Originally Posted by Nick1976

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbWTOTlvV-I I bought Adrenalize at a midnight sale on it's release day. It debuted at # 1 in the states and sold over 3 million. Let's Get Rocked is an earworm that was in my head probably all of 1992 as it was everywhere. Tonight, Stand Up, and Tear It Down are my favorites on the album. I've always loved it, even if not as much as some of their other albums. Given they were dealing with the loss of one of their founding guitarists, the pressure to compete with the success of Hysteria, and that it came out at the height of the grunge movement, it's speaks volumes that the album came out as well as it did - both artistically, and commercially. I was 16 in 1992 and in high school, and it was very popular. Nirvana and the like came across as very amateurish at that time. Something any kid in school could do in their garage. My high school was all about the Use Your Illusions and the Black Album at the time, but Soundgarden and AIC were getting up there. I really liked Adrenalize when it came out, I still like it, but obviously it doesn't measure up to the standard set by Pyromania and even more so, Hysteria. It did sound like Hysteria part II, but without the refinement and finesse of its predecessor.

I actually think it had been regarded a bit higher (and sold better), had it come out a year earlier before Metallica, Use Your Illusion and Nirvana and what have you. Still, it spent 5 weeks atop the Billboard Top 200, shipped triple platinum in two months or so, spawned five Top 100 hit singles and saw the band's longest ever tour (241 dates playing to over two Million people). Ended up selling 3 million in the states and not all of that was in the month of April. I think it sounded current throughout the summer and fall. Make Love Like A Man got heavy rotation on Mtv that summer and Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad got a lot of radio play that Fall. Bon Jovi's Keep the Faith album came out in Nov and went double platinum into 1993. Of course these figures are far less than Leppard and Jovi had sold with previous outings and it was clear only their strongest fans were buying these but at least they still had that base.

Originally Posted by Nick1976

I'm a "non-ironic" fan of 80s hair metal - so I've never quite bought into Steel Panther. The whole 'wink wink we're actually serious musicians' aspect is what ruins Steel Panther for me. It's too slick, too professional. They want to be taken seriously as a band while at the same time saying it's all a parody. They started as a live comedy/metal show on the Strip and called themselves "Metal Skool." They were playing for YEARS before making any albums as "Steel Panther." They'd play every Monday night at one of the famed clubs on Sunset and people like Vince Neil or P!nk would come up and sing with them. It just got bigger and bigger. Then the albums and tours came. But this has always been satire of the R and X-rated side of the 80's metal world. A "PG" version of it isn't the same. Spinal Tap is Spinal Tap

Originally Posted by The Sane Psycho

Yeah, I mentioned Weezer like 30 times in this thread and he just ignores it. Then again, I have an obnoxious habit of never shutting the **** up about Weezer, so perhaps he's justified.

Originally Posted by Nick1976

i'll respect Weezer first two albums for being important, and their debut was actually kinda good, but after that they can **** off.

Originally Posted by The Sane Psycho

Also, Rivers definitely could shred. Listen to Tired Of Sex or Only In Dreams if you don't believe me. Or check out his first band, Avant Garde. He was a metal guitarist before Weezer existed.

These last two posts are directed @MicShazaam btw

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

No doubt about all three of those bands being overrated but Nirvana is much better than the other two. Smells Like Teen Spirit is a great anthem. Tool and Kanye are ****ing worthless.

Originally Posted by The Sane Psycho

Well played, TROLLheart. More like Dick1976 amirite? But I did mention Weezer a couple of times. I'll quote the posts when I'm not being a lazy piece of ****.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

I know. I'm just pullin' your chain.

Originally Posted by The Sane Psycho

Ooh, kinky! Just the way I like it, daddy!