I appear to have grown tired of metal

[Toe-Knee]

It's been happening for quite a while now. I feel i've exhausted all the good stuff and the newer metal really doesn't appeal to me at all it seems very childish/nu metal like.

So i've started looking for some Hair/Glam stuff after really getting into Steel Panther a few months back its made me want to explore more.

And im incredibly happy with the way things are moving on.

I've spent the entire day learning Dokken, Lita Ford, Ratt, Whitesnake etc!

I don't really know any/much music that isn't metal so if anyone can give me a few recomendations of things to check out as i started learning the above from a very arbitrary list of top glam/hair songs

[JacksonRR]

Michael Schenker would be tops on my list. Into the Arena is chock full of licks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGY0KEGVK6Q

[nfe]

It's been happening for quite a while now. I feel i've exhausted all the good stuff and the newer metal really doesn't appeal to me at all it seems very childish/nu metal like.

As always (:lol:) I am forced to respond that there's vast amounts of great new metal if you want to look for it. If you don't that's fair enough, but it's there if you have the impulse. Most of the good stuff is far more grown up than that of the 80's and 90's, too :lol:

[Toe-Knee]

It's been happening for quite a while now. I feel i've exhausted all the good stuff and the newer metal really doesn't appeal to me at all it seems very childish/nu metal like.

As always (:lol:) I am forced to respond that there's vast amounts of great new metal if you want to look for it. If you don't that's fair enough, but it's there if you have the impulse. Most of the good stuff is far more grown up than that of the 80's and 90's, too :lol:

Oh no ive looked for it. It just generally isn't what i like. Metalwise i generally just listen to thrash and power metal and all the more modern bands doing this just really dont do it for me.

[Brow]

It's been happening for quite a while now. I feel i've exhausted all the good stuff and the newer metal really doesn't appeal to me at all it seems very childish/nu metal like.

And you say I'm ancient!  :lol:

[FELINEGUITARS]

Dokken - Tooth and Nail, Under lock and Key, back for the attack
Ratt - Out of the cellar, invaision of your privacy, dancing undercover
Great White - once bitten and twice shy, hooked
Motley crue - too fast for love (find the leathur records version rather than the elktra remix)  Shout at the devil, Dr Feelgood
Scorpions - Lovedrive, Blackout, love at first sting, savage amusement
UFO - strangers in the night is a perfect starting point but anything with schenker
MSG - MSG, MSG 2, Built to destroy, live at budokan, Assault attack, Perfect timing, Save yourself
Bon Jovi - debut album and 7800 farenheit
Europe
Skid Row  - skid row and slave to the grind
Tyketto
Queensryche - rage for order, opeeration mindcrime, Empire , promised land
Twisted sister - love is for suckers
Crown of thorns (jean beauvoir) - s/t
john norum - total control
tigertailz - young and crazy (awful production but great songs)

Y&T - almost anything ...earthshaker, black tiger, meanstreak, ten are my choices
kiss
danger danger
poison
warrant
badlands
blue murder
night ranger - s/t and midnight madness, seven wishes
leatherwolf
britny fox
pretty maids
king kobra - ready to strike
def leppard - high n dry , pyromania
dave lee roth - eat em and smile
cinderella - night songs

[Toe-Knee]

Dokken - Tooth and Nail, Under lock and Key, back for the attack
Ratt - Out of the cellar, invaision of your privacy, dancing undercover
Great White - once bitten and twice shy, hooked
Motley crue - too fast for love (find the leathur records version rather than the elktra remix)  Shout at the devil, Dr Feelgood
Scorpions - Lovedrive, Blackout, love at first sting, savage amusement
UFO - strangers in the night is a perfect starting point but anything with schenker
MSG - MSG, MSG 2, Built to destroy, live at budokan, Assault attack, Perfect timing, Save yourself
Bon Jovi - debut album and 7800 farenheit
Europe
Skid Row  - skid row and slave to the grind
Tyketto
Queensryche - rage for order, opeeration mindcrime, Empire , promised land
Twisted sister - love is for suckers
Crown of thorns (jean beauvoir) - s/t
john norum - total control
tigertailz - young and crazy (awful production but great songs)

Y&T - almost anything ...earthshaker, black tiger, meanstreak, ten are my choices
kiss
danger danger
poison
warrant
badlands
blue murder
night ranger - s/t and midnight madness, seven wishes
leatherwolf
britny fox
pretty maids
king kobra - ready to strike
def leppard - high n dry , pyromania
dave lee roth - eat em and smile
cinderella - night songs

Thanks Jonathan! I knew you'd give me plenty to be going on with.

