If it wasn't for Hair Metal I wouldn't have ever gotten into metal to begin with, its a safe way to introduce people into the metal genre, and for me personally one of the best sub genres in the metal category.
@@brickspace8617 that is black metal, the only metal genre I don't like. Death metal is sometimes about Satanism but mostly about death (therefore the name) stuff as Cannibal Corpse, I also don't like that that much, but sometimes I just feel the need to listen to it, but all the Satanism and burning churches is only in black metal.
@@brickspace8617 You're a fucking idiot mate. One of the most narrow-minded comments I've ever heard. Most of us metalheads are just happy listening to all metal subgenres in peace, hair metal and death metal included, but you had to be a total toxic manchild and chastise a genre with muscians that have 100x more talent than you will ever have. You don't like most metal? Good, then fuck off. Us metalheads don't want clowns like you polluting our community.
@@brickspace8617 the deathmetal vocals are way different than the black metal vocals, death are a lot of growls and black is more like thrashmetal but than overdone Venom is one of the beginning band of that style of vocals I think. The rest of the instrument are also way different, but that are just a few things
I think one reason why some people hate hair/glam metal is that they think the genre focused too much on the wrong things. Some people have criticized hair/glam metal for focusing more on being a rock star, the image and live the life of sex, drugs and alcohol than doing good music.
Martin Wilhelmsson well you have to understand that's not what metal was about to being with. Look at a band like Kamelot, Hammerfall, Helloween, Death, etc. It was about the music and being an outsider. Glam/hair metal missed that whole point.
A lot of my interest in metal and in guitar playing comes from my fascination with hair metal. I owe a lot of my upbringing in the both of those fields to glam. Not only did I think the sound and production style a lot of those bands utilized was cool, but there were some seriously talented guitarists such as Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme, Reb Beach of Winger (and currently of Whitesnake), George Lynch of Dokken and Lynch Mob, Andy Timmons when he was in Danger Danger, Steve Vai when he played with David Lee Roth and Whitesnake, and of course Vito Bratta of White Lion, along with numerous others.
Maybe it's because I'm in my early 40's and grew up in the 80's, BUT I have no shame saying that Hair Metal is still my favorite subgenre of heavy metal. I liked Thrash a lot too, but Poison, Motley Crüe and Dokken were my favorite bands back then. I still play their music from time to time, and it still sounds good to this day.
I can tell you that the precise reason you feel this way is because you're in your 40's and grew up in the 80's. Anyone with any technical knowledge in music can tell you hair metal is simplistic and not very musically interesting. It may sound nice because it was meant to, like the pop songs of today they have a formula that allows them to be highly addictive.
I never understood that. I got into hair metal though brutal legend so I decided to look up hair metal. The amount of hate is enormous it makes no sense. Half the songs are iconic in pop culture, embodies the over the top gimmicks and performances in rock and metal. Music is music so I'm gonna enjoy me some hair metal, metalcore, nu metal just because they are hated so much.
It was everywhere, absolutely everywhere. It was like 10 Nickelbacks copying each other. I could listen to Guns n Roses but after hearing every song 100 times I don't even want to look at that badass logo. I suggest you listen to Queen instead, this is the peak of the 80s
It was severely hated on just because it was indicative of the time period and it was dominant everywhere. It's kinda like why everyone unreasonably hated disco once the early 80s rolled around, and grunge towards the late 90s/early 2000s. For what it was though, glam metal kicked ass. It introduced many people to metal in a fun way, and a lot of those glam bands gave us some really cool thrash metal and power metal.
My top 12 Hair Metal Ballads:12.Carrie (Europe) 11.Fly 2 the angels (Slaughter) 10.Headed 4 A heartbreak (Winger) 9.Love Song (Tesla) 8.Sweet Child of mine (Guns n' Roses) 7.Is this love (White snake) 6.I remember U (Skid Row) 5.More than words (Extreme) 4.2 be with U (Mr. Big) 3.Heaven (Warrant) 2.Home Sweet home (Motley Crue) 1. Every rose has it's Thorn
I love Hair Metal. Probably my favorite genre right now (and this comes from a grunge/post-grunge fan) I don't care what anyone says. The music sounds awesome, the guitarists were virtuoso, the singers were amazing and the songs were catchy. Give me some hair metal any day!
Glam Metal FTW best genre ever...you can find almost everything in that spectrum, try to listen (atleast the major bands) albums that were released from early 80s to early 90s you'll see the changes and the variety of the genres...pretty broad from heavy to pop stuff, from neoclassical to funk...not to mention it's a fashion industry too :D hate it love it whatever...it's one of the most innovative yet gets major attention genre ever...
Hair Metal actually proved that “Metal” doesn’t need to be dark, black, shrieky and gloomy. It also proved Metal doesn’t need to be about demons and devils. It can be about Girls, Drugs etc. You can rock hard with colors, glitters and a cheering crowd with heavy makeup and costumes. (Both Black and Hair Metal waste most money and time of setting of stage, makeup and costumes) (Also I like the Power Metal in the background)
I never considered Hair Metal metal, but Hard Rock N Roll. I love it! Who cares what category it is in? Good music is good music. I love your responses
I know your comment is 2 years old, but categories serve a purpose. Helps people identify certain types of music, and sounds. We probably both agree that music is subjective, so categorizing it helps a person find what they prefer.
I think that in the 80s bands like Dokken, Motley Crue, Ratt, Twisted Sister were hard rock or heavy metal 'cause they have their own sound. When people say "glam or hair metal", it refers about the hair and make up
I assumed Nikki wrote 'kick start my heart' because he died of a drug overdose and the ambulance driver was a Motley fan and was determined to save his life and injected a needle into his heart with steroids to get his heart going again. Its in his book 'The Heroin diaries, a year in the life of a rock star'
@@mikecamilli1047 I'd rather listen to Ratt, Motley, Slaughter and those bands over the crap people listen to today. Even a lot of the popular stuff in the 90's (though AIC and STP had good stuff) Today's pop music is so terrible most kids have resorted to listening to K-pop, and hide that fact because its not considered "cool". Besides that, those bands knew how to write good songs, and when you ignore all the yuppies and losers crying about guitar solos because they don't want to feel like they are getting flexed on, its good stuff.
Don't take the groupies part so seriously... The big Rock bands like Led Zeppelin , Rainbow ,or even Black Sabbath and Deep Purple had an army of groupies twice the hair metal groups had in the 80s
I love glam metal so much that even when I get depressive mood swings and start listening to Nirvana a lot, I still play Mötley Crüe, Poison, Cinderella, Britny Fox, etc.. I'm a junkie for the stuff.
Glam metal isn't as bad as people say. Mostly the hate I think comes from thrash bands from the scene back in the day. It's a good gateway genre and actually have good songs. At least they know how to play their instruments, sing, and write their own songs.
I’m only young, but love 80s music and hair is something I’m just getting into, a lot of iconic 80s songs seem to be glam/hair metal and I wonder if the hate sometimes comes from those people who just don’t want to like what’s popular en mass and don’t follow the crowd, and that’s what put them off? But I’m seeing from a completely different perspective to someone who lived through it. I’m not a fan of anything heavy, but hair isn’t even really metal I would say, but I love it. Who cares what people think, listen to what makes you happy
Aging baby boomers who didn't like new rock music they just wanted to live in the past 60s-80s and a younger generation who could care less about rock music and only like rap and hip hop..
@@scottthewozznijak359I never understood how people can say this when David Lee Roth exists. Is it an insecurity because you realized you like a glam rock band? Just watch the video for any Van Halen song and look at how Eddie is dressed, Dave's gloves, the guitar soloing (including the bloody tapping from glam metal), the glitter stuff and the lyrics. Hot for Teacher is about fucking and Panama is about a fast car so how are they not hair metal?
The music today is gross and the so called ‘singers’ are disgusting people that don’t know how to have fun like the 70s, 80s, and most of the 90s did, today’s world sucks and so does the music! Sex, drugs, and Heavy Metal Forever🤘🏼
Agreed! I'm old (50-ish) I lived through the 80's and went to every concert I could afford to attend and am lucky enough to say a lot of them. I officially knew I had finally got old when I heard Metallica at 10:30 a.m. at work on my towns only local radio station. Granted it was a song off the Black Album, it was an eye opening fact that I had officially got old. I wouldn't change a thing... It was a great era, and kids these days would learn well that no genre of music popular or otherwise created the division they are suffering from now. It was a great time and didn't require Cocaine like they think.. I smoked a Lot of Grass though...
5. The band has basically become a cheesy Vegas act like BLUE MAN GROUP with guitars that most people only go see because there were free tickets included with the hotel room at The MGM Grand or Mirage.
Kickstart my heart is about Nikki Sixx overdosing on heroin and dying. And having his heart "kickstarted" The media thought he was dead. So after getting out of the hospital and seeing a tabloid with Nikki Sixx dead on the front page. He recorded a new voicemail: Hi. This is Nikki Sixx. I can't answer the phone because I'm dead. Then he shot some more heroin and fell asleep on the bathroom floor. Read The Dirt and Heroin Diaries. The most entertaining biographies ever written.
Yes but some of the worst lyrical songwriting was in hair metal so this alone eliminates any great guitar playing in this genre. The lyrical content of hair metal and much of rock before hair metal, hair rock or whatever we want to call this genre is pop driven and marketed to horny teenagers. This is ironic since the sound of rock is blues driven and the blues is as far as possible lyrically from these sex driven lyrical content songs since the blues comes from African American slaves struggles in American society. This is why a dont like to call this genre hair metal because this genre isn't metal but much closer to rockibilly and pop music. Real metal music and many of its subgenres are very close to the blues in lyrical content but with darker, angrier lyrics and with a heavier sound. Actually metal's lyrical content is much closer to old school country & western music like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers, Merle Haggard Loretta Lynn, etc than with this 80s hair band genre of sex and partying. The majority blues, and the majority of old school country & western, folk music and heavy metal music are far from this sex and partying lyrical content and much more about the evils going on in the world and the personal tragedies of people in their lives. The 80s hair bands only seem to know how to write these type of songs in ballads but not with their writing with a heavy sound. Writing lyrics with a heavy sound with the 80s hair bands was all about sex and partying so therefore these bands to me are nothing more than pop boy bands since pop boy bands write lyrics geared for horny teenagers and young preteens.
Dude, Better Than The Beatles and myself are exactly correct. David Gilmore and Tony Iommi have guitar solos that are more catchy and more soulful than anything done by these hair, glam bands and that is a 100% fact so we are far from wrong and your opinion is total shit so go fuck off since you don't believe in real facts. My opinion about the lyrical content of glam, hair metal is 100% correct because many people will totally agree with myself about the horny teenager lyrical content of this trash from that shit.
Better Than The Beatles, If you never heard of Samantha Fish you probably will like her and should be a fan of her guitar playing since you mentioned both David Gilmour and Tony Iommi. Love her guitar playing and her vocals as well and many old school rock and metal fans like myself are fans of her music. Her vocal talent, guitar playing and songwriting is much better on the ears than any of this music done by the glam bands from the 80s hair bands. Even though the 80s hair bands are dead and these new pop rock bands sound different than the 80s hair bands these new bands are equally as lame in their songwriting as the 80s hair bands. Imagine Dragons, 21 Pilots, Panic at the Disco, are Poison, Warrant, Winger but with a different style of lame, lol! Pop is pop or poop is poop no matter how it sounds, LOL! Here is some Samantha Fish ruclips.net/video/HJMeWjRQwAI/видео.html
I came to be a metal fan thru glam metal. My mom was an 80s glam fangirl and my in my earliest years I loved the records she had. Poison, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Ratt...all that stuff. I really really loved that stuff SO much once upon a time. Then, one day when I was about nine years old, my 16 year old neighbor brought me over to his house to listen to Master of Puppets for the first time, and nothing was ever the same again after that day.
Ethan Work I never really considered Hair/Glam metal as metal, but as Hard Rock N Roll. Rock N Roll has no borders or limits. Nobody criticized Aerosmith, Queen, or Van Halen for the way they looked.
mark, was this post inspired by me???? either way thanks much for giving this much -maligned and underappreciated genre it's day in the ckn sun. I've said it before and I maintain that if it wasn't for this genre's explosion in the 80s, we would never have had many of the things that came afterwards including the heavy bands that we all enjoy today.
+TheZman1978 I'm a huge Murderdolls fan, whether people like them or not they themselves said they were influenced by Motley Crue. I'm not completely up on hair metal and I admit I was big on steel panther about three years ago. I like some earlier Van Halen too.
I never considered "hair metal" or "glam metal" a genre. it was an image. The music varied from band to band. Many got lumped into the genre that didn't really belong because they had big hair, like Tesla and Badlands. But yes there were some that were all image and little talent too.
