You might be a metalhead of the 80s if...

You painted Metallica and Slayer logos on your bleached denim jacket.

You used pictures of Poison as a dart board.

You remember when the word "killer" was used 60 or more times in every metal magazine.

You wrote "KILL BON JOVI" in spraypaint at some point.

The "Letters to the Editor" section in metal magazines always had at least one anti-PMRC letter.

You tried playing your copy of Stained Class backwards, just for the hell of it.

You sat through episodes of Headbanger's Ball in disgust, having to witness videos by Britny Fox, Winger, Cinderella, and Poison just to see a Testament video.

Demos had titles like "Heavy Metal Lunacy" and "Metal Kings", and you never expected that days of metal demo titles like "Frostbitten Legions of the Carpathian Kingdom" would arrive.

When the Scott Peterson case hit the news, your reaction was, "Wasn't he the drummer for Cryptic Slaughter?"

Tipper Gore and Geraldo Rivera were both on your Top 5 most hated celebrities list.

silly

so true!

You might be a metalhead of the 80s if...

...you ever wore your denim, patch-clad vest over your leather jacket.

...you ever wanted to wear a sawblad cod piece.

...you ever used the term "poser" to describe bands you think are too wimpy to be metal.

..."Denim & Leather" was you call to arms.

...you prefer records over CDs.

....you still collect records.

...you know what a record is.

...you know what an 8-track tape is.

...you ever tried to pound nails into a leather wristband so you could look like the guys in Slayer.

...you ever screamed "SLAAAYYYYEERRRR!!!" at a concert, where Slayer wasn't playing.

...you ever even tought about squeezing your butt into a pair of spandex pants.

..., one word, Aqua Net.

....you remember when bands like Motley Crue, Ratt, Keel, Quiet Riot and Stryper were considered heavy metal bands.

...you ever tied bandanas around your legs.

...you ever used the terms rivethead or earthdogs.

...you remember when bands like Ratt and Dokken were selling out stadiums.

...to you, power metal is bands like Armored Saint and Metal Church.

...you still think of 'Black Metal' as the title of a Venom album.

...Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer are your favorite thrash bands.

...you know what NWOBHM stands for.

...to you, a song without a guitar solo isn't a song at all.

...you remember checking out new bands by purchasing compilation CDs like Metal Massacre and U.S. Metal.

...you spent more weekly on postage for tape trading than you did on food.

...you remember Metal Shop!

...you don't give a rip about MTV and their poser crap!

...you remember bands like Anvil, Exciter, Loudness, Accept, Rage, Riot and Raven.

...Spinal Tap is your favorite movie.

...you ever watched the midnight showing of "The Wall" while abusing some illegal substance.

...to you, the word dimebag doesn't mean guitarist for Pantera.

...you are still wondering how the heck Jethro Tull ever won best metal band of the year.

...you remember when Slayer and Overkill wore make-up.

...you know what the PMRC is.

HEY, I like Bon Jovi and Poison!

You owned Kill Em All and Ride The Lightning on LP on the Megaforce label

You bought Master of Puppets, Powerslave, Rage For Order, etc the day they came out

You held a tape record up to your TV speakers to tape 2 Minutes to Midnight as it premiered as a "World Premier Video" on MTV

You remember when MTV played Metal during the day

VH1 was the video music channel for air supply fans and "old people"

You remember thinking Twister Sister "sold out" when they released "come out and play"

You remember that Bon Jovi used to open for Ratt

In the 80s I was listening to Culture Club and Michael Jackson

I think that you'd be an 80's metal fan if you remembered when MTV played Metal music video period!

Or just music videos in general, metal or not!

You bought Ride the Lightning NEW and thought "Fight Fire With Fire" was the fastest riff and double bass ever!

....if you ever made yourself look like a girl so you could get girls.

...if you were pissed for weeks because JETHRO TULL won the grammy over METALLICA.

....if it completely flew under your radar that ROB HALFORD was a flaming gay leatherboy....because he was so metalli-cool!!!

...if you ever flipped up the visor of your baseball cap and wrote INJUN on the under side of it.

...if you wrote "NYHC" on your book covers (even though you didn't know what it stood for)

...you started buying Judge Dredd comic books because Anthrax sang about him...

lucien wrote:

You bought Ride the Lightning NEW and thought "Fight Fire With Fire" was the fastest riff and double bass ever!

That was me - LOL

You forgot to add that the vinyl was on the MegaForce label

...if you remember the US festival (day 2), and wished you could have gone.

...if Bon Jovi opened for the Scorpions and you didn't know who they were at that point.

thejokeriv wrote:

lucien wrote:

You bought Ride the Lightning NEW
and thought "Fight Fire With Fire" was the fastest riff and double bass
ever!

That was me - LOL

You forgot to add that the vinyl was on the MegaForce label

The Original pressing was on Megaforce,once they were signed by Elecktra it was released on that



I actually attanded the show Metallica was signed by Elektra



Was Raven,Metallica and Anthrax and it was the worst show i've ever seen them play,they just seemed to not be in sync that night

Raven rocked the joint as Headliners though

that tune did make me run home to practice double bass! lol

still a classic thrash riff!!

...if you remember Creem Thrash Metal, Metal Hammer, Metal Forces, Aardschok America, RIP, Metallix, Faces Rocks, and Circus magazines!!

dude, these are all too true!! I remember most of it like it was yesterday.

Quote :

...you started buying Judge Dredd comic books because Anthrax sang about him...

or Stephen King novels.

does it count if you were born in 1989? Yes i'm the last of the generation

thejokeriv wrote:

You owned Kill Em All and Ride The Lightning on LP on the Megaforce label

You bought Master of Puppets, Powerslave, Rage For Order, etc the day they came out

You held a tape record up to your TV speakers to tape 2 Minutes to Midnight as it premiered as a "World Premier Video" on MTV

You remember when MTV played Metal during the day

VH1 was the video music channel for air supply fans and "old people"

You remember thinking Twister Sister "sold out" when they released "come out and play"

You remember that Bon Jovi used to open for Ratt

ha i have ride the lightnting on vinyl still and mop, creeping death twelve inch with garage days revisited and i have the $.98ep grarage days re-revisited on vinyl

and what is pmrc i aint american so i spect it is american

PMRC = Parents Music Resource Center

ah yes that thing that censored cd covers of something wasnt it.

over here we get the cover of gallery of suicde by cannibal corpse in all its glory.

ps i think that is the most horrible cover i ever saw

I'd say Virgin Killer (Scorpions) is the worst by far. I am anti-censorship, but that cover deserved to be banned.