Hair Metal fans, I need a little help

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Ok, so last night I started putting together a new playlist on Rhapsody of Hair Metal Hits. I tried to use pretty much just awesome guitar songs from the 80's. You'll notice that there are almost no slower songs on the list, besides Patience, and that is intentional. I already have a playlist of slower rock stuff for when I am in a different mood. I have a very preliminary list so far. I've already modified it some. I had some Dokken on there (Breaking The Chains) but after listening to it again after all this time it just didn't hold up. Bear in mind that these are in no particular order (as in best to least or anything like that).

Here's my playlist as it is currently constructed...

You Really Got Me - Van Halen
Beautiful Girls - Van Halen
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - Van Halen
Jamie's Cryin - Van Halen
Lay It On The Line - Triumph
No One Like You - Scorpions
Can't Live Without You - Scorpions
Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions
The Zoo - Scorpions
Round And Round - Ratt
Lay It Down - Ratt
Wanted Man - Ratt
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Mississippi Queen - Ozzy Osbourne
Bark At The Moon - Ozzy Osbourne
Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue
You've Got Another Thing Comin' - Judas Priest
Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N' Roses
Paradise City - Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child Of Mine - Guns N' Roses
Patience - Guns N' Roses
Say What You Will - Fastway
Rainbow In The Dark - Dio
White Wedding - Billy Idol

Anything that you think I should include, or even exclude for that matter?
 
Great List! I should clear my CDs out and just burn a disc or two.

Here's 3 Must Haves.

I can't Drive 55 - Sammy Hagar
Legs - ZZ Top
Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
 
I only see three actual "hair metal" bands on your list. Motley Crue, Ratt, and Fastway. Scorpions in a pinch could maybe be added as hair metal. I'm not disagreeing with (most of) your list for awesome guitar songs, just most of it doesn't fit the "hair metal" genre. But then again, I am pretty picky when it comes to classifying different metal genres.
 
I was struggling with the "Hair Metal" classification also. Some people consider some of my favorites from the 80s Heavy Metal and Pop Bands?

So what to call Bands like:
Van Halen
ZZ Topp
Bon Jovi
Guns n Roses
Judas Priest
 
VaDirt said:
I only see three actual "hair metal" bands on your list. Motley Crue, Ratt, and Fastway. Scorpions in a pinch could maybe be added as hair metal. I'm not disagreeing with (most of) your list for awesome guitar songs, just most of it doesn't fit the "hair metal" genre. But then again, I am pretty picky when it comes to classifying different metal genres.
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I see what you are saying. I was just kind of using "hair metal" for lack of a better term. I love Iron Maiden, but they seemed wrong for this list in some way as did several other bands. ZZ Top is like that also. I've always thought of ZZ Top as good rock and roll, but certainly not metal. Billy Idol certainly isn't metal either, but the song White Wedding seemed to fit this list very well.
 
FlFlash said:
I was struggling with the "Hair Metal" classification also. Some people consider some of my favorites from the 80s Heavy Metal and Pop Bands?

So what to call Bands like:
Van Halen
ZZ Topp
Bon Jovi
Guns n Roses
Judas Priest
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Good questions. I'd say Van Halen, GNR and Judas Priest are metal, in my mind, and the other two are good rock-n-roll, but not metal. Others may view them differently. I like all of them except for Judas Priest. I just never liked them for some reason, but I did like the two songs I put on my list a lot though.
 
FlFlash said:
I was struggling with the "Hair Metal" classification also. Some people consider some of my favorites from the 80s Heavy Metal and Pop Bands?
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My thoughts on genre:
Van Halen: Hard Rock
ZZ Top: Hard Rock. Maybe a small bit of Southern Rock thrown in.
Bon Jovi: At least early stuff fit in the hair metal category.
Guns n Roses: Came from the hair metal scene, but weren't all glammed up, so hard rock is my call
Judas Priest: Heavy Metal. In fact, one of the founding fathers of heavy metal.
 
I'd add these:Def Leppard
Tesla
Skid Row
Cinderella
Poison
Stryper
Twisted Sister
Warrant
Great White
Winger
Just to name a few, I'm sure there are more, but those bands represented the Hair Glam era of the late to mid 80s.
 
Okay, I'm an old fart and I know heavy metal when I hear it, but what is hair metal? Is that the 80's music with bands that had the long hair?
 
buckaroo said:
Okay, I'm an old fart and I know heavy metal when I hear it, but what is hair metal? Is that the 80's music with bands that had the long hair?
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YES HEAVY METAL!!!
Blue Oyster Cult, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, AC/D, Jethro Tull, Kiss, Led Zepplin, Mettalica and more!

I think Hair Metal is when they started wearing sashes, singing ballads and wearing spandex and silk?
 
buckaroo said:
Okay, I'm an old fart and I know heavy metal when I hear it, but what is hair metal? Is that the 80's music with bands that had the long hair?
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Hair metal, glam metal. Heavy metal that was born in the LA Sunset Strip in the 80s. Motley Crue, Poison, Warrant were among the leaders of the scene.

