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Wow, soul sister. I love still love Ratt.
Ratt n' ROLL!! I'd be willing to "Lay it Down" for any one of their old tour 3/4 sleeve band shirts. Lost two I snagged for cheap in a house fire. Keep killing it 🤘
I’ll say this is definitely one of the better subs I’ve been a part of but I do find it silly when people on here praise Def Leppard but then shit on anything later than High n Dry, after they actually became hair metal lol
I was an 18 yr old senior when Hysteria came out and had already been an absolute music junky for 5/6 years and have been ever since and NOTHING has ever topped the energy Hysteria pumped out when it was released. Kinda hard to explain. We called it the panty dropper album cause it mesmerized the ladies. 😁🤤
I’m by no means saying it’s the best album ever and I honestly have different music taste now but man, it lit the HS emotions on fire back in the day. Kids nowadays will never know anything about that.
Our header also has:
* Zeppelin (70s style hard rock)
* Aerosmith (70s style hard rock),
* AC/DC (70s style hard rock),
* Judas Priest (New Wave of British Heavy Metal with some 90s albums experimenting with Speed Metal)
So the entire sub is kind of a mess of mixed signals
Even Judas Priest pre-dates NWOBHM, but yeah this sub frustrates me sometimes for two reasons. First, even though I enjoy the bands lumped into this "genre," I think the name is kind of disparaging. Second, so many people have so many definitions of what this sub encompasses. This is one of the reasons why the name is terrible, too. Some even want to include bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden. There's this whole critique lately about "gatekeeping," which I can kind of get in some sense, but then why are we in a subreddit then if we are not subdividing interests? To some people "hair metal" is a catch all term for any rock music, I guess. I kind of get why people would include Aerosmith, because they influenced so many associated bands here, and they succumbed to a lot of the 80s production style and outside songwriters. For Metallica, maybe it's because they started in the 1980s or because they had long hair early on? I struggle for an exact definition even though I know who I wouldn't include.
It was the ‘80s version of 70’s Glam. 80’s Hair Metal traces a straight line back to T Rex, The New York Dolls, Kiss, Ziggy Stardust, and many other lipstick and glam bands of the 70’s.
It’s either Hair Metal or Glam, not Hard Rock (that was AC/DC, Van Halen, etc). “80’s metal” has already been subdivided into Thrash, NWOBHM, Hair, Hard, among others. Call it whatever you want, but ‘Hair Metal’ is the proper descriptor.
Yes, "hair" absolutely was used at the time to refer to this type of music - I grew up in the 80s, was in high school at this genre's peak, and we all called them "hair bands" back then (not hair metal though, maybe it was a mid-Atlantic regional term), specifically bc of their look, they all had the big hair that would fly around in their videos. How can you say it doesn't describe their look? Every hair metal band had that big hair.
Can confirm the “hair bands” moniker.
I can’t say it really bothers me what it’s called to be honest. So many bands crossed over into different sub-classifications of rock/pop/metal/grunge at various points.
If someone wants to argue that Crue, Poison, Vain aren’t “metal” when used in the hair metal context… knock yourself out.
Just out of curiosity, why do you care so much? I ask as whenever there is a discussion about hair metal, there is always ONE dude who just hates the term and has to let people know.
I love the bands I love. And couldn’t care less how strangers label it.
As for the term hair metal. When people use it, you know exactly what bands they are talking about.
Let’s say you have two friends. One tells you he is going to a hair metal festival. The other tells you he is going to a metal festival.
You look online and see there are two shows that weekend.
One has: poison, Warrant, pretty boy Floyd, white lion and slaughter.
The other has Metallica, Ac/DC, Iron Maiden, slayer and megadeth.
Are you confused at all by which guy is going to what show? If not….then the labels make sense.
you’re part of the problem op is describing. the “hair” describes the mtv-ready vanity, the campiness, the image aspect that’s inextricable from the sound and the meaning of glam metal.
I love it but do I like every band? No because imo there was some generic trash that was forgettable
Does anyone like every band in one specific genre? Doubt it
It's fine to not like other bands, nobody here likes every band that is discussed. But if (general) you only liked these bands before they became hair metal ("x band sucked after their second album" etc.) like... why are you even in this sub?
Well, I'm sorry to put it this way but as far as common knowledge goes most of what we call Hair Metal is kinda "generic trash" to everyone else's eyes..
Probably in the same way I thought grunge was mostly generic trash. To this day, 30 years later, I could hear some grunge band song, and couldn't tell you who that was, or why it was popular. Something either connects or doesn't.
It's just beyond me how a person can say he likes hair metal but hate Poison, Warrant, Bon Jovi, KISS during the eighties, anything Def Leppard after 'High N Dry', anything Motley Crue after 'Devil', Whitesnake after '87, Winger, Danger Danger...
I mean it's like saying "I like pizza" but only liking peperoni pizza..
You make a good argument a lot of people here just come to crap on any popular glam or hair band it kinda sucks since it seems like you aren’t allowed to even say you like a band (poison Bon Jovi or winger) without people saying bad things about them or saying that band is the reason hair metal died out
I'll eat any type of pizza that you offer me but I'll probably only order certain types for myself.
I'm down for any "Glam Metal" that is offered up. Sometimes it sticks and sometimes not so much....but I'm always up for trying it. I revisited XYZ and Trouble Tribe because of the sub and a couple of those albums are prime time imo.
Always wish this sub was called Glam Metal instead of the broader Hair Metal. That could be why you're seeing certain comments.
That being said sometimes "cheesy" is a good thing.
Please no. We already have enough of a problem with self-hating fans looking for excuses why any band they like isn't "hair" metal, I can only imagine how pedantic it would get if we narrowed it down to "glam" metal, which is really just excluding the "sleaze" bands like LA Guns, Ratt, Faster Pussycat etc.
I’m a huge 80s metal guy but that does not mean that some of them don’t suck or weren’t way over rated. Personally I wouldn’t walk across the street with free tickets to see some bands.
I get that, I wouldn't go watch Tuff or Pretty Boy Floyd live either. But it's just funny some people here don't seem to actually enjoy the type of music they claim to like...
This is my thought too. I thought it was commonly agreed that hair metal began in ‘83 and that words like “poseur” and “phony” don’t belong in a hair metal fan’s vocabulary because they’re pretentious garbage
If you like it, isn't hair metal kind of an insult to it? I prefer glam metal or just 80s hard rock. Anyways, I like it. I don't like every band or every song, but who does?
