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Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

My taste has always leaned toward hard rock and hot lead guitar.
While most hair bands quickly fell into a rut there were several that I liked and listened to regularly.
Some favorites:
Whitesnake
Skid Row
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Damn Yankees
Night Ranger

I was definitely in the "Disco sucks - support your local rock and roll band"  crowd.


I don't consider Whitesnake as hair metal; they get labeled like that for their late 80s look ('87 & '89), they still were a hard rock band and a damn good one.
Skid Row were hair metal only with their debut, Slave to the Grind and Subhuman Race are metal albums (and NOT in the glam metal/hair bands way if I may say so), both good, especially Slave to the Grind.
Night Ranger are more AOR/melodic rock than hair metal, good band too, especially their 80s albums.
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My taste has always leaned toward hard rock and hot lead guitar.
While most hair bands quickly fell into a rut there were several that I liked and listened to regularly.
Some favorites:
Whitesnake
Skid Row
Lynch Mob
Damn Yankees
Night Ranger

I was definitely in the "Disco sucks - support your local rock and roll band"  crowd.
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I guess I hold them at about the same level– severe indifference.
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hair metal, at least there are a few bands that are ok
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The odd disco track - I mean out and out disco and not just the disco side of funk -  can have a good groove and the odd hair metal song can have a face melting solo that doesn't also melt away from memory but I'd much rather not listen to either.
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I love disco. Especially disco that is more funk-influenced.
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I love this (seriouslyEmbarrassed)
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these dudes are cool
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Hair metal by 39487120948 miles. There are some good songs there (which probably never here has ever heard). Disco? There are decent songs but in general I prefer hair. 


Hey T.  I am 39487120948 miles away from Disco too.  Welcome to the neighborhood. Handshake

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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Hair metal by 39487120948 miles. There are some good songs there (which probably never here has ever heard). Disco? There are decent songs but in general I prefer hair. 


Hey T.  I am 39487120948 miles away from Disco too.  Welcome to the neighborhood. Handshake

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Hair metal by 39487120948 miles. There are some good songs there (which probably never here has ever heard). Disco? There are decent songs but in general I prefer hair. 
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I'm not the biggest fan of disco but it has some great songs, especially the funk inspired variety, Hair Metal is just garbage end of...can't think of one song from that genre that i would listen to.....Disco gets my vote
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is this disco


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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

I don't see disco as a b*****dization of something I love, so that.
so i assume you don't like funk then Wink
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Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Excuse me, but why the hell are you categorizing Earth, Wind & Fire or Chic as "disco" bands? I'm not an expert - and I don't want to sound like one - but I think you're seriously mistaking funk for disco.

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Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Excuse me, but why the hell are you categorizing Earth, Wind & Fire or Chic as "disco" bands? I'm not an expert - and I don't want to sound like one - but I think you're seriously mistaking funk for disco.

because, similarly to Kool & the Gang, they turned to disco. And disco owes a lot to funk actually.


I wonder if disco ever paid his dues to funk.

Anyway, I think I would rather enjoy the early stuff of EWF than their disco period. The "boom-boom-boom-boom" rhythm of disco always annoyed me since the childhood.
 
 
sometimes the frontier between funk & disco were tenuous...
 
Sure they were ultra-binary rhythms, but....
 
Just listen to Chic's Le Freak and find out how much of a killer funk tune that is
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