![]() ![]() Glam metal songs have stood the test of time and age like fine wine. Furthermore, I think people are coming of as huge hypocrites when they say they hate glam metal but think Van Halen Guns N Roses and Def Leppard are metal gods.Ĭlassified by its catchy, uplifting, headbanging, sing-along choruses and melodic hypersonic guitar solos, Glam Metal had the most talented musicians in metal. Maybe people are just jealous because they have never gotten laid before. On a side note: what the hell does everyone have against Poison? Just because they wore makeup, they are gay? Just because Bret Michaels is an amazing singer, he is effeminate? Just because they were mainstream with hits like "Nothin But a Good Time" (my favorite song), " Every Rose Has Its Thorn", "Talk Dirty to Me", "Unskinny Bop", etc, they are crap sellouts? People should just appreciate the music for the music itself. And there are some awesome vocalists like Sebastian Bach, Michael Matijevic, David Coverdale, Bret Michaels, etc. Some kick ass guitarists who are heavily underrated for being part of the scene are: C.C DeVille, Vito Bratta, Richie Sambora, Tracii Guns, Joey Allen, Reb Beach, George Lynch, Nuno Bettencourt, Mick Mars, Oz Fox, Ronni Le Tekro, Vinnie Vincent, even Slash! I could go on forever. The greatest genre of music ever! A lot of people have been giving this genre shit saying it's "not metal." Those losers are only judging a book by its cover and not listening to the music itself. Besides GnR and Van Halen, LA bands fell off the face of the Earth. With the release of Nevermind, Nirvana took MTV and the radio by storm faster than any band since GnR, opening the floodgates to alternative rock. The scene that had once taken pop music by storm had become a lame parody of itself, and overnight was cast aside in favor of newer rock. began to dominate the scene, infesting the radio and MTV with countless power ballads and cheesy videos. Great White, Poison, Warrant, Tuff, Skid Row, etc. By the 90‘s, glam had become so successful that any band with a blond front man and a power ballad was signed. Subsequently, glam metal became the dominant music genre, going on to rule the rest of the 80’s. ![]() All this would change with the release of Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet in 1986 and Guns N‘ Roses Appetite for Destruction in 1987. For the next few years, glam would still be only a moderate success. Much of this had to do with the image-centricity of the bands, and the attention they received from the just-starting MTV. Motley Crue's Too Fast For Love was the album that got the scene going, but it wasn't until Quiet Riot's Metal Health that glam metal entered the mainstream. These bands quickly grew to dominate the scene, most famously at the club The Whisky-a-Go-Go. Around 1980 in LA, bands began to combine the aesthetics of bands like Hanoi Rocks, The Sweet with the musical style of bands like Van Halen and AC/DC. ![]()
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