megadeth and then something on the poppier end of the scale - Crue, Warrant, Slaughter, Cinderella, whatever. Yeah some people weren't into the extremes on either end (Firehouse or King Diamond, for example), but for the most part metal was metal and it was all rock. |
The ****? Paragraphs? An actual point worth reading? Keep doing that.
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I actually thought it was going to make a comeback with "I believe in a thing called love"..but that was just a short sputter. Grunge was just that. Grunge. Completely unappolegetic and willing to bring up issues that glam did not (on the whole xcept for a few notable exceptions). Suicide, depression, teenage angst, parental nonchalance. If you look at it from a longterm persepctive, it had been going on in bits and pieces throughout the eighties but didn't really blast onto the scene until the 90s. And those suburbanite teens lapped it up. I think it actually might have continued longer if not for be being associated with suicide/school shootings (remember that there was a kid who shot some of his classmates and his lawyer blamed the video for "Jeremys spoken" for giveing him the idea). Suddenly it wasn't cool anymore to listen to it, major bands didn't seem comfortable that their music was in the spotlight (or at least claiming that), and it began to dissapear. But then came the alternative to grunge starring No Doubt, Smashing Pumpkins, Beck etc. Older bands began having more of a message in their music (more like "Right Now" by Van Halen kind of message not "Macarena"...I don't know what the heck that was but jees was it fun to dance to). And the world was happy again and all was good. Do I have a point? I don't know. I was a 90s kid but I preferred Industrial Goth/swing music/Eurodance at that time. But every type of music adds to the collective time of a period so I can't fault any type of music. Although I do pity the boy bands of the 90s. There was an interview that Howard Stern did with the lead singer of LFO that shows that the whole genre was a bit of a horror show back then. Probably still is. You can find it on youtube. |
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It must be an American thing to a high degree. I swear I've never met a person who (as far as I know) likes any glam bands.
Unless Aerosmith and G&R count. They were both huge here as well, but Motley Crue, Warrant, Poison, Twisted Sister and all those other bands... Never met anyone who cared one bit about them. |
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Actually, I said that hoping you'd come back and say "I don't live in Norway, idiot!" Just a little bit of misplaced stereotyping there. And a joke that fell flat. |
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Yes, he's biased against the lamer joke. Reasonably so.
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It DOESN'T have to be about "death and pain", it can be about love, sex and MONEY. And that "looking like girls" ****, that's what it all about dude! That's what rock has been telling the world from the rise of rock'n roll in the 50's too now, REVOLUTION! Now your REAL metal let no talent mindless gold tooth rappers take over the music industry and the white girls in america. Way to Go!! "Hair" metal was the best for two reasons. 1 it was incredibly fun, and people who would rather listening to screaming **** (which is not music) are obviously disturbed 2. all the music of that generation you could rock out to, you can't rock out to screaming. 3 (whoops there's more) those guys got more girls than anyone. I have seen Pic's of Metallica in the early 80's before they moved to S.F. when they lived in L.A. wearing Blue Spandex - No Lie! It was called metal at the time, not hair metal or anything like that. this means it is metal. It has the same power chords etc, riffs etc, it is metal! W.A.S.P. are the most raw sounding 'glam'(actually read metal as that is what those bands are) band ever. They have songs about taking drugs, love, sex, violence, **** everybody, everything really. Nirvana made everyone forget about talent and ended up creating a fake scene when they were starting off complaining about one. Their biggest hit is a pixies rip off. I say they suck, basically. Creating catchy music requiers talent. Being an average, nu metal ish over-rated **** band doesn't. If there is barely a tune to a song then it is actually very ****, it's as simple as that. 80's metal bricked a foundation for the metal of today. Dude the 80's/early 90s WAS the era of metal! Metal has degraded to a bunch of fat coked up losers whining about how daddy hit him or how much he hates the world and has his little anger issues. Yes many 80's bands dressed like girls but hell that was SHOCKING at the time instead of "How can they draw that" it was "How can they wear that" the era got us out of the 70's disco faze which no one likes. Yeah your life sucks get ****ing used to it metal was all about **** the rules I'm gonna go high and do a hot chick FYI no one in the 80's would have done Courtney Love save for Kurt Cobain. If you look across the Hair-Metal line, you see the rise of Thrash and Death Metal in the early 80's, and the power grab of Black Metal going from the late 80's on. plus Progressive Metal came to be in the late 80's/early 90's too. Point being, 80's was the rise of half the genres of Metal we know today, plus a few of those bands remain after the 90's. By saying hair metal isn't metal is false because it isn't like **** now days, your wrong because when compared to the stuff of its era it really was metal. Glam metal is the real ****..it is music from the streets and portrayals of real events...if drugs girls and cars are thrown in the mix so be it...its all about the experiences they faced in the end.. Compare it to ****ing power metal...all i gotta say is J.K rowling called and she wants her ****ing story back. not to mention the over used solos which leaving you looking at your watch after 20 minutes wondering how ****ing long its gonna take. You know what,bands like Poison, Bon Jovi, and Motley Crue,have made 10 times as much money as any Death metal band. People liked 80's metal because it was fun to play and fun to listen to. You cant have a good time listening to a bunch of pussies whine because they can't get over their problems so they just get pissed and write songs about death. It's true that glam metal is full of over-the-top makeup and a lot of songs are dealing either with sex, either with partying, either women, either love, or even all of that together. But still, music-wise, Glam metal has always had in it ALL the things, that make a song METAL. The riffing is metal. The chord voicings were metal. The soloing is metal. The drumming is metal. Glam metal IS metal, because all it's instrumentation is METAL. Shredding solos that use both modal and bluesy scales? Check. Driving,metallic riffs? Check. Double-bass drumming,cymbal chokes and metallic beats? Check. Strong, booming bass, blasting out metal rhythms and occassional solos? CHECK. Singers with vocal approaches(regardless of the vocal range) like: epic, soaring, operatic, raspy, rocking, controversial, shocking,etc? CHECK!!!! Love it or hate it, but Glam metal IS metal. And A LOT of Glam metal bands had,and still have very good musicians. If one played in a Glam metal band andwanted to "make it", one had to be technically proficient with his/her instrument and work for it. Well, i do admit that it wasn't ONLY about skill and dedication, it also had to do with attracting interest from women(and often having sex with them) and the media,but still, the dedication and skill were and still are the biggest parts of what was and still is required to be successful. |
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Glam metal is only shocking if you're boring and unimaginative.
Have you heard of Shabazz Palaces? Basically a modern day Poison. |
You're definitely after my Wall-of-Text crown, dude! Let's see here...
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