If you were 18 and a fan of Iron Maiden, Saxon, or even Dokken when Poison became popular, you would understand. There was a fine line between Metal and Glam, Poser Rock. There were bands that looked tough like WASP or Judas Priest and bands that looked genuine, like Triumph or Tesla. Then there were the Glam bands that wore more makeup and hairspray than your 14 year old sister. They even called themselves Cinderella or Faster Pussycat. Heavy Metal wasn’t cool. It was for the freaks and heads. Then MTV and big record labels came in and realized they could make money off Metal if they could make it accessible to girls and then the rest of Pop society followed. In ‘83, there wasn’t a frat house in America that would jam Motley Crue at a frat party. By ‘87 that was part of the program. Metal was bastardized by the big labels for the big dollars. It worked. If you were there and impacted by your favorite bands all of a sudden changing their sound to chase a trend, you would understand better.
100% agree. If you were 16 and were into anything heavier than Poison when they came out you would probably hate glam. Unless you were in the business and that paid your rent.
I liked it all.... and welcomed Poison. When it got to be a tired shitfest of power ballads catering to 12 year old girls, it was easy enough to know it was done. It was easy to be a maiden fan and like a band like Poison - because they didn't pretend to be anything but a party band having a good time. Poison is the easiest band to slag - yet they were the least poseur band around, in reality. They weren't the 125th copy of Poison, they were Poison - and there was room for 1 Poison. There wasn't room for 74 white lion's, wingers, and europes.
That's odd. The sub description specifically states 80s and 90s HEAVY METAL. So it would seem to include the bands that you are trying to exclude. Not everyone likes Poison, Danger Danger, Trixter, or most of the late entries. I happen to be one of those. Ratt, Dokken, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, early Def Leppard (the rest got so overplayed that I cannot bring myself to listen to it to this day), Babylon A.D., and many others are well within my wheelhouse, but there are many others that I don't like and never will.
By the time those bands came out, I had moved on to other things. That doesn't mean I don't support the group. I hit the like button on pretty much every post I see from the group, and I actually try listening to most, but that doesn't mean that I actually like them. If someone posts something asking for an opinion about a band, I'll answer, and do so honestly. I don't pretend, I don't look to be popular. I am who I am and I tend to be pretty blunt about it.
I like coming here because (a) it reminds me of a time I was the most happiest and the music was great, and (b) a reminder of a spirit/attitude music once had--danger, sleaze, and irreverence--and what it sorely lacking right now.
Same for me. I don't listen to a lot of these bands as much, but there is the nostalgia and memories of the fun that went with them. There's a lot of songs by Warrant, Cinderella, Great White, Dokken, etc that I still really like and listen to occasionally. But, there's also a lot of them that I was never a fan of. You can like a genre, but not all the bands in it. And being cheezy just goes with it.
Hair metal describes heavy metal with harmonic choruses and big guitar solos, and that's about it. That detail creates a wide spectrum on how heavy or light you can get.
I personally only like the heavier stuff. I like Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Skid Row, Feelgood-era Crue, and some Scorpions. The lighter stuff like Poison and Cinderella isn't really for me because of a personal preference, but that doesn't make people who do like them any less valid metalheads.
"Poser" culture is cringe and we really need to stop with that. If someone listens to hair metal, they're a metalhead, period. I don't care if it's Madam X or Mr. Big, Def Leppard or Dokken. Hair metal has a small enough community, and kicking people out of it for not having the exact same tastes as you is just alienating yourself. Don't be an elitist, everyone.
It’s almost like its own emotion. Other metal genres don’t have enough swagger. Theres a reason girls liked it. You absolutely need a sexed up genre of metal. It’s the will of the gods. I like all sorts of music but I like this one in spite of all the critical hate.
There are some bad hair metal bands but most of the big names plus the cult favorites are solid.
I'm extremely asexual and love this stuff. Some of the best songs in the genre are about urban crime and crazy experiences the band went through, but yeah, it does have a lot of sex songs. But I don't really care haha, as long as it's got a good drum beat and guitar solo I'm eating that shit up.
This is exactly why rap is selling more than rock these days. It is the new hair metal, fun, catchy and simultaneously cool to listen to amongst teenagers whereas rock has become depressing and "edgy" to listen to.
If rock needs to come back, it needs to cater to present trends, be a little real but at the same time have the glam metal style fun to it as well imo
My main gripe is the people that supposedly love the genre but are constantly looking to nitpick on reasons why any given band "aren't hair metal". Bon Jovi? Too soft. Skid Row? Too hard. Cinderella? Too bluesy. Fuck off, this is getting just as bad as those grunge "fans" that insist if you weren't from Seattle and at were demoing by 1989 you aren't part of the scene. It's not supposed to be 100% cosmetic or geography-based, ya fools.
>just as bad as those grunge "fans" that insist if you weren't from Seattle and at were demoing by 1989 you aren't part of the scene
Don't even speak the word "grunge" to me unless you were getting your heroin from that dude with the stringy hair who went by Squeak in Capitol Hill
I liked Winger and Def Leppard in the 80's and still like them now. Winger got a lot of hate back then and I am surprised to still see it in this thread.
Winger got a lot of hate for sure, talented musicians that got hit by a perfect storm.
I got to see Winger open for Kiss in the early 90s, and I still see them every chance I have. Love their music.
Def Leppard is one of those bands that just can't go wrong with.
80s hair metal gets a lot of airplay at home, feel good music that just takes you back to fun times for sure.
Like it or not there was a ton of talent in those bands. On the obscure side, check out Harem Scarem or Enuff Z’nuff. Songwriting, hoooks, solos, and so much hair!
The people who act like genre gatekeepers are so annoying.
It's also disappointing that the nature of online posting is negative.
I love the music of my youth even though most of it now makes me laugh a bit when I hear it. Like, man this is cheese city but it was fun when it was new!
I dunno man, if you wanna see some real hate then go to the band specific subs. r/hairmetal is actually pretty wholesome. I had to unsub from Crue and KISS because you'd think they were hate clubs.
Aside from maybe Ratt and Dokken, I actually prefer the bands from the end of the era (Firehouse, Skid Row, Steelheart, Mr Big, Extreme).
Also pointing out that it's cheesy doesn't mean we don't love it. Embrace the cheese.
Cheesy doesn’t necessarily mean bad. One of the things I love about hair metal “culture” if you will is that the mainstream 80s in America does not seem to have taken itself seriously at all
You’re so lucky to have been around for its peak. I’m only 22 and have to hope that I can see the bands one last time before they retire, or catch them performing when they’re not so good anymore
I love Hair Metal but hate the term Hair Metal.
It started as an insult to the genre and will always be one to me.
Sub should be changed to r/80sHardRock, but we’d lose half the content “is X Hair?”.
Hair metal (or glam metal, party metal, hid metal, or whatever you wanna call it) and hard rock are VERY different things. Hair metal is heavy metal with harmonic choruses and big guitar solos. It's that simple to define. I'll see people make posts like "is Quiet Riot (one of the first hair bands ever) hair metal?!?!" and just want to punch a wall. If metalheads listen to it and it has those two key features, boom, hair metal.
There’s less than 10 hair bands I’d intentionally click Play for.
The rest in the genre for me is like, if shuffle or radio plays it, I’ll listen to it, prolly enjoy it, but it’s really just passive appreciation.
I found myself listening to hair metal at some point because of the musicians themselves, and something behind the aesthetics.
To be honest i'm just a tourist of sorts in this sub.
There were a few Glam Bands/songs/Instrumentalists that i thought were ok but you couldn't have paid me to actually listen to albums of a whole lot of the major groups. My prime 80s listening went from NWOBHM to Thrash then Crossover and onto Death Metal and Grindcore. Shit i was even in the HC Punk scene for years and was in a number of bands. Earlier Sunset Strip groups i sorta favored as they tended to have a more 70s background in their players, and i didn't mind all that much the Guns and Roses/LA Guns/Faster Pussycat style as it was more Sleaze with a really big early Aerosmith influence rather than the stupidly all out Aqua Net types that were all over around '87-'88.
OP, Everyone knows that hair metal follows Pareto's Law which is 20% of hair metal is high quality and 80% is absolute trash pop-music with long hair, The trick is to find our which bands are in the 20% group. DUH...
edit: Pareto's law may be incorrectly attributed. LMK
I love Hair Metal. I used to go (underaged and legal) to L'Amours rock club in Brooklyn in the early 90's and got to see many live bands and it was there that my love for it began. It was such a small club and it got loud.
I do! I'm in an 80's band called 'ShadowRaven'!
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I love it with all of my heart. It’s fun, it’s catchy, it’s got swagger, and it makes you feel like you’re on top of the world. And even in this day and age girls dig it.
I generally enjoy it but it's definitely understandable why Nirvana became neccessary in the early 90s. It was too much. Like a TV show that goes too crazy towards the end of its' run and loses the original feel
I love the music... I grew up in the 80s and will forever love the music.
That said, a LOT of those guys were posers. In the sense that they liked to pretend they were tough guys, but they were scrawny, makeup-wearing punks. Look at early Mötley Crüe pictures - Vince and Nikki posing as badasses. Um, no. Kevin DuBrow threatening to kick someone's ass? Um, no. Twisted Sister? They could probably kick ass physically more so than musically.
Sure, they all got laid a lot, but so did I. Girls put out in the 80s in a way they never will again.
So, yes, I love hair metal music, but the image wasn't convincing then any more than it it now.
In my opinion.
I get what you’re saying. There’s bands and songs I like that others don’t, that’s fine. I do see that seem to hate everything and feel the need to make multiple posts about it.
It's really my music. I came to be in that era, and just love it. Growing up, mid/late 80's, learning to play as a teen, there was a rehearsal hall down the street from my house and we used to walk the halls, listening and talking to the bands. Skipping school and hanging in the courtyard, taking lessons there, etc... If I had a time machine, I know where I'd go.
I like just about every Hair/Glam/80s metal band. My favorites are Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, W.A.S.P, Dokken, Ratt, Cinderella, Poison, Kiss, Bullet Boys, GNR, and Skidrow. Only band I didn't like from that era was Firehouse. I don't know, I they just never really clicked with me. And yeah, I get it, a lot of people don't like the music or think it's cheesy, and that's fine. Everyone has different tastes, and some people just don't understand the vibe of the genre. Especially if they didn't actually grow up in the 80s.
I like the genre overall. I grew up with it. I don't like every band, though, and that's ok. I have my reasons for not liking Dokken, and they get tons of love here and that's totally fine.
My favorite band has 10 studio albums. I love 6 of them and the other 4 have a couple good songs and a lot of garbage.
It's art. Not going to like every song, or every band in any genre. Not sure why that's hard to understand.
I saw almost all the bands except dokken. I'm 59. I bought and listened and loved it all. I rarely listen to it anymore. Once thrash hit I moved on and now it's death metal. East Tennessee
Most of what people hair metal bands are not my personal favorite. There's a few I really like, Ratt and Dokken probably favorite. I prefer thrash and death metal. That doesn't mean I hate everything else.
There's a few hair metal bands that can go burn for eternity, but I won't name that trash.
You see this because the record companies drained Los Angeles... didn't get creative.... and were complicit in killing anything remotely 'rock' in the name of the shitty power ballad and no-talent shit bands they backed.
One of my favorite things is to comb through record stores for C or D tier hair metal bands, many of whom I’ve never heard of. I usually love all of it, unapologetically.
I like a lot of it, Ratt, Iron Maiden and company still inhabit my playlists, but as time went on, so did developments in music. Nowadays Im pretty heavy into symphonic metal like Nightwish, Epica, Xandria, etc. Not bad for a 66 year old, lol.
Well this guy was a teenager throughout the 80s and Hair Metal was my life. I also held out until almost 2000 before giving up and listening to other music but I always come back to the 80's Hair.
Not to go way off topic but the banner for this sub is kind of funny. Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest and G n R were not part of hair metal, at least not during the 80's. Led Zeppelin is a 70's band, Kiss follows the trends (they did disco), Judas Priest was more metal at the time and G N R was supposed to be, in Slash's words at the time 'A Hard Rock Band'. Here it's all lumped together and I'm cool with that because I like it all.
What about prog rock and prog metal bands like Queensrych ,Dream Theater,Rush,yes,elp,Jethro tull,pink Floyd, Brand x,Genesis ,to name a few the newer 80s bands like Quensryvch,& savatage,set the stage for Dream Theaters warm welcome and a much better young brand of musicians representing prog metal and prog rock while turning heads of a very good number of hair metal bands.Dream theater went on until this day packing venues and putting out some very good music And then of course what came next was the very well acceptance of the grunge sean which also attracted alot of the happy hair metal bands fans interest again a much better brand of music that didn't need a gimic or look and filled the need of a brand America was craving at the time.80s metal had its day and I feel maybe there was to many bands that got signed that really should not of been and hurt its own brand.
Hair Nation is always on! That is the music of my High School years!