Tomorrow is going to be a long day of youtubing followed by a trip to HMV. It's a good job i have the day off work.

[Brow]

Dokken - Tooth and Nail, Under lock and Key, back for the attack
Ratt - Out of the cellar, invaision of your privacy, dancing undercover
Great White - once bitten and twice shy, hooked
Motley crue - too fast for love (find the leathur records version rather than the elktra remix)  Shout at the devil, Dr Feelgood
Scorpions - Lovedrive, Blackout, love at first sting, savage amusement
UFO - strangers in the night is a perfect starting point but anything with schenker
MSG - MSG, MSG 2, Built to destroy, live at budokan, Assault attack, Perfect timing, Save yourself
Bon Jovi - debut album and 7800 farenheit
Europe
Skid Row  - skid row and slave to the grind
Tyketto
Queensryche - rage for order, opeeration mindcrime, Empire , promised land
Twisted sister - love is for suckers
Crown of thorns (jean beauvoir) - s/t
john norum - total control
tigertailz - young and crazy (awful production but great songs)

Y&T - almost anything ...earthshaker, black tiger, meanstreak, ten are my choices
kiss
danger danger
poison
warrant
badlands
blue murder
night ranger - s/t and midnight madness, seven wishes
leatherwolf
britny fox
pretty maids
king kobra - ready to strike
def leppard - high n dry , pyromania
dave lee roth - eat em and smile
cinderella - night songs

That's an awesome list Jonathan.

I've been trying to get him to listen to KISS for ages but he downright refues as apparently 'they're the campest band in the world'

[Toe-Knee]

Dokken - Tooth and Nail, Under lock and Key, back for the attack
Ratt - Out of the cellar, invaision of your privacy, dancing undercover
Great White - once bitten and twice shy, hooked
Motley crue - too fast for love (find the leathur records version rather than the elktra remix)  Shout at the devil, Dr Feelgood
Scorpions - Lovedrive, Blackout, love at first sting, savage amusement
UFO - strangers in the night is a perfect starting point but anything with schenker
MSG - MSG, MSG 2, Built to destroy, live at budokan, Assault attack, Perfect timing, Save yourself
Bon Jovi - debut album and 7800 farenheit
Europe
Skid Row  - skid row and slave to the grind
Tyketto
Queensryche - rage for order, opeeration mindcrime, Empire , promised land
Twisted sister - love is for suckers
Crown of thorns (jean beauvoir) - s/t
john norum - total control
tigertailz - young and crazy (awful production but great songs)

Y&T - almost anything ...earthshaker, black tiger, meanstreak, ten are my choices
kiss
danger danger
poison
warrant
badlands
blue murder
night ranger - s/t and midnight madness, seven wishes
leatherwolf
britny fox
pretty maids
king kobra - ready to strike
def leppard - high n dry , pyromania
dave lee roth - eat em and smile
cinderella - night songs

That's an awesome list Jonathan.

I've been trying to get him to listen to KISS for ages but he downright refues as apparently 'they're the campest band in the world'

They make Manowar look straight!

[Afghan Dave]

Dokken - Tooth and Nail, Under lock and Key, back for the attack
Ratt - Out of the cellar, invaision of your privacy, dancing undercover
Great White - once bitten and twice shy, hooked
Motley crue - too fast for love (find the leathur records version rather than the elktra remix)  Shout at the devil, Dr Feelgood
Scorpions - Lovedrive, Blackout, love at first sting, savage amusement
UFO - strangers in the night is a perfect starting point but anything with schenker
MSG - MSG, MSG 2, Built to destroy, live at budokan, Assault attack, Perfect timing, Save yourself
Bon Jovi - debut album and 7800 farenheit
Europe
Skid Row  - skid row and slave to the grind
Tyketto
Queensryche - rage for order, opeeration mindcrime, Empire , promised land
Twisted sister - love is for suckers
Crown of thorns (jean beauvoir) - s/t
john norum - total control
tigertailz - young and crazy (awful production but great songs)

Y&T - almost anything ...earthshaker, black tiger, meanstreak, ten are my choices
kiss
danger danger
poison
warrant
badlands
blue murder
night ranger - s/t and midnight madness, seven wishes
leatherwolf
britny fox
pretty maids
king kobra - ready to strike
def leppard - high n dry , pyromania
dave lee roth - eat em and smile
cinderella - night songs

Perfect list!

