I used to love this stuff...
Sometimes I love to get back to it. Most of it is really cloying and crap if you listen for too long (like anything really), but it's GREAT stuff to enjoy on occasion :)

So here are a few 80's Glam metal faves:

Warrant- Cherry Pie



Alice Cooper - Poison



Aerosmith - Dude looks like a Lady
-I think this was about the guy in Motley Cru
...This was before they became a band for mums.



Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
-The ones with the Sam Kinieson bit at the start all have embedding disabled :(
...This was also before they turned into a mum's band.



Van Halen - Jump



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I love the boofy teased hair, the tight flashy clothes, the happy, energetic music, the fun of it all. :)

Heh. I've got a weakness for the glam. I gotta admit. I grew up with this stuff...
Not sure if all these bands count as "glam", but...

Poison



The Crue, naturally.



Skid Row:



And my personal favorite... Guns 'n' Roses.





Eh. I couldn't find any of the actual music videos for these, for some reason. But I'm not a frequent YouTuber, so maybe there be tricks I don't know. That last one is the MTV video, but with a live version dubbed over it. Doesn't sync up exactly right, but damn- they got it pretty close.

i'm not into Glam really. but i'm helpless in the face of Quiet Riot's Metal Health.

I was (am) more into the Heavy Metal-Hard Rock movement (Metallica, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin), but I always liked Twisted Sister:

Hyena H_ll
Eh. I couldn't find any of the actual music videos for these, for some reason. But I'm not a frequent YouTuber, so maybe there be tricks I don't know. That last one is the MTV video, but with a live version dubbed over it. Doesn't sync up exactly right, but damn- they got it pretty close.

Oh yeah, they're all fantastic ^^
Finding the proper clips is a huge pain. It never used to be so tricky... I think there must have been some sort of stupid copyright crackdown. Now most promo vids have embedding disabled.

PIT_FACE
i'm not into Glam really. but i'm helpless in the face of Quiet Riot's Metal Health.

You should be, the glam is so much fun ^^
That clip reminds me so much of AC/DC...

Dark Pascual
I was (am) more into the Heavy Metal-Hard Rock movement (Metallica, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin), but I always liked Twisted Sister:

Led Zep aren't Heavy Metal... They're more hard rock with heavy blues, a bit of folk and a bit of funk. AC/DC are pure hard rock. Metalica were never in the same league as those two. Never... They were metal, but more thrashy in the early days I think. Zep and AC/DC are early originators of a style, but they also had a lot of knowing humour and fun about them that was intrinsic, as well as a heavy focus on sex. Glam metal is the true inheritor of those aspects (sex and the humour).

Metalica was of another stream that took the rock mythology very seriously, the "dark" stuff that appeals to teens of a certain age (I'm scary because I dress in black and like skulls!). Probably Black Sabbath was an originator of that?
-My sister was really into that side of things.

Aaaaaanyway, Twisted sister were awesome! ^___^

I like Motley Crue. I've been to their "Carnival of Sins" tour twice and they play just as good now as they did back then. Tommy Lee is an incredible drummer and I like how Nikki Six is bouncing back after his near-death experience with heroin.

Ozoneocean
Metalica was of another stream that took the rock mythology very seriously, the "dark" stuff that appeals to teens of a certain age (I'm scary because I dress in black and like skulls!). Probably Black Sabbath was an originator of that?
-My sister was really into that side of things.

well wile they did write about some dark stuff, i've never pictured Metallica as a dark band. They were one of the originators of Thrash Metal which also included bands like Anthrax and Overkill and Megadeth and stuff like that which was basically a bunch of kids getting together in a garage drinking beer and beating the snot outa eachother.not to mention the wicked talent,energy and intensity a lot of em had. like i said, they could write about some dark stuff, but i dont think they themselves were trying to be scary.

some bands can be scary and it works really well becuase the music kicks ass too. i mean you go see Alice Cooper or Merciful Fate and not only do you get a hell of a show, but great fuckin music to go with it it's become like seeing a really cool play. some of these other bands that've come out though try to be dark and make these personas and shit and their music is crap.

hahaha,a lot of thrash bands back in the day HATED glam though cuase they thought they were total pussies, especially when the ballads started commin out man. uugghh. but there are some things i like.

ozoneocean
Metalica was of another stream that took the rock mythology very seriously, the "dark" stuff that appeals to teens of a certain age (I'm scary because I dress in black and like skulls!). Probably Black Sabbath was an originator of that?
-My sister was really into that side of things.

Aaaaaanyway, Twisted sister were awesome! ^___^

I always pictured Metallica more as an agressive band than a dark one. Not that they didnt played with that sort of dark elements, but I liked the fact that, if they appeal to a dark side, is not entirely a "supernatural" darkness but an inner dark self...

Many people didnt like Metallica, either because they are "mainstream" or because they decided to not copy-paste Master Of Puppets, but it always be one of my favorite bande EVER...the first song that I learned to play in the bass is "For Whom the Bell Tollz"...

Metalica were only really mainstream after something like 1989 though weren't they? Or was that 88?

Heh, my sister loved all the hardcore metal groups. ...Now she likes the Dixie chicks and Dido. -_-
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Glam metal did nicely with those ballads in the start, but that destroyed them in then end. Those idiots lost their sense of fun. Ballads are serious, but it's hard to take a man seriously for too long when he's wearng skin tight shiny pants, no shirt, has a mane of ultra teased blonde hair, and a face covered in make-up... You can only tollerate that for so long.

That's propbably why Aerosmith and Bon Jovi turned into bands whose targert audiece has a "motherly" persausion...

why do you keep on comparing em to what yer sis listens too?

PIT_FACE
why do you keep on comparing em to what yer sis listens too?

I'm not. Not at all!
That was just some side info. She used to like that heavy metal style while I liked the flashier stuff, but now her tastes have changed. Which I find funny but it has no bearing on those heavy metal bands what so ever.

ozoneocean

PIT_FACE
why do you keep on comparing em to what yer sis listens too?

I'm not. Not at all!
That was just some side info. She used to like that heavy metal style while I liked the flashier stuff, but now her tastes have changed. Which I find funny but it has no bearing on those heavy metal bands what so ever.

allright man. ya didnt seem like the kind of dude who'd be a prick about this stuff so i was just askin cuase it just itched me,that's all. i can get kinda defensive about my music sometimes. like i've known a few people who've said 'my younger brother used to like it." or somethin like that cuase they ment it was for kids. but i figured ya probably didnt. no harm done.

back on track now i guess.

PIT_FACE
like i've known a few people who've said 'my younger brother used to like it."

No, we're too close in age :)
Besides, she liked Zeppelin before me and now doesn't anymore... I still do :(
-So I'd be shooting myself in the nuts if I went down route.