Disco vs. Hair Metal - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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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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.

Edited by rushfan4 - June 27 2011 at 12:16

I love this (seriously

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hair metal, at least there are a few bands that are ok

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.

I love me some disco and funk.

couldn't care less about the hair bands - except for a laugh

"I know one thing: that I know nothing"

- SpongeBob Socrates

^ as far as i know, funk was jazzy, often complex music, the roots of disco music were in funk, but disco is dancing pop music if I may say so. So to me funk is more than OK, disco is not. Am I making any sense? LOL

Cristi wrote:

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

Lynch Mob

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.

Originally this category was referred to as hair bands for obvious reasons. The term metal was added at some point in time. I simply consider them and others like them to be hard rock.

I draw my line between hard rock and metal at a different place than others do. A lot of bands others consider to be metal, I (in my mind) consider to be hard rock.

But this is all a matter of preference and does not effect my vote in the poll. No matter what bands are hair, glam, hard rock or metal I would have voted for them over disco.

Poll Question: Which do you prefer?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Disco	32	[51.61%]
Hair Metal	14	[22.58%]
Like Both!	3	[4.84%]
Hate Both!	13	[20.97%]
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