"If only more strippers voted." - the Hard Rock and Hair Metal tracks poll nominations thread (not a current poll - just random hair metal chat)

Too soon? I don't know. Some vague rules for defining what we're after here (although I'm not a professional hair metal historian so this is open for discussion):

1.) Blues-based rock and roll.
2.) Created between the mid-70s and 1993 (release date of The Spaghetti Incident, which slammed the door on the whole enterprise AFAIC).
3.) By performers wearing makeup/hairspray/spandex/leather/gypsy scarves and jewelry
4.) Probably been heard in one or more of the following: strip club/tilt-a-whirl/pool hall/Camaro.

I don't really plan on doing an albums poll.

Oh, and some basic noms, just to get it going:

Warrant - Down Boys
Motley Crue - Wild Side
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
Kix - Cold Blood

Are hair metal haters allowed to take part?

If so

Hanoi Rocks - Tragedy
Hanoi Rocks - Don't Never Leave Me
Hanoi Rocks - Motorvatin'
Hanoi Rocks - Mental Beat
Hanoi Rocks - Until I Get You

Redd Kross - Zira (call Out My Name)

Oh yeah, man - do this. I'm probably not like, ILM's #1 hair metal superfan or anything.

You should do an albums poll, it will satisfy those who didn't like the results in the alltime poll.

I really care more about individual tracks than albums. I mean, I have zero emotional investment in listening to an entire hair metal album and can probably only remember the details of half a dozen or so from when I listened as a kid. If someone else wants to do it, that's fine though.

Yeah, I'm on board with tracks only.

Kiss - Black Diamond
Whitesnake - Lovehunter
Cheap Trick - Surrender

*PROTO HAIR METAL*

Proto is good. Proto is totally cool.

Ratt - You're In Love
Motley Crue - Live Wire
Pet Hate - The Bride Wore Red
Van Halen - Jamie's Cryin'
Nelson - (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
Helix - Rock You
Triumph - I Live For The Weekend
Loverboy - Lovin' Every Minute Of It

Loverboy - Lovin' Every Minute Of It

I didn't realize it at the time, but this totally rides Def Leppard's jock pretty hard.

Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me

Strippers fave! Apparently.

Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Cinderella - Night Songs
Cinderella - Somebody Save Me
Ratt - Round and Round
Ratt - Slip of the Lip
Ratt - Dance
Ratt - Wanted Man
Kingdom Come - Get it On ← still hilarious to me that they absolutely denied Zeppelin was an influence.
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Accept - Love Child
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Scorpions - No One Like You
Dirty Looks - It's Not the Way You Rock
Lillian Axe - Misery Loves Company
Dokken - It's Not Love
Dokken - In My Dreams
Dokken - Prisoner
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noize
Quiet Riot - The Wild and the Young
Night Ranger - When You Close Your Eyes
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Hells Bells
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Who Made Who
Tesla - Rock Me to the Top
Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
Tesla - Hang Tough
Tesla - Yesterdaze Gone
Tesla - Makin' Magic
Tesla - Lady Luck
Tesla - Man Out Of Time Edison's Medicine
Def Leppard - Foolin'
Def Leppard - Photograph
Def Leppard - Animal
Def Leppard - Armageddon It
Def Leppard - Women
Def Leppard - Stand Up, Kick Love Into Motion
Def Leppard - Heaven Is
Def Leppard - Bringin' on the Heartbreak

Wendy O. Williams - It's My Life

Haha! I knew you'd bring the noms.

Krokus - Heat Strokes
Starz - Cherry Baby
Pat Benatar - Shadows Of The Night
X Japan - Endless Rain (token visual kei nomination)
Y&T - Mean Streak

Mechanical Resonance has always been the Tesla album that I stan for the hardest, but when I got to really looking at the songs, I realized The Great Radio Controversy has a lot more standouts.

This thread needs some pics :

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Kiss - Crazy Crazy Nights
Kiss - Let's Put the X in Sex
Kiss - Tears Are Falling
Kiss - Lick it Up
Skid Row - 18 & Life
Skid Row - I Remember You
Guns 'N Roses - any and every thing on Appetite for Destruction

Alice Cooper - Poison

Bang Tango - Someone Like You

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Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls
Slaughter - Up All Night
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Warrant - Cherry Pie
Jackyl - The Lumberjack

All eras of Pantera are absolutely gross.

agreed

Van Halen - Drop Dead Legs
Dokken - Into the Fire
Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry
Little Dolls - Ozzy
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Electric Eye - Judas Priest
Say What You Will - Fastway

Sorry, I got my band names and song titles screwed up:

Van Halen - Drop Dead Legs
Dokken - Into the Fire
Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry
Ozzy Ozbourne - Little Dolls
Aldo Nova - Fantasy
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Fastway - Say What You Will

All eras of Pantera are absolutely gross.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, August 20, 2010 10:38 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
agreed

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, August 20, 2010 10:41 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's great that neither of you guys like metal.