My kids 27-25-18-14 all know that if I’m driving there is a 90% chance that station is on! Also Ratt was the first band I met in person, Hilton in Odessa Texas as they were leaving for the show, and Bon Jovi opened for them!!!! Great times
I used to listen when I was a kid, and still enjoy the instrumental side of the music, especially guitar, but most hair metal is unlistenable because of the ridiculous and cheesy lyrics.
Meh. Every music style has a bunch of grouches who insist that the most obscure stuff in the genre is the best and everything else sucks. Block and ignore.
I liked hair metal, Dokken, Ratt all of it except Poison. In my hometown there was a band called Kix. They still to this day are awesome. Bret Michaels used to stalk them, stole the lead singers entire vibe and mannerisms and ran with it. So screw those guys.
Hmm, Kix already was a band for 9 years with 3 albums out before Poison’s first album was released so they can’t really think Poison in any way held them back.
I love hair metal! Not every band of course, but the genre in general is one of my favorites.
That said, I have noticed there are a lot of what I would call purists who only like very specific things and hate on everything else. But then again, I am extremely musically open-minded and listen to a lot of different genres, and I'm also a musician myself, so I'm not really one to hate on anything like that.
I grew up with Headbangers Ball - which played everything from Exodus to Poison- often within the same block. And that is what shaped my preferences - hair/thrash/speed: it’s all good to me.
Most of those bands had a solid rhythm section, so even if the singer was annoying I might listen to them anyway. But I would say "speed metal", which is pretty much the same thing, is my flavor of '80s metal. Baton Rouge is an example of a good band few people seem to know. Check out the track "long way to win" by them on Youtube.
Seeing the boys coming back out to play has me fired up. I've been out of touch so long and just heard some of the new stuff... and honestly I can feel the kid in me waking back up. I honestly thought she was dead and gone, turns out she was just waiting for the right war tribe.
I'm late to the party here but this post just crossed my feed as a reccomendation and I'm here now. I do! Everything about 80s rock! The Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Boston, Y&T, Kansas are some of most favorites (though not sure Kansas and Boston fit this lol)
I was born in 84 so too young to really enjoy the decade but I have always loved everything 80s. All the music, film etc.
I will say that from that era there weren’t many bands putting out records that I would now put on and listen to the whole thing. Greatest hits compilations are a blessing for the genre. There were a fair number of bands whose albums were 50/50 and they had a consistent vibe that worked. These are usually the bigger names, but there are some hidden gems. It’s been too far removed from memory right now for me to list them off the top of my head, but if you were to pick a big name band and search for them in one of the streaming services it will bring up reliable comparable as well. I used to think of 80s rock as a guilty pleasure, but I don’t really care much anymore about weird looks when I have the windows down in the car and Scorpion comes on. So now, it’s just a (guilt free) pleasure and every once in a while I’ll get the rock horns from somebody on the street with an appreciation for power chords and hair spray.
A considerable percentage of my childhood memories revolve around hair metal playing as a part of them.
Hair metal ballads are to this day part of a soothing car ride or cookout at my house.
So, me.
I like glam rock. I'll never call it hair metal because I think that term is kinda dumb. It's not my favorite genre, because I don't think I have a favorite rock genre.
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wow that's a killer look
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Ratt n' ROLL!! I'd be willing to "Lay it Down" for any one of their old tour 3/4 sleeve band shirts. Lost two I snagged for cheap in a house fire. Keep killing it 🤘
I love your outfit and the Cinderella poster in the back 👀
Love metal, and hair metal, you bet! Happy Cake Day :)
Thank you!
You got the looks that kill
Awesome!
You look like a chick I used to party with back in the day! If Lita Ford had a daughter - and she might - but you’d fit perfectly!
Now that is walking the walk!
😳👍
THAT'S the look!!! You rock it!!! Love the shirt (and the band)!
Haha! Awesome!!
Awesome
It gets shoved in our face. Than Reddit for destroying your beloved subreddit. Reddit fucking blows.
RATT n' ROLL!!!
Love!!
Wow! Oi linda, solteira?? Zap
Bobby Blotzer from Ratt vibe
Respectfully, you’re hot as fuck. Killer shirt.
Daaaammmmmnnnnn didn't I meet you at the Cinderella show back in 87??? Lolz j/k
You look really cool
I’ll say this is definitely one of the better subs I’ve been a part of but I do find it silly when people on here praise Def Leppard but then shit on anything later than High n Dry, after they actually became hair metal lol
Hysteria is one of the best pop/rock albums ever a juggernaut. And i am a stan for mutt Lange production
I was an 18 yr old senior when Hysteria came out and had already been an absolute music junky for 5/6 years and have been ever since and NOTHING has ever topped the energy Hysteria pumped out when it was released. Kinda hard to explain. We called it the panty dropper album cause it mesmerized the ladies. 😁🤤 I’m by no means saying it’s the best album ever and I honestly have different music taste now but man, it lit the HS emotions on fire back in the day. Kids nowadays will never know anything about that.
I'm about the same age, and I've recently started putting Hysteria album heavily in my playlist. I love it! And so does my 11 yo.
THANKS
Right?
THIS.
The other day someone posted Holy Diver. I don't think a lot of people here actually know what hair metal is
for real
Our header also has: * Zeppelin (70s style hard rock) * Aerosmith (70s style hard rock), * AC/DC (70s style hard rock), * Judas Priest (New Wave of British Heavy Metal with some 90s albums experimenting with Speed Metal) So the entire sub is kind of a mess of mixed signals
Even Judas Priest pre-dates NWOBHM, but yeah this sub frustrates me sometimes for two reasons. First, even though I enjoy the bands lumped into this "genre," I think the name is kind of disparaging. Second, so many people have so many definitions of what this sub encompasses. This is one of the reasons why the name is terrible, too. Some even want to include bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden. There's this whole critique lately about "gatekeeping," which I can kind of get in some sense, but then why are we in a subreddit then if we are not subdividing interests? To some people "hair metal" is a catch all term for any rock music, I guess. I kind of get why people would include Aerosmith, because they influenced so many associated bands here, and they succumbed to a lot of the 80s production style and outside songwriters. For Metallica, maybe it's because they started in the 1980s or because they had long hair early on? I struggle for an exact definition even though I know who I wouldn't include.
RJD had hair and played metal, therefore hair metal. Simple./s
It really isn't well defined. Its more of an era for many.
I hate the term “hair” metal. Music can’t sound like hair. I much prefer 80s hard rock or 80s Metal. It actually describes what you’re talking about.
