Glam metal

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Are there any glam metal fans out there in Trinidad and Tobago. This type of music is a sub genre of heavy metal and was popular in the USA in the 1980s until the distribution of the albums "Ten" by Pearl Jam and "Nevermind" by Nirvana. It is characterised by tight clothes, very long hair and sometimes the use of makeup. The most popular bands of this genre were:
Bon Jovi
Motley Crue
Poison
LA Guns
Skid Row
Guns and Roses (these last two tend toward very hard rock)
Whitesnake
Cinderella
Aerosmith
Europe
Scorpions
White Lion
Kix
Firehouse
Warrant
Slaughter
Def Leppard

What's going on in glam metal these days? (have been out of it for 15 years)

[Scorpio]

IN-A-Quandry, those bands all gave us some unforgettable classic songs, like Skid Row's "18 & Life"; GNR"s "Sweet Child of Mine"; Scorpions's "Rock you like a Hurricane";White Lion's "When the Children Cry"..just to name a few....

Those bands were just before my time, and Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Live, Fuel, and even Creed showed them up big time; these 90's bands had songs that reflected the feelings of a generation, the songwriters shared the pain of the generation and wrote freely & openly about it.

The moment that "smells like teen spirit" hit the airwaves, glam metal was dead.

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IN-A-Quandry, those bands all gave us some unforgettable classic songs, like Skid Row's "18 & Life"; GNR"s "Sweet Child of Mine"; Scorpions's "Rock you like a Hurricane";White Lion's "When the Children Cry"..just to name a few....

Those bands were just before my time, and Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Live, Fuel, and even Creed showed them up big time; these 90's bands had songs that reflected the feelings of a generation, the songwriters shared the pain of the generation and wrote freely & openly about it.

The moment that "smells like teen spirit" hit the airwaves, glam metal was dead.

Not so Scorpio. They are underground. Didn't Warrant visit Trinidad a few years back? Cinderella, Poison, Winger still are arounds and do concerts. SKid row is still around minus Sebastian Bach.


I love Cinderella's music from the eighties...

I was listening to the thrash metal band Metallica but I find them sick!

[Scorpio]

I know they are still around and underground, but what I really mean is that the hey days of Metal are gone, never to return thanks to grunge.

If I were a teen in the 80's I know I would have loved metal, but I grew up listening to the dark, sad mournful music of bands like Soundgarden, live and Nirvana...these songwriters understood the pain of the generationn and wrote about it freely.

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I know they are still around and underground, but what I really mean is that the hey days of Metal are gone, never to return thanks to grunge.

If I were a teen in the 80's I know I would have loved metal, but I grew up listening to the dark, sad mournful music of bands like Soundgarden, live and Nirvana...these songwriters understood the pain of the generationn and wrote about it freely.

Hi Scorpio: Listen to Cinderella's music - I like some of it and didn't realise that they had good songs apart from nobody's fool and "don't know what u've got 'till it's gone"

I used to get depressed in the early 1990s for no reason and I feel it's the influence of the grunge music that came out. That said, I find that Eddie Vedder is a real pro at what he did. I don't know grunge past the 1990s though.

[Scorpio]

IAQ, one of my favorite acoustic ballads is actually Cinderella's "Coming Home" its one of the most played songs on my ipod, something about that song moves, so you're right Cinderella has some good music.

Eddie Vedder/Peral Jam also have some moving stuff, I was lucky to see them perform in the US when I was about 15, I'll never forget that experience !!!

As for the depressed mood of the 90's music, well this is how I look at it...as a teen it felt good to listen to people who knew how you felt, and in the case of kurt cobain, felt worse than I did. No matter how depressed I get, listening to Kurt Cobain's painful rendition of "Jesus Don't Want me for a Sunbeam" always makes me realise that hey, my life ain't that bad, here is a guy who had everything to live for fame, money, courtney, a baby son, talent....and yet, all he could do is blow his brains out with a shotgun..

