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Top 100 Heavy Metal and glam rock acts from the MTV era - it's still real to me (1 Viewer)
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plinko
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Playlist now in progress
One a day through the long weekend, that's the plan anyway. Happy New Year to all
One a day through the long weekend, that's the plan anyway. Happy New Year to all
KarmaPolice
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Ok.
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for the playlist
2. How did I not know who the OP is??
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for the playlist2. How did I not know who the OP is??
scorchy
Footballguy
Don't feel bad. He's one of my best friends on the planet but plinko was posting for more than a week in my 1988 thread before I realized his true identity. The mention of Vinnie Vincent Invasion finally clued me in.2. How did I not know who the OP is??
bigbottom
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scorchy
Footballguy
You had me going a lot longer back in the day with that slippery dude, but in my defense, you were trying to hide your true identity.
Bogart
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Thank you for this.
Although, after a two hour deep dive into Nelson the other night, my Spotify account might never fully recover from this thread.
MindCrime
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Sorry I’m a few days late to this thread, but I’m all in! (I think I’ve set a new record for “likes given out in a single thread” and we still have 90+ bands to go)
Love/Hate is an all time favorite of mine. Already seeing names like Junkyard popping up in this thread has me looking forward to the rest of the list!
Love/Hate is an all time favorite of mine. Already seeing names like Junkyard popping up in this thread has me looking forward to the rest of the list!
bigbottom
Footballguy
Unranked: Impellitteri
Following in the well worn footsteps of metal bands where the guitarist gets top billing, Impellitteri was founded in 1987 by guitar shredder Chris Impellitteri. Due to his classical influences, Chris was lauded by many as the next Yngwie Malmsteen, but alas, his arrival to the scene was a bit too late to make a lasting impact. Timing is indeed everything. To their credit, Impelliteri has continued to release albums and tour to this day, switching from original singer Rob Rock to British vocalist Graham Bonnet (formerly with Rainbow and Malmsteen's Alcatrazz) back to Rock back to Bonnet and back to Rock. But given that this is about the Mtv-era, it's worth noting that Impellitteri hit its commercial peak with 1988's Stand in Line, for which the video got regular play on Mtv at the time. In my opinion, honorable mention in the video performance goes to the keyboard player who straps on a keytar in multiple shots. I also enjoy the fact that Chris Impellitteri plays his guitar up at his armpits in the video.
Stand in Line
Bonus material: I was a big fan of vocalist Graham Bonnet at the time because of his non-traditional look - he had short hair and occasionally wore Miami Vice-era Don Johnson suits for live performances. At the risk of making this a look at me post, this was me at the time (far left), a singer with short hair trying to front a hair metal band (which was a relatively short-lived endeavor and, yes, we had faces made for radio). The band was called GHIA when I joined, which stood for "Guitar Heroes In Action." I made them change the name to "Radio Silence" which, unintentionally, was the absolute worst possible name for a boisterous hair metal band. Our pinnacle was playing a bill opening for Loudness (yes, the Japanese metal band), followed by a swift end shortly thereafter.
Edit to add: The above entry was at the invitation of @plinko. Thank you for the indulgence kind sir.
Following in the well worn footsteps of metal bands where the guitarist gets top billing, Impellitteri was founded in 1987 by guitar shredder Chris Impellitteri. Due to his classical influences, Chris was lauded by many as the next Yngwie Malmsteen, but alas, his arrival to the scene was a bit too late to make a lasting impact. Timing is indeed everything. To their credit, Impelliteri has continued to release albums and tour to this day, switching from original singer Rob Rock to British vocalist Graham Bonnet (formerly with Rainbow and Malmsteen's Alcatrazz) back to Rock back to Bonnet and back to Rock. But given that this is about the Mtv-era, it's worth noting that Impellitteri hit its commercial peak with 1988's Stand in Line, for which the video got regular play on Mtv at the time. In my opinion, honorable mention in the video performance goes to the keyboard player who straps on a keytar in multiple shots. I also enjoy the fact that Chris Impellitteri plays his guitar up at his armpits in the video.
Stand in Line
Bonus material: I was a big fan of vocalist Graham Bonnet at the time because of his non-traditional look - he had short hair and occasionally wore Miami Vice-era Don Johnson suits for live performances. At the risk of making this a look at me post, this was me at the time (far left), a singer with short hair trying to front a hair metal band (which was a relatively short-lived endeavor and, yes, we had faces made for radio). The band was called GHIA when I joined, which stood for "Guitar Heroes In Action." I made them change the name to "Radio Silence" which, unintentionally, was the absolute worst possible name for a boisterous hair metal band. Our pinnacle was playing a bill opening for Loudness (yes, the Japanese metal band), followed by a swift end shortly thereafter.