Hair metal had a good following among women who generally did not like metal. That music was a good ice breaker for single guys and a compromise at parties for music to play. And it was a gateway to different genres. How many death and thrash metal fans started by listening to hair metal.
many luminaries in The Heavy Metal Field began their foray into music as hair Metallists. zakk wylde, pantera, and sully from Godsmack come to mind. in additon, Mike McCready from Pearl Jam was also in a hair metal band in La called shadow in the late eighties. Don Dokken also produced a St vitus album.
It was just too sugary for me felt like pussy metal. Not to be ''that guy''. I wouldn't normally use that phrase..but it really was, I mean it was like metal-lite and the ballads were awful in my opinion. In the sidebar of recommended vids there's a ''Monster ballads'' video that's over an hour long. I think if someone listened to that they'd see what I mean lmao
100% anyone that defends this genre is a cheeseball the only ones that are acceptable is motley crue or guns n roses if they are even considered in this. Dudes defending this just cuz they grew up with it is like people who try claiming limp bizkit is good cuz it was playing in their youth.
"If you have to dress up like a girl to get people to go to your shows, well first of all you got unresolved issues and second of all, is your music really that good to begin with?" Dave Mustaine gave a perfect description of hair metal right there
Lets just say there is just a certain feeling within the guitar playing in glam metal for me. A lot of it is so angelic especially the solos, feels different and great.
Say what you want but Hair Metal was all about partying, having fun, and banging hot chicks. All grunge was about was being miserably depressed, apathetic and angst-filled at life and think its cool. Fuck that miserable shit; I'd rather listen to Hair Metal! Grunge had its bright yet brief moment in the sun but when you get right down to it, it was a flash in the pan. Apart from that a lot of Hair Metal bands from the 80's are still selling out shows while most of the grunge acts aren't doing jack shit because their frontmen are currently pushing up daisies!
It was called Glam Metal, the term Hair Metal did not exist until the mid to late 90s...years after the demise of the genre.....I'm sure a lot of people started with these gateway bands, because in the late 80s early 90s this form of metal was massive, until it got too diluted and people got sick of it.....Enter Grunge!
Look at the comments dude, you’ve been ratioed here, more people love ‘Hair’ Metal than hate it. The Only people who hate it are short haired millennials and gen z’s who are just jealous that they were not around for the party. 80’s metal/rock rules. The songs have not aged poorly at all. Listen to the albums Tooth and Nail, Under Lock and Key and Back for the Attack by Dokken. All three albums still SLAY today and that’s just one band. The first two Motley Crue and W.A.S.P albums are also still amazing to listen to in 2022.
I find it laughable that when it comes to Grunge the forever narrative seems to be "Hair/Glam Metal sucks" and it has been that way since Kurt Cobain and his Nerd-vana bullshit hit the airwaves back in 1991. To me that's the ONLY narrative these Grunge nuts orbit around but that narrative has worn so thin that nowadays its completely transparent. Sure, by the early 90's most of these Metal bands had become over-commercialized, sell outs, silly looking, etc., I'll agree with that. However despite all of that a lot of these Hair and Glam Metal bands wrote some really great songs and many of these bands are still together and touring to this day. How many Grunge acts are still touring? ***sound of crickets*** Not many....few if any! I never hear any Grunge fans say "Pop, Classical, Reggae, Hard Rock, Latin, etc. sucks" but mention Hair and Glam Metal they go completely apeshit and will move mountains to slam it real fast.
I think honestly that many people hate glam metal because they don't fit to the image of a nice looking happy party going guy you can see that most of the people that hates glam metal is people that looks really bad angry dirty and I like glam metal and I also like other metal generous but personally I prefer looking tough but not necessarily hateful or angry or dirty and we all most remember that the 80s were very conservative, and we all should evaluate Glam metal considering it was mainstream and has to deal with a lot of Pop foolish and easy going songs so I think Glam metal was a reaction to the time and a very nice way to have fun while you listen to some powerful drumming and some good guitar riffs I'm very high pitch singing I see nothing bad about it and of course I like death, I like black metal I like power metal, industrial metal folk metal but again I I can't find nothing wrong with glam metal and I wouldn't compare it with other genres as I wouldn't compare trash metal with power metal
Don't forget the band Kiss pretty much started the idea of Glam Metal and that was the 70s. Some say it was the New York Dolls, but although they were good they didn't really have appeal outside of NYC generally.
In theory, if the bands dressed more casually and not worn silly clothes and teased their hair, maybe they wouldn’t have caught as much flack. A lot of the focus was on the image.
Hair metal or pop punk... it's just the poppier mainstream version of an extreme rock genre that is made for money and the wrong kind of image it perpetrates
People who really try defending hair metal are like people who try saying Limp BIzkit is good. Defending music that aged horribly and sounds very dated.
+Pokemon is a Shin Megami Tensei rip off 1. That's only two reasons. 2. They haven't even been melodeath since at least Clayman, arguably earlier. Definitely not channeling no Iron Maiden or Dissection on "Soundtrack To Your Escape" for instance. 3. Dissection was definitely an influence and their stuff was never very technical, so fair point. 4. I don't really think the "Iron Maiden leads with Harsh vocals" is really the most accurate description of their sound, despite even their former guitarist Jesper stating that was his intentions. A band who I feel fits that description more would be Sentenced, but only on the albums "The Trooper EP" and "Amok". I feel like In Flames' melodies were their own. They sound a lot more sappy than Iron Maiden type leads.
My absolute favorite genre. It is fun, great to listen to, and they looked good while doing it. I play guitar and there is nothing more enjoyable to play than Mötley Crüe and Poison. 🤘
Glam metal is widely debated on whether it is a metal subgenre or not, but to me, I don't think this is a legitimate music genre at all, or at least a genre with a distinct music style. It's more of a general label of 80s rock bands with flashy outfits, teased hair, and emphasis on the whole sex/drugs/rock n roll lifestyle. I think some bands are legitimate heavy metal (early Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Skid Row), while others are just some pop-rock/hard rock (Bon Jovi, Kiss, Guns n Roses).
Back in Black then back in black 2 theb back in black 3 after that they made back in black 4 then Back in black 5 then teamed up with axl and probably going to make back in black 6
I like the riffs and solos of these bands. And they inspired the Japanese rock/VK scene as well. The talent was definitely there. But the focus seemed not to be on the music as much as it should have.
Out of all these bands I only liked Scorpions...after that.....I got introduced to Sepultura,early metallica,Morbid Angel,Obituary,Testament.......and so on.