[Kalz]

Good Music!!! Not the **** it have these days. But my firned those days are gone never to come back. These bands still tour - some of them on a smaller sacle but you know what - most of them are still as large and drawing large clouds like in th eheyday. Is just that they off the radar because the mass media is only marketing what is popular for th eday. I live in DC and in th elast year i saw in concert - Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Poison and Cinderela. THey all baning out the hits nad top class new tunes to olde fans and lots of new ones - sellout crowd - but you will not hear that in front of 50 cent and britney spears in today's world.

[BW]

Good Music!!! Not the !@#$ it have these days. But my firned those days are gone never to come back. These bands still tour - some of them on a smaller sacle but you know what - most of them are still as large and drawing large clouds like in th eheyday. Is just that they off the radar because the mass media is only marketing what is popular for th eday. I live in DC and in th elast year i saw in concert - Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Poison and Cinderela. THey all baning out the hits nad top class new tunes to olde fans and lots of new ones - sellout crowd - but you will not hear that in front of 50 cent and britney spears in today's world.

Figures a Gen X'er would say that. :lol:

I don't know how you people could listen to that metal stuff. There's no substance to it. Just yelling and guitar riffs. And hair.

[Jenny]

Great music taste.
Saw a few good bands on travels....managed Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi etc.
This year Im going to see Megadeath and Queensryche.....might go see Iron Maiden again, depending on my location.
Still waiting to see bands like Audioslave, Creed etc come over!

[Kalz]

Jenny - Some new bands that sound good and have some talent are Cradle of Filth, Lacuna Coil, Velvet Revolver, Coheed and Cambria, Seether, Hinder. Lots more but they are either more towards the thrash/ death metal or more on the pop/rock side. You still can't beat the groups of the 80's and early 90's. My one wish that will probably never come tru is to see the original Guns'n'Roses line up live in concert. Damn you Axl Rose!! In the mean time i hope to see Velvet Revolver soon.

[Jenny]

Thanks Kalz...will check them out.
I was listening to Metallica - Black album this morning...and listened to the And Justice for all album yesterday....
Quite a difference in music .....Black is so much more mellow than the And Justice which I thought was a bit trashier....I thought their era of trash metal if thats what its called is so much better than their newer stuff. But thats my two cents.... 8-)

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I loved Heavy metal but only the Glam metal/hair metal / pop metal sub genre. Of thrash metal I only like some of Metallica's songs. I am afraid of the sadistic and demonic overtones of this sub genre of heavy metal so I didn't venture into it.

"Nobody's fool" is a time less classic. There is no video on earth like that.

Also, I discovered the band RATT and they are pretty good!

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Also I like Dokken and the song "Alone Again" which is a classic and you metalheads should listen to it. They are good and the voice of Don Dokken is quite melodious.

Just also discovered the christian metal band "Stryper" and I love the video for "calling on you" which was a MTV hit.

[slightpepper[M]]

u guuuud ,, d good ole music(somebody told me ah day these were classics so now I feelin ole)........music wit emotion .....ALIVE by pearl jam....ESTRANGED by G'n'R.....ATLANTA by stp....NUTSHELL by alice in chains.......nuttin like dat these days..........d older d music d better.....listen to CHILD OF TIME by deep purple and DREAMER DECEIVER by judas priest......everyting hav ah time.......days fuh glam rock gone....buh neva forgotten.....I miss dem.......

[Jenny]

Also I like Dokken and the song "Alone Again" which is a classic and you metalheads should listen to it. They are good and the voice of Don Dokken is quite melodious.

Just also discovered the christian metal band "Stryper" and I love the video for "calling on you" which was a MTV hit.

Dokken now theres a band I havent heard in a looonngg time. My lil bro introduced me to them, quite good.

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Jenny - Some new bands that sound good and have some talent are Cradle of Filth, Lacuna Coil, Velvet Revolver, Coheed and Cambria, Seether, Hinder. Lots more but they are either more towards the thrash/ death metal or more on the pop/rock side. You still can't beat the groups of the 80's and early 90's. My one wish that will probably never come tru is to see the original Guns'n'Roses line up live in concert. Damn you Axl Rose!! In the mean time i hope to see Velvet Revolver soon.

Actually Crashdiet has two songs that can compare with the 80s metal "in the raw" and "riot in everyone" Too bad though the lead singer killed himself

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Just also discovered Faster Pussycat and they have two nice songs:Bathroom wall and House of Pain.