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3 [4.23%]
1 [1.41%]
5 [7.04%]
4 [5.63%]
2 [2.82%]
2 [2.82%]
10 [14.08%]
2 [2.82%]
5 [7.04%]
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Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.

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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

what's "Hair Metal" anyway?


You don't want to know.
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All quite horrible!
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my favorite ones are brighton rock and white lion
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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

The Crue.

And I always got into the obscure hair metal bands like Bulletboys,Jetboy,Black n Blue,Fastway,etc.

Bon Jovi for me (Slippery and New Jersey are brilliant!), with Motley Crüe a close second.

BTW: I also really liked the Bulletboys - and of course their blueprint band (the MIGHTY Van Halen, which would have won this poll if they had been an option). 
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Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.
We're only in it for the music!!!
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Originally posted by Zenith Zenith wrote:

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.
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Ehm... I personally believe it was that whole 80's Hair Band-trend that gave metal the bad name it still seems to have in certain circles... so:

  

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Originally posted by Zenith Zenith wrote:

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.



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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

The Crue.

And I always got into the obscure hair metal bands like Bulletboys,Jetboy,Black n Blue,Fastway,etc.

Bon Jovi for me (Slippery and New Jersey are brilliant!), with Motley Cr�e a close second.

BTW: I also really liked the Bulletboys - and of course their blueprint band (the MIGHTY Van Halen, which would have won this poll if they had been an option). 



Did you know that the Bulletboys were actually the band King Cobra with a different singer?

And I don't know if they were considered hair metal but did anyone like Jackyl?They kicked some serious ass and Jesse James Dupree had a great rock n roll voice.
 


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of all types of metal, the Air metal (second part of the 80's and mainly LA based but US in general including Guns And Roses , the big absent from this list and maybe the better one of those groups - therefore my choice ) is the emptiest and noisiest, crappiest , hollowest form of metal music.

Don't get me wrong, generally I am not a fan of metal (but I was a metalhead once) , but Airmetal (due to the fact that this was for airheads girls also) was more about make-up and vile attitude than about music.

A bit like the 80's were in general
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I never heard the term "Air Metal" ...  and I don't think that even the worst hair metal bands (Poison are a prime example here IMO) were worse than the typical pop/rock stuff of that time. And albums like Appetite for Destruction, 1984 or Slippery When Wet are simply congenius. These are not really hair metal for me ... that term really just applies to the really "hollow" bands. You can't blame musicians for their haircut!
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

I never heard the term "Air Metal" ...  and I don't think that even the worst hair metal bands (Poison are a prime example here IMO) were worse than the typical pop/rock stuff of that time. And albums like Appetite for Destruction, 1984 or Slippery When Wet are simply congenius. These are not really hair metal for me ... that term really just applies to the really "hollow" bands. You can't blame musicians for their haircut!

hairmetal was quite a fine descrption for these bands as they were of the vacuous and scratching the surface type of group more concerned with their looks (this was very important to get female airheads to their concert and other types of groupîes)

therefore since airheads were getting damp (wet) about the looks, us jealous males into intelligent music got a ridiculous revenge by re-naming it air-metal - which also made reference to the vacuousness of this type of music.

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Points: 1823 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2006 at 06:51
I was the first to vote for Ratt. Congratulations for including them. They normally get overlooked.


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Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

Originally posted by Zenith Zenith wrote:

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.





Ever since we performed an arrangement of that song in 7th grade concert band at school, i've just had a special place in my heart for it.  (My trumpet section got to carry that intense melody, and it was awesome.)

but of course my previous statement is not to be taken seriously
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