I wonder if the haters truly understand that hating all glam rock just for being glam automatically shits all over Van Halen. David Lee Roth wrote Panama when they asked him if all his songs are just about girls, drugs and fast cars after realizing he had never written a song about a car. So he did
hair metal was definitely a Gateway for me back in the eighties. I was 11 years old Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet release was released. prior to that it was all top 40.... and it was on to Cinderella and then it was on to wasp and then before you know it thrash, and up up and away we go into death metal and now...pornogrind. all thanks to Jon Ritchie Tico David and Alec :*)
Honestly same!! Although I was born in 2000, I grew up listening to metal because of my parents but here I am listening to grind music and prog metal and everything metal (even pornogrind too)
People who hate Hair Metal must not like to have fun!!! Check out the M3 Rock Festival in Maryland. Still alive and fuckin’ well!!!! You Rock Man!!! Keep it up!!!
I liked Dokken, the first 3 Def Leppard albums (2 of which aren't even glam) and Van Halen (again it's a borderline case) but overall i felt the genre was too obsessed with image and too shallow, it just didn't connect with me and the lyrics didn't really say anything important. I mean i don't mind partying and fucking but Jesus Christ, it doesn't really feel that exciting when you sing about it for 3 albums in a row.
I have mixed feelings when it comes to glam metal. On the one hand it brang metal to the spotlight but on the other hand it turned the focus towards partying and put less focus on the music and storytelling. I get the appeal but also get why it's disliked. I can imagine somebody listening to stuff like Iron Maiden and Rainbow and loving it then all the sudden Glam kicks in.
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If it wasn't for Hair Metal I wouldn't have ever gotten into metal to begin with, its a safe way to introduce people into the metal genre, and for me personally one of the best sub genres in the metal category.
It is the best subgenre of heavy metal. Better than that death metal/black metal crap about satanism and burning churches.
@@brickspace8617 that is black metal, the only metal genre I don't like. Death metal is sometimes about Satanism but mostly about death (therefore the name) stuff as Cannibal Corpse, I also don't like that that much, but sometimes I just feel the need to listen to it, but all the Satanism and burning churches is only in black metal.
@@geert6133 both death metal and black metal sound as bad as each other to me.
@@brickspace8617 You're a fucking idiot mate. One of the most narrow-minded comments I've ever heard. Most of us metalheads are just happy listening to all metal subgenres in peace, hair metal and death metal included, but you had to be a total toxic manchild and chastise a genre with muscians that have 100x more talent than you will ever have. You don't like most metal? Good, then fuck off. Us metalheads don't want clowns like you polluting our community.
@@brickspace8617 the deathmetal vocals are way different than the black metal vocals, death are a lot of growls and black is more like thrashmetal but than overdone Venom is one of the beginning band of that style of vocals I think. The rest of the instrument are also way different, but that are just a few things
I think one reason why some people hate hair/glam metal is that they think the genre focused too much on the wrong things. Some people have criticized hair/glam metal for focusing more on being a rock star, the image and live the life of sex, drugs and alcohol than doing good music.
Martin Wilhelmsson well you have to understand that's not what metal was about to being with. Look at a band like Kamelot, Hammerfall, Helloween, Death, etc. It was about the music and being an outsider. Glam/hair metal missed that whole point.
Delain124 they may have missed that point, but can’t it have its own? All music within whatever genre has its own point anyway
A lot of my interest in metal and in guitar playing comes from my fascination with hair metal. I owe a lot of my upbringing in the both of those fields to glam. Not only did I think the sound and production style a lot of those bands utilized was cool, but there were some seriously talented guitarists such as Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme, Reb Beach of Winger (and currently of Whitesnake), George Lynch of Dokken and Lynch Mob, Andy Timmons when he was in Danger Danger, Steve Vai when he played with David Lee Roth and Whitesnake, and of course Vito Bratta of White Lion, along with numerous others.
Yea, agreed
Hair Metal is fun tbh, it’s better to party and jam out to than rap, 17 year old Metalhead right here! Hair Metal and Heavy Metal Forever🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Welcome to the club my friend! Keep listening!
I like glam metal, heavy and symponic metal. Forever even those genres gets alot of hate
Broooo no cap rap is now played out everyone talking about killing each other n gangs as to glam metal it’s just about partying n having fun
Heavy metal like iron maiden rocks but hair metal like motley crue is just trash sound more rock than metal
I highly recommend in a non bias sense my band ENEMYS FATE. I took what loved and put it into my own band🤘
Maybe it's because I'm in my early 40's and grew up in the 80's, BUT I have no shame saying that Hair Metal is still my favorite subgenre of heavy metal. I liked Thrash a lot too, but Poison, Motley Crüe and Dokken were my favorite bands back then. I still play their music from time to time, and it still sounds good to this day.
+UrbanVideoPlus same here brother, I love Hair Metal and also Hard Rock. I have no shame
I'm 44 and hated it at the time.
I like glam metal, heavy and symponic metal. Forever even those genres gets alot of hate
Hair metal is the best never gets old
I can tell you that the precise reason you feel this way is because you're in your 40's and grew up in the 80's. Anyone with any technical knowledge in music can tell you hair metal is simplistic and not very musically interesting. It may sound nice because it was meant to, like the pop songs of today they have a formula that allows them to be highly addictive.
Kickstart my heart was about Nikki SiXX's heroine overdose and drug dependency and not exclusively about cocaine
I never understood that. I got into hair metal though brutal legend so I decided to look up hair metal. The amount of hate is enormous it makes no sense. Half the songs are iconic in pop culture, embodies the over the top gimmicks and performances in rock and metal.
Music is music so I'm gonna enjoy me some hair metal, metalcore, nu metal just because they are hated so much.
It was everywhere, absolutely everywhere. It was like 10 Nickelbacks copying each other. I could listen to Guns n Roses but after hearing every song 100 times I don't even want to look at that badass logo. I suggest you listen to Queen instead, this is the peak of the 80s
@@AlaniLTD Queen was everywhere too in Europe for sure i love them but some hair metal bands are iconic
It was severely hated on just because it was indicative of the time period and it was dominant everywhere. It's kinda like why everyone unreasonably hated disco once the early 80s rolled around, and grunge towards the late 90s/early 2000s. For what it was though, glam metal kicked ass. It introduced many people to metal in a fun way, and a lot of those glam bands gave us some really cool thrash metal and power metal.
