Posted on 04/19/2024 12:26:11 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Who doesn’t love the 80s? Good music and even better hair styles. Maybe today’s kids will laugh and make fun of them but hey, back in the day, they were the bomb. They look pretty and colorful on stage, they know how to party and of course, they get the girls.
From heavy and glittering makeup to flashy clothing (leopard tights included), what completed the look was the large and wild hair. The more distinctive, the better. Well thanks to the alternative and grunge music of the early 90s, hair metal was eventually swept under the rug.
So let’s revisit some of the best this genre had to offer.
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They were good. So was Bad Company.
Most bands of that list sucked. Dokken? Come on!
No Van Halen? No Metallica? No Aerosmith? No AC/DC?
We called em “chick metal” cause the girls liked them. But also hair metal, spandex metal, bubblegum metal.
Metallica is one of the big 4 of thrash. Though honestly for the first four albums they were prog-metal but that didn’t coalesce into a subgenre until the early 2000s.
Slade’s a lot of fun.
Metallica was pop metal. I liked them but for the real thing Megadeth just ruled.
SLADE. That brings back memories. Very under appreciated considering so many of their songs were copied by crummy 80s hair bands. And Roddy almost became lead singer for AC/DC when Bon died.
I remember Run Run Away almost always on the radio .
Pretty much everyone, back when/where I lived in NJ. The same fans also said KK Downing was gay and Glenn Tipton was bi . . .
Lita Ford. Joan Jett. The Runaways...
My favorite Beavis and Butthead line:
“These better be chicks dammit, ‘cause they’re giving me a woody.”
Metallica didn’t mellow to kinda pop metal until Bob Rock showed up for the Black Album (and the next 4). Kill Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets and And Justice for All are thrash and blue prints for prog-metal (2 songs on Justice are longer than Yes’ Heart of the Sunrise, let the chord changes roll).
The Runaways had zero talent but were so cool. Ch-ch-ch- cherry Bomb.
I think Lita was the only straight one in The Runaways.
Grand Funk’s red album was mind bogglingly good.
The pride of Flint Michigan: Mel, Mark and Don.
I know Nirvana and the rest of the grunge bands of the early 1990s pretty much destroyed hair metal but those were good times. Especially all the power ballads of the 1980s.
If we’re including out of scope bands, like Judas Priest, why not die Skorpione!
Yeah, kind of hard to be a hair metal band, when your lead singer has no hair, LOL.
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