Pantera was the worst thing to happen to metal.

Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Motley Crue - Danger
Motley Crue - Bastard
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Motley Crue - Don't Go Away Mad
Van Halen - Unchained
Van Halen - Dance the Night Away
Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

At last, a poll in which this can feature ...

Mama's Boys - Needle in the Groove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWsWRF3cY64

Loudness -- Rock n Roll Crazy Nights

You are the hero TONIGHT

I always liked the 85 re-recorded version of "Needle in the Groove." They had moved past Lizzy into full hair metal production style.

My Mama's Boys jam was "Hard 'N Loud"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5AYV3LAlwA

"We like it hard 'n loud (we love it hard 'n loud) because we're young and proud"

awesome poll idea, excited about this

David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose

David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise
David Lee Roth - Perfect Timing

Sweet - Fox on the Run
KISS - Christine Sixteen
The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
Cheap Trick - Auf Wiedersehen
Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Quiet Riot - Metal Health

no zep, sabbath , deep purple or rainbow yet?

I think people should be very conscientious about which zep, sabbath, etc. etc. tunes are nominated. They will be subject to veto if they are some shit about Satan, fairies, elves, orcs, whatever.

Such songs should probably be limited themselves to such subject matter as "giving you every inch of my love" or "owning and operating a motor vehicle"

It does say "hard rock" in the thread title. They all qualify under that surely?

^ watch this guy, he'll be nomming the Manics next

Black Sabbath and certain aspects of LZ got their due in the metal poll.

Did the Manic Street Preachers wear spandex?

I can't really picture strippers dancing to Mob Rules or Achilles Last Stand.

More ideas:

Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town

they lived their (richey era) life by the new york dolls manual
http://exclaim.ca/images/up-manic.jpg

Thank you Darin, for thinking of the poor strippers.

http://arca.spex.de/files/2009/12/manic-street-preachers-341.jpg

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Manic Street Preachers - You Love Us

is there a youtube companion thread?

the Hard Rock and Hair Metal nominations - YOUTUBE companion thread.

Now there is.

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I'm going to have to review this MSP track, because the one in the last poll sounded like shoegazer or something.

if you veto stuff for being wimpy then there wont be much hair stuff!!! ;)

The following criteria will have to be met:

1.) Blues-based rock and roll.
2.) Created between the mid-70s and 1993 (release date of The Spaghetti Incident, which slammed the door on the whole enterprise AFAIC).
3.) By performers wearing makeup/hairspray/spandex/leather/gypsy scarves and jewelry
4.) Probably been heard in one or more of the following: strip club/tilt-a-whirl/pool hall/Camaro.

It seems like a real outlier. I can't listen to it now, because I'm at work, but I'll check it out.

btw how are you weighting the votes? and what are the min & max amount of tracks everyone can vote for?

Don't know how I'm weighing the votes or the max # of tracks yet. I should probably cap the nominations at 50 songs per person, unless anyone objects?

The following criteria will have to be met:

1.) Blues-based rock and roll.
2.) Created between the mid-70s and 1993 (release date of The Spaghetti Incident, which slammed the door on the whole enterprise AFAIC).
3.) By performers wearing makeup/hairspray/spandex/leather/gypsy scarves and jewelry
4.) Probably been heard in one or more of the following: strip club/tilt-a-whirl/pool hall/Camaro.

5) sexist lyrics/videos?

;)

"what's wrong with being sexy?"

Spinal Tap is on UK GOLD tonight btw

lol xpost

lol

Guns 'N Roses - It's So Easy

hey is anything from the 1st izzy stradlin & the ju ju hounds album allowed?

I nominated every song on Appetite somewhere upthread.

That first Ju Ju Hounds album is really good. I don't see why it wouldn't qualify.

Guns N' Roses - One in a Million
Guns N' Roses - Patience
Aerosmith - Dream On
Van Halen - Jump
Alice Cooper - Only Women Bleed
Black Sabbath - Changes
Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days

I kind of hate it myself, but this poll would be incomplete without...

Europe - The Final Countdown

Do Queen qualify?

they qualify on all 4 counts easy

Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er
Cheap Trick - I Want You to Want Me
KISS - Strutter
Heart - Barracuda
Queen - Killer Queen

New York Dolls - Frankenstein

Prince - Purple Rain

Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Heart - Magic Man
Heart - Straight On
Queen - We Are the Champions

xhuxk to thread btw imo iirc

i love that Ju Ju Hounds record but i think it'd be kinda silly to nominate anything from it here tbh

I say go ahead and nominate some tracks from the juju hnds. what is it - 1994 or something? i hqavent heard it, but it probably fits the spirit.