Edit to add: The above entry was at the invitation of @plinko. Thank you for the indulgence kind sir.
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psychobillies
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plinko
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plinko
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bigbottom
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MindCrime
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TripItUp
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Herb
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Dammit! I don't check the thread for a couple days and you unleash King Diamond, Gorky Park and these masterful bastards.
KD (King Diamond, not the esteemed @knowledge dropper) was something I got into late, and his vocals never really appealed to me, but the songs and musicianship were great. Gorky Park were meh, but the fact that you wrote out the chorus for Bang was maybe the deepest, strangest call-out to an obscure part of my past that I can ever remember randomly coming across. So, many thanks!
And here's the "anything else worth listening to" from Black N Blue. A song that my friends and I could not get out of our heads for months back in 89 or 90, with a shout out to producer Gene Simmons: I Want It All
plinko
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rockaction
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I think this has led me to the question of the moment: There weren't ninety-four bands better than Gorky Park?
Oooh. Boy.
Oooh. Boy.
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Herb
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I actually liked their cover of My Generation. But to be fair, I'm pretty sure I heard it before I heard the original Who version. I originally heard it on this truly bad-### album. The Skid Row cover of Holidays In The Sun by the Sex Pistols is my personal definitive version of that tune. And I love me some Pistols.
rockaction
Footballguy
When I saw the phrase "hammers and sickles" yesterday, a certain Scorpions song went through my head, too, and given that I'd just updated an old Top Ten thread about hair metal ballads, I felt ashamed I hadn't included that song.
indeed.
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zamboni
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Thought the same thing. Let your balalaika sing.When I saw the phrase "hammers and sickles" yesterday, a certain Scorpions song went through my head, too, and given that I'd just updated an old Top Ten thread about hair metal ballads, I felt ashamed I hadn't included that song.
plinko
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I'm with you on all of this except the very last part
I played that Skid Row cover for scorchy once and he reacted by pouring a bag of white powder all over his crotch
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plinko
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Herb
Footballguy
This is just begging for some follow-up.
What purpose did that serve? Was it an accident?
More importantly, what kind of white powder, exactly? I gotta say that if he poured a bag of yayo over his johnson to protest the fact that a supremely excellent hair metal group was debasing themselves by stooping so low as to cover a second-tier song from a bunch of street-trash brits with dubious musical skills, then Mr. Scorchy will have proven his epic hair metal/glam fanboy bona fides beyond any semblance of doubt.
Also, if that was the case, he damn well better have licked out the bag afterwards.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I am REALLY missing the laugh reaction on this page.
plinko
Footballguy
No yayo, Tommy, it was only coffee creamer
Technically I think it was the next day but it was definitely on the same Andes hike.
No cell service and I was playing DJ with the meager selection of songs that were on my phone 6-7 years ago.. including that Stairway comp..
MindCrime
Footballguy
Random tidbit- Black and Blue featured Tommy Thayer on guitar. For the past 20 years, Thayer has been in Kiss, playing lead guitar in the Ace Frehley makeup.
scorchy
Footballguy
I think whatever song you played was so awful that it caused an inadvertent spasm, thus sending my knee into the tent table and the non-dairy creamer into a pile in my lap. Great timing that you captured a wonderful pic of the incident with your brother pretending to snort it off my crotch.No yayo, Tommy, it was only coffee creamer
Technically I think it was the next day but it was definitely on the same Andes hike.
No cell service and I was playing DJ with the meager selection of songs that were on my phone 6-7 years ago.. including that Stairway comp..
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Huh, I am bad at this stuff. Now I feel like am also supposed to know who this scorchy character is too.
scorchy
Footballguy
Mister CIA
Footballguy
I'm intrigued too. Is one of these guys the poster formerly known as Sloop #### ###### ?
bigbottom
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Tick
Footballguy
Butthead, these chicks are hot.99. Nelson
So, these choads make the cut, by virtue of two things: They had a #1 single, so there's no questioning their (brief) popularity, and they brought in Bobby Rock on drums, and I ####### love Bobby Rock.
One day Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum decided to effectively fire Vinnie Vincent from his own band. VVI drummer Bobby Rock could have stayed on as well.. but he left for what he thought were greener pastures. Oopsie, I guess?
