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Top 100 Heavy Metal and glam rock acts from the MTV era - it's still real to me (2 Viewers)
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Leroy Hoard
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Still impressed by them having the perfect upside down logo.
https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.36ecc5e62e499c73cdb008047388859c?
Also impressed by their guitar player bring named Punky Meadows.
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zamboni
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plinko
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plinko
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90. Saigon Kick
If anybody has any good stories about Saigon Kick, please weigh in, because I don't know much except:
Not to be confused with Hanoi Rocks, we'll see them later
Not to be confused with Candlebox, another post-grunge arrival, coming later here and I think a similar band
They were from Miami which was different enough
I liked their record The Lizard enough that they eeked in here
Love Is On The Way late era MTV slow sappy hit, post Extreme/Mr Big
Feel The Same Way
If anybody has any good stories about Saigon Kick, please weigh in, because I don't know much except:
Not to be confused with Hanoi Rocks, we'll see them later
Not to be confused with Candlebox, another post-grunge arrival, coming later here and I think a similar band
They were from Miami which was different enough
I liked their record The Lizard enough that they eeked in here
Love Is On The Way late era MTV slow sappy hit, post Extreme/Mr Big
Feel The Same Way
DocHolliday
Footballguy
Great band selection and great song choices. Well done. I’m getting ready to workout and you just helped me choose which album is going to be blasting through the headphones.
rockaction
Footballguy
bigbottom
Footballguy
No stories about the band, but I am 99.9% sure that I got laid multiple times in a college dorm room with this song playing in the background.
plinko
Footballguy
Get comfortable
That'll do
They were a filler anyway. Mistakes were made. It's time to get serious.
plinko
Footballguy
89. Nitro
I had a joke ready for this, something like, Out ####### Rageous? more like God ####### Awful. But nooo, we love these dudes, they made a unique record that hasn't been forgotten, and besides, look who it is, it's that man Bobby Rock again.
Jim Gillette, power vocalist, and Michael Angelo Baggio, guitar virtuoso? This was their project. I don't think they were taken super seriously, but from what I've heard the live shows were a blast.
break: Jim had a relatively public marriage to, family life and ultimately, messy divorce from Lita, Bobby now plays drums with Lita, and for as much as he loves to talk about everything, he doesn't answer questions about playing with Jim
Wikipedia on Jim Gillette's origins
Freight Train
Machine Gunn Eddie - this 30+ second scream is stuff of legend (wait for it)
Jim Gillette vocal training
I had a joke ready for this, something like, Out ####### Rageous? more like God ####### Awful. But nooo, we love these dudes, they made a unique record that hasn't been forgotten, and besides, look who it is, it's that man Bobby Rock again.
Jim Gillette, power vocalist, and Michael Angelo Baggio, guitar virtuoso? This was their project. I don't think they were taken super seriously, but from what I've heard the live shows were a blast.
break: Jim had a relatively public marriage to, family life and ultimately, messy divorce from Lita, Bobby now plays drums with Lita, and for as much as he loves to talk about everything, he doesn't answer questions about playing with Jim Wikipedia on Jim Gillette's origins
OK then
Freight Train
Machine Gunn Eddie - this 30+ second scream is stuff of legend (wait for it)
Jim Gillette vocal training
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bigbottom
Footballguy
Awesome! Freight Train is such a ridiculously good/hilariously bad video. I love it so much.89. Nitro
I had a joke ready for this, something like, Out ####### Rageous? more like God ####### Awful. But nooo, we love these dudes, they made a unique record that hasn't been forgotten, and besides, look who it is, it's that man Bobby Rock again.
Jim Gillette, power vocalist, and Michael Angelo Baggio, guitar virtuoso? This was their project. I don't think they were taken super seriously, but from what I've heard the live shows were a blast.
Wikipedia on Jim Gillette's origins
OK then
Freight Train
Machine Gunn Eddie - this 30+ second scream is stuff of legend (wait for it)
Jim Gillette vocal training
plinko
Footballguy
bigbottom said:
Guess it's just me and you buddy.
NEXT
88. The Front
Michael Anthony Franano, ******* lovechild of Ian Astbury and Jim Morrison. 1989/90, I ate it up. The record kicks butt.
