I hate grunge.

Trollheart · 05-01-2018, 08:21 PM

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Do you make them do ballet in their spandex? If you did, do you call it a "Spandex Ballet?"

****ing brilliant!

The Batlord · 05-01-2018, 03:56 PM

Why do you think Spider-Man is so fond of it?

Black Francis · 05-01-2018, 04:02 PM

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Well, that's why all my clothes are spandex.

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Why do you think Spider-Man is so fond of it?

This just proves only freaks wear spandex.

The Batlord · 05-01-2018, 04:10 PM

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This just proves only freaks wear spandex.

Okay, J Jonah Jameson.

Black Francis · 05-01-2018, 04:17 PM

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Okay, J Jonah Jameson.

Okay guy who likes guys in spandex.

Oriphiel · 05-01-2018, 04:18 PM

C'mon, Nick. I love Hair Metal, but shit like Guns n Roses and Bon Jovi were just shitty knockoffs of Nazareth. They literally stole their whole sound from them, and made it wimpier. You go listen to Razamanaz and tell me that GnR didn't spend their whole careers jerking off to that shit.

Nick1976 · 05-01-2018, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel

C'mon, Nick. I love Hair Metal, but shit like Guns n Roses and Bon Jovi were just shitty knockoffs of Nazareth. They literally stole their whole sound from them, and made it wimpier. You go listen to Razamanaz and tell me that GnR didn't spend their whole careers jerking off to that shit.

Axl said Nazareths Love Hurts was the song that got him singing in his higher register. And he was also a fan of Grand Funk. Sang Bad Time before SCO'M at alot of the shows on the UYI tour. And i think GNR covered them in '85 or '86 also. Pretty sure Slash was a fan of UFOs Strangers album too. I know that UFO, Zepplin, Aerosmith, Sabbath were big influences on Slash but they were not the only ones. As far as the other guys there were many bands that influenced them to become interested in playing music. I know that Izzy had different kinds of influences some for the way the band looked and some for the way the band sounded. I guess you can say that the NY Dolls and Hanoi Rocks had something to do with the way Izzy used to look but in the end it was a mix or Rock Hard Rock Punk and blues that rubbed off on the guys and they each put in something that ended up being park of the puzzle that made GNR work the way they did.Blues rock was a key part in their sound, especially for Slash who idolised a lot of blues rock bands and artists. They’re songs on AFD have a punk energy around them (as well as the band’s 80s and early 90s attitude), but I wouldn’t consider them a punk rock band. Actually, their album THE SPAGHETTI INCIDENT is a significantly punk rock cover album. They blended a lot of different styles, pulling from the Stones, Alice Cooper, FEAR, the Crue, Aerosmith, Dillon. Slash played blues, Duff was a punk guy, Izzy had some folk influence, and Axl… well it depended on the day, but he idolized Copper and Jagger, but even consulted Skynard albums to find the right feel for his tracks.

Nick1976 · 05-05-2018, 05:42 PM

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Bet you thought I'd ignored this post! I just bookmarked it and then failed multiple times to get through all the posted tracks. Now I've finally got a semi-proper reply for you.

Tottally confess to not liking this one. Sometimes sounded as if Bon Jovi had gone prog or something. Some nice chord progressions, but not something I'd imagine to be anything unusual for the genre. Just didn't grab me. Felt kind of watered down. Interestingly, upon googling the album, I came upon a prog forum where this very album album was discussed as a change of style for the band in question and it seemed to be kind of divisive.

I spotted the prog metal! It sometimes sounds like Dream Theater minus the annoying parts, but that's a cheap way to describe the band. Not hugely into the chorus, but there's some nice bits and I could totally listen to this without clawing my eyes out.

When I finally get back to Marillion's music some day, I'll focus on their newer material. This song does have some nice parts but... Oh man... the vocalist is killing me and some of the musical passages are as fruity as a large bowl of Skittles.

Didn't really grab me. There was some nice guitar playing here and there though. The singer was my least favorite bit. I liked it a bit more when it picked up late in the track. The guitar section from 6:23 and a bit forward had some really neat stylings that didn't immediately remind me of any other guitarist.
Unlike most on this list, I've never heard about this band and this song is all I know.

Not bad, but my mind is wandering. If prog can't keep my undivided attention, that's a bad sign. Most music I like can hold my attention, even the pop music I like. Yeah yeah, pearls before swine, etcetera.

I really, honestly hate Rush.

Checked it out in another thread and it bores me. BUT! Their older stuff turns out to be more to my liking.

Prog fan: "What don't you like about prog rock?"
Me: [posts link to Genesis Wikipedia page]

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel

C'mon, Nick. I love Hair Metal, but shit like Guns n Roses and Bon Jovi were just shitty knockoffs of Nazareth. They literally stole their whole sound from them, and made it wimpier. You go listen to Razamanaz and tell me that GnR didn't spend their whole careers jerking off to that shit.

Glam Metal is a tolerable term. Hair Metal is completely crucifying. Perhaps, some day, a writer will refer to Punk as Snot Rock and have that linger for decades. Nobody called this music "hair metal" in the early 80s...or the mid 80s...or the late 80s... or the early 90s in fact I never heard it until the mid 90s and I definitely don't recognize it as an actual musical term. It's a b.s. phrase cooked up as a derogatory comment. The holy trinity of glam metal influences are as follows:
1) Van Halen--Biggest contributions: guitar technique, frontman persona, background vocal style.
2) KISS--Biggest contributions--stage design and pyrotechnics, lyrics about decadent rock lifestyle, template for making heavy songs poppy.
3) Cheap Trick--Biggest contributions: outlandish guitar designs, strong pop melodies, adding mugging goofiness to heavy rock, prototypical "pretty" blonde male singer.

Other major influences in creating the style would include Aerosmith, AC/DC, New York Dolls, Sweet, and of course Led Zep and Deep Purple. I would go further and say that Van Halen may be to metal what the Velvet Underground was to alternative rock. They literally launched several sub-genres of metal on their own. There were very few viable metal acts prior to Van Halen's first album. Within 3-4 years, metal was all over the place, with most of the bands bearing much more of a resemblance to Van Halen than Black Sabbath, although many of these acts that followed also owed a heavy debt to Judas Priest. Van Halen inspired the US metal stuff. They also inspired a legion of guitarists. Their influence remained on all the hard rock/glam rock/glam metal/stuff to get your girlfriend wet stuff the major labels and MTV loved. Also Michael Schenker was a huge influence on glam metal. You don't get that 8th note riff style being so prominent in the music without him. In that sense, I think a lot of 80s heavy metal guitarists grew up on UFO.

But also big influence on metal was still British. Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Venom, Motorhead and rest of NWOBHM which inspired the thrash movement.

OccultHawk · 05-01-2018, 06:18 PM

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Skynard

Really?

**** you. I’m sick of this ****ing thread.

Oriphiel · 05-01-2018, 06:32 PM

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