Feel free to veto if you want to slam shut the glam-goth door but it's not like anyone else will vote for...

Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire

GLJ is really in a gray area. Around that time, they looked really hair metal but still sounded kind of new wave-y and postmodern. Hell, I still don't know how to classify the first couple GLJ albums.

gene loves jeZebel was totally on hard rock radio, although I had only heqard Jealous at the time.

Yeah, by the time "Jealous" came out they'd morphed into a legitimate hard rock band (oddly kind of like Drivin' N Cryin' at the same time). Go back a couple years and they were harder to define.

I would and will vote for GLJ but it's a goth vote and not a hair metal one.

'Jealous' kind of reminds me of a poppier Jane's Addiction tbh

Somewhere a stripper is crying because there are no Aerosmith nominations on this thread

Aerosmith - Dream On

Thank goodness

Billy Idol - White Wedding

I wonder if "Dude Looks Like a Lady" is a stripper fave. Depends on the club, I guess.

Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator
Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
AC/DC - Big Gun
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is

Aerosmith - Back in the Saddle Again

Aerosmith - Rag Doll Aerosmith - Janie's Got a Gun Of course you could do DLLAL. That's precisely the era we are most trying to capture.

whoops, I guess return doesnt work on my phone...

Anybody else remember No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims by D*A*D? I've always meant to hear some of their earlier stuff, but never have. Anyway, that whole album is good. But particularly

D*A*D - Sleeping My Day Away
D*A*D - Rim of Hell

Kix - Don't Close Your Eyes
Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
New York Dolls - Jet Boy
Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
Boston - Don't Look Back
Foreigner - Hot Blooded
Billy Idol - Hot in the City

I used to love DAD. They changed their name for the same reason as Bomb Everything iirc.

Couple of years past the 93' cutoff, but White Zombie's "More Human than Human" is (or more probably was) a big strip club song.

I'd think it fits if the judge will allow it.

It's in the spirit of the poll, definitely. Also, I love it.

Not at all feeling that. I felt like White Zombie belonged in the actual metal poll. Weren't they nommed?

I mean, the "stripper" thing isn't as central to the poll as all that. I was basically taking a joke from the other thread and playing it out. People were complaining about the lack of fun metal, hair metal, so this poll's about hair metal. Rock and roll. White Zombie's awesome, but they aren't part of that thing. They're more part of the 90s hard rock alternative thing.

I mean, I have a serious love for "More Human Than Human". It's a jam for me.

Good points all.

Okay, I just checked out that Manic Street Preachers song from up above and it fits the criteria for this thread.

told ya

when richey was in the band they were a glam band (even if the music was punkier alt rock)

used to see poison etc fans at their gigs. they really were a different band in that period.

Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
Thin Lizzy - Fighting
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox

Yo Viceroy, this is a tracks poll. Are you voting for the title tracks from each of those Thin Lizzy albums?

^^^ Sorry those are albums!! Tracks incomming shortly! disregard above!

You never have to be sorry for Thin Lizzy, Viceroy.

Journey - Any Way You Want It
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Journey - Lights
Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Journey - Wheel in the Sky

Thin Lizzy - Emerald
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
Thin Lizzy - Rosalie

Thin Lizzy - Angel From the Coast

Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns
The Cult - Fire Woman

Journey - Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
Montrose - Rock The Nation
Girl - Hollywood Tease

Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall
Faster Pussycat - House of Pain
Tesla - Love Song
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
Kim Mitchell - Go For a Soda
Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
Vandenberg - Burning Heart
L.A. Guns - The Ballad of Jayne
Aerosmith - Last Child
Junkyard - Hands Off

Smashed Gladys - Legs Up
Zebra - Tell Me What You Want
Head East - Never Been Any Reason
Tex and the Horseheads - Big House part III

Night Ranger - Sister Christian

little burnt out from polls, but can't let this go ahead with these tunes:

Poison - Nuthin' But A Good Time
Poison - Fallen Angel
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Poison - I Want Action
Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
Skid Row - Monkey Business
Warrant - Heaven
Motley Crue - SOS
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Motley Crue - Looks that Kill
Motley Crue - Piece of Your Actionl
Whitesnake - Is This Love
Cinderella - Gypsy Road
Cinderella - Shelter Me
Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall
Faster Pussycat - House of Pain
Def Leppard - Love Bites
Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Mr. Big - To Be With You

AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Big Gun
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC - Hells Bells
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
AC/DC - Who Made Who
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Accept - Love Child
Aerosmith - Back in the Saddle Again
Aerosmith - Dream On
Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
Aerosmith - Janie's Got a Gun
Aerosmith - Last Child
Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator
Aerosmith - Rag Doll
Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
Aldo Nova - Fantasy
Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Alice Cooper - Only Women Bleed
Alice Cooper - Poison
Bang Tango - Someone Like You
Billy Idol - Hot in the City
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Black Sabbath - Changes
Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
Boston - Don't Look Back
Cheap Trick - Auf Wiedersehen
Cheap Trick - I Want You to Want Me
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Cinderella - Gypsy Road
Cinderella - Night Songs
Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Cinderella - Shelter Me
Cinderella - Somebody Save Me
D*A*D - Rim of Hell
D*A*D - Sleeping My Day Away
David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise
David Lee Roth - Perfect Timing
David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose
Def Leppard - Animal
Def Leppard - Armageddon It
Def Leppard - Bringin' on the Heartbreak
Def Leppard - Foolin'
Def Leppard - Heaven Is
Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry
Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry
Def Leppard - Love Bites
Def Leppard - Photograph
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Def Leppard - Stand Up, Kick Love Into Motion
Def Leppard - Women
Dirty Looks - It's Not the Way You Rock
Dokken - In My Dreams
Dokken - Into the Fire
Dokken - It's Not Love
Dokken - Prisoner
Electric Eye - Judas Priest
Europe - The Final Countdown
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall
Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall
Faster Pussycat - House of Pain
Faster Pussycat - House of Pain
Fastway - Say What You Will
Foreigner - Hot Blooded
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
Girl - Hollywood Tease
Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
Guns 'N Roses - Anything Goes
Guns 'N Roses - It's So Easy
Guns 'N Roses - Mr. Brownstone
Guns 'N Roses - My Michelle
Guns 'N Roses - Nightrain
Guns 'N Roses - Out Ta Get Me
Guns 'N Roses - Paradise City
Guns 'N Roses - Rocket Queen
Guns 'N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Guns 'N Roses - Think About You
Guns 'N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Guns 'N Roses - You're Crazy
Guns N' Roses - One in a Million
Guns N' Roses - Patience
Hanoi Rocks - Don't Never Leave Me
Hanoi Rocks - Mental Beat
Hanoi Rocks - Motorvatin'
Hanoi Rocks - Tragedy
Hanoi Rocks - Until I Get You
Head East - Never Been Any Reason
Heart - Barracuda
Heart - Magic Man
Heart - Straight On
Helix - Rock You
Jackyl - The Lumberjack
Journey - Any Way You Want It
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Journey - Lights
Journey - Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Journey - Wheel in the Sky
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Junkyard - Hands Off
Kim Mitchell - Go For a Soda
Kingdom Come - Get it On
Kiss - Black Diamond
KISS - Christine Sixteen
Kiss - Crazy Crazy Nights
Kiss - Let's Put the X in Sex
Kiss - Lick it Up
KISS - Strutter
Kiss - Tears Are Falling
Kix - Cold Blood
Kix - Don't Close Your Eyes
Krokus - Heat Strokes
L.A. Guns - The Ballad of Jayne
Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er
Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days
Lillian Axe - Misery Loves Company
Little Dolls - Ozzy
Loudness -- Rock n Roll Crazy Nights
Loverboy - Lovin' Every Minute Of It
Mama's Boys - Hard 'N Loud
Mama's Boys - Needle in the Groove
Manic Street Preachers - You Love Us
Montrose - Rock The Nation
Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns
Motley Crue - Bastard
Motley Crue - Danger
Motley Crue - Don't Go Away Mad
Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Motley Crue - Live Wire
Motley Crue - Looks that Kill
Motley Crue - Piece of Your Actionl
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Motley Crue - SOS
Motley Crue - Wild Side
Mr. Big - To Be With You
Nelson - (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
New York Dolls - Frankenstein
New York Dolls - Jet Boy
Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Night Ranger - When You Close Your Eyes
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Ozzy Ozbourne - Little Dolls
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Pat Benatar - Shadows Of The Night
Pet Hate - The Bride Wore Red
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Poison - Fallen Angel
Poison - I Want Action
Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
Poison - Nuthin' But A Good Time
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
Prince - Purple Rain
Queen - Killer Queen
Queen - We Are the Champions
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noize
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Quiet Riot - The Wild and the Young
Ratt - Dance
Ratt - Round and Round
Ratt - Slip of the Lip
Ratt - Wanted Man
Ratt - You're In Love
Redd Kross - Zira (Call Out My Name)
Say What You Will - Fastway
Scorpions - No One Like You
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Skid Row - 18 & Life
Skid Row - I Remember You
Skid Row - Monkey Business
Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
Slaughter - Up All Night
Smashed Gladys - Legs Up
Starz - Cherry Baby
Sweet - Fox on the Run
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Tesla - Edison's Medicine
Tesla - Hang Tough
Tesla - Lady Luck
Tesla - Love Song
Tesla - Makin' Magic
Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
Tesla - Rock Me to the Top
Tesla - Yesterdaze Gone
Tex and the Horseheads - Big House part III
The Cult - Fire Woman
The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
Thin Lizzy - Angel From the Coast
Thin Lizzy - Emerald
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy - Rosalie
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
Triumph - I Live For The Weekend
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Van Halen - Dance the Night Away
Van Halen - Drop Dead Legs
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Van Halen - Jamie's Cryin'
Van Halen - Jump
Van Halen - Unchained
Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love
Vandenberg - Burning Heart
Warrant - Cherry Pie
Warrant - Down Boys
Warrant - Heaven
Wendy O. Williams - It's My Life
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Whitesnake - Is This Love
Whitesnake - Lovehunter
X Japan - Endless Rain (token visual kei nomination)
Y&T - Mean Streak
Zebra - Tell Me What You Want

