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Poll Question: Your favorite...
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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%]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 04:23
Angel!
 
JUST A LI-YITE! FROM A TOW-OO-AR!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 04:25
Leppard (though they didn't have much hair) and Night Ranger






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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 05:32
other: WHITE LION
Great melodic taste, amazing guitars (Vito Bratta ruled!!!) and the gut to sing about social and political issues ("San Salvador", "Little Fighter" - dedicated to Greenpeace - and the classical ballad "When the children cry").
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 13:51
Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Originally posted by Kord Kord wrote:

I hate Bon Jovi.....what about Iron Maiden???
 
Iron Maiden is NOT hair metal.Confused
 
Just like Def Leppard... Def Leppard AREN'T Hair Metal... They may have helped but if you see, they were never a hair metal band... they started as an honest heavy-rock band with On Through the Night and High N'Dry, and then turned intoa kind of pop-metal band (probably the best ever) with Pyromania and specially the over-produced-but-nevertheless-excellent Hysteria... You can see that they don't have "hair attitudes" or "hair looks" (except for Savage's hair... Clarck's hair was more like Duff's from Guns N' Roses) or "hair lyrics".... That was (IS) a serious pop-metal band... What differentiates pop-metal from hair metal in my view is that the latter depends on looks and videos and non-musical factors much more than it does on musical factors, whereas pop metal is still music-first, maybe poppy, but music first. Don't compare this band to Poison, Cinderella, or all of that semi-crap (I say SEMI because maybe there are a few good songs lost in the rubble)....
 
Just as Whitesnake started almost as a buelsy hard rock band and had a couple "hairy" hits, Def Leppard is NOT a hair metal band.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 13:56

Actually, many other bands fall in the pop metal category more than in the hair metal category... I think the latter term should be used only to those really no-talent bands that survivied only because of looks, like Poison, Cinderella, Loverboy, Nelson, etc.... Don't spit too hard, some people put Van HAlen into the hair category (that is incredibly stupid but that's the misconception: every rock band with a couple members with long, sprayed-tall ultra-blonde hair is hair metal.....)

And whoever said Iron Maiden is hair metal.... well, Censored

 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 13:59
Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

Angel!
 
JUST A LI-YITE! FROM A TOW-OO-AR!!!
 
BURNING ON FROM DUSK TO DAWN!
 
They had some proggy moments, great band.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 14:19

It looks like this was an old poll re-revisited.  The nostalgic days of the 1980's.  The Hair Metal was definitely the music of my youth, and the music that began my music collection days.  My vote went for Europe, however, all of the bands listed had there good and bad points.  My first two "real" LPs were Def Leppard's Pyromania and Quiet Riot - Bang Your Head.  I received them both as a Christmas present so many years ago.  My collection has grown quite alot since then.  The day I bought my first CD player, I also bought OU812 from Van Halen and Long Cold Winter from Cinderella, so both of those CDs have a special memory for me.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 14:59
Back when I actually liked hair metal, I loved Judas Priest the most, but was also a huge fan of Yngwie Malmsteen (though that's not exactly hair metal, he had a lot of hair).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 15:06

Ratt. Overkill. Crue. Wasp. Slaughter. you know, the usual

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 15:07
and best of all...
 
DIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thumbs%20Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 15:12
I know they belong more to the late 1970s than the 1980s, but what about the RUNAWAYS???
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 15:14
hmmm....



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 15:17
Originally posted by paolo.beenees paolo.beenees wrote:

I know they belong more to the late 1970s than the 1980s, but what about the RUNAWAYS???
 



hah!  Not enough HAIR!!!! 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2007 at 17:16
all the bands listed are completely beyond the pale for me... they sum up just about everything in metal that I hate.... but I've gone 'other' for Def Leppard, who I used to enjoy....but wouldn't listen to now...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2007 at 17:09
haha, Stryper. How can you not love a song like "To Hell With The Devil" ?!?
oh those power ballads were atrocious though, ugh
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2007 at 20:34
The hair metal is more hard rock than metal ,is the very melodic and very hard rock of california,more strong than aor but less in general terms than heavy metal,in hair metal the singers and musicians smile,employ lyrics about sex,car,,party,etc,with dress colorfull,..in heavy metal they are serious,dont jump(except Bruce Dickinson etc) they use black leather like judas priest etc..The guitars sounds very strong but with lower tone
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 02:22
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.
 
Oh man, Fastway, never thought i'd here that name again. I used to play that guitar riff in the back of 10th grade guitar class from that song that I can't think of. You know which one I'm talking about. The one Fastway riff that everybody who has heard of Fastway thinks of when they here the name Fastway.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2007 at 17:30
QUIET f**kING RIOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2007 at 21:56
Europe. Hats off.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2007 at 22:09
europe great band
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