Talk:Hair metal
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"dominated popular music"? -- Zoe
I think we should perhaps get rid of this paragraph...
"In recent years, certain bands associated (perhaps loosely) with punk rock have scored hits with tracks that seem to evoke the anthemic hair-metal sound, such as the Offspring's Gone Away (1997) and AFI's Girl's Not Grey (2003). It is hard to say whether these tracks are intended as sincere homage or as an ironic reference."
- Any particular reason? -- IHCOYC
I added a mention of the current "hair metal" revivalists, The Darkness, currently quite popular in the UK.
Hair metal != cock rock. It is a form of cock rock.
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Neutral?
I don't know if this article is exactly neutral. I read it and suddenly hated hair metal. Until I realized some of my favorite bands fell into this genre. I don't feel like re-writing it myself, so how does one get the little banner on the top that says "The neutrality of this article has been challenged"?
- There are two steps: 1) Document some specific not-neutral parts of the article here on the talk page; 2) Add {{NPOV}} to the top of the article. Tuf-Kat 22:51, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
Judas Priest?
- Judas Priest was not a hair metal band. If anything, they could be included with the new wave of British Heavy metal--but not hair metal, like Warrant, Poison, and Vixen.
Hairspray rock or Spandex rock
Glam rock is also many times called Hairspray rock or Spandex rock. There could be some mention of that. As for the upper poster - many of my favourite bands also fall into this category, but so what? Glam was always both funny and dead serious for me. Even today I sometimes darg out my old pollished spikes, ripped jeans, leather jacket and sunglasses and go out in such outfit and don't give a flying fu** what other people think. ..Yeah, those were the days, LA, 1984, high flying shred solos, smoke machines and babes were back then still slim and sexy, Soviet Union still existed, night life was active,.. yeah, those were the days, mmmm.. Now go and walk the streets of LA today. What will you see? A bunch of overweight chicks, patriot act, terror color codes and rap beats on every corner.. Makes me wanna cry! 80's FOREVER !!!!
List of bands
Do groups like Mr. Big and Night Ranger really qualify as "hair bands"? JetsLuvver 05:11, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
GN'R
I don't get it. In this article Guns N' Roses is included as a hair metal band, put in the Guns N' Roses article, they seem to make GN'R anti-hair metal. Can anyone clear this up for me? -Big Brother is Watching
I would not consider GN'R to be hair metal. Prairie Dog
Is the list even necessary?
There is a category for hair metal bands in use. Can't that provide a list? I can see listing out some of the more popular/well-known bands, but these lists always generate controversy and add little value.
- All band lists in genre articles should be moved to something like list of hair metal bands. In order to make them useful in a way that categories are not, they should have brief captions describing each band. Tuf-Kat 20:46, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
Despite the periodic fussing over these lists, I find them extremely useful both in understanding what a genre is actually supposed to mean, as well as in getting ideas of bands to look for. I'm far from alone in that, and long before I was an editor I used the wikipedia band lists that way. They are extremely nice, despite the aggravation they cause for purists and those who strive to thwart them ;). Sam Spade 21:10, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
- Yeah, I guess that's true, but it should probably be as TUF-Kat describes, in its own entry (the list is now longer than the article) Davetron5000 15:14, May 27, 2005 (UTC)