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Metal Expert Says Each Hair Metal Band Had '2 or 3 Good Songs,' Names the Most 'Authentic' Band in the Genre
'You have to judge a band by their greatest hits record.'
@TheMetalDog Disagree 100 percent with the "expert." I love me some Poison, but "Every Rose ... " ain't one of them. In fact, my favorite Poison song is one that CC or Kotzen didn't play on.
@gogmagog@TheMetalDog Singular albums from Vain and Bang Tango serve as both stand alone albums and a greatest hits collection. Nothing better than succinct condensed hair metal.
@Theblueone@TheMetalDog Dokken's Tooth And Nail rips from start to finish, and I don't think Warrant's Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich has a bad song on it either.
@gogmagog@TheMetalDog I just never consider Dokken hair metal, although they kinda are. But then again I don’t even like the “hair metal” term since we all know we either called it glam or commercial back in the actual day
@gogmagog@TheMetalDog Case in point here’s a Metal Forces fanzine from 1985 with a blurb about Poison pre-major label signing. The term “hair metal” is nowhere to be found anywhere, but “glitter metal” “glam” and “commercial/AOR” are the terms used everywhere in the issue to distinguish that stuff from straight up heavy metal and thrash.
@TheMetalDog@gogmagog And for me the band that set the bar for all of it that came later from LA had been around since the late 70s and from Seattle...
@TheMetalDog@Theblueone I agree. I'm pretty sure it was an '90s invention, a derogatory phrase meant to belittle any '80s band that had a few hits as not serious or worthy of praise. And for the most part it worked.
@gogmagog@TheMetalDog And I had already bought some Dokken vinyl from their German release days… so I always thought of them as just metal who kinda got lumped in with the glam look later - like Keel, Loudness, etc.
@Theblueone@TheMetalDog Personally, I consider the term "hair metal" to mean glam or glam-adjacent bands, which eliminates Dokken and Tesla and GnR, but to most people it means any rock which came out in the '80s that isn't Maiden or Metallica.
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