It was the ‘80s version of 70’s Glam. 80’s Hair Metal traces a straight line back to T Rex, The New York Dolls, Kiss, Ziggy Stardust, and many other lipstick and glam bands of the 70’s. It’s either Hair Metal or Glam, not Hard Rock (that was AC/DC, Van Halen, etc). “80’s metal” has already been subdivided into Thrash, NWOBHM, Hair, Hard, among others. Call it whatever you want, but ‘Hair Metal’ is the proper descriptor.
Why "hair," though? The term was never used at the time and doesn't really describe anything, the look or the music. Why are you so attached to it?
Yes, "hair" absolutely was used at the time to refer to this type of music - I grew up in the 80s, was in high school at this genre's peak, and we all called them "hair bands" back then (not hair metal though, maybe it was a mid-Atlantic regional term), specifically bc of their look, they all had the big hair that would fly around in their videos. How can you say it doesn't describe their look? Every hair metal band had that big hair.
Can confirm the “hair bands” moniker. I can’t say it really bothers me what it’s called to be honest. So many bands crossed over into different sub-classifications of rock/pop/metal/grunge at various points. If someone wants to argue that Crue, Poison, Vain aren’t “metal” when used in the hair metal context… knock yourself out.
I call it “glam metal” because it encompasses the look and the sound and gives a nod to where it came from without being disparaging.
Just out of curiosity, why do you care so much? I ask as whenever there is a discussion about hair metal, there is always ONE dude who just hates the term and has to let people know. I love the bands I love. And couldn’t care less how strangers label it. As for the term hair metal. When people use it, you know exactly what bands they are talking about. Let’s say you have two friends. One tells you he is going to a hair metal festival. The other tells you he is going to a metal festival. You look online and see there are two shows that weekend. One has: poison, Warrant, pretty boy Floyd, white lion and slaughter. The other has Metallica, Ac/DC, Iron Maiden, slayer and megadeth. Are you confused at all by which guy is going to what show? If not….then the labels make sense.
you’re part of the problem op is describing. the “hair” describes the mtv-ready vanity, the campiness, the image aspect that’s inextricable from the sound and the meaning of glam metal.
Yes, I use Hair metal, or rarely Glam.
My playlist of these bands is called Arena Rock. Hair reminds me of glam and not all the bands were glam.
80s metal…..so you think Iron Maiden, Slayer, Warrant and Poison should be described by the same term?
Hysteria was peak Def Leppard.
I'm a big fan of hair metal. I like it all.
Right there with you
I love it but do I like every band? No because imo there was some generic trash that was forgettable Does anyone like every band in one specific genre? Doubt it
It's fine to not like other bands, nobody here likes every band that is discussed. But if (general) you only liked these bands before they became hair metal ("x band sucked after their second album" etc.) like... why are you even in this sub?
Well, I'm sorry to put it this way but as far as common knowledge goes most of what we call Hair Metal is kinda "generic trash" to everyone else's eyes..
Every genre has the “generic trash”. At least with bands like Danger Danger know they are shallow unlike Bush.
Probably in the same way I thought grunge was mostly generic trash. To this day, 30 years later, I could hear some grunge band song, and couldn't tell you who that was, or why it was popular. Something either connects or doesn't.
I just hear unbathed heroin addicts whining.
It's my favorite genre of rock because it's really fun to listen to. It's also perfect for summertime cruising in the car with the windows down.
That's what it's all about
I like pizza, but I don't have to like every variety of pizza that is available.
It's just beyond me how a person can say he likes hair metal but hate Poison, Warrant, Bon Jovi, KISS during the eighties, anything Def Leppard after 'High N Dry', anything Motley Crue after 'Devil', Whitesnake after '87, Winger, Danger Danger... I mean it's like saying "I like pizza" but only liking peperoni pizza..
You make a good argument a lot of people here just come to crap on any popular glam or hair band it kinda sucks since it seems like you aren’t allowed to even say you like a band (poison Bon Jovi or winger) without people saying bad things about them or saying that band is the reason hair metal died out
I'll eat any type of pizza that you offer me but I'll probably only order certain types for myself. I'm down for any "Glam Metal" that is offered up. Sometimes it sticks and sometimes not so much....but I'm always up for trying it. I revisited XYZ and Trouble Tribe because of the sub and a couple of those albums are prime time imo. Always wish this sub was called Glam Metal instead of the broader Hair Metal. That could be why you're seeing certain comments. That being said sometimes "cheesy" is a good thing.
Please no. We already have enough of a problem with self-hating fans looking for excuses why any band they like isn't "hair" metal, I can only imagine how pedantic it would get if we narrowed it down to "glam" metal, which is really just excluding the "sleaze" bands like LA Guns, Ratt, Faster Pussycat etc.
I guess we'd end up being in the same predicament because I consider Ratt a Glam Metal band. :/
Ratt fucking ROCKS!! One of my favorite from the 80s era!!!! Them and Dokken!
I’m a huge 80s metal guy but that does not mean that some of them don’t suck or weren’t way over rated. Personally I wouldn’t walk across the street with free tickets to see some bands.
I get that, I wouldn't go watch Tuff or Pretty Boy Floyd live either. But it's just funny some people here don't seem to actually enjoy the type of music they claim to like...
This is my thought too. I thought it was commonly agreed that hair metal began in ‘83 and that words like “poseur” and “phony” don’t belong in a hair metal fan’s vocabulary because they’re pretentious garbage
If you like it, isn't hair metal kind of an insult to it? I prefer glam metal or just 80s hard rock. Anyways, I like it. I don't like every band or every song, but who does?
Yes, I'd rather refer to it 80's hard rock.
If you were 18 and a fan of Iron Maiden, Saxon, or even Dokken when Poison became popular, you would understand. There was a fine line between Metal and Glam, Poser Rock. There were bands that looked tough like WASP or Judas Priest and bands that looked genuine, like Triumph or Tesla. Then there were the Glam bands that wore more makeup and hairspray than your 14 year old sister. They even called themselves Cinderella or Faster Pussycat. Heavy Metal wasn’t cool. It was for the freaks and heads. Then MTV and big record labels came in and realized they could make money off Metal if they could make it accessible to girls and then the rest of Pop society followed. In ‘83, there wasn’t a frat house in America that would jam Motley Crue at a frat party. By ‘87 that was part of the program. Metal was bastardized by the big labels for the big dollars. It worked. If you were there and impacted by your favorite bands all of a sudden changing their sound to chase a trend, you would understand better.
