Cheesy '80s metal...

Am I the only addict?

 

Here's one of my favorite 80's bands. Pixies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAT48J097nA&feature=related

 

Pixies are not cheesey 80s metal.

 

Nah, I just felt like posting the Pixies, and this seemed like a good excuse. Pixies are gangsta.

 

I watched a movie called Trick or Treat... It was about this cheesy metal band guy, Sammi Curr..the soundtrack will blow your mind, not really.. but what can ya' do...

 

I love 80's metal!

White Snake, anyone?

 

I was watching this programme about most hated music.
And Starship's 1980s "We built this City on Rock and Roll" figured highly - as they saw it as "the epitomy of corporate rock"

I see it as "the epitomy of wankers with perms".

Anyway , the commentator was all the more surprised because apparently in the 60s Starship were at Woodstock , "as one of the best ever live performances of counter culture music".Or something like that

Still , it dont pay the installments for the Bentley does it ...: )

 

go rent "heavy metal" cheesy cartoon.. you'll love it!

 

I wish I was the lead singer in a cheesy 80's metal band.. how do I make this possible?

 

spandex. aquanet. groupies. bad lyrics. neon colors. smoke machines. inflatable devils.

 

I have everything on that list except the groupies... I need to work on that...

 

Of course the ultimate movie is Spinal Tap, but Queen's Rock Opera Flash Gordon is pure cheese, and Home Movies did an excellent parody of it with a rock opera based on Franz Kafka's book Metamorphosis in which a man turns into a bug.

 

Its the final countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkMWdI2IKiw
cheesy 80'smetal done badly.

 

I LOVE 80's cheesy metal! Poison, White Snake, Warrant, Winger...Heck yes!

In November I went to see Metal Skool, an 80's cover band/spoof show. Hilariously funny.

 

Only the best music ever made. Call it cheesy, call it what you will but a lot of those bands had some of the best musicians in them & some of the most engaging, charismatic frontmen. When was the last time you saw a lead singer jump in the air & do the splits? Wail on the mic or just toss his hair about & ooze sex appeal? Nowadays, it's more like crying into a microphone about a girl who dissed him in high school. What's cool about that? Not a damn thing, that's what.

When was the last time you saw a guitar player shred the shit out of a six-string, jump off the amps, land on his feet, fall to his knees & give it all he has in his performance & not miss a single note? Now you have either kids just looking down at their shoes or they stomp around like jackasses who need Ritalin because they can't fucking play. When was the last time you saw a rock band ACT like a rock band? Party their balls off, live it up, fuck models, playmates, porn stars & rock like it was their last day on earth! Now you have kids taking themselves way too seriously,whining about how they're misunderstood, singing about shit they have no idea about.

Sure the clothes, the makeup & the hairspray got out of hand. But so did the whole grunge movement with that awful flannel, greasy unkept hair, unintelligible lyrics & downright lack of talent, which I personally think was the worst era in music to date. Does anybody really think Kurt Cobain could actually sing or even play guitar? How that guy is a legend is beyond me. Eddie Vedder on the cover of Time magazine in the early 90's to symbolize the importance of grunge music & giving disillusioned kids a voice? Can anybody give a coherent translation of what the fuck he's singing about in the first place?

Anyhow, 80's hair metal did have its place in time & I'm sure a lot of people are happy to have left it there. But that doesn't mean its true fans, myself included, can't go back to those old glory days & still enjoy rocking out with our cock out to Ratt, the Crue, & Whitesnake!!

 

i bow before the greatness of this thread...i'm getting a little choked up...

 

I saw Warrant once, I was totally impressed by the stage prescence(sp?) and charisma they possesed.

 

may the Gods of Rock smile upon you, Mitok.

 

that is the best movie ever!!

I used to watch that movie every day when i was a little kid. it had titties in it when she was g3etting molested by the ghost in the car.

The whole soundtrack was done by Fastway, too!! i love fastway.

I cant believe you know about that really obscure movie.

do you remember when ozzy was talking on the tv against heavy metal and then he gets his face ripped off? that was soo coool.


sorry i got excited

 

Wasted Rock Ranger... probably the best song of the 80s.. not a metal sounding song but done by a cheesy 80s metal band