Here is the current list of nominations. I can't guarantee that it's de-duped. I can't guarantee that it's all hair metal/hard rock, but it mostly looks great, imo. Let me know if anything is fucked up.

Oh and sorry, Nick B. That particular Gene Loves Jezebel song just didn't make the cut. I watched it on youtube and they sure looked like a hair metal band, but they just didn't sound like one.

Joan Jett - I Hate Myself For Loving You
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly

how would you guys feel if i nominated tracks from Metallica's black album? I feel like it'd be interesting to have in here since a) "serious" metal fans generally hate it or don't consider it metal, b) it didn't make any impact on the metal poll and c) c'mon, it's pre-93 hard rock, they had long hair and toured with GNR

Hmmmm... that's a tricky one, but I could see perhaps the first few singles (Sandman, Unforgiven, Matters) being nominated.

Hard to tell, anyone else have an opinion on this?

It's pop metal so i don't see why not. A few pop metal fans complained that it wasn't in the big metal poll. I'm pretty damn sure it would make the strip club rule and um Kirk had an earring and wore make up during the Load period.

yeah, I'm just gonna go for it

Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - Unforgiven
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

I love "Sad But True" and "Wherever I May Roam" and some deep cuts too but maybe those are a little too true metal? I dunno.

How about Faith No More - Epic?

i think it should be here, totally. was hoping it'd be in the other poll but the less pop "Midlife Crisis" got the spot instead.

maybe our rule of thumb for gray area stuff is if it was a hit AND wasn't in the other poll.

xxp: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I mean, Henry Kvlt Pvp would disagree, but...

Faith No More? Do we open the funk-metal floodgates? Funk-metal as long as it's pop-metal, I guess.

So like, "Been Caught Stealing" if you like, but not something of the first Mr. Bungle album.

Billy Squier - The Stroke
Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover
Billy Squier - Emotions In Motion
Starz - Detroit Girls
Starz - Cherry Baby
Rex Smith - Do Me
Rex Smith - Ten Seconds Of Love
Rex Smith - Call Her "Easy"
Teaze - Hot To Trot
Teaze - Red Hot Ready
Ted Nugent - Wango Tango

Who's gonna host the pole dancing competition? I hear they're all the rage.

Ah, funk-pop-metal. Was just looking at "Cherry Pie" on the list and thinking how White Trash - "Apple Pie" is my favourite crassly jerkish comparison of possibly-underage girl to baked fruit+pastry product by a band beginning with W in that brief pre-Nevermind stretch of the 90s

(ok, I was reminded of it because I always have to stop and think for a minute to remember which is which. this post is not a nomination, I guess, just a musing)

LOL - White Trash.

yeah been caught stealing totally belongs. They were glam. As with the manics and redd kross, you can be glam & alt rock at the same time, but glam fans still liked them. Janes were the alt rock band glam fans, who generally hated alt rock, liked.

How about Enuff Z Nuff?
Im guessing Jellyfish is a no? (i never liked them but knew loads who did)
AOR bands I assume can qualify? I knew people who inexplicably liked Crown Of Thorns (google the singers hair!!)

http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p046/p04664y76j8.jpg
http://myplay.com/files/brightcove_stills/272967_14208860.jpg

Sad for GLJ but that was probably a fair call. Maybe not sufficiently glam but...

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Rainbow - I Surrender

Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone

Sad for GLJ but that was probably a fair call. Maybe not sufficiently glam but...

If nothing else, "Jealous" certainly belongs in this poll. That track was LA glam all the way.

Nominations for Thin Lizzy, White Zombie, and (for fuck's sake) the Manic Street Preachers almost makes me not want to participate in this thread. Clearly, some of you were jamming Mr. Mister when Bon Jovi ruled the airwaves.

Also, no mention of Trixter? Skid Row fer chrissakes?