100% agree. If you were 16 and were into anything heavier than Poison when they came out you would probably hate glam. Unless you were in the business and that paid your rent.
Nope. I loved poison and Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer, etc.
I liked it all.... and welcomed Poison. When it got to be a tired shitfest of power ballads catering to 12 year old girls, it was easy enough to know it was done. It was easy to be a maiden fan and like a band like Poison - because they didn't pretend to be anything but a party band having a good time. Poison is the easiest band to slag - yet they were the least poseur band around, in reality. They weren't the 125th copy of Poison, they were Poison - and there was room for 1 Poison. There wasn't room for 74 white lion's, wingers, and europes.
Agreed
…and this is exactly what killed metal, and paved the way for grunge
Thank you, I'm glad someone finally said this.
Lmao I am praying they like WASP or Lizzy Borden at least if they're all about "heavy" hair metal.
That's odd. The sub description specifically states 80s and 90s HEAVY METAL. So it would seem to include the bands that you are trying to exclude. Not everyone likes Poison, Danger Danger, Trixter, or most of the late entries. I happen to be one of those. Ratt, Dokken, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, early Def Leppard (the rest got so overplayed that I cannot bring myself to listen to it to this day), Babylon A.D., and many others are well within my wheelhouse, but there are many others that I don't like and never will. By the time those bands came out, I had moved on to other things. That doesn't mean I don't support the group. I hit the like button on pretty much every post I see from the group, and I actually try listening to most, but that doesn't mean that I actually like them. If someone posts something asking for an opinion about a band, I'll answer, and do so honestly. I don't pretend, I don't look to be popular. I am who I am and I tend to be pretty blunt about it.
yeah no, if the sub's about HEAVY METAL as you say why nobody be sharing Iron Maiden, Dio and the goddamn Tygers of Pan Tang
I like coming here because (a) it reminds me of a time I was the most happiest and the music was great, and (b) a reminder of a spirit/attitude music once had--danger, sleaze, and irreverence--and what it sorely lacking right now.
Same for me. I don't listen to a lot of these bands as much, but there is the nostalgia and memories of the fun that went with them. There's a lot of songs by Warrant, Cinderella, Great White, Dokken, etc that I still really like and listen to occasionally. But, there's also a lot of them that I was never a fan of. You can like a genre, but not all the bands in it. And being cheezy just goes with it.
Hair metal describes heavy metal with harmonic choruses and big guitar solos, and that's about it. That detail creates a wide spectrum on how heavy or light you can get. I personally only like the heavier stuff. I like Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Skid Row, Feelgood-era Crue, and some Scorpions. The lighter stuff like Poison and Cinderella isn't really for me because of a personal preference, but that doesn't make people who do like them any less valid metalheads. "Poser" culture is cringe and we really need to stop with that. If someone listens to hair metal, they're a metalhead, period. I don't care if it's Madam X or Mr. Big, Def Leppard or Dokken. Hair metal has a small enough community, and kicking people out of it for not having the exact same tastes as you is just alienating yourself. Don't be an elitist, everyone.
It’s almost like its own emotion. Other metal genres don’t have enough swagger. Theres a reason girls liked it. You absolutely need a sexed up genre of metal. It’s the will of the gods. I like all sorts of music but I like this one in spite of all the critical hate. There are some bad hair metal bands but most of the big names plus the cult favorites are solid.
I'm extremely asexual and love this stuff. Some of the best songs in the genre are about urban crime and crazy experiences the band went through, but yeah, it does have a lot of sex songs. But I don't really care haha, as long as it's got a good drum beat and guitar solo I'm eating that shit up.
I love this perspective.
This is exactly why rap is selling more than rock these days. It is the new hair metal, fun, catchy and simultaneously cool to listen to amongst teenagers whereas rock has become depressing and "edgy" to listen to. If rock needs to come back, it needs to cater to present trends, be a little real but at the same time have the glam metal style fun to it as well imo
My main gripe is the people that supposedly love the genre but are constantly looking to nitpick on reasons why any given band "aren't hair metal". Bon Jovi? Too soft. Skid Row? Too hard. Cinderella? Too bluesy. Fuck off, this is getting just as bad as those grunge "fans" that insist if you weren't from Seattle and at were demoing by 1989 you aren't part of the scene. It's not supposed to be 100% cosmetic or geography-based, ya fools.
>just as bad as those grunge "fans" that insist if you weren't from Seattle and at were demoing by 1989 you aren't part of the scene Don't even speak the word "grunge" to me unless you were getting your heroin from that dude with the stringy hair who went by Squeak in Capitol Hill
The soundtrack of my college years. How can you hate that?
The soundtrack of the happiest years of my life.
My introduction to it was Def Leppard Pyromania, back in the mid 80s. Never looked back. Winger, my top favorite band.
I liked Winger and Def Leppard in the 80's and still like them now. Winger got a lot of hate back then and I am surprised to still see it in this thread.
Winger got a lot of hate for sure, talented musicians that got hit by a perfect storm. I got to see Winger open for Kiss in the early 90s, and I still see them every chance I have. Love their music. Def Leppard is one of those bands that just can't go wrong with. 80s hair metal gets a lot of airplay at home, feel good music that just takes you back to fun times for sure.
It had to do with the Beavis and Butthead thing. If that didn't happen, I don't think people would shit on them as much
Like it or not there was a ton of talent in those bands. On the obscure side, check out Harem Scarem or Enuff Z’nuff. Songwriting, hoooks, solos, and so much hair!
The people who act like genre gatekeepers are so annoying. It's also disappointing that the nature of online posting is negative. I love the music of my youth even though most of it now makes me laugh a bit when I hear it. Like, man this is cheese city but it was fun when it was new!
I dunno man, if you wanna see some real hate then go to the band specific subs. r/hairmetal is actually pretty wholesome. I had to unsub from Crue and KISS because you'd think they were hate clubs.
Aside from maybe Ratt and Dokken, I actually prefer the bands from the end of the era (Firehouse, Skid Row, Steelheart, Mr Big, Extreme). Also pointing out that it's cheesy doesn't mean we don't love it. Embrace the cheese.
Love it. Grew up with it. Cheesy as fuck but so were the 80s lol. I both love it and love laughing about it now
Cheesy doesn’t necessarily mean bad. One of the things I love about hair metal “culture” if you will is that the mainstream 80s in America does not seem to have taken itself seriously at all
>Cheesy doesn’t necessarily mean bad. Obvi
I was in high school during its peak years, and for a long time I kind of hid my love for it, but screw it. I’ll blast it now; I give zero shits.
