One in the ear for the Hair Metal haters out there...

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Most people on here appear to be Hair Metal (er..whatever that is but I think the following tape qualifies) haters. So for those who aren't here's an antidote tape that I made up in August 1991. Everyone's favourites are on here LOL.

Old headbangers never die, their locks just grow longer...

Side One

Blackout/Scorpions
Die hard the hunter/Def Leppard
Eat me alive/Judas Priest
Tooth & nail (live)/Dokken
Murders in the rue morgue/Iron Maiden
You're crazy/Guns'n'Roses
Disturbing the priest/Black Sabbath
Zombie eaters/Faith no more
Unskinny bop/Poison

Side Two

Headhunter/Krokus
Killer of giants/Ozzy Osbourne
Fool for your lovin' (live)/Whitesnake
F.I.N.E./Aerosmith
Desciples of hell/Yngwie J Malmsteem
Stand up and shout/Dio
This town rocks/Saxon
Girl gone bad/Van Halen
Slice of your pie/Motley Crue
Cherry Pie/Warrant

I can't listen to Motley Crue, Poison or Warrant these days but I'm still partial to the rest (he says turning off the radio with the latest 'hot' band he's never heard of). So if you're a hater - DILLIGAF.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Most people on here appear to be Hair Metal (er..whatever that is but I think the following tape qualifies) haters

Interesting misapprehension.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I don't think you could be more wrong, actually.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The Motley Crue, Poison, and Warrant tracks are the only ones I'd want to listen to. No Queensryche?

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

You should have put more hair metal on that tape. If it's supposed to be a hair metal tape.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, they all had long hair - like I said I don't know what the definition of 'hair metal' is :)

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i was gonna make the same complaint and then my computer screwed up as usual lately. i mean: malmsteen, maiden, faith no frigging more??? that's not "hair" enough for me, no way. it's, like, opera music or something!! are you sure YOU'RE not the hair hata, sir??

― chuck, Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The haria the better Chuck?

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

What would be on yours then, Chuck?

― Rock Bastard, Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Alan Jackson

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

only great songs on that tape (at least that i remember):

You're crazy/Guns'n'Roses
Cherry Pie/Warrant

even the Poison one is after they stopped using pink guitars and dressing up like girls and started sounded as bad as motley crue, for crissakes!!! next thing you know you'll be including Nirvana!!!!

and aren't Saxon, like, Nwobmh or something? I don't know what that stuff is, I can't even pronounce it (too many consonants!), but I think it's from England which was hardly a hair metal country!

(actually, i don't know if i've ever heard a saxon song. i still get them mixed up with sampson! assuming there was even such a band!)

― chuck, Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

New Wave Of British Heavy Metal.
I'd love to see Chucks C90 of Hair Metal!

― Rock Bastard, Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

any hair metal comp that doesn't feature Kix's "Don't Close Your Eyes" and Stryper's "Honestly" is not worthy of its Aqua-Net

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

NWOBHM! Aha! It's not a hair metal tape at all. So who has one and WTF is on it?

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

But dude, come on, fess up, you started a thread saying, "you all seem to hate this" and then you admit that you don't even know what "this" is! I believe we are owed an apology.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn right.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

You might as well have made a hair metal tape of all SKINHEAD bands, ha ha, get it?

― chuck, Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

But that's actually a great idea, which skinhead bands played hair metal songs? Did any?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

(Would Dag Nasty Field Day era count?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

dear rik und rock:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/030680817X/qid=1079578402/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl14/102-8473423-1726520?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

I think Accept might HALFWAY count as skinhead hair metal; I'm not sure. Rose Tattoo and the Anti Nowhere League definitely do not.

Many onetime hair metalers ARE apparently bald now, however.

― chuck, Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Do A Runner" by The Business would have made a great Poison single.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

From a (one-star) Amazon member review:

Iron Maiden and Judas Priest have no albums here. But Kix has 3 in the top 30.

God bless you.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

um, cinderella!
they knew lots of music stuff
AND their songs rockd hard

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Those reviews on Amazon are hilarious and deserve a thread on their own!

― Rock Bastard, Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

And the acoustic version of "Do A Runner" by The Business would not have been out of place on Tesla's Five Man Acoustical Jam.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Humble apologies peoples *insert theatrical bow* I fess up to my not inconsiderable ignorance regarding hair metal. I said straight up I wasn't sure what it was but apparently it's an American thing but I'd prefer the British stuff every time.

Fugg the labels, I either like or I don't. I never heard the term hair metal until I logged on this site.

Cheers,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

So, hey, does Winger count as hair? Not in terms of the length of Kip's hair or its size, just in terms of the groove - "Seventeen" seems almost too elegant to qualify.

I earnestly hope I am the first person ever to use the word "elegant" in reference to Winger.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Headed for a Heartbreak" is hella elegant.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

hellagant!

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't they open for Krokus in '86?

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I take offense to the fact that you've included Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath and Faith no More as Hair Metal Bands. Hell, I wouldn't even consider GnR as Hair metal.

― Cacaman Flores, Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.thisishowifeel.com/nitro/tufts.gif

Death to false hair metal!

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, Nitro.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Which is apparently going to re-u-nitro.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you seen the video to "Welcome to the Jungle" - If we're talking about hair aesthetics.

I have to say I loved the Amazon thread, Chuck gets gummed by millions of metal trifes who fail to realise Chuck is writing about metal as a sound, as opposed to a genre (as far as I can guess by the hissy fit reviews: funkadelicmilesfunkadelicmilesfunkadelicmilesnojudaspriest)

And now I feel oblidged to check Chuck's book out.

Xpost x 3

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

What do you mean by a metal trife?

― Rock Bastard, Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I love this line from "Murders in the Rue Morgue":

"I couldn't speak French*, so I couldn't explain"*

*it's a very bold move, metrically speaking

For other awkward but great lines in Heavy Metal songs, please see:

"Night Winds" "Parasite" EP, by Parasite:

"His name is Mister Evil..."
"He's breakin' the night winds / He's breakin' his chains"

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I refuse to even legitimize this thread with a proper response. But call Iron Maiden "Hair Metal" again, and I'll have you eaten alive by barracudas.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow Alex, that's a very Bond villain threat.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.wcafe.com/britny/images/bestof.jpg

― Shaun (shaun), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

In retrospect, the Tony Lama-Gingiss partnership proved to be both a financial and aesthetic failure.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

FORMER skinheads who made hair metal albums:

TSOL for sure, right? And maybe Discharge? Or CH3??

― chuck, Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Meatmen. Went from playing "Blood Sausage" EP at the Mudd Club in front of goons like the Nihilistics and the Beast to "Rock and Roll Juggernaut," which was kinda bad hair metal. And it flopped so when the Highway Kings played with them a couple months later they'd gone even more poof glam, aquiring a guitarist with actual big hair, the prerequisite big pointy guitar, and a Steve Vai fixation.

― George Smith, Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

TSOL weren't skinheads! THey did go hair metal, but they were never skinheads.

Channel 3 were skinheads....then went cowpunk...to disastrous effect.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Duff McKagan. Slummed in the Refuzors and the Fartz, I think, before going to LA.

― George Smith, Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Baker. Minor Threat -----> Junkyard.

― George Smith, Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Baker went from Minor Threat and Dag Nasty to the Meatmen then to crap metal band Junkyard...then onto Bad Religion.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh fuckin' x-post

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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