Tequila Cowboy wrote:I love the term "hair metal" myself. I think it's the most accurate ridiculous genre moniker ever.
Which is why I made the comment "no matter how much you may look down your nose at that particular genre". It's guaranteed that any thread on an internet message board that mentions 80's metal bands will include at least 50% snide comments about said genre lol.
Anyone who thinks you mean Poison or Warrant when you say "80's Metal" should just roll up the window of thier IROC and go back to finger banging the skank in the acid washed skirt.
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1) Metallica -- saved metal from spandex and hairspray. Made it scary for parents once again 2) Motorhead 3) Iron Maiden 4) Trouble -- very underrated band. The best of the pre-Metallica American metal bands 5) Ozzy with Randy Rhodes
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Death and Morbid Angel both started in the 80s but much of their best work came in the 90s (especially Morbid Angel).
Judas Priest is at least as much a 70s band as an 80s band in my mind. They were good from 80-84 but fell off in the latter half of the 80s, rebounding in a big way with Painkiller in 1990.
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Slipkid42 wrote:Maiden Schmaiden, who said they were the bomb?
nothing in particular in this thread (or even on this board), but in general Maiden/Priest seem to be the godhead of metal for a lot of folks.
and now this thread has VERY little to do w/ John Fogerty.
I don't now, and didn't then know anybody who listened to both. Maiden was a huge part of my musical coming of age while I put Judas Priest in the camp with Motley Crue and Scorpions.
My perspective is that most of these bands are not metal. I don't claim to be the guy who defines these things but all that "hair metal" and "glam metal" and whatnot is some form of hard rock or heavier music, but it's not metal. Judas Priest was about as compressed and distorted as your average Huey Lewis song.
RevMatt wrote:4) Trouble -- very underrated band. The best of the pre-Metallica American metal bands
They're not really pre-Metallica. Their first album came out in 1984 while Metallica's first album came out in 1983. I agree that Trouble is really good though. They released a new album in July btw.
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Beebs wrote:I don't now, and didn't then know anybody who listened to both. Maiden was a huge part of my musical coming of age while I put Judas Priest in the camp with Motley Crue and Scorpions.
Maiden opened multiple tours for Priest in the early 80s. See the link below for more info.
Beebs wrote:Judas Priest was about as compressed and distorted as your average Huey Lewis song.
Have you heard these Judas Priest albums from the 70s?
Sad Wings of Destiny Sin After Sin Stained Class Hell Bent For Leather
They are all metal classics. They were released in 76, 77, 78, and 79.
A little here and there, but not really, Bill. Friend of a friend tried to turn me onto what I had "missed" about 15 years ago but I only gave it a half hearted exploration. I may very well appreciate some of those earlier albums if I gave them a fair shake, but the stuff I was hearing in the 80's (British Steel, Screaming Vengeance, Etc) did nothing for me.
Bill in CT wrote:
Beebs wrote:I don't now, and didn't then know anybody who listened to both. Maiden was a huge part of my musical coming of age while I put Judas Priest in the camp with Motley Crue and Scorpions.
Maiden opened multiple tours for Priest in the early 80s. See the link below for more info.
Not claiming that the white trash, shithole I hail from is a comprehensive sample of worldwide metal fans. Only that, in my limited experience, if you liked Priest you probably also liked Ratt and Dokken and Krokus and Kiss other bands that I'm not into.
Bill is oh so right about Sad Wings Of Destiny (a classic). JP's cover of Joan Baez's Diamonds & Rust is the best crossover cover ever. Judas Priest had mad chops in the 70's. The 80's not so much (as was the case w/most 70's bands transitioning into the 80's).
Scorpions w/the Schenker bros. was real good. That was the 70's though. 80's Scorps were more generic, but when lookin' to fill a Best Hair bands of the 80's list, they actually figure in.
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Just a brief homage to arguably the first American metal band: Blue Cheer. Vincebus Eruptum is a great fucking record. Marshall amps stacked to the ceiling. Never saw them live, unfortunately, but cranked that album night and day for a while.
Slipkid42 wrote:Scorpions w/the Schenker bros. was real good. That was the 70's though. 80's Scorps were more generic, but when lookin' to fill a Best Hair bands of the 80's list, they actually figure in.
UFO with Michael Schenker on guitar was great in the 70s. I'm going to see them next month here in CT. Vinnie Moore is their lead guitarist now. He's also good but I wish I could see them once with Schenker. Iron Maiden uses "Doctor Doctor" as their intro music to this day.
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Slipkid42 wrote:Scorpions w/the Schenker bros. was real good. That was the 70's though. 80's Scorps were more generic, but when lookin' to fill a Best Hair bands of the 80's list, they actually figure in.
UFO with Michael Schenker on guitar was great in the 70s. I'm going to see them next month here in CT. Vinnie Moore is their lead guitarist now. He's also good but I wish I could see them once with Schenker. Iron Maiden uses "Doctor Doctor" as their intro music to this day.
UFO is about the only band in the metal genre I can handle. More importantly............I wonder who John Fogerty's favorite 80's metal band is. WOW are we jumping around.
Slipkid42 wrote:Scorpions w/the Schenker bros. was real good. That was the 70's though. 80's Scorps were more generic, but when lookin' to fill a Best Hair bands of the 80's list, they actually figure in.
UFO with Michael Schenker on guitar was great in the 70s. I'm going to see them next month here in CT. Vinnie Moore is their lead guitarist now. He's also good but I wish I could see them once with Schenker.
I missed the Scorpions w/M. Schenker too. Saw them in '84 @ the Capitol Center, but that was in their No One Like You stage. I was 27 years old & I was among the oldest 5% of the crowd. Still, they had redeemable qualities.
U.F.O. was on another wavelength altogether. They were the bomb.
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Have a few hours to waste and looking for a laugh? Find a music board that is discussing either all the different metal genres or a discussion of what defines a "metal band". Some people out there get downright mean when it comes to the discussion lol.
Turn you demons into walls of goddamned noise and sound.
brett27295 wrote:Have a few hours to waste and looking for a laugh? Find a music board that is discussing either all the different metal genres or a discussion of what defines a "metal band". Some people out there get downright mean when it comes to the discussion lol.
I stumbled upon some Skynyrd fans online yesterday that had no idea what Skynyrd's connection to Muscle Shoals was. Baffling and a bit more than disconcerting.