It's one of the last things I bought on cassette. The cover was orange not yellow. My brother Eli still busts my balls about this album. He was in middle school at the time but can still make fun of the vocals.
The Front was the first act to be a featured artist on both MTV's Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes on the same weekend.
Lost to the dustbin of history, Michael Anthony Franano, we salute you.
Le Motion video
Segue / Ritual
A couple more somebody fanboyed up w group photos, wasn't me I swear
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
How do we not highlight here?
I haven't heard of any of these guys yet.
I haven't heard of any of these guys yet.
rockaction
Footballguy
Ron Swanson
Footballguy
I'm following along with great interest. This was my scene for a few years. Just haven't had anything worth adding. I'm very interested in who winds up on this list and if I have any stories I'll share.
rockaction
Footballguy
Late night crowd rolling into this thread.
I, too, just had nothing to add about Nitro and The Front today. Not in my wheelhouse. I remember both vaguely.
I, too, just had nothing to add about Nitro and The Front today. Not in my wheelhouse. I remember both vaguely.
plinko
Footballguy
I just meant for Nitro fandom
I’ll get us to the meat and potatoes soon.. it’s all chilly chill..
plinko
Footballguy
These came out and I got into these bands about the same time, 1990, right as the market was getting saturated. Two bands from one genre couldn't sound much more different, but they're to be immortalized in the same post today.
87. Salty Dog
I chose these guys as a "classic" example of the kinds of bands who were getting signed out of LA and rushed into full time action, 1989/1990 after GNR blew up.
Not sure but I think with a little time and nurturing a band like this may have been able to establish a fanbase and a career. But they were eaten alive by the machine.
I like this one, they have some fun tunes. Get your sleez on, rock
Come Along
Singer Jimmi Bleacher interview on SLEAZEROXXX. Seems grounded and at peace - ish
86. Sons of Angels
Norwegian band with a pretty badass Swede guitar player. Didn't last more than one album either. The guitarist has gone on to have an impressive career in jazz, across the pond.
Tight record with a handful of fun tunes also. Another band I feel like coula been a contenda.
Look Out For Love don't sleep on this juicy earworm
Cowgirl
U.S. labels gave up on just about all this music right away, and hardly known acts had nowhere to go except back to their day jobs.
87. Salty Dog
I chose these guys as a "classic" example of the kinds of bands who were getting signed out of LA and rushed into full time action, 1989/1990 after GNR blew up.
Not sure but I think with a little time and nurturing a band like this may have been able to establish a fanbase and a career. But they were eaten alive by the machine.
I like this one, they have some fun tunes. Get your sleez on, rock
Come Along
Singer Jimmi Bleacher interview on SLEAZEROXXX. Seems grounded and at peace - ish
86. Sons of Angels
Norwegian band with a pretty badass Swede guitar player. Didn't last more than one album either. The guitarist has gone on to have an impressive career in jazz, across the pond.
Tight record with a handful of fun tunes also. Another band I feel like coula been a contenda.
Look Out For Love don't sleep on this juicy earworm
Cowgirl
U.S. labels gave up on just about all this music right away, and hardly known acts had nowhere to go except back to their day jobs.
plinko
Footballguy
85. Smashed Gladys
Social Intercourse, 1988, I bought this tape for the name and the cover, and I liked it a lot. I didn't even know it was a girl singing at first. From Toronto, via NYC, this is the second lady-fronted band on our countdown. Ms. Sally Cato must have been quite the badass herself but I'm sad to report she passed away last year. FBGs salute Ms. Sally Cato.
Eye of the Storm - This is my single favorite song by any female fronted metal act.
Lick It Into Shape
This is the last band on the list that I would classify as "obscure"
Up next, more Canada
Social Intercourse, 1988, I bought this tape for the name and the cover, and I liked it a lot. I didn't even know it was a girl singing at first. From Toronto, via NYC, this is the second lady-fronted band on our countdown. Ms. Sally Cato must have been quite the badass herself but I'm sad to report she passed away last year. FBGs salute Ms. Sally Cato.
Eye of the Storm - This is my single favorite song by any female fronted metal act.
