Koichi said:
Im too busy building my nordic black metal winterland in my backyard with ice cubes and small plastic pine trees to take this abuse from you. You think you can run across mountain tops Immortal style with THONGS on?
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Im too busy building my nordic black metal winterland in my backyard with ice cubes and small plastic pine trees to take this abuse from you. You think you can run across mountain tops Immortal style with THONGS on?
KoichCPA
Banned
Goreripper
Metal as fuck
spawn said:
You could wear thongs that are too big for you and use them as snow shoes. Personally, the only thongs I like are the ones strippers wear.
Spawny, DON'T get any Faster Pussycat! Unless you want shit production, generic guitar riffs and 50s rock & roll pianos fucking up what could be good songs.
You need some Ratt. That's definitely a must. If you want some "metal" sounding LA glam with great musicianship you can't go past them, although the vocals let the team down a little bit at times. The guitars are killer though! Warren DeMartini rules! If you want the earlier, heavier stuff then go Invasion Of Your Privacy, Out Of The Cellar or Dancing Undercover. They all have different good points, I can't choose a favourite out of them. And if you want really wicked awesome songs with great great guitar solos and ultra catchy choruses then go Detonator which is their 1990 album, its not quite as metal and its more slick sounding and groovy but probably my favourite Ratt album! Or you could just go Ratt & Roll 8191 which is their best of, 19 tracks for about $18 I think and you can see which of their albums you like best from that
But the only bad thing about that is that with Ratt, all their albums are totally consistent from start to finish and the best of only has the singles, and generally the non-single tracks are just as good or better on Ratt albums, and the singles don't really sound any different or more commercial either. But it is good to see what each album sounds like. You can know that if you like the 3 tracks from a certain album that are on the best of, you'll like the rest of the album too.
The first 2 Britny Fox albums sound exactly like Cinderella so if you like Night Songs there's probably nothing you won't like about these 2 albums. Boys In Heat is the better one I think.
Dokken. If you don't have Back For The Attack yet then you need it. 13 awesome melodic metal/hard rock tracks! George Lynch is the best guitarist ever and every song rocks.
Winger are very good, I think you'd really like their 1993 album Pull, one of the only mid 90s albums by an '80s "hair band" that's really great. Its alot heavier and more mature than their 80s stuff but still full of great metal riffs, awesome solos, big choruses, great vocals, etc.
EZO are a great Japanese sleaze/hair metal band that are pretty heavy with TONS of attitude! Sound a bit like W.A.S.P's sound mixed with Kiss' songwriting with a bit of Appetite For Destruction attitude... Fire Fire is the album I have and it kicks ass.
Firehouse are great hard rock from the early '90s. Guitarwise it sounds like early Ratt but the songs are more along the lines of Dokken stuff, less LA sleaze and more melodic hard rock but with heavy guitars... and the vocals are kinda in the Mike Tramp/Joe Elliot type vein.... raspy and layered. Great guitarist too, sounds alot like Reb Beach and George Lynch.
Pink Cream 69. Not glam but you NEED to buy Sonic Dynamite! The last 3 albums Electrified, Sonic Dynamite and Endangered are all the BEST hard rock albums to come out since the early '90s! The songwriting, production and musicianship is all just top notch, it's real quality music. Has everything that made '80s hard rock so great, but sounds totally fresh and new at the same time, not dated at all.
That will do for now heheh, I could go on forever though. There's heaps of great hard rock and hair metal albums around... stuff like Keel is awesome arena big riff hard rock/metal, Hardline and Harem Scarem are great melodic hard rock/AOR type stuff and both their debuts are well worth checking out... Tigertailz as Koich said are really cool over the top glam, I have the Berzerk album which rocks (Lover Overload is my fave song on it!). And Talon are a great new hard rock band in the vein of Dokken and Winger, their debut came out last year and was album of the year imo. But unlike PC69 it doesn't sound quite as fresh and original, it's totally '80s.
There's my 2 cents anyway hehe.
You need some Ratt. That's definitely a must. If you want some "metal" sounding LA glam with great musicianship you can't go past them, although the vocals let the team down a little bit at times. The guitars are killer though! Warren DeMartini rules! If you want the earlier, heavier stuff then go Invasion Of Your Privacy, Out Of The Cellar or Dancing Undercover. They all have different good points, I can't choose a favourite out of them. And if you want really wicked awesome songs with great great guitar solos and ultra catchy choruses then go Detonator which is their 1990 album, its not quite as metal and its more slick sounding and groovy but probably my favourite Ratt album! Or you could just go Ratt & Roll 8191 which is their best of, 19 tracks for about $18 I think and you can see which of their albums you like best from that
But the only bad thing about that is that with Ratt, all their albums are totally consistent from start to finish and the best of only has the singles, and generally the non-single tracks are just as good or better on Ratt albums, and the singles don't really sound any different or more commercial either. But it is good to see what each album sounds like. You can know that if you like the 3 tracks from a certain album that are on the best of, you'll like the rest of the album too.
