we gotta hold on...
...to what we've got, it doesn't make a difference if we make it or not!
So I just had a mid to late 80's music flashback - when I used to watch MTV and there were actual music videos on it. I started thinking about the Hair Band songs I used to like and added a whole bunch to my iTunes - you know, Bon Jovi, Poison, Skid Row, Whitesnake, etc. But I need help thinking of more. What were your favorite Hair Band songs? Come on, I know you listened to them too.
ryan said:
I could bust out my old tape cases and really blow your minds with cheese-metal references, but I'm at work so this is what I can think of off the top of my head (with a little assist from CDDB for exact song titles):
- Slaughter: "Fly To The Angels", "Up All Night"
- Firehouse: "Love Of A Lifetime" (I think you have this one already)
- Trixter: "Give It To Me Good"
- Saigon Kick: "Love Is On The Way"
- Extreme: "More Than Words"
- White Lion: "When The Children Cry"
- Winger: "Seventeen", "Madalaine"
- Warrant: "Cherry Pie", "Down Boys", "Heaven"
- Mr. Big: "To Be With You"
- Ugly Kid Joe: "Cat's In The Cradle"
- Danger Danger: "Naughty Naughty"
- Ratt: "Way Cool Jr."
- Queensryche: "Silent Lucidity"
(Hmm. A lot of those are ballands. I wonder why they're the easy ones to remember.)
Other bands I wonder if you've heard of or recognize:
- Tyketto
- T-Ride
- Contraband
- Kix (not the cereal)
- Great White (now infamous for the RI club fire)
- Jackyl
- Motley Crue
- Nelson (not actually metal...or good)
- Tesla (progenitor of "unplugged" rock)
- Bullet Boys
Note that I haven't just listed random band names I remember -- I owned albums by or saw in concert each one of these artists (except for Motley Crue, because I've never liked them -- Mick Mars couldn't play a guitar solo to save his life). In fact, I've listened to a fair number of these bands in the last *year.*
Yes, I am lame.
Posted on October 19, 2004 05:56 PMlauren said:
I second Mr.Big - "to be with you"
:-D
i also recommend you somehow find the Monster Ballads compilations. I have both of them and they are awesome. :)
Posted on October 19, 2004 06:49 PMAlison said:
Yay! I knew I could count on you to respond to this, Ryan.
What I have so far:
Aerosmith - Janie's Got a Gun
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Bon Jovi - Livin' On a Prayer
Bon Jovi - I'd Die For You
Damn Yankees - High Enough
Def Leppard - Love Bites
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Firehouse - Don't Treat Me Bad
Firehouse - Love of a Lifetime
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry
Guns N' Roses - November Rain
Guns N' Roses - Live and Let Die
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Mr. Big - To Be With You
Nelson - most of the album (ya, I'm lame too)
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Scorpions - Wind of Change
Skid Row - I Remember You
Tesla - Signs
Warrant - Cherry Pie
Warrant - I Saw Red
Warrant - Heaven
White Lion - When the Children Cry
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Winger - Miles Away
I actually didn't own many of these. I owned one Guns N' Roses tape, Nelson, the Love of a Lifetime single, and the Wind of Change single. Oh, and I have the Ugly Kid Joe cd somewhere, but I need to dig it out for that song (the only one on it that I like). The rest I just remember from MTV (earlier ones) or the radio (closer to the 90s). Oh, I also have More Than Words by Extreme, but that song just didn't fit with the rest of these, so I am leaving it out of my hair band collection. The rest of the ones you listed, I have never heard of.
I know I have to be missing something.
Posted on October 19, 2004 07:29 PMAlison said:
Oh, I forgot:
Poison - I Won't Forget You
Posted on October 19, 2004 07:34 PMGenevieve said:
oo it must be magic how inside your eyes I see my destiny
Every time we kiss I feel you breath your love so deep inside of me
If the moon and stars should fall they'd be easy to replace.
I would lift you up to heaven and you would take their place.
And I saw red
When I opened up the door
I saw red
my heart just fell on to the floor
and I didn't need to see his face
I saw yours
I saw red and then I closed the door
I don't think I'm gonna love you anymore
Alison said:
Yay, Genevieve! One of my favorite songs in high school :)
Posted on October 19, 2004 10:02 PMryan said:
Holy crap, I can't believe I forgot Def Leppard! "Hysteria" was *the* album that got me into this genre of music (after some brief experimentation with AC/DC, before I realized that all of their songs sound the same).
And you have no idea how happy it makes me to hear you say Extreme doesn't fit into your hair band collection because, dammit, they weren't a hair band! The musicians in that band could play circles around those of their contemporaries. Nuno is still my guitar hero.
Posted on October 19, 2004 11:30 PMElizabeth said:
Heh...I had a Nelson album!
Posted on October 19, 2004 11:36 PMkristy said:
Teehee - I *loved* Nelson in HS :)
I saw them in concert - and Tyketto opened for them, which made me chuckle to see someone mention them above.
I also saw my fair share of other hair bands in concert from middle school-high school. What can I say? I have a cool daddy :)
I don't see anything by AC/DC - no Thunderstruck?
Posted on October 20, 2004 08:04 AMkristy said:
Oh! And no Van Halen?!? Even past the David Lee Roth days, you've got lots of very cool songs like Dreams, Right Now, etc :)
Posted on October 20, 2004 08:06 AMAlison said:
I didn't go to any concerts in junior high or high school. My parents wouldn't let me, even though the only ones I asked about were New Kids and George Michael. :p
My first concert was freshman year in college...Depeche Mode.
I wouldn't say AC/DC was a hair band. And I don't think I ever listened to Van Halen. I'll check their songs on iTunes though.
Posted on October 21, 2004 05:04 PM