Tag: Hair Metal
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The Quireboys ‘A Bit Of What You Fancy’ (1990)
Originally known as the “Queerboys” (a name the band abandoned when it led to challenges getting booked for shows), The Quireboys had a pretty fun take on 80’s inspired hair metal. As I’ve mentioned before I’ve been binging the HBO show Peacemaker a lot lately and listening to the corresponding soundtrack as a result. The…
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Dokken ‘Under Lock and Key’ (1985)
Dokken comes from the iconic era of glam metal bands like Ratt and Poison, where image was nearly as important as the music. Big hair, big drums, big vocals, big guitar solos— if everything is in fact bigger in Texas, then everything was indisputably the biggest in 1985 when hair metal stood on top of…
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Ratt ‘Invasion of Your Privacy’ (1985)
When Los Angeles glam metal was having its moment in the early-80’s, there were two bands that defined the genre– Mötley Crüe and Ratt. Ratt’s 1985 album Invasion of Your Privacy is basically a perfect example of what made glam such a scene– overdriven fuzzy guitars, massive sing-a-long choruses, shredding guitar solos, fat drums with…
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