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Old 2007-01-11, 08:57
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Hair metal and glam metal...

I'm not a particularly big fan...

...but, I was wondering if there's a difference between the two terms, or if they can be used interchangeably.

I would appreciate responses other than "No, there's difference between crap and shit."

Thanks in advance.

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Old 2007-01-11, 09:45
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They're pretty much interchangeable.
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Old 2007-01-11, 12:36
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you forgot cock rock
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Old 2007-01-11, 13:06
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Capitalism, racism, sexism
The foundations of cock-rocking idealism

Exploiting, sucking, manipulating
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Making "idols" out of assholes
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Just give us tits and tools!"

Fantasy? Reality?
Distinction? Satisfaction?

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Old 2007-01-11, 13:27
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Glam is where they wore mackuo and attempted to look like woman. Hair metal is well just dudes with long hair. The music was the same. Well come to think of it most of the bands were the same. Warrant didn't wear mackup so they would be Hair Metal. Poison however did so they would be glam. I one of there covers almost all the band memebers could have passed as females. Also, you could have searched for this on google!
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Old 2007-01-11, 13:51
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Hair metal is well just dudes with long hair.

by that standard all metal is hair metal

yea interchanable, i would throw 'pure shit' into that interchangable mix aswell
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Old 2007-01-11, 16:15
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by that standard all metal is hair metal

yea interchanable, i would throw 'pure shit' into that interchangable mix aswell


i should have said hair that was really tookin care of, like a womens hair .
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Old 2007-01-11, 16:38
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i love Glam and Hair. still have a ton of Poison, Motley Crue, WASP, Ratt and Dokken stuff, alongside my precious Bon Jovi tapes.

and no, i'm not joking.
 
Old 2007-01-11, 16:52
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i love Glam and Hair. still have a ton of Poison, Motley Crue, WASP, Ratt and Dokken stuff, alongside my precious Bon Jovi tapes.

and no, i'm not joking.


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Old 2007-01-11, 18:33
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I know a Mormon whose favorite kind of music is hair metal.
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Old 2007-01-11, 18:49
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TTT's revelation doesn't surprise me. It's the same cheesy bullshit as everything else he likes, and makes his accusations of this or that band that doesn't dress in drag being 'gay' all the funnier.

I think the terms originally meant something different ('glam metal' being metal in the vein of 70's glam rock and 'hair metal' being 80's pop metal with teased hair), but quickly collapsed into the same thing.
 
Old 2007-01-11, 19:14
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Old 2007-01-11, 19:25
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TTT's revelation doesn't surprise me. It's the same cheesy bullshit as everything else he likes, and makes his accusations of this or that band that doesn't dress in drag being 'gay' all the funnier.


what's funny is that Bon Jovi and Poison, in all their drag & make-up, managed to be more manly and bang more chicks than any band i've called "gay" so far, regardless of what they wear.

and yes, you obviously have a photo of my CD collection, since you know that "everything else" i like is just as cheesy as those bands.

great post, with the gem being "TTT". i assume you meant "TTA", but yeah...
 
Old 2007-01-11, 19:30
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what's funny is that Bon Jovi and Poison, in all their drag & make-up, managed to be more manly and bang more chicks than any band i've called "gay" so far, regardless of what they wear.

great post, with the gem being "TTT". i assume you meant "TTA", but yeah...
Wilt Chamberlin banged more chicks than both those guys put together. So you must be a giant basketball fan too, right?
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Old 2007-01-11, 19:44
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you forgot cock rock

Eh, I dunno about that. Cock rock includes bands like AC/DC, Van Halen, Tesla, and GnR, and I dont know if I'd call them hair or glam, most especially not AC/DC.
 
Old 2007-01-11, 19:53
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I've always heard hair and glam metal used interchangeably. I love some Motley Crue, Poison, Ratt, and the SCORPIONS!! Michael Schenker is a fukin badass!
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Old 2007-01-11, 20:42
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Your my new friend! Only met two people off this site who still listen to WASP.


Jeeesuuuus H Christ I even tabbed them!

Glam was predominantly the make up wearing cross dressing bunch. Hair metal referred to the poser big hair bands who didn't do the make up but wore fancy odd clothing(shirts undone with hairy chests, think Fabio on the cover of those body ripping ladies novels). Musically they didn't differ too much. Boring, predictable, predominantly muted chugging power chord riffs, big sing along chorus, cliched vocals about girls, shagging and being a hard drinking outlaw rock 'n' roll youth gone bad type dude or an obligatory weepy hold your lighters aloft ballad so coated in sickly suger that diabetics died just passing the record shop! And not forgetting the 'let's out do Eddie Van Halen guitar solo'
 
Old 2007-01-11, 21:57
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Hehe sounds exactly like Skid Row
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Old 2007-01-12, 00:21
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Eh, I dunno about that. Cock rock includes bands like AC/DC, Van Halen, Tesla, and GnR, and I dont know if I'd call them hair or glam, most especially not AC/DC.

Just to respond to my own post, what would you consider these bands anyway? Sleeze metal?

Or, is sleeze metal just another term also interchangeable with hair and glam?

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Old 2007-01-12, 02:50
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There aren't that many genres you just fucken maken them up as you go with shit like sleeze god damn.
 
Old 2007-01-12, 08:29
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what about Europe?
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Old 2007-01-12, 10:04
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Old 2007-01-12, 11:05
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Jeeesuuuus H Christ I even tabbed them!

Glam was predominantly the make up wearing cross dressing bunch. Hair metal referred to the poser big hair bands who didn't do the make up but wore fancy odd clothing(shirts undone with hairy chests, think Fabio on the cover of those body ripping ladies novels). Musically they didn't differ too much. Boring, predictable, predominantly muted chugging power chord riffs, big sing along chorus, cliched vocals about girls, shagging and being a hard drinking outlaw rock 'n' roll youth gone bad type dude or an obligatory weepy hold your lighters aloft ballad so coated in sickly suger that diabetics died just passing the record shop! And not forgetting the 'let's out do Eddie Van Halen guitar solo'


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Old 2007-01-13, 03:40
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Your my new friend! Only met two people off this site who still listen to WASP.

I love WASP, however the other bands they've been lumped in with are nothing but a bunch of drag queens who should kindly admit they have had nothing to do with metal.
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Old 2007-01-13, 08:46
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Old 2007-01-13, 09:17
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The Scorpions were pretty good, even if that one guy with the mustache looked completely gay.
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Old 2007-01-13, 09:22
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WASP, Schenker, and Skid Row kick ass, despite their genre trappings. I've liked a couple of other bands that I've seen on those VH1 80's moments, but can't stand the majority of them(Cinderella, Poison, Bon Jovi, etc...)
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Old 2007-01-13, 09:40
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Old 2007-01-13, 19:39
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There aren't that many genres you just fucken maken them up as you go with shit like sleeze god damn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleaze_glam
 
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