My top 12 Hair Metal Ballads:12.Carrie (Europe) 11.Fly 2 the angels (Slaughter) 10.Headed 4 A heartbreak (Winger) 9.Love Song (Tesla) 8.Sweet Child of mine (Guns n' Roses) 7.Is this love (White snake) 6.I remember U (Skid Row) 5.More than words (Extreme) 4.2 be with U (Mr. Big) 3.Heaven (Warrant) 2.Home Sweet home (Motley Crue) 1. Every rose has it's Thorn
I love every single one of those songs. An honorable mention would be When the Children Cry by White Lion
It's about time Carrie got some love.
I love Hair Metal. Probably my favorite genre right now (and this comes from a grunge/post-grunge fan) I don't care what anyone says. The music sounds awesome, the guitarists were virtuoso, the singers were amazing and the songs were catchy. Give me some hair metal any day!
cheese metal. I like that mockery term the best.
Still alot better than today's computerized music...
Atleast glam bands were technically competent
I hate it when people would say a certain song I'm listening to is so old. My usual response would be I didn't know music had an expiration date.
Glam Metal FTW best genre ever...you can find almost everything in that spectrum, try to listen (atleast the major bands) albums that were released from early 80s to early 90s you'll see the changes and the variety of the genres...pretty broad from heavy to pop stuff, from neoclassical to funk...not to mention it's a fashion industry too :D hate it love it whatever...it's one of the most innovative yet gets major attention genre ever...
I'm with you on that too. I listen to a lot of country music but also LOVE Glam Metal
Hair Metal actually proved that “Metal” doesn’t need to be dark, black, shrieky and gloomy. It also proved Metal doesn’t need to be about demons and devils. It can be about Girls, Drugs etc. You can rock hard with colors, glitters and a cheering crowd with heavy makeup and costumes. (Both Black and Hair Metal waste most money and time of setting of stage, makeup and costumes)
(Also I like the Power Metal in the background)
Not to forget all the monster shredders that came out in this era. This is obviously one of the most overlooked genre.
I never considered Hair Metal metal, but Hard Rock N Roll. I love it! Who cares what category it is in? Good music is good music. I love your responses
I know your comment is 2 years old, but categories serve a purpose. Helps people identify certain types of music, and sounds. We probably both agree that music is subjective, so categorizing it helps a person find what they prefer.
Not really a hair metal fan. But I understand its appeal. The heavier stuff is not everyone's cup of tea.
Hard rock and heavy metal
I consider it glam metal. It's still metal
It has metal in the name of it so its metal
I love hard rock but honestly i never got into hair metal/glam metal
I think that in the 80s bands like Dokken, Motley Crue, Ratt, Twisted Sister were hard rock or heavy metal 'cause they have their own sound. When people say "glam or hair metal", it refers about the hair and make up
I assumed Nikki wrote 'kick start my heart' because he died of a drug overdose and the ambulance driver was a Motley fan and was determined to save his life and injected a needle into his heart with steroids to get his heart going again. Its in his book 'The Heroin diaries, a year in the life of a rock star'
Idk why anyone could hate the greatest guitar soloing era of all time.
Thank you. Hair Metal produced some of the best guitar soloing ever!
@@mikecamilli1047 I'd rather listen to Ratt, Motley, Slaughter and those bands over the crap people listen to today. Even a lot of the popular stuff in the 90's (though AIC and STP had good stuff) Today's pop music is so terrible most kids have resorted to listening to K-pop, and hide that fact because its not considered "cool". Besides that, those bands knew how to write good songs, and when you ignore all the yuppies and losers crying about guitar solos because they don't want to feel like they are getting flexed on, its good stuff.
Wow you can play your instruments wow write good songs instead and let's consider your argument dose minutes of guitar solo make a whole song good?
True. Great guitar players
Don't take the groupies part so seriously... The big Rock bands like Led Zeppelin , Rainbow ,or even Black Sabbath and Deep Purple had an army of groupies twice the hair metal groups had in the 80s
I love glam metal so much that even when I get depressive mood swings and start listening to Nirvana a lot, I still play Mötley Crüe, Poison, Cinderella, Britny Fox, etc.. I'm a junkie for the stuff.
I like some glam metal. Reb beach makes winger as amazing as they are and bands like warrant kick ass
I think hair metal is great?
Just listen to find out!
Glam metal isn't as bad as people say. Mostly the hate I think comes from thrash bands from the scene back in the day. It's a good gateway genre and actually have good songs. At least they know how to play their instruments, sing, and write their own songs.
No glam metal bands are waterd down even from nwobhm from that era
5 Reasons People Hate Pop Punk
Whiny little no talent 5 year old bitches with opinions.
1. Simple plan, good Charlotte, woes and 5SOS embarrassed this genre
everything sucks FUCKING FACTS
@@patricklauer4452 good Charlotte is okay but i agree 5SOS is terrible not even pop punk just pop 😂
It sucks
Accept, Motley Crue, Ratt, twisted sister rocked and still do
I’m only young, but love 80s music and hair is something I’m just getting into, a lot of iconic 80s songs seem to be glam/hair metal and I wonder if the hate sometimes comes from those people who just don’t want to like what’s popular en mass and don’t follow the crowd, and that’s what put them off? But I’m seeing from a completely different perspective to someone who lived through it. I’m not a fan of anything heavy, but hair isn’t even really metal I would say, but I love it. Who cares what people think, listen to what makes you happy
5 reasons why people hate grunge
Singers that sound either like a Cow or a Goat. I hate Pearl Jam and AIC.
Aging baby boomers who didn't like new rock music they just wanted to live in the past 60s-80s and a younger generation who could care less about rock music and only like rap and hip hop..
@@Brando-nx6ub I grew up in the 70's and listened to 50's and 60's music. 70's was the best decade for music.
@@vinceneilisfat431 I don't like Nirvana or Pearl Jam but AIC come on!
@@chip9649 Nirvana is way better than AIC or Pearl Jam or Gnr. I gotta go with songs and the overall sound. I'm not into sludge.
Hair Metal is awesome and so is Hard Rock
Fucking right,
It was just shallow consumerist nonsense. It perfectly embodied the avarice of the eighties
✨YES! ✨
Van Halen & Dokken kick ass.
Van Halen is not Hair Metal
@@scottthewozznijak359I never understood how people can say this when David Lee Roth exists. Is it an insecurity because you realized you like a glam rock band? Just watch the video for any Van Halen song and look at how Eddie is dressed, Dave's gloves, the guitar soloing (including the bloody tapping from glam metal), the glitter stuff and the lyrics. Hot for Teacher is about fucking and Panama is about a fast car so how are they not hair metal?