Trixter - Give It To Me Good
Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
Skid Row - I Remember You
Winger - Miles Away

Might as well complete the GNR singles...

Guns N' Roses - November Rain
Guns N' Roses - Estranged
Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry
Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine

xp: if you don't think Thin Lizzy belongs here, I just don't know.

it's funny how just 1 or 2 bands can make people froth at the mouth at a poll with hundreds of others in it.

Trixter were so precious with their dirtbikes and barbecues.

AC/DC - It's a Long Way to the Top
Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again
Van Halen - Panama

Wildhearts - My Baby Is A Headfuck

Foreigner - Cold As Ice
Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time
Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil
Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
Winger - Seventeen

ZZ Top - Legs
Van Halen - Top Jimmy
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Prince - Let's Go Crazy

Is there a limit on nominations? I may have exceeded it by now I think

Matt, you can have mine.

Quiet Riot - Love's a Bitch
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon

See, the thing is, I prefer Thin Lizzy to pretty much every other band on this thread. What I'm saying is it's totally revisionist to put them on any list that also includes Cinderella and Ratt. If the shit wasn't on Dial MTV, wasn't from LA, and wasn't played at every redneck senior prom from 82-90, it probably doesn't belong here.

For proto hair-metal purposes ...

UFO - Doctor Doctor
UFO - Only You Can Rock Me
UFO - Lonely Heart

Also some pre-Slippery JBJ
Bon Jovi - Runaway

I guess I'm against the 'proto' thing here. Doesn't make a lot of sense. You could argue that Sabbath was an influence on these guys, but so was fuckin' Springsteen and Southside Johnny. Where does it end?

Anyway, has anyone nominated "Don't Close Your Eyes" by Kix?

I take your point, and had originally thought of limiting the requirements to "Dial MTV, LA, etc" like you suggest, but if you exclude "proto hair-metal", do you exclude KISS, AC/DC, etc.? Those were some of the groups who weren't getting enough attention in the other poll because they didn't fit the mass definition of metal. I mean, the "If only more strippers voted" joke was in response to You Shook Me All Night Long not making it.

Now, I know there are problems because not every Thin Lizzy song could be called hair metal. Perhaps I'm a little prejudiced because my introduction to Thin Lizzy was through Bon Jovi's cover on "Stairway to Heaven, Highway to Hell." Anyone else have any thoughts?

I learned about Thin Lizzy in the first place by reading mags like Circus and Hit Parader in the '80s, when hair metal bands would talk about them with reverence. They don't fall in the Sunset Strip category for sure, but thankfully it's a HARD ROCK and Hair Metal poll.

I think that stripper compatibility is the deal-breaker here. Could you imagine a stripper gyrating to, say, Immigrant Song? Just about. Stairway To heaven? No. So, one counts and the other doesn't (ballads are I different matter I admit). There were plenty of bands on the previous poll who had a few songs that fitted the remit even if they weren't generally metal / hard rock bands, so the same can apply here in my opinion. Also, this :

By performers wearing makeup/hairspray/spandex/leather/gypsy scarves and jewelry

which excludes CCR, Springsteen etc but allows for Thin Lizzy, AC/DC (just) and the rest.

Also, Phil Mogg's nephew was in The Quireboys so UFO are in just on that.

gypsy scarves and jewelry

which excludes CCR, Springsteen etc

http://images.radcity.net/6718/3317440.jpg

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Phil Mogg was happy to wear a white jacket with spandex trousers. That's surely a hair metal combo.
UFO were hair metal before it was defined - much more than Lizzy, because they had none of the taste for epicry that Lynott had.

Ozzy Osbourne / Lita Ford - Close My Eyes Forever

Joan Jett - I Love Rock n'Roll
um, Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer?

Before chuck does it.
And it pains me to nominate celtic frost in this, but they did go full on hair metal, so wtf not.

Celtic Frost - Cherry Orchards

Here's to hoping they receive zero votes.

Just watched the video in the other thread. So terrible.

http://spendingloudnight.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/celtic-frost-cover-2web.jpg?w=600

It wont get any from Celtic Frost fans. Any votes it gets will be for the lols.