Lick It Into Shape
This is the last band on the list that I would classify as "obscure"
Up next, more Canada
bigbottom
Footballguy
Whoa, completely missed this band.85. Smashed Gladys
Social Intercourse, 1988, I bought this tape for the name and the cover, and I liked it a lot. I didn't even know it was a girl singing at first. From Toronto, via NYC, this is the second lady-fronted band on our countdown. Ms. Sally Cato must have been quite the badass herself but I'm sad to report she passed away last year. FBGs salute Ms. Sally Cato.
Eye of the Storm - This is my single favorite song by any female fronted metal act.
Lick It Into Shape
This is the last band on the list that I would classify as "obscure"
Up next, more Canada
plinko
Footballguy
84. Anvil
By the time I heard this band, they'd been around a while and seemed to me more like goofballs than anything of substance. But as I'd come to find, their first few albums, in the early eighties, were darn good, a little dirty* and I dare say even qualify them as torchbearers.
*(Some of the
over the top, explicit lyrics would probably have been sent back for rewrite 5 years later, never mind 40 years later)
Metal on Metal
Free As The Wind
trailer for 2008 documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil
By the time I heard this band, they'd been around a while and seemed to me more like goofballs than anything of substance. But as I'd come to find, their first few albums, in the early eighties, were darn good, a little dirty* and I dare say even qualify them as torchbearers.
*(Some of the
over the top, explicit lyrics would probably have been sent back for rewrite 5 years later, never mind 40 years later)Metal on Metal
Free As The Wind
trailer for 2008 documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil
plinko
Footballguy
83. Grim Reaper
Rock You to Hell
Fear No Evil
See You In Hell
B&B RYTH
Today’s least surprising development: Steve Grimmett looks like Larry Bud Melman now
Rock You to Hell
Fear No Evil
See You In Hell
B&B RYTH
Today’s least surprising development: Steve Grimmett looks like Larry Bud Melman now
TripItUp
Footballguy
psychobillies
Footballguy
plinko
Footballguy
82. Cheap Trick
OK, not hardly metal by any stretch, never sniffed the Headbangers Ball, but..
- Their biggest hit was a late eighties bonafide Power Ballad
- They traveled and partied and toured in all the same circles
- Plenty of MTV hits during the metal heyday
- Bridged the gap between 60s pop rock and 80s / 90s rock, kinda?
- Huge in Japan
Fronted by a pretty boy, also featured another slightly less pretty boy, a whacky ####### nerd (the brains of the operation), and a guy who looks like he writes detective fiction for a living.
The Flame
Tonight It's You
Tom Breihan's Number Ones column on The Flame
OK, not hardly metal by any stretch, never sniffed the Headbangers Ball, but..
- Their biggest hit was a late eighties bonafide Power Ballad
- They traveled and partied and toured in all the same circles
- Plenty of MTV hits during the metal heyday
- Bridged the gap between 60s pop rock and 80s / 90s rock, kinda?
- Huge in Japan
Fronted by a pretty boy, also featured another slightly less pretty boy, a whacky ####### nerd (the brains of the operation), and a guy who looks like he writes detective fiction for a living.
The Flame
Tonight It's You
Tom Breihan's Number Ones column on The Flame
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FairWarning
Footballguy
This saddens me that it’s this low. It’s either disqualified or top 20 for me. People can make a great case for both. But since it’s on here…..
I would love to see them at the Strat in Vegas next month, they have 4 shows, each playing one of the first four albums.
plinko
Footballguy
plinko
Footballguy
Moving along before I get busy
81. Autograph
Not much of a story here, other than a pretty huge hit smack dab in the first half of 1985, "a last minute addition to the record" blah blah, nobody cares.
A song so ubiquitous in its essence that it still pops into my head on a regular basis, without ever hearing it.
Turn Up The Radio
Cover of We're An American Band that nobody asked for
81. Autograph
Not much of a story here, other than a pretty huge hit smack dab in the first half of 1985, "a last minute addition to the record" blah blah, nobody cares.
A song so ubiquitous in its essence that it still pops into my head on a regular basis, without ever hearing it.