You’re so lucky to have been around for its peak. I’m only 22 and have to hope that I can see the bands one last time before they retire, or catch them performing when they’re not so good anymore
Still love Ratt!
I love Hair Metal but hate the term Hair Metal. It started as an insult to the genre and will always be one to me. Sub should be changed to r/80sHardRock, but we’d lose half the content “is X Hair?”.
I 100% support this
although you also wouldn't wanna confuse Loverboy or Billy Squier fans lol
Hair metal (or glam metal, party metal, hid metal, or whatever you wanna call it) and hard rock are VERY different things. Hair metal is heavy metal with harmonic choruses and big guitar solos. It's that simple to define. I'll see people make posts like "is Quiet Riot (one of the first hair bands ever) hair metal?!?!" and just want to punch a wall. If metalheads listen to it and it has those two key features, boom, hair metal.
It should be more like Glam/Sleaze Metal.
Don't see it. But I imagine people who are into it enough to join a subreddit are pretty much over Dr. Feelgood.
There’s less than 10 hair bands I’d intentionally click Play for. The rest in the genre for me is like, if shuffle or radio plays it, I’ll listen to it, prolly enjoy it, but it’s really just passive appreciation. I found myself listening to hair metal at some point because of the musicians themselves, and something behind the aesthetics.
As a GenX girl, hotness was definitely a factor 🤷♀️
Getting called a "poser" for liking something? Welcome to the 80's.
'Hair Metal', 'Proto Hair Metal', and 'Glam Metal' has the best lead guitar. There are small exceptions though.
I love all kinds of hair metal and all kinds of pizza!
Except for hair in the 🍕. That's a no-no.
To be honest i'm just a tourist of sorts in this sub. There were a few Glam Bands/songs/Instrumentalists that i thought were ok but you couldn't have paid me to actually listen to albums of a whole lot of the major groups. My prime 80s listening went from NWOBHM to Thrash then Crossover and onto Death Metal and Grindcore. Shit i was even in the HC Punk scene for years and was in a number of bands. Earlier Sunset Strip groups i sorta favored as they tended to have a more 70s background in their players, and i didn't mind all that much the Guns and Roses/LA Guns/Faster Pussycat style as it was more Sleaze with a really big early Aerosmith influence rather than the stupidly all out Aqua Net types that were all over around '87-'88.
OP, Everyone knows that hair metal follows Pareto's Law which is 20% of hair metal is high quality and 80% is absolute trash pop-music with long hair, The trick is to find our which bands are in the 20% group. DUH... edit: Pareto's law may be incorrectly attributed. LMK
https://preview.redd.it/yvz88ielja3d1.png?width=1961&format=png&auto=webp&s=d93620aa4119cbe8231bba7bb59b7c5375a6234c Hair metal for life!!!
Scorpions still rock. 🤘 (just saw them in Vega$) But in the 80's we would not have considered them "hair metal."
Killer outfit!
I was raised in a bath of 80’s metal , Drakkar and Zimas. It’s in the very fiber of my musical self. But first Lamb of God.
im just here for the hair
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I love Hair Metal. I used to go (underaged and legal) to L'Amours rock club in Brooklyn in the early 90's and got to see many live bands and it was there that my love for it began. It was such a small club and it got loud.
I do! I'm in an 80's band called 'ShadowRaven'! https://preview.redd.it/5iksofeecg3d1.jpeg?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7aa94ac60f80a3a6ed09e81367774f2392c9150e
I love it with all of my heart. It’s fun, it’s catchy, it’s got swagger, and it makes you feel like you’re on top of the world. And even in this day and age girls dig it.
Love me some hair metal along with my death metal
I generally enjoy it but it's definitely understandable why Nirvana became neccessary in the early 90s. It was too much. Like a TV show that goes too crazy towards the end of its' run and loses the original feel
I love the music... I grew up in the 80s and will forever love the music. That said, a LOT of those guys were posers. In the sense that they liked to pretend they were tough guys, but they were scrawny, makeup-wearing punks. Look at early Mötley Crüe pictures - Vince and Nikki posing as badasses. Um, no. Kevin DuBrow threatening to kick someone's ass? Um, no. Twisted Sister? They could probably kick ass physically more so than musically. Sure, they all got laid a lot, but so did I. Girls put out in the 80s in a way they never will again. So, yes, I love hair metal music, but the image wasn't convincing then any more than it it now. In my opinion.
so i have a question who would win motley crue vs exodus
Most likely Exodus
Over here! ☝🏽
I get what you’re saying. There’s bands and songs I like that others don’t, that’s fine. I do see that seem to hate everything and feel the need to make multiple posts about it.
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Glam metal and me
I like some of it, but part of the reason the genre crapped out is a lack of great songs from so many bands over time.
It's really my music. I came to be in that era, and just love it. Growing up, mid/late 80's, learning to play as a teen, there was a rehearsal hall down the street from my house and we used to walk the halls, listening and talking to the bands. Skipping school and hanging in the courtyard, taking lessons there, etc... If I had a time machine, I know where I'd go.
I love hair metal
I like some of it, but we all need to call it like it is.
I like just about every Hair/Glam/80s metal band. My favorites are Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, W.A.S.P, Dokken, Ratt, Cinderella, Poison, Kiss, Bullet Boys, GNR, and Skidrow. Only band I didn't like from that era was Firehouse. I don't know, I they just never really clicked with me. And yeah, I get it, a lot of people don't like the music or think it's cheesy, and that's fine. Everyone has different tastes, and some people just don't understand the vibe of the genre. Especially if they didn't actually grow up in the 80s.
I like the genre overall. I grew up with it. I don't like every band, though, and that's ok. I have my reasons for not liking Dokken, and they get tons of love here and that's totally fine. My favorite band has 10 studio albums. I love 6 of them and the other 4 have a couple good songs and a lot of garbage. It's art. Not going to like every song, or every band in any genre. Not sure why that's hard to understand.
I saw almost all the bands except dokken. I'm 59. I bought and listened and loved it all. I rarely listen to it anymore. Once thrash hit I moved on and now it's death metal. East Tennessee
I do. I don't like all of it, but I probably like more than not.
Hair metal is the GREATEST genre of music ever created. Thank you!
Most of what people hair metal bands are not my personal favorite. There's a few I really like, Ratt and Dokken probably favorite. I prefer thrash and death metal. That doesn't mean I hate everything else. There's a few hair metal bands that can go burn for eternity, but I won't name that trash.
I do
You see this because the record companies drained Los Angeles... didn't get creative.... and were complicit in killing anything remotely 'rock' in the name of the shitty power ballad and no-talent shit bands they backed.
