I Know there are a lot of amazing vocalists out there, but how can you guys never mention this band? The vocals here are amazing and beautiful. DISCUSS

Lol.. sorry, i dont have anything with hair-metal, and cannot see the attraction in this type of vocal delivery.

But maybe someone else can help you?

Husky said:

Lol.. sorry, i dont have anything with hair-metal, and cannot see the attraction in this type of vocal delivery.

But maybe someone else can help you?

This thread is a joke

His vocals are astoundingly bad

Lol.. i see

Don't spill the beans so fast

Husky said:

Lol.. i see

Don't spill the beans so fast

i would hope chaps wouldn't think i was being serious hehe

Bite Down Hard was the album of 1991.

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Husky said:

cannot see the attraction in this type of vocal delivery.

I don't understand the monster vocal thing. They all sound alike.

I love Girlschool, it's so over the top. The singer does a bit of that Morris/Jerome double step thing. Good stuff

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This kind of music reminds me of Nazareth with that horrible song 'Love hurts'.

The same type of uber-annoying vocals.

Nazareth has some good songs like Whiskey Drinking Woman and Hair Of The Dog.

Well, i am still glad grunge saved 'us' from hairmetal and buff redneck-hardrock, to be honest.

Unfortunately these bands kept it 'fresh' for just a very short period in time, and left us with such post-grunge crap like Creed, Live, Nickelback, Matchbox20 and Rob Thomas...

I don't like grunge or know anything about it. I didn't care for much 1990's popular music.

Husky said:

Well, i am still glad grunge saved 'us' from hairmetal and buff redneck-hardrock, to be honest.

Unfortunately these bands kept it 'fresh' for just a very short period in time, and left us with such post-grunge crap like Creed, Live, Nickelback, Matchbox20 and Rob Thomas...

don't you dare lump Matchbox20 in with the others!

btw Micky who's that in your avy?

I see Micky,

You seem to be the guy on here, that defends the types of music and artists that are usually labelled as 'easy-listening' or 'guilty pleasures', right? Just an obversation here.

To me personally the nineties are probably my favourite decade: and that has nothing to with these (post) grunge-artists: whining about how bad your parents were, and how shit your life is, while falling into soft-loud clichés, can get boring.

What i love about that decade is that musicians who were non-mainstream / non-hitparade inclined, did get rid of that ugly eighties-sounding production (synths sounding like cheap synths, drums sounding all bombastic and plastic, melodies trying to sound catchy and happy, without any nuance underneath: melancholy, regret etc).

When i think of the nineties, i think of musicians that built further on the legacy of the sixties and the seventies, without being mere copycats, and without that campy, plastic production often used in the eighties. To me the nineties where about:

- A new generation of great power-pop musicians (Teenage Fanclub, The Posies, Matthew Sweet, Buffalo Tom to a certain extent).

- Some good country-rock / alt-country (not that polished oldies-parade shit by The Eagles, but bands like The Jayhawks and Wilco).

- The excitement the cross-over movement was offering (with bands like Fishbone, Living Colour, the early Red Hot Chili Peppers, Urban Dance Squad, Gotcha and, later on, Rage against the Machine, while black artists were sinking into hitparade pop and new-jack swing, it were often (half) white bands that kept the funk alive).

- The appreciation of the 'gift' of singer-songwriters (early Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams).

Husky said:

Well, i am still glad grunge saved 'us' from hairmetal and buff redneck-hardrock, to be honest.

Unfortunately these bands kept it 'fresh' for just a very short period in time, and left us with such post-grunge crap like Creed, Live, Nickelback, Matchbox20 and Rob Thomas...

Eh, I think the '90s would have been much better if there was a lot more of the silliness and fun of the "hair bands" around. It is true that there was too much of that in the '80s but in the '90s things swung too far in the other direction and music became much too serious and somber. Thank goodness for those zany Brits or else I probably would have wrapped my lips around a revolver circa 1995.

I disagree rialb,

Where you only listening to what was popular in the charts?

Hairmetal was a charicature of itself allready, and became more boring and redudant when people kept repeating it. Most of the hairmetal bands where simply offering fifties and early sixties rock and roll with a bit more loudness and a bit more campy clothes and haircuts.

When you look beyond the (post) grunge-shit and new-jack swing there was actually a lot of creative movement to be seen: within house / techno-music, the Madchester-scene, power-pop, country-rock, singer-songwriter, the cross-over moment, free spirits like Gavin Friday, Bjork and Beck.

Husky said:

I disagree rialb,

Where you only listening to what was popular in the charts?

Hairmetal was a charicature of itself allready, and became more boring and redudant when people kept repeating it. Most of the hairmetal bands where simply offering fifties and early sixties rock and roll with a bit more loudness and a bit more campy clothes and haircuts.

When you look beyond the (post) grunge-shit and new-jack swing there was actually a lot of creative movement to be seen: within house / techno-music, the Madchester-scene, power-pop, country-rock, singer-songwriter, the cross-over moment, free spirits like Gavin Friday, Bjork and Beck.

Well, we are kind of limiting the discussion to "rock" music. I'm sure that you would agree that there was more to the '80s than just "hair metal."

I agree that there were too many "hair bands" in the '80s and too many of them were not very good but at the same time by 1993/1994 there were too many grunge/alternative bands and many of them were boring. My beef is that it seemed like almost overnight things went from one extreme (fun/silliness) to the other (serious/somber). Why can't there be a nice mix of both?

^ Yeah this country has been fickle with its tastes for so long I hardly laugh when a new trend evolves and neither sound can co-exist without the other. It's like lions. Once a male lion establishes himself as king of his brood, there comes a new contender ready to chew him out and take his position. That's a good description of popular music right there.

Mdizzles said:

btw Micky who's that in your avy?

I don't know her name, but she's a Crossfit athlete.

Well, we are kind of limiting the discussion to "rock" music. I'm sure that you would agree that there was more to the '80s than just "hair metal."

I agree that there were too many "hair bands" in the '80s and too many of them were not very good but at the same time by 1993/1994 there were too many grunge/alternative bands and many of them were boring. My beef is that it seemed like almost overnight things went from one extreme (fun/silliness) to the other (serious/somber). Why can't there be a nice mix of both?

Sorry, but i never did see the 'fun' in hair metal bands: it were mostly mediocre artists with lumpen hard-rock, that thought they were making fun: when they were mostly low IQ drug-addicts, male attention whores.

But as i said, i didnt limitate myself to the (post) grunge in the charts: that whining by the Grunge-bands i dont like either, there was so much more great music to be found in the nineties.

Lets face it: the hair-metal 'rockers' of the eighties, were the Fred Durst's of the nineties...

Husky said:

I see Micky,

You seem to be the guy on here, that defends the types of music and artists that are usually labelled as 'easy-listening' or 'guilty pleasures', right?

That is correct.

Why Micky?

Do you think they are underrated?

Or do you just like them?

Husky said:

Why Micky?

Do you think they are underrated?

Or do you just like them?

I don't know what underrated/overrated means. I just see people here using terms like that. I like the music I like. Why do you like the music you like? Because it appeals to you, I guess.