Listen to Jon & let him teach you the true meaning of the Force.... HE IS YOUR MASTER NOW!

[FELINEGUITARS]

Please avoid using hair metal as a term - it is viewed as a pejorative term by those actually into the music of the era
We know what you mean by it but it's a bit like using the equivalent of the "N word" if you know what I mean.
Whereas glam rock was something that sat ok with fans of that era to some extent
It was a term that was bandied about by those who didn't care for the music - and really wasn't used till grunge reared it's head, although some thrash fans may have also used it to separate themselves from those who liked the more flamboyant approach to their presentation.
Most fans who were there at the time and listened to this style of music  just called it hard rock or even metal.
There were a lot of not so good bands (like in any era) and many bands that were just straight metal bands that saw that the "lazy" record companies were seeming to sign anything in tight trousers with eyeliner and backcombed hair, so kind of jumped on the glam rock bandwagon.

Oh and while I was posting - a few extras spring to mind :

Rainbow - Dio era, Graham  Bonnet and Joe Lynn Turner too
Yngwie Malmsteen - debut album, marching out, trilogy and Odyssey
DIO - everything , but first 3 albums in particular
Iron Maiden - first 6 albums
WASP
Black n Blue
House of lords
Lizzy Borden - visual lies


This will warm you up for more
Hear n Aid (the heavy rock band aid single - quite a few stars involved here)
http://youtu.be/G5H94GHb-10

[Toe-Knee]

Please avoid using hair metal as a term - it is viewed as a pejorative term by those actually into the music of the era
We know what you mean by it but it's a bit like using the equivalent of the "N word" if you know what I mean.
Whereas glam rock was something that sat ok with fans of that era to some extent
It was a term that was bandied about by those who didn't care for the music - and really wasn't used till grunge reared it's head, although some thrash fans may have also used it to separate themselves from those who liked the more flamboyant approach to their presentation.
Most fans who were there at the time and listened to this style of music  just called it hard rock or even metal.
There were a lot of not so good bands (like in any era) and many bands that were just straight metal bands that saw that the "lazy" record companies were seeming to sign anything in tight trousers with eyeliner and backcombed hair, so kind of jumped on the glam rock bandwagon.

Oh and while I was posting - a few extras spring to mind :

Rainbow - Dio era, Graham  Bonnet and Joe Lynn Turner too
Yngwie Malmsteen - debut album, marching out, trilogy and Odyssey
DIO - everything , but first 3 albums in particular
Iron Maiden - first 6 albums
WASP
Black n Blue
House of lords
Lizzy Borden - visual lies


This will warm you up for more
Hear n Aid (the heavy rock band aid single - quite a few stars involved here)
http://youtu.be/G5H94GHb-10

Cheers Jonathan.

I only actually used that term due to the way i've always heard anyone refer to it. But i can see you point

[FELINEGUITARS]

I've been trying to get him to listen to KISS for ages but he downright refues as apparently 'they're the campest band in the world'

If you needed an easy way to get what Kiss were about  then listen to
Kiss Alive 1 (not Alive 2/3/4)
Creatures of the night
Revenge
Sonic Boom
Paul Stanley's 1978 solo album
Ace Frehley's 1978 solo album

or get KISS GOLD (double CD) - this is pretty good with remastered versions from the first era 1973-1981

[nfe]

It's been happening for quite a while now. I feel i've exhausted all the good stuff and the newer metal really doesn't appeal to me at all it seems very childish/nu metal like.

As always (:lol:) I am forced to respond that there's vast amounts of great new metal if you want to look for it. If you don't that's fair enough, but it's there if you have the impulse. Most of the good stuff is far more grown up than that of the 80's and 90's, too :lol:

Oh no ive looked for it. It just generally isn't what i like. Metalwise i generally just listen to thrash and power metal and all the more modern bands doing this just really dont do it for me.

The sooner power metal rots and dies the better and I've little time for many of the bigger new thrash bands but no love for folks like Toxic Holocaust, Skeletonwitch, Municipal Waste, Pitiful Reign, Amok, SSS, Mutant, Bludvera, Nebukadnezza, Hospital Of Death, Ravens Creed, Warpath, Flayed Discciple, Nuclear, Warbringer?

Some of those are pretty small and it's stuff off the top of my head but I'd like to hope there's something for a fan of pretty much any brand of thrash, from the just-off-NWOBHM to the Possessed-ish.

[Loomer]

You need Slough Feg in your life.