Thrash/Grunge/Black Metal "Virgin"
vs.
Glam Metal "Chad"
Glam Metal will always be better than Grunge.
no way glam metal aged horribly
@@joshuafult84 Tell that to all the people who still listen to it and the bands that sell out arenas
the genre simply sounds bad in my opinion. and the whole look is kind of gross to me
I think hair metal is alright, but I prefer nu metal.
MJNation Hey! Nu metal fanatic right here, too!
Remember this is his opinion and mine as well
The music today is gross and the so called ‘singers’ are disgusting people that don’t know how to have fun like the 70s, 80s, and most of the 90s did, today’s world sucks and so does the music! Sex, drugs, and Heavy Metal Forever🤘🏼
Right on man! Long live Rock n Roll!!!!
5 reasons why people hate deathcore
It sounds like total shit, that's why.
@@kat-bg2jb agree
Because it's childish
Agreed! I'm old (50-ish) I lived through the 80's and went to every concert I could afford to attend and am lucky enough to say a lot of them. I officially knew I had finally got old when I heard Metallica at 10:30 a.m. at work on my towns only local radio station. Granted it was a song off the Black Album, it was an eye opening fact that I had officially got old.
I wouldn't change a thing... It was a great era, and kids these days would learn well that no genre of music popular or otherwise created the division they are suffering from now. It was a great time and didn't require Cocaine like they think..
I smoked a Lot of Grass though...
5 Reasons Why people hate Kiss...
1. They suck
2. Gene Simmons
3.imposters wearing original makeup
4. Brand, not band
5. The band has basically become a cheesy Vegas act like BLUE MAN GROUP with guitars that most people only go see because there were free tickets included with the hotel room at The MGM Grand or Mirage.
5 reasons why people hate Gene Simmons
You are in the wrong category! Kiss is Hard Rock. They showed how it was done!
i love hair metal but I consider it rock
remember when homer simpson was in rock camp?
Kickstart my heart is about Nikki Sixx overdosing on heroin and dying. And having his heart "kickstarted" The media thought he was dead. So after getting out of the hospital and seeing a tabloid with Nikki Sixx dead on the front page. He recorded a new voicemail: Hi. This is Nikki Sixx. I can't answer the phone because I'm dead. Then he shot some more heroin and fell asleep on the bathroom floor. Read The Dirt and Heroin Diaries. The most entertaining biographies ever written.
Some of the best Guitar work in the Metal genre is from Glam / Hair.....
Yes but some of the worst lyrical songwriting was in hair metal so this alone eliminates any great guitar playing in this genre. The lyrical content of hair metal and much of rock before hair metal, hair rock or whatever we want to call this genre is pop driven and marketed to horny teenagers. This is ironic since the sound of rock is blues driven and the blues is as far as possible lyrically from these sex driven lyrical content songs since the blues comes from African American slaves struggles in American society. This is why a dont like to call this genre hair metal because this genre isn't metal but much closer to rockibilly and pop music. Real metal music and many of its subgenres are very close to the blues in lyrical content but with darker, angrier lyrics and with a heavier sound. Actually metal's lyrical content is much closer to old school country & western music like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers, Merle Haggard Loretta Lynn, etc than with this 80s hair band genre of sex and partying. The majority blues, and the majority of old school country & western, folk music and heavy metal music are far from this sex and partying lyrical content and much more about the evils going on in the world and the personal tragedies of people in their lives. The 80s hair bands only seem to know how to write these type of songs in ballads but not with their writing with a heavy sound. Writing lyrics with a heavy sound with the 80s hair bands was all about sex and partying so therefore these bands to me are nothing more than pop boy bands since pop boy bands write lyrics geared for horny teenagers and young preteens.
@Better Than The Beatles you're entitled to an opinion, but understand you're wrong.
@@midnight-2021 you're entitled to an opinion but understand you're wrong.
Dude, Better Than The Beatles and myself are exactly correct. David Gilmore and Tony Iommi have guitar solos that are more catchy and more soulful than anything done by these hair, glam bands and that is a 100% fact so we are far from wrong and your opinion is total shit so go fuck off since you don't believe in real facts. My opinion about the lyrical content of glam, hair metal is 100% correct because many people will totally agree with myself about the horny teenager lyrical content of this trash from that shit.
Better Than The Beatles, If you never heard of Samantha Fish you probably will like her and should be a fan of her guitar playing since you mentioned both David Gilmour and Tony Iommi. Love her guitar playing and her vocals as well and many old school rock and metal fans like myself are fans of her music. Her vocal talent, guitar playing and songwriting is much better on the ears than any of this music done by the glam bands from the 80s hair bands. Even though the 80s hair bands are dead and these new pop rock bands sound different than the 80s hair bands these new bands are equally as lame in their songwriting as the 80s hair bands. Imagine Dragons, 21 Pilots, Panic at the Disco, are Poison, Warrant, Winger but with a different style of lame, lol! Pop is pop or poop is poop no matter how it sounds, LOL! Here is some Samantha Fish ruclips.net/video/HJMeWjRQwAI/видео.html
I came to be a metal fan thru glam metal. My mom was an 80s glam fangirl and my in my earliest years I loved the records she had. Poison, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Ratt...all that stuff. I really really loved that stuff SO much once upon a time. Then, one day when I was about nine years old, my 16 year old neighbor brought me over to his house to listen to Master of Puppets for the first time, and nothing was ever the same again after that day.
+Patrick Allen I have a similar story. Only it wasn't my mom, it was a high school friend. And it was also Master of Puppets.
Hair Metal aged much better than Grunge in my opinion.
Ofc
Nirvana was way better than grunge or hair metal.
@@vinceneilisfat431 No
@@vinceneilisfat431 Nirvana is grunge, smartass.
+Jay Cthulhuski Not even close grunge was basically the first steps to modern rock/alternative it still fits good. Hair metal sounds extremely dated.
The biggest problem metalheads have is the image
That is hypocritical cause they say it is not about the image but yet they judge them cause of their image. Also, what is wrong with their image?
+OldSchoolLimp
They're too glossy and pampered and some metalheads think metal musicians should dress rough and extreme in order to be true metal.