1st heard it in like 1992, saw it on Raw Power. It put me off checking their older records for a couple of years. By good luck i knew someone who had them and recorded them for me .

ah, the timeless acid-washed jeans, oily bare chest w/ red suspenders look

Britney Fox - Girlschool
Britney Fox - Long Way to Love
Bulletboys - Smooth Up in Ya
Circus of Power - Machine
The Cult - Fire Woman
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Dangerous Toys - Teas'n Pleas'n
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Enuff Z'Nuff - Fly High Michelle
Enuff Z-Nuff - New Thing
Gene Loves Jezebel - Jealous
Gorky Park - Bang
Great White - Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Joan Jett - I Hate Myself for Loving You
LA Guns - Never Enough
LA Guns - One More Reason
LA Guns - Sex Action
Lizzy Borden - Me Against the World
Ratt - Way Cool Jr.
Stryper - To Hell with the Devil
Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You
Vixen - Edge of a Broken Heart
White Lion - Wait
Winger - Madalaine
Y Kant Tori Read - Cool on Your Island
Y Kant Tori Read - The Big Picture

Queensrÿche - Empire
Queensrÿche - Eyes of a Stranger
Queensrÿche - Jet City Woman
Iggy Pop - Cold Metal

LA Guns - Ballad Of Jayne

Dudes, there is probably no fucking way I can do this poll. I got a lot of shit going down both at work and at home - I just won't have time in the near future to keep bumping this thread and getting people's emails and tabulating results and shit. If someone else wants to take over, that's cool. If not, we at least have a pretty decent list of awesome songs. Sorry, y'all.

Aerosmith – What It Takes
Billy Squier – Lonely Is The Night
Billy Squier – In The Dark
Dio – Holy Diver
Dio – Rainbow In The Dark
Dio – The Last In Line
Lou Gramm – Midnight Blue
The Darkness – I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Rush – Tom Sawyer
Rush – Freewill
Rush – Limelight
Rush – Spirit of Radio
Sammy Hagar – Three Lock Box
Sammy Hagar – I Can’t Drive 55
Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It

xp Fine with me. I'm not permanently burned out on polls, but I'm definitely still recovering from the several we all had back-to-back-to-back.

Bon Jovi-You Give Love A Bad Name
Bon Jovi-Born To Be My Baby

I love how you guys ignore kkvgz and just keep posting nominations. One of you could surely volunteer to take over.

johnny has an excuse, he ran one recently

i'm pretty busy myself right now.

Yeah dudes, sorry. It's just the only time I can foresee myself ilxing in the near future is from my phone on the bus to and from work, which just isnt optimal conditions to run a poll under.

I was looking forward to this.

Yeah, this poll looked/looks awesome. If it does fall back in the queue of ballot polls, I propose lopping off anything that charts in balls's 70s ROCK tracks - should help separate the stripper-hair-party stuff a little I think. Also, would like to add:

Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked

Might not be a good idea if he's doing a top 666. That's a lot of disqualifications!

Yeah, but still, I mean there is no way "Dream On" for example needs to be in this poll in the first place, let alone if it's already been in the "70s hard rock and punk that balls didn't feel like deleting from the noms" poll.

its the poll runners choice.

i think the # of shared tracks will be relatively small and those tracks will be mostly so great that it would be silly to exclude them

did strippers strip to it? I'm guessing that will be his criteria.

Vain - No Respect

jeez, nevermind guys, it was just a suggestion to keep there from being two polls with really similar results. Although I guess by the time this one comes around, the balls poll will be a few years past.

yeah by the time it has happened people will have forgotten about the 70s rock tracks poll

and the time will be ripe for me to re-poll REM in an open-nomination format!

lol @ AG being all "yup, it'll be a while since you guys will be waiting your turn in accordance with rules that clearly don't apply to me"

nice try

why should rules he or others had no input in implementing in the first place apply to him or anyone else?

not in the strip club, guys.

yeah keep the thread for what it is

it wasn't a "try" at anything, i know nothing i can say would ever have any effect on the Pollgerian Steamroller, but sure i'll keep it off this thread

i'm trying to think of any repeated behavior on ilx as pathetic as some dude's 'my heavens! a poll!' on nearly every damn poll on this board. does it ever occur to you that if you and yr dork bros hadn't spent so many years slowly killing every kind of ilm thread you do enjoy (ie 'let's sift thru what remains of dead genres like hip-hop and alt-rock') that you might get more out of the eighteen hours a day you spend on ilx? why the fuck should ag care that you hate him and his threads? and why do the mods tolerate a poster stalking and repeatedly harrassing another poster for no reason like this? good to know you'll keep it off 'this thread' though, maybe try to keep it off this board while you're at it. don't you have kids for fucks sake?

Not really seeing the "stalking" personally, and right now balls you seem way more heated up than some dude. But I am one of the "dork bros" who loves all the alt-rock threads so YMMV may vary. I do personally think that since there DOES exist the "order and timing" thread then running other ballot polls in parallel, while not really a violation of any particular rule or principle, does seem kinda annoying, like the collective generally is on board with the "order and timing" system to avoid there being eighty polls at once. I don't mind it once in a while for a big cross-artist, "genre" type poll, personally - that's not too much for me to keep up with. But I get the idea of wanting to rein it in a little and I don't think that makes somebody "pathetic."

