I hate grunge.

I was thinking, and a lot of what helped retire the hair metal era IMO was stale songwriting...intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, verse, breakdown, chorus, outro...the world was just ready for something different. People like Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder related to millions of kids who were ready for something “deeper”, as corny as it may have seemed to me. Was their music complex with shredding riffs...no. Were they a fake fad generated by MTV...no...
 
Ever notice how in so many glam videos all the drummers have massive kits with like 15 toms and a giant gong behind them but the entire song is basically "bass-snare-bass-bass-snare" for the most part?

Nuh-uh, hair metal is the best and most honest genre of metal with the best musicians, man!
 
Ever notice how in so many glam videos all the drummers have massive kits with like 15 toms and a giant gong behind them but the entire song is basically "bass-snare-bass-bass-snare" for the most part?
It’s the complicated time signatures underneath the 4/4 that necessitate such large setups. The advanced polyrhythms are so advanced that they all come together to create what sounds to the untrained ear like basic four on the floor. That’s how good these musicians are.
 
Ever notice how in so many glam videos all the drummers have massive kits with like 15 toms and a giant gong behind them but the entire song is basically "bass-snare-bass-bass-snare" for the most part?

Much better than black metal's "6/8 rhythm, bass on every 1, snare on every 4, hitting the cymbal every beat" (when they (their drum machines) aren't just blasting).
 
16C02C3A-8077-436D-A2C3-F5FB29699C0E.jpeg Giant gong...:tickled: I must mention Tommy Lee’s ridiculous spinning, upside down drum kit if the giant gong isn’t cutting it...
 
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One day I swear I'm going to read the original post in its entirety but whenever I start on it I begin to feel, I don't know, defeated seems like the right word. And this is coming from someone who finds a lot of hair band singles to be fun as hell.
Don’t bother, reading the back of a cereal box is funner...not as fun as laughing at his (MTV lol) hairbangers ball videos though
 
One day I swear I'm going to read the original post in its entirety but whenever I start on it I begin to feel, I don't know, defeated seems like the right word. And this is coming from someone who finds a lot of hair band singles to be fun as hell.
80s Glam is still more Metal than today's Metal.I love both Metallica and Motley Crue. Back in the 80s/early 90s Metallica and Motley Crue were both throwing a party and you could only go to one which would you go to? metallica's party would be getting drunk and high with a bunch of sweaty guys but crue's party your getting drunk and high with chicks and getting laid. Thrash is just another sub genre of metal. Glam is straight up metal while thrash was speed metal. Faster isn't always better that's why Metallica biggest album Black sound was closer to Motley Crue.
Compare Motley Crue, Poison and Winger to Pitbull, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, etc. Enough said. Don't complain about commercial metal. The commercial shit of today is a billion times worse. At least people required some ability to sing, play guitar, drums, etc. when it came to glam metal. In modern commercial music, hip hop/EDM crap, all you need is a shitty meaningless bunch of words (as long as they are catchy) and a simple hip house beat produced by some random person who usually goes uncredited. You would give your left nut to hear Motley Crue on commercial radio again and you know it.
 
Who gives a shit?...
What is your opinion of Load and/or ReLoad? Not just compared to earlier Metallica, but on their own as well? Just wondering. I loved Until It Sleeps, and played it to death when it came out. Load is great. Reload - meh. I could cull the majority of Re and a couple from Load and make a 1 CD comp too.
The music is ok, but I don't think it compares to earlier Metallica. But Megadeth did that with Countdown, as well.
 
@Nick1975

Is the patch vest in your avatar yours?
We'd wear that shit all the time in high school. There was like 10 of us all patched out. People thought we were a gang or something. Oh...my high school-days are AGES ago..hahaha... my teachers weren't really happy with my outfit. But i gave a fuck..and was wearing it every day anyway.
I was not that bad at school, so my parents didn't mind what i am wearing at school - as long my 'school marks' are ok.
 
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