The first 2 Britny Fox albums sound exactly like Cinderella so if you like Night Songs there's probably nothing you won't like about these 2 albums. Boys In Heat is the better one I think.
Dokken. If you don't have Back For The Attack yet then you need it. 13 awesome melodic metal/hard rock tracks! George Lynch is the best guitarist ever and every song rocks.
Winger are very good, I think you'd really like their 1993 album Pull, one of the only mid 90s albums by an '80s "hair band" that's really great. Its alot heavier and more mature than their 80s stuff but still full of great metal riffs, awesome solos, big choruses, great vocals, etc.
EZO are a great Japanese sleaze/hair metal band that are pretty heavy with TONS of attitude! Sound a bit like W.A.S.P's sound mixed with Kiss' songwriting with a bit of Appetite For Destruction attitude... Fire Fire is the album I have and it kicks ass.
Firehouse are great hard rock from the early '90s. Guitarwise it sounds like early Ratt but the songs are more along the lines of Dokken stuff, less LA sleaze and more melodic hard rock but with heavy guitars... and the vocals are kinda in the Mike Tramp/Joe Elliot type vein.... raspy and layered. Great guitarist too, sounds alot like Reb Beach and George Lynch.
Pink Cream 69. Not glam but you NEED to buy Sonic Dynamite! The last 3 albums Electrified, Sonic Dynamite and Endangered are all the BEST hard rock albums to come out since the early '90s! The songwriting, production and musicianship is all just top notch, it's real quality music. Has everything that made '80s hard rock so great, but sounds totally fresh and new at the same time, not dated at all.
That will do for now heheh, I could go on forever though. There's heaps of great hard rock and hair metal albums around... stuff like Keel is awesome arena big riff hard rock/metal, Hardline and Harem Scarem are great melodic hard rock/AOR type stuff and both their debuts are well worth checking out... Tigertailz as Koich said are really cool over the top glam, I have the Berzerk album which rocks (Lover Overload is my fave song on it!). And Talon are a great new hard rock band in the vein of Dokken and Winger, their debut came out last year and was album of the year imo. But unlike PC69 it doesn't sound quite as fresh and original, it's totally '80s.
There's my 2 cents anyway hehe.
Hmm... Ill get the greatest hits of BF, Ratt and Dokken, they all sound quite good 
Theres no EVO on amazon though ill have to look at Utopia for them, they sound awesome!
Theres no EVO on amazon though ill have to look at Utopia for them, they sound awesome!With Dokken I'd seriously recommend Back For The Attack over the best of. Dokken's non-singles are their best tracks (with a few exceptions of course like Dream Warriors which rules!). For example, the best tracks I think on Back For The Attack are Dream Warriors, Prisoner, Night By Night, So Many Tears, Cry Of The Gypsy, and Sleepless Nights and only Dream Warriors is on the best of out of them. The worst track on the album Burning Like A Flame is on the best of! Still a great track though. As I said, that album is totally free of filler.
And if you like Back For The Attack then get Under Lock & Key! They way I see it, if you don't like Back For The Attack then there's no way you would like the best of anyway!
KoichCPA
Banned
I don't mind Faster Pussycat myself, I just know Spawny won't like them.
I'm not a huge fan I must say (mainly coz of the fucking pianos and the shit guitar sound!), but I like the songs and I like Taime's voice The debut is a pretty decent sleaze album... don't like the follow up though.
I'm not a huge fan I must say (mainly coz of the fucking pianos and the shit guitar sound!), but I like the songs and I like Taime's voice
The debut is a pretty decent sleaze album... don't like the follow up though.
KoichCPA
Banned
Goreripper
Metal as fuck
KoichCPA
Banned
Also Troops, Whipped is alot better then Wake me up when it's over.
But your right about the Self Titled being the best.
But your right about the Self Titled being the best.
I haven't heard Whipped yet but Wake Me sucks.
I almost bought Love/Hate's debut on vinyl a few weeks ago but I was too broke so decided I probably shouldnt
I almost bought Love/Hate's debut on vinyl a few weeks ago but I was too broke so decided I probably shouldnt
Blitzkrieg
Master Exploder
Spawny, I must make a suggestion:
Grim Reaper - The Best Of
Great 80s heavy/power metal with a dash of commercial metal/glam sound to it. Incredible vocals and vocal melodies, great riffs and good song writing.
Its cool for when you are in the mood for something glam sounding, but it is more straight heavy metal, and Steve Grimmet is one damn awesome vocalist. Some great songs on there.
Grim Reaper - The Best Of
Great 80s heavy/power metal with a dash of commercial metal/glam sound to it. Incredible vocals and vocal melodies, great riffs and good song writing.
Its cool for when you are in the mood for something glam sounding, but it is more straight heavy metal, and Steve Grimmet is one damn awesome vocalist. Some great songs on there.