But fear not, old Bob still tours the circuit with an act that's way up this list; he also sells health food concoctions and does all sorts of fitness and motivational stuff on the side. I know all this because I get his weekly newsletter in my email.
As for Nelson, well, sure, they're awful. They're phony. They're wannabes. Yet, even if you can't bring yourself to call them by any form of the metal genre.. the ingredients were there - slippery little guitar hooks, hard hitting drums - and they certainly made a cultural impact. Their ridiculousness was a black mark on the whole scene. There would be more black marks to come..
I Can Hardly Wait
After The Rain
Tom Breihan's writeup on Love and Affection. Tom Breihan's Number Ones series kicks ###..
DocHolliday
Footballguy
I still listen to Black and Blue often and have always thought they were underrated. The debut album is pretty dang solid all the way through.
rockaction
Footballguy
FairWarning
Footballguy
Looking at the list so far, King Diamond is very underseeded.
bigbottom
Footballguy
It’s called Wind of Change. Here is the synopsis:
It’s 1990. The Berlin Wall has just come down. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. A heavy metal band from West Germany, the Scorpions, releases a power ballad, “Wind of Change.” The song becomes the soundtrack to the peaceful revolution sweeping Europe — and one of the biggest rock singles ever. According to some fans, it’s the song that ended the Cold War.
Decades later, New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe hears a rumor from a source: the Scorpions didn’t actually write “Wind of Change.” The CIA did.
This is Patrick’s journey to find the truth. Among former operatives and leather-clad rockers, from Moscow to Kiev to a GI Joe convention in Ohio, it’s a story about spies doing the unthinkable, about propaganda hidden in pop music, and a maze of government secrets. “Wind of Change.” An offbeat eight part investigation
Wind of Change is an Original Series from Pineapple Street Studios, Crooked Media and Spotify. Follow Wind of Change on Spotify to binge the full season.
rockaction
Footballguy
You have absolutely got to be kidding me. I'm not going to binge an eight-part series, but I'll definitely try and find the spoilers. Thanks.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Ok, this sounds awesome.bigbottom said:
plinko
Footballguy
92. Giuffria / House of Lords
Here's about all I ever knew about Gregg Giuffria - for better or worse, he helped set the style for all those beautiful lions, the rock and roll keyboardists (see also, bb's Impellitteri)
ANGEL, 1976, sons of Washington, DC, and arguably Gene Simmons' first set of protoges.
Keytar god
Eventually he ends up leading his own act.. they have a hit early but fizzle out, he stays close with Gene who I think eventually orchestrates the House of Lords thing down in LA, where they try and ride the hair wave.
Call To The Heart this is pure grade AOR, the good ####
I Wanna Be Loved Lords' MTV "hit"
Cover of Can't Find My Way Home that nobody asked for
Anyway some other stuff happens and Giuffria is now a big money Las Vegas businessman or something.
I think the lesson is be nice to Gene
Bonus: Frank Zappa and Terry Bozzio singing about the band Angel
Here's about all I ever knew about Gregg Giuffria - for better or worse, he helped set the style for all those beautiful lions, the rock and roll keyboardists (see also, bb's Impellitteri)
ANGEL, 1976, sons of Washington, DC, and arguably Gene Simmons' first set of protoges.
Keytar god
Eventually he ends up leading his own act.. they have a hit early but fizzle out, he stays close with Gene who I think eventually orchestrates the House of Lords thing down in LA, where they try and ride the hair wave.
Call To The Heart this is pure grade AOR, the good ####
I Wanna Be Loved Lords' MTV "hit"
Cover of Can't Find My Way Home that nobody asked for
Anyway some other stuff happens and Giuffria is now a big money Las Vegas businessman or something.
I think the lesson is be nice to Gene
Bonus: Frank Zappa and Terry Bozzio singing about the band Angel
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plinko
Footballguy
91. Helloween
German band still huge in Germany
I find it mildly interesting that these guys and their doppelgangers Queensrÿche were happening at the same time on different sides of the world. The Queensrÿche of Europe? Sure.
The Keeper of the Seven Keys 1 & 2 records are juicy through and through.
I Want Out
Future World
German band still huge in Germany
I find it mildly interesting that these guys and their doppelgangers Queensrÿche were happening at the same time on different sides of the world. The Queensrÿche of Europe? Sure.
The Keeper of the Seven Keys 1 & 2 records are juicy through and through.
I Want Out
Future World