Ethan Work I never really considered Hair/Glam metal as metal, but as Hard Rock N Roll. Rock N Roll has no borders or limits. Nobody criticized Aerosmith, Queen, or Van Halen for the way they looked.
mark, was this post inspired by me???? either way thanks much for giving this much -maligned and underappreciated genre it's day in the ckn sun. I've said it before and I maintain that if it wasn't for this genre's explosion in the 80s, we would never have had many of the things that came afterwards including the heavy bands that we all enjoy today.
+TheZman1978 I'm a huge Murderdolls fan, whether people like them or not they themselves said they were influenced by Motley Crue. I'm not completely up on hair metal and I admit I was big on steel panther about three years ago. I like some earlier Van Halen too.
I never considered "hair metal" or "glam metal" a genre. it was an image. The music varied from band to band. Many got lumped into the genre that didn't really belong because they had big hair, like Tesla and Badlands. But yes there were some that were all image and little talent too.
Hair metal had a good following among women who generally did not like metal. That music was a good ice breaker for single guys and a compromise at parties for music to play. And it was a gateway to different genres. How many death and thrash metal fans started by listening to hair metal.
I'd have to say hair metal is my least favorite. But I'd rather listen to that than Nu-metal.
T ö x y k so let me guess you don't like Deftones korn or slipknot or disturbed do yah
I rather listen to nu metal than hair metal.
I'd rather Cobain myself than listen to any of that.
many luminaries in The Heavy Metal Field began their foray into music as hair Metallists. zakk wylde, pantera, and sully from Godsmack come to mind. in additon, Mike McCready from Pearl Jam was also in a hair metal band in La called shadow in the late eighties. Don Dokken also produced a St vitus album.
It was just too sugary for me felt like pussy metal. Not to be ''that guy''. I wouldn't normally use that phrase..but it really was, I mean it was like metal-lite and the ballads were awful in my opinion. In the sidebar of recommended vids there's a ''Monster ballads'' video that's over an hour long. I think if someone listened to that they'd see what I mean lmao
100% anyone that defends this genre is a cheeseball the only ones that are acceptable is motley crue or guns n roses if they are even considered in this. Dudes defending this just cuz they grew up with it is like people who try claiming limp bizkit is good cuz it was playing in their youth.
I can't stand hair bands, yet I love heavy metal. It's all about talent and impressionism. Big Priest fan.
tell that to Dave Mustaine .
"If you have to dress up like a girl to get people to go to your shows, well first of all you got unresolved issues and second of all, is your music really that good to begin with?"
Dave Mustaine gave a perfect description of hair metal right there
my first concert was motley crue it was amazing
Lets just say there is just a certain feeling within the guitar playing in glam metal for me. A lot of it is so angelic especially the solos, feels different and great.
Say what you want but Hair Metal was all about partying, having fun, and banging hot chicks. All grunge was about was being miserably depressed, apathetic and angst-filled at life and think its cool.
Fuck that miserable shit; I'd rather listen to Hair Metal! Grunge had its bright yet brief moment in the sun but when you get right down to it, it was a flash in the pan. Apart from that a lot of Hair Metal bands from the 80's are still selling out shows while most of the grunge acts aren't doing jack shit because their frontmen are currently pushing up daisies!
It was called Glam Metal, the term Hair Metal did not exist until the mid to late 90s...years after the demise of the genre.....I'm sure a lot of people started with these gateway bands, because in the late 80s early 90s this form of metal was massive, until it got too diluted and people got sick of it.....Enter Grunge!
+Jjt 68 ummm. I remember it being referred to as Hair Metal as I entered high school in 1988.
And then grunge only lasted 4 years, and a few years later the hair bands rose once again.
Thank you. I have to remind you get people of that
I like rock from the 60's, 70's and 80's and I could care less what anybody else thinks about it
5 Reasons,Why People Hate Power Metal
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Every rose was released in 1986 dude. Love the video man
Look at the comments dude, you’ve been ratioed here, more people love ‘Hair’ Metal than hate it. The Only people who hate it are short haired millennials and gen z’s who are just jealous that they were not around for the party. 80’s metal/rock rules. The songs have not aged poorly at all. Listen to the albums Tooth and Nail, Under Lock and Key and Back for the Attack by Dokken. All three albums still SLAY today and that’s just one band. The first two Motley Crue and W.A.S.P albums are also still amazing to listen to in 2022.
Some glam or hair metal is pretty good like scorpions, skid row, guns n roses, cinderella and who can never forget the iconic legend band called Queen
I find it laughable that when it comes to Grunge the forever narrative seems to be "Hair/Glam Metal sucks" and it has been that way since Kurt Cobain and his Nerd-vana bullshit hit the airwaves back in 1991. To me that's the ONLY narrative these Grunge nuts orbit around but that narrative has worn so thin that nowadays its completely transparent. Sure, by the early 90's most of these Metal bands had become over-commercialized, sell outs, silly looking, etc., I'll agree with that. However despite all of that a lot of these Hair and Glam Metal bands wrote some really great songs and many of these bands are still together and touring to this day. How many Grunge acts are still touring? ***sound of crickets*** Not many....few if any!
I never hear any Grunge fans say "Pop, Classical, Reggae, Hard Rock, Latin, etc. sucks" but mention Hair and Glam Metal they go completely apeshit and will move mountains to slam it real fast.
well said phayzyre
Probably because classical, reggae, hard rock, and Latin all contain actual substance, whereas hair and glam metal contain none.
Actually nirvana's debut came out in 1989
It sucks ass and I'm not a grunge fan boy
Let's cal grunge Green Hair or Goatee metal. lol.
I think honestly that many people hate glam metal because they don't fit to the image of a nice looking happy party going guy you can see that most of the people that hates glam metal is people that looks really bad angry dirty and I like glam metal and I also like other metal generous but personally I prefer looking tough but not necessarily hateful or angry or dirty and we all most remember that the 80s were very conservative, and we all should evaluate Glam metal considering it was mainstream and has to deal with a lot of Pop foolish and easy going songs so I think Glam metal was a reaction to the time and a very nice way to have fun while you listen to some powerful drumming and some good guitar riffs I'm very high pitch singing I see nothing bad about it and of course I like death, I like black metal I like power metal, industrial metal folk metal but again I I can't find nothing wrong with glam metal and I wouldn't compare it with other genres as I wouldn't compare trash metal with power metal
Don't forget the band Kiss pretty much started the idea of Glam Metal and that was the 70s. Some say it was the New York Dolls, but although they were good they didn't really have appeal outside of NYC generally.
