top 10 hair bands of the 80's on AOL's homepage...

[grog mug]

http://hotsearches.aol.com/2008/04/28/remember-these-timeless-80s-bands/?icid=100214839x1201024923x1200038414

I noticed while logging on today that AOL has YET AGAIN ran another article on GN'R.  Check it out...

[lynn1961]

Well, hey!  They made the top ten!! 

I still don't understand the description of a "hair band" - because there isn't one - it's all subjective.  Members of GnR have tried hard to reassure us that they weren't one.  Long hair?  Teased hair?  Lame music (Warrant)? 

[grog mug]

yeah its dumb..we all know they are not a hairband...but Appetite did come out in the late 80's and Axl's hair was "teased" up in the WTTJ video.  I guess that puts them into the category.

[HBK]

MMM Good. thanzk

HBK *

[Genesis]

yeah its dumb..we all know they are not a hairband...but Appetite did come out in the late 80's and Axl's hair was "teased" up in the WTTJ video.  I guess that puts them into the category.

Just because he did that for one video doesn't make Guns a hair metal band.
They never were.

[Bodhi]

fuck this stupid list...how the fuck are Guns N Roses and Aeromsith considered hair bands??

Pantera got famous in the early 90's...are they a grunge band?

[W. Adam S]

I hate it when GNR are called a hair band! Its because of Axl's hair in the Welcome to the jungle vid.

[Neemo]

I hate it when GNR are called a hair band! Its because of Axl's hair in the Welcome to the jungle vid.

cuz at the time when gnr was big...all the bands got lumped into the Hair Band genre

there wasnt 700000 music genres back then anyone who had long hair ended up being referred to as a hair band. relax its not that big of deal 

[LIGuns]

I think due to the fact that they toured along the Sunset Strip playing Rock Music in the early-mid 80's put them in the HM Catagory...Early phots show they were definatley HM..Check out the book Reckless Road...But musically they were superior to the other Sunset Strip bands..No one sounded or wrote lyrics like Axl..
But once they got going they did not resmble the hair bands like POISON, CINDERELLA, WARRANT etc. \By time SKID ROW came out the massacrefishnet faze was pretty much done.
Laugh all you want about the Hair Metal look but it was trendy..When bands like POISON took over established acts dressed the part as well.. Aerosmith, KISS, Motley Crue, Van Halen all wore GLAM and looked like crap....
After GN'R got big the look changed..Check out Motley Crue on Girls Girls Girls, KISS on Revenge, Aerosmith on PUMP and newer bands like CIRCUS of POWER..

[jarmo]

Ignorant people who like to lump bands together into certain genres might call them a hair band.

And obviously people who like bands like Poison are thrilled that suddenly their favorite bands are listed along with legendary rock bands like GN'R.




/jarmo

[misterID]

GNR did start out as a Glam/Hair metal band though. But so did Pearl Jam, Pantera and Rivers Cuomo.

Greatest Hair metal band: Diamond Lie.

Better known to everyone as Alice In Chains.

 

[Falcon]

Like it or not, GNR will always be associated with that scene by some - guilt by association.

I don't think anyone with any sort of musical history acumen really
considers AFD era GNR "hair metal", the material wasn't exactly "Nothin' But A Good Time" by any means.

On the flipside, anyone who thinks GNR had anything to do with "killing off hair metal" is a revisionist.  Poison, Warrant, et al survived/thrived long after GNR had hit the mainstream.

[misterID]

I do think they were the beginning of the end of hair metal though. Any music journalist or historian will agree. And its pretty much said at the end of most documentaries and specials about hair metal that GNR making it big was a sure sign that fad was dying off.   

[jarmo]

On the flipside, anyone who thinks GNR had anything to do with "killing off hair metal" is a revisionist.  Poison, Warrant, et al survived/thrived long after GNR had hit the mainstream.

If anything, they showed everybody that there were bands out there who weren't just about the clich? Sunset Strip party lifestyle.





/jarmo

[Falcon]

I do think they were the beginning of the end of hair metal though. Any music journalist or historian will agree. And its pretty much said at the end of most documentaries and specials about hair metal that GNR making it big was a sure sign that fad was dying off.   

I disagree..

Poison, Warrant, Skid Row, Motley Crue all had major chart success as far into 1990 - a full 2+ years after GNR had made it big.

I've always thought GNR raised the bar of the Sunset Strip scene, no doubt about it.

But make no mistake, the didn't put anyone from that scene out of business.

[pilferk]

GnR were the "anti-hair band" band, IMHO.  They were more of a turn away from that style of music and back to a harder rock and roll edge.  Sort of the transition band from "Hair" to "Grunge", if that makes any sense.

[Falcon]

On the flipside, anyone who thinks GNR had anything to do with "killing off hair metal" is a revisionist.  Poison, Warrant, et al survived/thrived long after GNR had hit the mainstream.

If anything, they showed everybody that there were bands out there who weren't just about the clich? Sunset Strip party lifestyle.

/jarmo

I think that's a very good way to characterize their impact, substance over style/fashion in the truest sense.

[jarmo]

But make no mistake, the didn't put anyone from that scene out of business.

Just like Sex Pistols didn't put Led Zeppelin or The Rolling Stones out of business.




But with GN'R, it became apparent that you didn't have to be Bon Jovi to sell albums.

GN'R wasn't just another L.A. band marketed by the record company to the kids of America.

The fans found the band because they were different and real.




/jarmo

[pilferk]

I disagree..

Poison, Warrant, Skid Row, Motley Crue all had major chart success as far into 1990 - a full 2+ years after GNR had made it big.

I've always thought GNR raised the bar of the Sunset Strip scene, no doubt about it.

But make no mistake, the didn't put anyone from that scene out of business.

Honest question (because I don't know):  Though they enjoyed chart success in those years, from my memory it dropped off CONSIDERABLY from the late 80's.  They had hits, and sold albums, but not in the numbers they were.  Bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, etc were creeping in at the edges and starting to "share" the market with the "hair bands".  Eventually, Grunge "won".  To me, Grunge was sort of the "extreme" that GnR represented...substance over style.

While I'll agree, GnR didn't put anyone "out of business"...they sure did a pretty good lions share of the business.   They were a demonstration of the "evolution" of the music.....almost like a "missing link" type of thing.....and evolutions don't usually occur with the previous incarnation up and disappearing.  They slowly phase out....

[Ines_rocks!]

Hair Metal

 





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