They released some epic albums that I believe I played until the stylus nearly wore out.

 

In any case, Quiet Riot becasue a) Randy Rhoads started the band and b) DuBrow may not be a great singer but he really was what that kind of metal was all about. I also voted for Badlands (criminally under-rated) and Extreme (Pornograffiti is one of the best glam albums ever made)

 

 

Thank you. I will do. The only reason I haven't done more is 'cause I have exams to do for my studies and I haven't been keeping too well for a few months. So it'll be the weekend probably before I put in some more.

Hope you don't mind.

 

The best glam metal bands of the ones listed in the poll :

Van Halen

Extreme (Van Halen clone ?)

Mr Big

WASP

Skid Row

KISS

Just bought 'Lean Into It' by Mr. Big the other day.

That is one seriously impressive singer they've got!

I like Mr Big, especially 'Bump Ahead'. They are a bunch of terribly skilled musicians !

 

Another 5-star album in the field of glam metal would be Def Leppard's 'Pyromania'.

 

I wouldn't consider VH, Krokus, The Cult or Kingdom Come as Glam, tho...

 

The Sweet shoulda been in there - the original Glam Metal band, and possibly the first band to play true metal ("Set Me Free", "Blockbuster", "Action", "Hellraiser", "Medusa" and so on).

Van Halen

WASP

Kingdom Come

 

I'm running out of love for the glam/hair/metal genre, but I'll always love these 4 bands.

 

Winger made a few good albums, especially Pull and IV, but then again their amazing guitarist Reb Beach is the main reason I listen to them.

 

Post 2004 Europe is amazing to me, I wouldn't call them glam metal though (for the new sound that is), Secret Society is one of my favourite albums.

 

 

I'm not really familiar enough with their music (which is where it counts!), but I would tend to agree, from the little I've heard, that the similarities between them and Cinderella are slight.

 

The comparison is somewhat extreme, however - I think there may be similarities between them and Motley Crue?

 

It's a bit like saying that Def Leppard and Venom can't possibly both be NWoBHM bands because they're so different in sound and attitude (and that's a far more extreme comparison!).

 

One of the oddities on that list, to me, is Skid Row, who didn't have a Glam image OR sound - that sound is pure Southern Boogie with attitude - and weren't Krokus from Swizerland, not L.A.?

 

 

As Micky points out, it's fine to disagree, but what's the solution?

 

Um... that's actually more or less what I meant when I said "while they had the Glam image, and the geographical credentials, their attitude was somewhat extreme".

 

The thing with the list given in this thread is that it mainly concentrates on image, and that is why I singled out Skid Row, who had neither the Glam image or sound, and Krokus, who started out almost as a Prog band then started sounding more like AC/DC than AC/DC. Although I understand they wore eye liner.

 

Everyone has their own definitions of various musical groupings (I shudder at the word "genre"), and now I look at the list, I'm wondering why Van Halen would appear in there - or Guns 'n' Roses, or The Cult, or Kingdom Come...

 

To be more accurate about the sound/definition of Glam, it should, by rights, sound more rock n roll, like Gary Glitter or T Rex than the atrocious ballads of bands like Cinderella, or the overblown blues of G'n'R  - and Glam is inseparable from the image - that's more than 50% of it - so I'd be more willing to accept W.A.S.P. as Glam than Skid Row or Van Halen.

 

If you dig through the NWoBHM bands and hard rock bands of the late 1970s / early 1980s, there's little to distinguish the music from Glam bands - particularly The Sweet and Slade, who were a massive influence on Quiet Riot. Both of those bands were far more hard rock or even early heavy metal than Glam.

 

On the Flip side, 1970s band The Heavy Metal Kids were far more Glam than heavy metal, and they were an inspiration on AC/DC, whose first singer was a confirmed Glam head.

 

In short, musically there's very little to distinguish Glam from most early Heavy Metal.

 

Which of these two is more metal than glam?

 

 

 

...OK, having re-listened to that Motley Crue track, I can understand why someone might think that Skid Row played the same music - it's not that different (but then neither is the W.A.S.P. track, except it's a bit wimpier than the Crue song).

 

In 1987, "Heavy Metal" was the music in the above videos, and "Thrash Metal" was Metallica et al - simple division, based on the mechanical attributes (thrashing is a technique that anyone can positively identify).

 

 

As Micky rightly says, it's all Heavy Metal.

 

Would agree with every word! Hard Rock is what I thought it was till I came across Dave Mustaine's famous quote on "GLAM".... 

I also like Extreme, Dokken, Great White, Kiss, Skid Row, Ratt, GnR, Motley Crue and Krokus out of that long list. I wouldn't call Krokus glam metal, but nevermind that, they have some great music, maybe I should listen to what I liked from them.

Someone mentioned Cinderella, I love them, their first two albums are great.

Motley Crue - only their 80s albums I enjoy

Extreme - their III Sides... album is great

Skid Row - obviously Slave to the Grind

Kiss - most of their albums are uneven, but they do have some great songs.

GnR - Appetite... is great, the Illusions albums are uneven, there's a lot of filler there.

Also voted Van Halen and The Cult, although I've never considered them to be glam metal bands.

(what movie was that from?  )

The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. Glam metal deserved to die after that movie. Actually, Megadeth didn't do themselves too many favours either!