Peaple hate it because of the look and the later half of the hair metal decade got kinda lame
The only thing about Glam I know is that Glam means 'Gay LA Metal'
xTWOGPlays
Quote from Dave fuckin' lord Mustaine XDDD
But i Love Glam so shut The fuck Up
Leslie Glam is shit
In theory, if the bands dressed more casually and not worn silly clothes and teased their hair, maybe they wouldn’t have caught as much flack. A lot of the focus was on the image.
The fashion, the music, the long hair.
Kickstart my heart isn't about cocaine. It's about Nikki sixxs heroin overdose .death experience and wen they brought him back to life.
Hair metal or pop punk... it's just the poppier mainstream version of an extreme rock genre that is made for money and the wrong kind of image it perpetrates
Medalion its rock and rock it is not heavy as heavy metal you stupid
People who really try defending hair metal are like people who try saying Limp BIzkit is good. Defending music that aged horribly and sounds very dated.
Or aged very quickly. Back in the '80s, Metallica actually played on stadiums. You'll find separate cuts from one of them in their official channel.
Hair metal was always about having FUN! Which meant drugs, sex, partying etc. It ran its course like every genre does
It's fun it makes me happy and I like it.
5 reasons why peeps be hatin' on In Flames.
+Pokemon is a Shin Megami Tensei rip off 1. That's only two reasons.
2. They haven't even been melodeath since at least Clayman, arguably earlier. Definitely not channeling no Iron Maiden or Dissection on "Soundtrack To Your Escape" for instance.
3. Dissection was definitely an influence and their stuff was never very technical, so fair point.
4. I don't really think the "Iron Maiden leads with Harsh vocals" is really the most accurate description of their sound, despite even their former guitarist Jesper stating that was his intentions. A band who I feel fits that description more would be Sentenced, but only on the albums "The Trooper EP" and "Amok". I feel like In Flames' melodies were their own. They sound a lot more sappy than Iron Maiden type leads.
My absolute favorite genre. It is fun, great to listen to, and they looked good while doing it. I play guitar and there is nothing more enjoyable to play than Mötley Crüe and Poison. 🤘
The 80s...when the metal meteor hit some unknown space particle and split into several smaller metal meteors, each with a different trajectory
please do a warrant discography
+TheZman1978 I always thought they were one of the good hair metal bands myself. Corny as fuck sometimes, but still fun to listen to.
Uh no.
Fuck the haters! Glam/Hair Metal will *always* be my favorite metal genre!
Steel Panther saved Glam Metal
Every Rose Has Its Thorn came out in 88'...
will you do is it metal, or is it rock hair metal addition
heavy??? did he just call glam.... heavy????
Alot of Dokken and some Cinderella is very heavy for the genre
Ryan Thompson Guitarist glam isn’t heavy glam is just shit
Heavy metal
@@Ryan_Thompson_Guitarist Britny Fox and Loudness are even more aggressive, also some Icon songs and defintetly Seduce!
@@elijahloveell8809 I see, you must have listen to maany Glam Metal Songs :)
Glam metal is widely debated on whether it is a metal subgenre or not, but to me, I don't think this is a legitimate music genre at all, or at least a genre with a distinct music style. It's more of a general label of 80s rock bands with flashy outfits, teased hair, and emphasis on the whole sex/drugs/rock n roll lifestyle. I think some bands are legitimate heavy metal (early Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Skid Row), while others are just some pop-rock/hard rock (Bon Jovi, Kiss, Guns n Roses).
5 reasons why people hate AC/DC
+Tristan Powell boring - one dimensional - predictable - unprogressive - all sounds the same
+Jjt 68 6. axl rose
Back in Black then back in black 2 theb back in black 3 after that they made back in black 4 then Back in black 5 then teamed up with axl and probably going to make back in black 6
AC/DC haven't made a properly decent album since 1980
Look how long they have been around! One of the biggest Rock bands ever!
Quiet Riot got me into glam
Hatred is definitely caused due to looks and chick-like attitude by band members as well.
I like the riffs and solos of these bands. And they inspired the Japanese rock/VK scene as well. The talent was definitely there. But the focus seemed not to be on the music as much as it should have.
Top 10 genre changing bands (ie Ulver, Sentenced, Enslaved, Paradise Lost)
Out of all these bands I only liked Scorpions...after that.....I got introduced to Sepultura,early metallica,Morbid Angel,Obituary,Testament.......and so on.
I wonder if the haters truly understand that hating all glam rock just for being glam automatically shits all over Van Halen. David Lee Roth wrote Panama when they asked him if all his songs are just about girls, drugs and fast cars after realizing he had never written a song about a car. So he did
I like van halen
hair metal was definitely a Gateway for me back in the eighties. I was 11 years old Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet release was released. prior to that it was all top 40.... and it was on to Cinderella and then it was on to wasp and then before you know it thrash, and up up and away we go into death metal and now...pornogrind. all thanks to Jon Ritchie Tico David and Alec :*)
Honestly same!! Although I was born in 2000, I grew up listening to metal because of my parents but here I am listening to grind music and prog metal and everything metal (even pornogrind too)
Every rose has its thorn was released in 1988
People who hate Hair Metal must not like to have fun!!! Check out the M3 Rock Festival in Maryland. Still alive and fuckin’ well!!!! You Rock Man!!! Keep it up!!!
Go hangout on your own music videos.
Go hangout on your own music videos.
What’s your favorite genre and groups?
Ah, deep, dark, loud and fast! Everyone has their own taste in music.
I liked Dokken, the first 3 Def Leppard albums (2 of which aren't even glam) and Van Halen (again it's a borderline case) but overall i felt the genre was too obsessed with image and too shallow, it just didn't connect with me and the lyrics didn't really say anything important. I mean i don't mind partying and fucking but Jesus Christ, it doesn't really feel that exciting when you sing about it for 3 albums in a row.
5 Reasons People Hate 80's Metal
My only real problem with glam metal is just that there is too much stagnation in the genre. It all kind of sounds too similar.
Every rose has its thorn came out in 1988
1987
I have mixed feelings when it comes to glam metal. On the one hand it brang metal to the spotlight but on the other hand it turned the focus towards partying and put less focus on the music and storytelling. I get the appeal but also get why it's disliked. I can imagine somebody listening to stuff like Iron Maiden and Rainbow and loving it then all the sudden Glam kicks in.
We just dismissed it as kiddie music back then. Been there, done that by the late '80s.
Even kids would be better off listening to something else. Heck, I listened to Metallica and Pantera as a kid before anything that is glam metal.