Tunes of your time

[CK]

I was Youtubing revisiting my youth and started watching one of my favorite 80's hair bands Dokken. They were GLAM but not really a MAKE-UP band. I thought I would share some of my favs.

[GL]

Dokken is probably the only band from that genre I can stand. I'm not going to go out of my way to own anything from them, but if a song of theirs comes on, I'll probably watch them.

And, BTW, the videos are just white screens. There's nothing there.

[GP]

They were never as good as his name demanded. If I was called Don Dokken I'd call myself Doctor Don Dokken.

[The Walking Dude]

I have two of their albums - Under lock and key and Back for the Attack, the latter featuring Dream Warriors,the song that introduced me to em.

I wouldn't say they are one of my fave bands, and certainly not in the same league as Twisted Sister, W.A.S.P, Iron Maiden or of course Alice, but i give em a spin every now and then.

[Lazario]

I was growing up in the mid-1990's. Back then, grunge kind of went south (with Kurt Cobain's death), and it all sort of turned into alternative. Alternative music was a very rich time in popular music. Lots of big bands were getting attention.

No Doubt was huge. "Just a Girl" seems to be their biggest nation-wide hit. Even though "Don't Speak" got more radio airplay, "Just a Girl" was a bigger song with teenagers as a group. It was consistently more popular, beloved, and had more cultural impact on young people. But, round my way, "Spiderwebs" was a slightly bigger hit. That was the song that, when they released it, everyone in my school would talk about them. Every last person I knew had a copy of Tragic Kingdom.

Sublime was also huge. All the most popular kids in my school had a copy of that album. The song at my school that seemed to be the most popular (inspiring big groups of kids to start singing it in homeroom or on the busses) was "Wrong Way." But, "What I Got" seemed to be the big hit of the nation.

Then, predictably- Metallica ("Hero of the Day" and "The Memory Remains" were huge where I lived), Nine Inch Nails ("Closer" and "Piggy" were the big hits round my school), Alanis Morissette (everyone was playing "You Oughta Know"), Marilyn Manson ("Sweet Dreams" and "The Beautiful People" were infamous).

As for other songs, Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" made quite an impact. Other bands / artists that were well-known around the school (and the songs they were most associated with) were Beck ("Loser"), Green Day ("Basket Case"), Smashing Pumpkins ("Tonight, Tonight"), Hole ("Doll Parts"), Presidents of the United States of America ("Lump"), Shaggy ("Bombastic"), Coolio ("Gangsta's Paradise"), 2-Pac ("California Love"), Lil' Kim ("Suck My Dick"), Master P ("Make 'Em Say Ugh!").

[GL]

My oldest sister was into them for a while, and those songs would bleed over into my room, so I don't have a lot of fondness for that style. It helped me get into my style now so I do have some respect for them but not enough to ever really do anything else with it.

My songs were pretty much so far behind the times that it's not really fair to say that I have a "tune of my time." Modern music by and large doesn't appeal to me as much as the forefathers do, though there is a lot of groups still around from the beginning still going at it, which hold myy attention far more than the upstarts do, though there is some promising newer groups coming out that I really enjoy. Looking forward to newer Cellador, Dragonforce and Freedom Call in the Power Metal stakes, Fuel the Flames and Warmaster in the Thrash arena, Mors Principum EST and Aeon in Death Metal, Shining, Devian and Abigail Williams for Black Metal and One Man Army and the Undead Quartet for the more modern sound. Those are the main bands that are out today that I'm looking forward to more releases from, though I follow the older groups still around more than they are.

[HNT]

Interesting, GL. I'd have had you pegged as a Nile fan. That is a very sweetband that is reletively modern. Also, I'd like to throw a nod to Dillenger Escape Plan although I have no idea of mathcore is your kind of thing or not. I love it, however, and see it as comparable to avante garde ad free jazz

Oh, and CK, isn't picking your favorite hair metal band kind of like picking your favorite strain of genital warts?

[7]

Into a lot of modern music, not so much commerically viable modern music, but I'll share a few of my favorites from the mid-ninties until now:

the album that defined doom metal as a genre: The Angel and the Dark River by My Dying Bride

Also, anything by Esoteric and Evoken. Esoteric being from the UK and Evoken unleashing home-grown funeral doom hell out of Jersey.

ISIS, Pelican, GSYB, Tantrel, Tortoise, Slint - all the current masters of my favorite sound of Post-Rock

Sunny Day Real Estate with their highly-influential album Diary. Some people say this album spawned the current Emo movement, but if it did - the emo scenesters adapated SDRE like Stalin and Mao adapted Marx - not very well.

So very many more, but I need to get back to writing my poetry paper

[The Walking Dude]

hotnoodletuna said:

Oh, and CK, isn't picking your favorite hair metal band kind of like picking your favorite strain of genital warts?

lucky for me but my cases of genital warts have lasted nowhere near as long as my love for this genre

[GL]

hotnoodletuna said:

Interesting, GL. I'd have had you pegged as a Nile fan. That is a very sweetband that is reletively modern. Also, I'd like to throw a nod to Dillenger Escape Plan although I have no idea of mathcore is your kind of thing or not. I love it, however, and see it as comparable to avante garde ad free jazz

Nile already has six albums out, plus their debut isn't even from this millennium, which I tried to restrict my choices to three albums or less with the debut in this millennium. You're right, I'm a huge Nile fan, but I didn't include them for those reasons. I can't stand Dillenger Escape Plan because they're not the styles I listen to. They're good at their style, but I don't listen to it.

7th, there was a band I heard yesterday, Sahg, I think you might be interested in. Really doomy stuff, which is surprising as the show I heard it on usually plays 80s Thrash and Speed Metal, so it took me by surprise but I think you might want to look in to them, they weren't that bad.

[7]

7th, there was a band I heard yesterday, Sahg, I think you might be interested in. Really doomy stuff, which is surprising as the show I heard it on usually plays 80s Thrash and Speed Metal, so it took me by surprise but I think you might want to look in to them, they weren't that bad.

I'll definitely check them, thanks for the recommendation! I love discovering new bands.

[GL]

No problem. It's how I find most of the stuff I listen to, fans of the genre recommending stuff I've never heard of before.

[abraxas]

Dokken and Whitesnake

The closest I ever got to listening to Hair bands was Motley Crue and they were really only a hair band for two albums Theater of Pain and Girls Girls Girls. I listened to them mostly when they were in their Satanic phase, which made them different from other bands of that time, plus their music was heavier then most hair bands.

The same goes for Queensryche who were unfairly thrown under the Glam Metal label.