Disco vs. Hair Metal

TeleStrat wrote: Cristi wrote: TeleStrat wrote: My taste has always leaned toward hard rock and hot lead guitar. While most hair bands quickly fell into a rut there were several that I liked and listened to regularly. Some favorites: Whitesnake Skid Row Lynch Mob Damn Yankees Night Ranger I was definitely in the "Disco sucks - support your local rock and roll band"  crowd. I don't consider Whitesnake as hair metal; they get labeled like that for their late 80s look ('87 & '89), they still were a hard rock band and a damn good one. Skid Row were hair metal only with their debut, Slave to the Grind and Subhuman Race are metal albums (and NOT in the glam metal/hair bands way if I may say so), both good, especially Slave to the Grind. Night Ranger are more AOR/melodic rock than hair metal, good band too, especially their 80s albums. Originally this category was referred to as hair bands for obvious reasons. The term metal was added at some point in time. I simply consider them and others like them to be hard rock.  I draw my line between hard rock and metal at a different place than others do. A lot of bands others consider to be metal, I (in my mind) consider to be hard rock. But this is all a matter of preference and does not effect my vote in the poll. No matter what bands are hair, glam, hard rock or metal I would have voted for them over disco.

I think that if you asked them, they thought they were metal :)

Hair metal rather than disco.

I am the biggest metalhead you can find and I choose disco. I think disco is more earnest in its decadence. 

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I don't 'hate' either, but neither am I am fan of either.

There have been some disco classics I guess, but off the top of my head I can't think of any hair metal 'classics' I'm not even certain which bands fall into that category, apart from the obvious examples, Poison?? Mutley Crud??

Cristi wrote: Blacksword wrote: I don't 'hate' either, but neither am I am fan of either. There have been some disco classics I guess, but off the top of my head I can't think of any hair metal 'classics' I'm not even certain which bands fall into that category, apart from the obvious examples, Poison?? Mutley Crud?? Poison was the first needle in the coffin for the glam metal and any bands like that. So grunge did not kill metal, MTV and the labels of the time did and the mainstream music media as well.  Some glam metal I enjoy Motley Crue (only the 80s) Great White (hard rock/blues rock, but they got lumped with everyone else) Cinderella (one of my favorites, again same situation as with Great White) Ratt Dokken Guns n`Roses (only  the debut album) Winger  Badlands Blue Murder Firehouse (early albums) McAuley Schenker Group Contraband (supergroup with Michael Schenker on guitar) 80s Kiss fits here , too.

Looking back to the 80's, I had the first 4 Motley Crue albums, most Kiss albums (always been a fan) I had one Ratt album (Invasion of your Privacy) and maybe a few others, but it was my best friend at the time who was really into hair metal. He had loads of albums by artists I never took an interest in, and can't really remember.

As a teen I kinda liked the fact that metal was charting, and that people who claimed to hate it before were taking to it. It appeared to start with Bon Jovi and Europe, at least in the UK, I guess. Then Whitesnake went through their hideous transformation, and Coverdale sacked his old blues buddies and enlisted a load of good looking Scandinavian's, 15 years younger than himself to compete with Bon Jovi et al..

The first G'n'R album is a classic. I can still enjoy that now, although everything they produced after that left me very cold.

Dokken are an interesting one. I enjoyed them live. I saw them twice, once supporting Accept and once with AC/DC. Good shows.

Edited by Blacksword - February 05 2021 at 04:15

Blacksword wrote: Cristi wrote: Blacksword wrote: I don't 'hate' either, but neither am I am fan of either. There have been some disco classics I guess, but off the top of my head I can't think of any hair metal 'classics' I'm not even certain which bands fall into that category, apart from the obvious examples, Poison?? Mutley Crud?? Poison was the first needle in the coffin for the glam metal and any bands like that. So grunge did not kill metal, MTV and the labels of the time did and the mainstream music media as well.  Some glam metal I enjoy Motley Crue (only the 80s) Great White (hard rock/blues rock, but they got lumped with everyone else) Cinderella (one of my favorites, again same situation as with Great White) Ratt Dokken Guns n`Roses (only  the debut album) Winger  Badlands Blue Murder Firehouse (early albums) McAuley Schenker Group Contraband (supergroup with Michael Schenker on guitar) 80s Kiss fits here , too.  Looking back to the 80's, I had the first 4 Motley Crue albums, most Kiss albums (always been a fan) I had one Ratt album (Invasion of your Privacy) and maybe a few others, but it was my best friend at the time who was really into hair metal. He had loads of albums by artists I never took an interest in, and can't really remember. As a teen I kinda liked the fact that metal was charting, and that people who claimed to hate it before were taking to it. It appeared to start with Bon Jovi and Europe, at least in the UK, I guess. Then Whitesnake went through their hideous transformation, and Coverdale sacked his old blues buddies and enlisted a load of good looking Scandinavian's, 15 years younger than himself to compete with Bon Jovi et al.. The first G'n'R album is a classic. I can still enjoy that now, although everything they produced after that left me very cold. Dokken are an interesting one. I enjoyed them live. I saw them twice, once supporting Accept and once with AC/DC. Good shows.

Hair Metal at least was fun. Disco was just cringeworthy.

In 2011:

The Dark Elf wrote: I would rather cut my ears off with a rusty keyhole saw than listen to either genre.

In 2021:

The Dark Elf wrote: I would rather watch an hour long infomercial on rain gutters than listen to either.

You've mellowed.

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By the way, this decade old poll still seems so fresh to me, but then I guess partially because it has been revived a few times over the years. I still like lots of Electronic Disco, Euro Disco, Disco Funk and Italo Disco. In fact, I like more disco now than when I was posting a decade ago, but then I have discovered more in that time due to research for topics such as this. Wish I could remember what that third video that no longer works was on page one. I think it was Fabio Frizzi related-- maybe Vince Tempera or something..

Good is in the ear of the behearer to such a large extent. but this is a favourite of mine and has been for considerable years now:



And I like this:



And this is fun, based on Can's I Want More:



Since Bon Jovi was mentioned even if not that relevant to this topic, I feel like this "It's My Life" Bon Jovi and Vennu Malesh mash-up rather improves on both originals in an amusing to me way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkZDao1jmjw

Not that I would expect many Vennu Malesh "fans" (to use the term quite ironically) here.

^ Well, that put me off my breakfast.