Turn Up The Radio
Cover of We're An American Band that nobody asked for
plinko
Footballguy
(I appreciate your steady input gb, don't take my dismissiveness as too dismissive, I get it.. this was all sort of by whim, as one does)
I guess my idea was that I can get some barely-qualifiers and wedge them in here and there, also giving us known acts to talk about in the latter ranks
Mucho respect for the Trick's place in rock history
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scorchy
Footballguy
I can see it. Not even remotely in the ballpark of Jethro Tull winning the first metal album grammy,
FairWarning
Footballguy
I don’t. Personally I think the thread is great. It was ironic about.Cheap Trick as I heard about the Vegas residency last night. They really are a great live act. They were huge here in the late 70s-Early 80’s.
plinko
Footballguy
Sullie
Footballguy
Wow, forgot all about these guys, thanks for this thread! So, back in the day, I had an album of theirs (on tape, cause Sony walkman clone) called Loud and Clear that I recall playing on my walk to campus and I "think" I liked this album? Anyway, I'm like 99% certain I stumbled upon this in the used record store off campus (Moles record exchange down the street from Uncle Woody's.)
edit - so I immediately remembered that song, forgot about the video (Ozzy and Vince sighting so they must have opened for Ozzy and/or Motley Crue?) anyway, I'm going to go back and listen to the album when I have some time, see if it holds up or see if "it's too loud and I'm just too old" now!
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TripItUp
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
In addition to the power ballads, a couple "almost metal" tunes off their live album. "Big Eyes" & their revved up version of "Ain't That A Shame".
foxco
Footballguy
This song has a fairly high placing on my glam metal mix, and when it comes on I usually turn it up. I'm not proud.
Bogart
Footballguy
I hate that for me, Cheap Trick was only the "Mighty Wings" band off the Top Gun soundtrack. It wasn't until the 90s and used record stores that I discovered At Budokan.
plinko
Footballguy
80. Ugly Kid Joe
Rikki Nikki Shmikki.. The best metal name is Whitfield Crane.
It's only just now collecting these videos that it occurs to me, Whitfield Crane looks exactly like David the model from Australian Survivor.
Anyhoo.
Initially named Overdrive, then Suburban White Alcoholic Trash, the band got its name Ugly Kid Joe as a parody of L.A. glam band Pretty Boy Floyd, initially for a one night show in Santa Barbara opening for Pretty Boy Floyd. Pretty Boy Floyd would pull out of the show and have the gig cancelled, but the band decided to keep the name.
Talk about your late arrivals, these dudes, from Bay Area CA, were college-aged in 1991 when they laid down their first EP and had a hit. Their follow-up full-length was surprisingly solid IIRC. To be fair, I haven't listened to them in decades.
Everything About You
Cover of Cats In The Cradle that, well, wasn't so bad (live acoustic link)
I saw them in ~93 on a big bill with Def Leppard, in the UK. I don't think the above video is from that show (but maybe?). Fun band and Whitfield Crane was climbing all over the riggings ala Eddie Vedder. My next pick was there too...
(eta- I'm being told I'm wrong about David)
Rikki Nikki Shmikki.. The best metal name is Whitfield Crane.
It's only just now collecting these videos that it occurs to me, Whitfield Crane looks exactly like David the model from Australian Survivor.
Anyhoo.
Initially named Overdrive, then Suburban White Alcoholic Trash, the band got its name Ugly Kid Joe as a parody of L.A. glam band Pretty Boy Floyd, initially for a one night show in Santa Barbara opening for Pretty Boy Floyd. Pretty Boy Floyd would pull out of the show and have the gig cancelled, but the band decided to keep the name.
Talk about your late arrivals, these dudes, from Bay Area CA, were college-aged in 1991 when they laid down their first EP and had a hit. Their follow-up full-length was surprisingly solid IIRC. To be fair, I haven't listened to them in decades.
Everything About You
Cover of Cats In The Cradle that, well, wasn't so bad (live acoustic link)
I saw them in ~93 on a big bill with Def Leppard, in the UK. I don't think the above video is from that show (but maybe?). Fun band and Whitfield Crane was climbing all over the riggings ala Eddie Vedder. My next pick was there too...
(eta- I'm being told I'm wrong about David)
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scorchy
Footballguy
I don't think I'm just speaking for myself here when I say that, one day, we really need a deeper dive into why your favorite genre was once "soundtracks."
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