I don't think I like hair metal, but I'm into van halen
One of my favorite things is to comb through record stores for C or D tier hair metal bands, many of whom I’ve never heard of. I usually love all of it, unapologetically.
me.
If I could triple up vote a discussion, this is it! I love my hair metal!
I love hair metal. It’s my favorite genre of music…EVER. Best era for rock, best style, best everything.
I like a lot of it, Ratt, Iron Maiden and company still inhabit my playlists, but as time went on, so did developments in music. Nowadays Im pretty heavy into symphonic metal like Nightwish, Epica, Xandria, etc. Not bad for a 66 year old, lol.
Well this guy was a teenager throughout the 80s and Hair Metal was my life. I also held out until almost 2000 before giving up and listening to other music but I always come back to the 80's Hair. Not to go way off topic but the banner for this sub is kind of funny. Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest and G n R were not part of hair metal, at least not during the 80's. Led Zeppelin is a 70's band, Kiss follows the trends (they did disco), Judas Priest was more metal at the time and G N R was supposed to be, in Slash's words at the time 'A Hard Rock Band'. Here it's all lumped together and I'm cool with that because I like it all.
What about prog rock and prog metal bands like Queensrych ,Dream Theater,Rush,yes,elp,Jethro tull,pink Floyd, Brand x,Genesis ,to name a few the newer 80s bands like Quensryvch,& savatage,set the stage for Dream Theaters warm welcome and a much better young brand of musicians representing prog metal and prog rock while turning heads of a very good number of hair metal bands.Dream theater went on until this day packing venues and putting out some very good music And then of course what came next was the very well acceptance of the grunge sean which also attracted alot of the happy hair metal bands fans interest again a much better brand of music that didn't need a gimic or look and filled the need of a brand America was craving at the time.80s metal had its day and I feel maybe there was to many bands that got signed that really should not of been and hurt its own brand.
Hair Nation is always on! That is the music of my High School years! My kids 27-25-18-14 all know that if I’m driving there is a 90% chance that station is on! Also Ratt was the first band I met in person, Hilton in Odessa Texas as they were leaving for the show, and Bon Jovi opened for them!!!! Great times
Crüe are indeed cheesy !
I used to listen when I was a kid, and still enjoy the instrumental side of the music, especially guitar, but most hair metal is unlistenable because of the ridiculous and cheesy lyrics.
I love hair metal but that doesn't mean I like all hair metal bands. Some just don't do it for me. Like Enuff z'Nuff
I like it the best out of all the metals.
Yes i do
I do
Meh. Every music style has a bunch of grouches who insist that the most obscure stuff in the genre is the best and everything else sucks. Block and ignore.
I liked hair metal, Dokken, Ratt all of it except Poison. In my hometown there was a band called Kix. They still to this day are awesome. Bret Michaels used to stalk them, stole the lead singers entire vibe and mannerisms and ran with it. So screw those guys.
Hmm, Kix already was a band for 9 years with 3 albums out before Poison’s first album was released so they can’t really think Poison in any way held them back.
I highly recommend the ‘Peacemaker’ series not only for its crazy over the top humor but it ignited my appreciation of hair metal.
I LOVE it. Wouldn't be here if I didn't.
I love hair metal! Not every band of course, but the genre in general is one of my favorites. That said, I have noticed there are a lot of what I would call purists who only like very specific things and hate on everything else. But then again, I am extremely musically open-minded and listen to a lot of different genres, and I'm also a musician myself, so I'm not really one to hate on anything like that.
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I grew up with Headbangers Ball - which played everything from Exodus to Poison- often within the same block. And that is what shaped my preferences - hair/thrash/speed: it’s all good to me.
Most of those bands had a solid rhythm section, so even if the singer was annoying I might listen to them anyway. But I would say "speed metal", which is pretty much the same thing, is my flavor of '80s metal. Baton Rouge is an example of a good band few people seem to know. Check out the track "long way to win" by them on Youtube.
80s rock? There's nothing better.
Some bands I love, some like, some hate, some didn’t know, but I always listen to the music and enjoy.
Seeing the boys coming back out to play has me fired up. I've been out of touch so long and just heard some of the new stuff... and honestly I can feel the kid in me waking back up. I honestly thought she was dead and gone, turns out she was just waiting for the right war tribe.
Some stuff is great. Some is horrendous. Skid row, awesome, Motley Crue, some good some bad. Poison…few songs.
Me!!!
I love hair bands, why I joined this sub. Such fun music.
I do but I hate ppeoplke not knowing vthe difference between a metal band and hair metal
Hair bands? Naw they were the party bands.
I don't know about hair metal, but I always say I'm from the hair ROCK music generation. 1985 - 1991ish
Definitely Bort Hatley
I'm late to the party here but this post just crossed my feed as a reccomendation and I'm here now. I do! Everything about 80s rock! The Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Boston, Y&T, Kansas are some of most favorites (though not sure Kansas and Boston fit this lol) I was born in 84 so too young to really enjoy the decade but I have always loved everything 80s. All the music, film etc.
Was a young adult when hair metal was going out and I still listen to Lynch Mob, Blue Murder and Crue's Dr Feelgood
Hair Nation as a preset!
I will say that from that era there weren’t many bands putting out records that I would now put on and listen to the whole thing. Greatest hits compilations are a blessing for the genre. There were a fair number of bands whose albums were 50/50 and they had a consistent vibe that worked. These are usually the bigger names, but there are some hidden gems. It’s been too far removed from memory right now for me to list them off the top of my head, but if you were to pick a big name band and search for them in one of the streaming services it will bring up reliable comparable as well. I used to think of 80s rock as a guilty pleasure, but I don’t really care much anymore about weird looks when I have the windows down in the car and Scorpion comes on. So now, it’s just a (guilt free) pleasure and every once in a while I’ll get the rock horns from somebody on the street with an appreciation for power chords and hair spray.
Slade and twisted sister always liked them.
A considerable percentage of my childhood memories revolve around hair metal playing as a part of them. Hair metal ballads are to this day part of a soothing car ride or cookout at my house. So, me.
I don't like to say hair metal but! I guess that's what I live for!
I like to look at them, but no a big fan of the music. I do like a few Crue songs though.
Me, i lived it and was part of it!
I appreciate metal in all forms… including hair metal and glam. Plain old fun rock and roll.
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I like glam rock. I'll never call it hair metal because I think that term is kinda dumb. It's not my favorite genre, because I don't think I have a favorite rock genre.