"YMMV may vary"? okay, def time to get out of the house and face the hurricane

how's life asked not to do this in this thread so w/e i'm good

casino no offense but you have no idea wtf you're talking about and this doesn't involve you. now go listen to yr hard rock (ie wings) and punk (ie tom petty).

why should rules he or others had no input in implementing in the first place apply to him or anyone else?

― balls, Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:21 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude, if i didn't know you IRL i would probably find that way more offensive and uncalled-for, and/or FP, you need to chill out

just curious why continued harrassment of ag by some dude and others is ok but 'clutter' on ilm (defined as 'o no there are threads on ilm i'm not interested in!') is an urgent matter that must be attended to

1) not seeing the harassment

2) issue is not clutter but:
a) consensus in the public realm of ILX as a commons
b) sense shared by some (perhaps not all!) posters that the value of ballot polls is for people who are interested in that music but don't know anything about it, therefore it is nice to be able to actually keep up with the threads to get new recommended listening (as i have for example from the hard rock spotify playlist, so that i can diversify my tastes beyond their apparently unacceptable bounds)
c) civility vs. taking something that was a sincere, i think mild procedural suggestion on my part and turning up the knob to flaming/yelling/Making It Personal, yes some dude called out AG by name but i think your response is super way out of proportion

consensus in the public realm of ILX as a commons - this has never existed btw beyond obv 'dealing w/ openly racist posts/posters' or 'posters hacking the coding of the board' and tbh there wasn't even a consensus in those cases

doctor casino im afraid you're just being caught in the crossfire from fallout in a couple of other threads.I dont think you're being accused of anything.

But really dont continue it here the polls threads should be fun.

I was gonna nominate some hanoi rocks but it appears I already did that 2 years ago!

also i think if a poster admits openly trolling multiple threads by another poster and admits to specifically targeting that poster as some dude has done (although he's not going to do it anymore. on this thread.) and that's harrassment and the poster targeted is genteel and blameless as ag it's pathetic.

balls can keep pissing on me if he wants but i had been pretty good about not even looking at either of your current polls much less posting on them in however many weeks since my last word on the subject so i'm not sure what we're even talking about

like yeah i'd have been better off not saying anything on any thread and my fault for bringing it up on here but fair enough, lesson learned

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll3s0i7Jjw1qi4ubuo1_500.jpg

http://cdn103.iofferphoto.com/img3/item/474/656/552/l_outrageous-strip-revue-1987-hot-sexy-80-s-strippers-fe9c.jpg

I have lots of hard-zinging responses to much of the above, but i will concede that this really isn't the thread for it, and that i may well be ignorant of a scorched-earth campaign by some dude, and balls probably does have a better handle than I do on message-board civility so ehh, let's either get back to the strippers or call it a night. wish me luck with the storms y'all, i'mma go bike up amsterdam to max caffe, if any of y'all are NYCers and would like to resolve this through thumb-wrestling

xxpost that kind of sums it up too i think!

http://bubblegumculture.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/lilo-thumb-420x517.jpg?w=500

good luck usa casino

good luck all of you with the storms!

hey how's life can you find any 80s strippers named sandy? there had to have been hundreds

change it to 'sandi' and we're talking thousands

http://d1nx6mcwdpv1xd.cloudfront.net/images/fleshbot/2008/07/2008_07_18_sandykane.jpg

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what would the most common stripper names be?

Can't wait to finally vote in this poll!!

This poll's still a year or more out probably, but I think when I get back to it, I'm not gonna veto anything, so if anyone wants to vote for like, gene loves jezebel or manic street preachers, go for it. In the meantime, I've been catching up with some of the suggestions from upthread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEbbE1U3R1A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBiuN6HIypY

Forgot about this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdpMx0-AlDs

Hahaha, this sucks! I don't think I ever heard House of Lords while they were out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMchbwtTkVI

This is the longest song I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kad4tnx4Oa8

This will be here before we know it. Better brush up on Slave Raider:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdwRNama9EA

I never heard that Dirty Looks album, but I loved the one that came out before it. xp

Good to know! Will investigate. I remember seeing an ad for the screw one in some magazine when I was a kid, but I don't think it ever turned up at my Sam Goody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaRNewUXsjw

"shooby-dooby-do-wah!" oh, this is great! :D

Fortunately this one's on Spotify. Turn of the Screw isn't, though, so I might never hear it.

Mechanical Resonance has always been the Tesla album that I stan for the hardest, but when I got to really looking at the songs, I realized The Great Radio Controversy has a lot more standouts.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, August 20, 2010 4:03 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I gotta confess, this is the kind of the post that makes ILM "worth it". like I was just wondering, "who in the 2010s stans for Tesla" & I found my answer. love will find a way.

(was gonna talk about "Love Song" & its ur-Zep structure but it's more fun to think about Tesla standom, which I have like 100% respect for, rock on)