80´s Hair Metal

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Edited by salmacis - January 27 2009 at 12:48

Though not a huge fan I have been known to like Def Leppard; Guns n Roses; Skid Row; Extreme; Aerosmith; Motley Crue, Bon Jovi and Van Halen

Edited by valravennz - April 23 2006 at 08:41

Skid Row were awesome.

Yep, Skid Row is my favourite on this genre...

All crapola, to me.

Cartoonish, WWF-type musick.

Sorry!

Hey, Peter, and "Twisted Sister"? Dee Snider, band's singer/leader/whatever could be the symbol of the 80's Hair Metal.

BTW, Bon Jovi seems to be very popular... he appears twice in the poll!

Edited by Atkingani - April 26 2006 at 22:03

TheProgtologist wrote: Certif1ed wrote: Skid Row were awesome. I agree,their debut was good but Slave to the Grind was even better.

My favorite Skid Row album! I had it as vinyl ... but I never got around to buying it as CD after my vinyl collection had been destroyed. I'll look it up on Napster.

Slave to The Grind is a brilliant metal album - absolutely pure metal, kinda like the debut but turned up to 11 on all counts.

Their more recent stuff has been surprising me - it's not as immediate as the first two, but the quality is still there.

Just yesterday I bought "Thick Skin", and I'm surprised it didn't make more of a splash when it was released - it's a bit experimental in places, but I guess it still has too much of the "old" sound for modern metal fans, and their new tendency to head towards dischordant sounds is probably not to most people's tastes.

They also seem to have "absorbed" sound from other bands - I hear echoes of GunsNRoses, Creed and Foo Fighters that makes this album sound somewhat generic in places.

It's still a good album - but Slave... is their best.


I agree on the Scorpions - they went through so many changes that it's a bit unfair to label them a "hair metal" band - espeically as none of them ever looked particularly "glamourous".

From the beginning they mixed up hard rockin tracks with slower ballad-like numbers, so I see a kind of natural progression in their discography, unlike either Whitesnake or Def Leppard, who obviously made the move to ride the wave. I think Whitesnake were more excusable (apart from those perms) simply because of "Saints and Sinners" which is a classic album, and "1987" which has Steve Vai on and is therefore brilliant.

My favourite Scorps album is either "Love Drive" or "Animal Magnetism", neither of which have that "Hair Metal" sound at all. "Blackout" has a much better production - and it's a very, very close 3rd. Great album!

Yeah... I prefer the Scorps without Uli, even though he was amazingly inventive.

salmacis wrote: I found all the early Whitesnake albums, bar 'Saints And Sinners', funnily enough, to be very inconsistent. That album shone out as being by far the best of the early era to me, but I've heard it described by many as being their weakest...Whatever, I only own '1987', probably the best album they ever made, and a compilation of the early albums called 'The Early Years'. I thought it was John Sykes of Tygers of Pan Tang/Thin Lizzy (he is brilliant on the 'Thunder and Lightning' album songs I know), not Steve Vai on '1987' though.

^ actually it says in the liner notes that Vai played all the guitars on the album, but wrote nothing for it. That's also consistent with his comments on his own website: