Glam Metal

[ivry91]

What is wrong with wanting to live in such a world aswell? Even though i enjoy Extreme Metal for the most part, i'll join IWP's club here.

 

[False Joe]

US in the 80's.

The 1980s became the Me! Me! Me! generation of status seekers. During the 1980s, hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and mega-mergers spawned a new breed of billionaire. Donald Trump, Leona Helmsley, and Ivan Boesky iconed the meteoric rise and fall of the rich and famous. If you've got it, flaunt it and You can have it all! were watchwords. Forbes' list of 400 richest people became more important than its 500 largest companies. Binge buying and credit became a way of life and 'Shop Til you Drop' was the watchword. Labels were everything, even (or especially) for our children. Tom Wolfe dubbed the baby-boomers as the 'splurge generation.' Video games, aerobics, minivans, camcorders, and talk shows became part of our lives. The decade began with double-digit inflation, Reagan declared a war on drugs, Kermit didn't find it easy to be green, hospital costs rose, we lost many, many of our finest talents to AIDS which before the decade ended spread to black and Hispanic women, and unemployment rose.

I sometimes think it would be awesome to be born to see the rise of Black Sabbath, and the start of thrash and all that, then I realise UK in the 70/80s was a horrible place.

 

[The Ozzman]

During the 1980s, hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and mega-mergers spawned a new breed of billionaire.

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed..works"

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I don't know if they are considered Glam but I enjoy listening to Winger.

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Some people are too pedantic about what band goes in what genre! Love a lot of the bands listed here, it's great fun (Dr.) feelgood music.

 

[IWP]

LOL at people wanting the 80s to come back when half the people here were barely alive during the 80s.

True, I wasn't around during the 80s, but I sure as fuck would love to be. I'm sick of hearing all of this pop punk and hardcore crap! At least good music was mainstream back then.

I don't know if they are considered Glam but I enjoy listening to Winger.

They're definently glam, and they kick ass!

 

[Matt]

80's = the era music died

 

[IWP]

90's = the era music died

I agree.

 

[The Ozzman]

I agree.

Get out

 

[whiskey funeral]

They're definently glam, and they kick ass!

I never really considered Winger to be a glam metal band. Those guys (even though a lot of their songs are really fruity) were/are talented musicians, especially Reb Beach. To lump them in with a band like Poison just seems a bit ridiculous to me.

 

[The Ozzman]

Okay, so I don't really listen to any glam, but I've heard tons of songs from the era. Which records should I start with first?

 

[whiskey funeral]

Get yourself the first two Crue albums: Too Fast For Love and Shout At the Devil.

Also:
Cinderella - Night Songs
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
W.A.S.P. - self titled and The Headless Children

 

[The Ozzman]

Ratt was already on my list ahaha

 

[The Ozzman]

On the advice of Tara, I picked up Out of the Cellar. I hope it doesn't suck

 

[IWP]

I never really considered Winger to be a glam metal band. Those guys (even though a lot of their songs are really fruity) were/are talented musicians, especially Reb Beach. To lump them in with a band like Poison just seems a bit ridiculous to me.

I consider them glam, but they have more of a progressive sense to them, and their drummer is pretty talented.

Okay, so I don't really listen to any glam, but I've heard tons of songs from the era. Which records should I start with first?

I'd recommend the first five WASP albums, Skid Row's self titled album, and the first couple Twisted Sister albums. Since they were some of the more heavier glam bands, you may be able to get into them easier.

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

Okay, so I don't really listen to any glam, but I've heard tons of songs from the era. Which records should I start with first?

Winger - ST and In the Heart Of the Young
Europe - The Final Countdown and Out Of This World
Def Leppard - Hysteria

They'd be good ones to start from me.

Oh and wicked sig bro! ^

 

[IWP]

^ Thanks dude!

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Get yourself the first two Crue albums: Too Fast For Love and Shout At the Devil.

Also:
Cinderella - Night Songs
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
W.A.S.P. - self titled and The Headless Children

this plus Whitesnake- S/T

 

[The Ozzman]

You're BACK
BAAAAAAAACK FOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRR MOOOORE

 

[Belligerent]

@Ozzman
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Skid Row - S/T and STTG
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy