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23 hours ago, Requiem said: There are a few glam/80s hard rock fans around here too believe it or not. 

I'll talk Warrant, Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Skid Row, Def Leppard, Cinderella etc. I love that stuff! 

Great! I also love that shit. I have about 600 of glam metal cd's. At some point I will have the whole American glam metal major discography, I am only missing a few rarities at the moment. Here is a quick list of 10 amazing albums by minor league (but still released on major label with at least one proper MTV friendly videoclip) hair metal bands:

Roxx Gang - "Things You've Never Done Before"

Babylon A.D. - "ST"

Royal Court of China - "Geared and Primed"

Bang Tango - "Psycho Café"

Bang Gang - "Love Sells"

Hericane Alice - "Tear the House Down"

Shark Island - "Law of the Order"

Junkyard - "ST"

Asphalt Ballet - "ST"

Baton Rouge - "Shake Your Soul"

 

 

Good to see some 80s hair metal love but my god Bang Tango are horrible. And I've no love for Junkyard either....gave their cd I had away. Vain we're equally shitty.

 

Of today's sleaze metal bands quite enjoy old Hardcore Superstar, Crazy Lixx, Jettblack and of course the mighty Crashdïet. Can't go past the 80s stuff though.

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If you like the genre, I am sure you would like these bands. There are some truly inferior albums among those 600, BUT I am talking about almost exclusively albums that were released by majors in the golden era of glam metal (about 1982-1992), so you can always rest assured about the production values! Record labels were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on studio time, producers, etc.

One major obstacle some listener might find with some of those bands are the vocals... For instance, I totally LOVE a band called VAIN (from San Francisco, the singer eventually produced stuff for Death Angel, the all filipino thrash band we all love). They excellent songs, but the dude used to sing in a way not too unlike T-Rex's Tom Bolan... so for a lot of people that was a big turn-off compared to the usual raspy high pitched vocals of glamorous hard rock. Same goes for ROXX GANG.

If you wanna play it safe, try out BABYLON AD (Guinnes World Record of putting a chorus on top of another chorus) and HERICAN ALICE (stellar songs, typical blonde singer with high pitched vocals). :D

The thing is that, just exactly like what happened with thrash metal, record companies were literally dumping the market with copycat bands in terms of style and sound, but that does not mean that the musicianship and songs were not there! 

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If you like the genre, I am sure you would like these bands. There are some truly inferior albums among those 600, BUT I am talking about almost exclusively albums that were released by majors in the golden era of glam metal (about 1982-1992), so you can always rest assured about the production values! Record labels were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on studio time, producers, etc.

One major obstacle some listener might find with some of those bands are the vocals... For instance, I totally LOVE a band called VAIN (from San Francisco, the singer eventually produced stuff for Death Angel, the all filipino thrash band we all love). They excellent songs, but the dude used to sing in a way not too unlike T-Rex's Tom Bolan... so for a lot of people that was a big turn-off compared to the usual raspy high pitched vocals of glamorous hard rock. Same goes for ROXX GANG.

If you wanna play it safe, try out BABYLON AD (Guinnes World Record of putting a chorus on top of another chorus) and HERICAN ALICE (stellar songs, typical blonde singer with high pitched vocals). [emoji3]

The thing is that, just exactly like what happened with thrash metal, record companies were literally dumping the market with copycat bands in terms of style and sound, but that does not mean that the musicianship and songs were not there! 

 

Musicianship? Songs? Glam?

 

 

...yeah, you lost me. [emoji12]

 

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