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If you're really curious, watch the movie "The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years" and discover what the scene was all about.
 
FlFlash said:
YES HEAVY METAL!!!
Blue Oyster Cult, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, AC/D, Jethro Tull, Kiss, Led Zepplin, Mettalica and more!

I think Hair Metal is when they started wearing sashes, singing ballads and wearing spandex and silk?
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And for the record, BOC, Tull and especially Jethro Tull, were NOT heavy metal.
 
Faster Pussycat
Krokus
April Wine
Billy Squire
Boston
Zebra
Cheap Trick
Slaughter
Kiss
The Cult
McAuley/Schenker
Foghat
Georgia Satellites
L.A. Guns
Night Ranger
38 Special
 
WHAAAT THIS AINT HEAVY METAL???





:( I'm just a country boy outta the swamps of Florida.....sounds Heavy and Bad Asss to Me!
 
FlFlash said:
WHAAAT THIS AINT HEAVY METAL???





:( I'm just a country boy outta the swamps of Florida.....sounds Heavy and Bad Asss to Me!
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That's a good point. I see what you are saying. While both of those songs are great, and yes, very heavy, I wouldn't classify either of these bands as Heavy Metal. I'd consider both of them classic hard rock, along with Kiss, Zeppelin and a ton of others. I guess it's more of a years they were at their best thing. If their best years were in the 70's, I generally think of them as hard rock. Of course, there are exceptions to many of the rules governing music classifications.
 
buckaroo said:
Okay, I'm an old fart and I know heavy metal when I hear it, but what is hair metal? Is that the 80's music with bands that had the long hair?
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Everybody probably has their own definition. But I tend to think of the bands like Motley Crue, Ratt, Cinderella, Fastway, Faster Pussycat, Quiet Riot, Tesla, Warrant and Twisted Sister. These bands got the term "hair metal" mostly from the look they had with the big hair, spandex, etc.
 
Benevolent One said:
Everybody probably has their own definition. But I tend to think of the bands like Motley Crue, Ratt, Cinderella, Fastway, Faster Pussycat, Quiet Riot, Tesla, Warrant and Twisted Sister. These bands got the term "hair metal" mostly from the look they had with the big hair, spandex, etc.
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Pretty much spot-on for the hair metal bands.
 
Great thread even thought there appears to be far to many genres of Metal Bands :D I listen to a bit of everyone of them, I guess being a teenager in the 70's I go back there mostly.
 
FlFlash said:
Great thread even thought there appears to be far to many genres of Metal Bands :D I listen to a bit of everyone of them, I guess being a teenager in the 70's I go back there mostly.
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Would you like a list of heavy metal genres? I can give you a list that would kind of freak you out. There are a lot.
 
BobbyFord said:
Actually if it's good metal you're after then it's here...
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Actually, I was not refering to current metal at all in this thread. I don't listen to a lot of different current metal bands. RED is probably my favorite current metal band. Bullet For My Valentine is pretty cool too, but I'm really only talking about 80's metal stuff in this thread.
 
Benevolent One said:
Actually, I was not refering to current metal at all in this thread. I don't listen to a lot of different current metal bands. RED is probably my favorite current metal band. Bullet For My Valentine is pretty cool too, but I'm really only talking about 80's metal stuff in this thread.
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I wanted to ask you this earlier, but here it goes, anyways. I was watching a reality show a few months back when a young, twentysomething woman referred to this era of rock music in a derogatory way. I was just wondering if you knew the term the younger generation uses to mention this 80's "hair band" rock music.
Btw, I like a lot of bands that came out of this period. Especially Whitesnake. Didn't care for the Poisons or Wingers of the day, but I think some great music was still made back then by rock bands who were maybe wrongly associated with the popular "metal" of those years.
Like, say, Ozzy's "Shot in the Dark". Still love that song today, but man, he did have the big hair-sprayed hairdo to go with it. I guess, back then, if you couldn't beat 'em - join 'em.
 
nascage said:
I wanted to ask you this earlier, but here it goes, anyways. I was watching a reality show a few months back when a young, twentysomething woman referred to this era of rock music in a derogatory way. I was just wondering if you knew the term the younger generation uses to mention this 80's "hair band" rock music.
Btw, I like a lot of bands that came out of this period. Especially Whitesnake. Didn't care for the Poisons or Wingers of the day, but I think some great music was still made back then by rock bands who were maybe wrongly associated with the popular "metal" of those years.
Like, say, Ozzy's "Shot in the Dark". Still love that song today, but man, he did have the big hair-sprayed hairdo to go with it. I guess, back then, if you couldn't beat 'em - join 'em.
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I don't know what term you are refering to. I can imagine it would be something derogatory and condesending. That seems to be their specialty. Some of that stuff was pretty cheesy, no doubt about it. When you talk about the Poisons and those similar groups, I couldn't stand that stuff then and it isn't any better today.

Oh and I saw Ozzy on the Bark At The Moon tour. Motley Crue opened for him and it was an awesome show, even without the recently deceased (at that time) Randy Rhodes.
 
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