Alright, things get a bit saucy in this one. Perhaps it’s because hair metal makes us want to drink ourselves stupid. Either way, by the time we’re done talking about spandex, hair spray, and really bad lyrics, we’re barely able to form complete sentences. Along the way, we talk about Motley Crue, Ratt, Lita Ford, Cinderella, Poison, and more.
Beyond that, we discuss the further developments in the Randy Blythe situation, Sebastian Bach’s recent hissy fit, and a new piece of Kiss merchandise that actually doesn’t feel like a shameless money grab. Way to go, Gene!
The last song this week is “The Wild Hunt” by Therion. You can find the song here
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Damn right, The 3 Stooges are fuckin’ metal. I have the 11″x14″ size of this image framed on my wall: http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/32/MPW-16262
For WWLD I went with “Dad?” – the obvious best answer.
Regarding this week’s main topic, Motley Crue is easily the heaviest of the hair metal bands in my opinion, at least their first two albums – Too Fast For Love and Shout at the Devil. Before I “graduated” to the more extreme types of metal (thrash metal, speed metal, death metal, black metal, etc.), I got Shout at the Devil on cassette in 1984. To this day, if someone plays a song from that album, like you did during the show, I will still rock out to it, such as play air drums to Looks That Kill, which I totally did just now.
Annnnd holy shit. Right after I typed all that, while the podcast was paused right at the end of LTK, John basically says exactly the same thing about Crue that I just typed. Great minds think alike, as it were. /highfive
Ratt’s Out of the Cellar album was clearly their best (and the only one I like), so why you played a song (that I’ve never heard) from their 1990 album makes no sense after playing a song from Crue’s best album. Not that it matters. Ratt was a flash in the pan with one decent album as far as I’m concerned.
A funny story about Cinderella – back in the 80s a friend of mine had a poster of the lead singer on his bedroom wall (I suspect he was secretly gay or at least bi-curious), and one day while I was hanging out with him, his dad was talking to us about something when this poster caught his eye. His exact words were: “If it had tits, you’d want to fuck it.” Priceless.
Lita Ford for the motherfucking win. I never muched cared for her music other than the song you guys played and the duet with Ozzy, but as a person, she’s metal. Being an original member of The Runaways automatically makes you cool, which is one of the reasons I also really liked Joan Jett back in the day.
Wow, now you guys are playing Sex Farm by Spinal Tap. Fucking awesome. I did not see that coming. For that, you earn respek knuckles. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y222/rockymeadow/respek-knuckles.gif
John obsessed with Poison and has paid to see them in concert multiple times over the last five years? I now rescind the /highfive I requested earlier. =P
For VS, I see John’s point. Poison is probably the most well-known hair metal band. That said, Motley Crue is by far the better band, not only because of their superior musicianship, as John said, but also because of their (in)famous shenanigans during the height of their popularity. Even though their later albums were quite less metal, their lifestyle was undeniably metal.
After this hair metal episode, in order to redeem yourselves, I politely request a show dedicated to death metal or some similarly heavy subgenre.
Keep up the great work, and thanks for all the laughs this time. #handjobs
I HEAR YOUR BODY TAAAALK WHEN YER NEXT TO MEEEEEE!
I don’t care if it makes me uncool, I fucking love hair metal. (Although my cool factor was probably already pretty low with my limp bizkit lines anyway.) I was introduced to music by my older brother, who graduated high school in 1989, and rocked a mullet until 2003. Needless to say, I came to appreciate Warrant more than anyone else in my high school. I was surprised there was no mention of Twisted Sister! TS was the starting point for me. I found my brother’s Stay Hungry tape and was intrigued by the chick on the cover holding a giant bone…and thus began a confusing listening experience when I heard a man’s voice singing.
Poison would be the ultimate hair band. I’d say Crue is a better band overall, but to me, their persona was always more that of a dirtball rock band, not hair metal per say. Plus, the power ballad. David Coverdale owes his damned life, and the new paint job on the hood of his car, to Every Rose.
I made a mix a few years ago for a camping trip that speaks to this subject. There are some exceptions on it, but it’s mostly hair metal. http://www.artofthemix.org/FindAMix/getcontents2.aspx?strmixid=67333
Keep up the deadly shit, boys!
I’ve seen the Johnny fronted Skid Row twice, and…it’s alright. Nothing too special. If they were playing at your local bowling alley and you kept getting gutter balls, you’d probably blame it on the noise. Saw Sebastian Bach open for “Guns n’ Roses” a couple of years ago, and he was actually in pretty decent form. He wasn’t hitting the highs quite like the glory days, but I have trouble staying up past 11 some nights, so he’s doing fine.
Your Don Dokken and Steven Pearcy stories are hilarious. If you have anything else like that, let em fly!
I keep forgetting shit!
Steel Panther seems like the natural continuation of glam/hair metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AupXaE7AIs4&feature=fvst
On a side note…I went to see Rock of Ages with my girlfriend last night. I…I kind of enjoyed it. Dammit. My girlfriend thought the popcorn was the most redeeming quality of the movie.