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NewJack's Playlist: 9/22/2010 : The hair metal years! (when hair ruled the air)
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NewJack's Playlist: 9/22/2010 : The hair metal years! (when hair ruled the air) A s most of my readers know (and thank you very much for subscribing by the way!) I have an absolute love of 80's and 90's hair metal. That music has defined me and stayed with me through the years and nothing is more satisfying to me than hearing anything from "the good old days" when hairspray, spandex, high falsetto voices and screams with over the top guitar solos (and that big drum sound too!)ruled the airwaves and the world. What a great time to be music fan wasn't it? The list is made up of songs from 1984 to 1991. As always feel free to add to the list. Let me know your favorite hard rock/metal tracks of the 1980's and early 90's! So here are the tracks that have me happy this time around. Enjoy and until next time! NewJack's Playlist: 9/22/2010: "When hair ruled the air." 1.Slow and Easy - Whitesnake 2.Rainbow In The Dark - Dio 3.Breaking The Chains - Dokken 4.Atomic Playboys - Steve Stevens 5.All Lips and Hips - Electric Boys 6.Mamma Weer All Crazee Now - Quiet Riot 7. Ego - Extreme * 8.Thin Disguise - Warrant 9.I Want A Woman - RATT * 10.Tease Me, Please Me - Scorpions 11.Yankee Rose - David Lee Roth * 12.The Garden - Guns N' Roses * - denotes personal favorites Ego - Extreme: The very first song that I ever heard by this band from "Bean Town". It's still one of those songs that no matter how many times I hear it on my iPod or even listen to the debut disc (self titled) I can't get enough of it ... 21yrs later. Nuno Bettencourt's muscular metal guitar,Pat Badger and Paul Geary's thumping bass and drums then wrapping up with Gary Cherone's lyrics and powerful vocals make this one of those tunes that just kicks you in the gut and makes you feel that "ego". Check it out! I Want A Woman - Ratt: I wasn't particularly fond of the "Reach For The Sky"(1988 ) album (which this came from) partly because I was still hung up on the 1983 "Out Of The Cellar" album which featured songs like "Round and Round" and "Wanted Man". Maybe because I had prefer ed the less polished more raw sound of the debut disc versus the more slickly produced sounds I was hearing. Maybe it didn't meet expectation? Who knows! Away it went, banished forever!. HOWEVER though that all changed in 1993 when I caught an episode of Beavis & Butthead where they "reviewed" the video for "I Want A Woman". when Butthead said "This guy (referring to lead singer Stephen Percy) keeps going I want a woman, but it's like, I want a woman too but I am not out there singing some crappy song about it" I thought "hey, if it's cool enough to be reviewed on Beavis and Butthead there must be something about this track!" At that point I went and dug up my copy of the album (on cassette) and listened to it for the first time in years from front to back. That afternoon I listened to it back to back three times and later wondered "why did I dislike it so much?". Maybe as those years passed I learned to appreciate well produced music or just something resonated with me. Now it's one of my favorite Ratt albums. . An ode to women and what a man looks for in a woman. An amazing rock track with some great twin guitar work during the guitar solo (Warren Di Martini is amazing as is Robin Crosby too!), excellent drumming. And you know what? the 2:40 - 3:15 point of the song still gets me even after all these years. Do look it up on You Tube (boy does the video ever date itself as late 80's!)and do look up the Beavis and Butthead critique as well if you have the chance. It STILL makes me laugh! (of course what I find funny may different than yours but I think you have to consider the source) Yankee Rose - David Lee Roth : Ah the summer of 1986! How I remember thee well. This was also the same summer too that Van Halen's 5150 came out around the same time as David Lee Roth's full length album "Eat 'Em And Smile". You were either also a part of the Van Halen camp or DLR camp in who you supported. "Oh Dave left to be a movie star" or "I was fired from the band". No one was right and it's STILL being debated who was right and wrong at that point in time. What makes it so great? The "talking guitar" at the beginning done by Steve Vai? A song about the Statue Of Liberty? (which I recall hearing him talk about it on a album premiere radio show on July 4th of that year) The musicianship of Greg Bissonette, Billy Sheehan and Steve Vai? The assless chaps that DLR wore to moon the camera in the original cut of the video? Yessiree!  That's what makes it one of my favorite tracks. Also the album is great too! (does make you wonder what the next Van Halen disc after 1984 would have sounded like however had he stayed!) <-------- What's on my mind? What am I up to? Drop by my blog! |
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9/29/2010 2:01 pm |
I have to say, I did start off with 80's hair bands with Ratt, but that phase was short lived. Once I discovered new wave & punk - that is all I listened to. Dice has felt the need to improve your boring blog???????
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9/29/2010 2:00 pm |
New Jack!!!! check it out!!!!! Dice's all time favorite albums..... in order of Personal importance!!! Metal Church...... Metal Church Dokken ........ Under Lock and Key Prong ........ Beg to Differ Slayer....... Reign in Blood Slayer....... South of Heaven my tases do NOT so much run to hair metal...... although I did tease my Bon Jovi hair in High School!!!! I do currently listen to Cinderella, Skid Row, Motley Crue and Warrant!!!! word up NIGGA!!!! Dice has felt the need to improve your boring blog???????
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Trouble - From the only time I went (the Ramones show in 89) it was a one of a kind place! Shame it's a parking lot now! (same w/The Oxbox and it's end ... now it's a Tim Horton's and a Shoppers!) DD - That's a super list of songs! And speaking of Firehouse, on the way back from the rink on Monday and on the radio came "Love Of A LIfteime". Both a friend of mine and I started to do the "lighter" gesture. She remarked that she had never heard the song before. I was shocked considering that this was their biggest hit! Good to see someone else who likes King's X!!!!!!!!! <-------- What's on my mind? What am I up to? Drop by my blog!
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Arty - That was one of the great things about 80's music. On one hand you had the hard rock/early thrash/hair metal and then you had the hip hop, pop, punk and new wave. All them seemed to co exsist somehow or another. All of them were in unchartered waters and were blazing trails as they went. I couldn't pass up the hard roc/hair metal because it appealed to me. I absolutely ADORE the 80's new wave as well. Most of my collection runs between those two camps. So were some of your favourite punk and new wave artists of the 80's?  <-------- What's on my mind? What am I up to? Drop by my blog!
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I have to say, I did start off with 80's hair bands with Ratt, but that phase was short lived. Once I discovered new wave & punk - that is all I listened to. ArtemisJ is Keeping It Real
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9/23/2010 6:02 pm |
Kippling's was one I frequented but it just wasn't like the rest Trouble is...as Trouble does   
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I will say though that it was sad that The Wick "burnt" down (add conspiracy theories abound). Shame too about The Talbot but we have the JLC in it's place now though. Saddest one was Kipplings though! <-------- What's on my mind? What am I up to? Drop by my blog!
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9/22/2010 7:37 pm |
Coming from the girl who refused to listen to "Bubble Gum Rock"  I can honestly say Pfft ... the music of the 80's were the Punk when punk dominated the Canadian bars like the Wick, Call the Office, Fry Fogels, The Talbot Inn .... and all the rest that were torn down by this pathetic city Trouble is...as Trouble does
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