Is there any hair metal bands you would admit you still listen to?

Also I will always have a special, absurd place in my heart for "Cherokee" by Europe. It may be bad to like songs because they are mind-bogglingly ridiculous but I never said that I was above that kind of mess.

(xpost: OMG I almost added "Nobody's Fool" to my Europe rider.)

When I was crashing at Vic's this past weekend VH1 were interviewing Joey Tempest talking about the new Europe lineup and tour. The hair's different these days.

[by the way Operation Mindcrime 2 is on the way]

I'll admit though that the question itself is just weird to me. What's to admit? You either like it or you don't, and if you like it, wave your flag, dammit!

Are you trying to goad me into acting the ass here?

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In Praise of...Pretty Boy Floyd's _Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz_

does all hair-metal come from the following wellsprings:

Kiss?

Van Halen?

Aerosmith?

I would add the Dolls, but I suspect that most rawkers of said vintage didn't know of them…

Shame about More than Words though. Probably the most boring track ever.

-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...), June 1st, 2005.

Huh? When have I goaded you into anything? I just like Poison, is all.

Anywway, why should anybody NOT admit to their likes? For at least as long as I've been posting here, ILM has always been a fairly hair metal-friendly site as far as I can tell! Certainly, there are musicians far hipper than Warrant or Cinderella who nonetheless earn much more scorn 'round this way.

Real-Time Visceral Reactions: Poison - "Talk Dirty To Me"

Def Leppard.

I was listeing to "Adrenilize" from the early 90s last week. My wife -- who usually tolerates my weird, eclectic musical tastes -- insulted me when she said, "Steven, please turn that stuff off. I feel like I'm babysitting a couple of 11-year-olds."

SW

Dan, I posted twice on that thread:

Catchy song. Shitty drumming.

-- Tantrum (tantrumtheca...), March 12th, 2005.

&

I always thought of 'em as Motley Crue Lite.

-- Tantrum (tantrumtheca...), March 12th, 2005.

And I stand behind both comments - neither of which were directed at you.

What I didn't write on that thread was that I also grew up in a completely loathsome town filled with casually racist metalheads that I couldn't wait to get the fuck out away from. It would be totally reasonable of me to associate all hair metal with an era of my life that I don't care to think about that much (I've written on another thread that my chidhood and adolescence seem so far removed from my daily reality that they may as well have been lived by someone else). However, since I left that town 12 years ago, I've been able to jettison some of the baggage I had about Poison and their ilk, and take their music at face value - good, dumb, fun rock.

Not trolling, goading, or attacking here - just explaining my position.

- Mentioning Poison causes me to froth at the mouth.
- You mentioned Poison.
- I jokingly alluded to said propensity to froth when faced with Poison.
- You interpreted that as me feeling attacked.
- I linked a thread that displays my utter disdain for Poison.
- You interpreted that as me feeling attacked by you on that thread.
- I decide to stop being cutesy and blatantly state "You said, 'Poison - What's not to love?', a statement designed to launch me off on a five page screed on how Poison are actually one of the worst bands ever created and how humanity overall would be greatly enriched if the owner of the first time machine were to take it upon him/herself to travel back and either kill all of them as infants or break their fingers every time one of them picked up a musical instrument. I don't have time to do that, so instead I'm going to be cutesy. XOXOXO, Dan."

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Pretty much my favorite song opening EVER, certainly Dio's best song - such an amazingly good vocal on that 'un

tesla and enuff z'nuff were both unfairly lumped in with the headbanger's ball crowd, i felt. if tesla had debuted a year or two later, they'd probably exist on more of a black crowes plane. same with the london quireboys. enuff z'nuff just wanted to be cheap trick, but atco plastered them with bright pink lipgloss and peace signs. sigh.

faster pussycat's stuff is totally fun.

i live in williamsburg, but i don't have any piercings and i have washed my hair this week, so i probably don't count as a hipster, but i don't know a single williamsburger who doesn't like a good amount of '80s metal. wait, i'm lying, i know exactly one, but i don't think she's a hipster either, so she doesn't count either. which is all to say, what gave you the idea it isn't cool now? i mean, read this thread.

me: lotsa def leppard, quite a bit of GNR, some poison, all the obvious bubblegummy stuff more or less, all except motley crue, whose earlier, punkier stuff i appreciate more than like and whose later, poppier stuff has always sounded better in my head than it does on my stereo when i actually play it.

Is there any?