Fave Glam Band of the 80's?
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Psychonaut
God Of Emptiness
Ratt by a whisker. I always thought Stephen had a cool voice for the music. Totally unique. I was also a huge Dokken fan up through Back For The Attack.
It was out of Motley Crue and Ratt for me.... Ratt got my vote in the end. Both were great, but Ratt had the consistency.
I love every band on that list though
I love every band on that list though
AngelWitch73
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That was a close call between MÖTLEY CRÜE and CINDERELLA but I went with CINDERELLA since I most recently listened to "Night Songs".
Wicked Child
DYNO-MITE!
A dude in a pizza shop today commented on the Cinderella patch on my jacket. "God, haven't seen anything about Cinderella in ages man! Are they still around?" heheh.
Weapon X
Raised to be Lowered
Motley Crue - they are one of the great influences into music in the late 80's. \m/\m/ It was an easy pick for me
I know, if I recall correctly they were actually together in '89, so I added them to the list anyway...The Trooper said:By the way, technically Slaughter are a '90s band
These are the two bands on my list that I can listen to over & over & no really get sick of their stuff....AngelWitch73 said:
Tool
The Crimson King
Tool said:
Your statement somes things up for me as well. I have been listenin' to
Too Fast for Love a lot as of late. What a great, raw, stripped down record that was. Some of their stuff on there is borderline punk with these hard rock & pop overtones. Love that band & love that record!
motley crue is not glam! they're metal as fuck..
that only thing that resembeled glam was their look in shout at the devil period and the odd song title!
that only thing that resembeled glam was their look in shout at the devil period and the odd song title!
Personally I reckon Shout At The Devil was their most non-glam METAL look! All the black eye makeup, torn fishnets, studs, spikes, the pentagrams shooting from the kick drums in Looks That Kill etc... pure shock rock metal!
Theatre Of Pain era was when they were the glammiest! I consider Motley Crue glam metal, they were the pioneers of it really.... Too Fast For Love was THE originator of the whole Hollywood sleaze metal thing.
The thing that set the Crue apart from the other bands though, was that they were so much more real and most of the others were fakes. The other bands were playing out the part of a wild rock & roll lifestyle as part of their image etc... Motley Crue were nothing but wild rockers from head to toe! The others were imitators, they were the genuine thing! The most "rock & roll" band of all time!
And it really showed in their music. There was no posing or fakeness, its easy to spot a fake. So to me, that's why Crue always sounded more wild and exciting than everyone else. If you listen to a Pretty Boy Floyd record it sounds like 4 guys trying to sound as sleazy, glammy and over the top as they can and recapture the attitude and vibe that made bands like Crue great. If you listen to a Motley Crue record, you hear 4 guys playing music that's pretty much a reflection of their lifestyle, attitude and pretty much all they know in life!
Theatre Of Pain era was when they were the glammiest! I consider Motley Crue glam metal, they were the pioneers of it really.... Too Fast For Love was THE originator of the whole Hollywood sleaze metal thing.
The thing that set the Crue apart from the other bands though, was that they were so much more real and most of the others were fakes. The other bands were playing out the part of a wild rock & roll lifestyle as part of their image etc... Motley Crue were nothing but wild rockers from head to toe! The others were imitators, they were the genuine thing! The most "rock & roll" band of all time!
And it really showed in their music. There was no posing or fakeness, its easy to spot a fake. So to me, that's why Crue always sounded more wild and exciting than everyone else. If you listen to a Pretty Boy Floyd record it sounds like 4 guys trying to sound as sleazy, glammy and over the top as they can and recapture the attitude and vibe that made bands like Crue great. If you listen to a Motley Crue record, you hear 4 guys playing music that's pretty much a reflection of their lifestyle, attitude and pretty much all they know in life!
I guess you might not know this, they put out this record called Theater of Pain?!epi5ode666 said:
JonnyD
Chef Metal
Ah damn Thats a tough call I mean In one hand you have Ratt Awsome band one of my all time favorites But I love Motley Better If I could have I would have Picked both
If I could have I would have Picked both
Sorry have to go with White Lion. They only released two albums but their guitarist Vito Bratia was killer.
I heard he quit the music biz altogether. That's shame, he was great!
I heard he quit the music biz altogether. That's shame, he was great!
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