Sleaze...

Anyone here into bands like Dirty Looks, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth, Britney Fox, etc.? If so, who are some of your favorites?

Loves me some sleaze!some of my faves are:
Dangerous Toys
Spread Eagle
Britny Fox
Vains of Jenna

As you all know from the previous glam/sleaze threads...Shiney is down with the sleaze...

faves...to name a few...

JUNKYARD
SEA HAGS
DIRTY LOOKS
SMASHED GLADYS
ROYAL COURT OF CHINA
ZODIAC MINDWARP & THE LOVE REACTION
CHERRY STREET
CRYSTAL PISTOL
VAIN
DAMN CHEETAH
MR NASTY
BROKEN TEETH
BONED
FOUR HORSEMEN
PEPPERMINT CREEPS


DIRTY PENNY a newer glam/sleaze band....that are incredible!!!!

Shiney is indeed down with the sleaze! So much so that he's got me confused. I have too many bands on the WANT NOW! list. Hahaha.

Would you guys consider KIX and/or FUNNY MONEY to be sleaze?

Of course, BRITNY FOX, VAIN, LA GUNS, FASTER PUSSYCAT, DIAMOND REXX, old THE ALMIGHTY, etc...

Faster Pussycat! Good one.

ultmetal wrote:

Faster Pussycat! Good one.

Yes, one of the gods of Sleazy metal. I dont know if we can put AEROSMITH in that list because they were a very big influence on all those SLEAZY bands from the late 80s, specialy. Of course AEROSMITH played more heavy rock in their early days but they had a touch of Sleazy in their looks and attitude. They were dirty lol.

ultmetal wrote:

Would you guys consider KIX and/or FUNNY MONEY to be sleaze?

I probably wouldn't. But you know, sleaze is one of those genres that has it's distinct bands that are clearly sleaze, and then other bands that could probably fit in the sleaze category and the straight up 80's rock/hard rock category. Either way, both styles are really similar, I think.

I would consider AEROSMITH one of the "forefathers" of the sleaze metal genre....as well as a bulk of ALICE COOPER material (Billion Dollar Babies, Killer, Love It To Death)...

MOTLEY CRUE's earlier efforts I would consider sleazeas well....

Ther were a ton of hair metal/glam bands that had touches of sleaze to their sound and image...KIX would be one of those...in my opinion.

LA GUNS were a particular fave of mine.

Nah...no love at all! LOL!!!!!

Faves...

Erotic Suicide
Faster Pussycat
Sleez Beez
Vains Of Jenna
Crashdiet
Sikk Sexx
Spoyld
Vain
Swingin' Thing
Bullets And Octane
Guns N Roses
LA Guns
Mr. Nasty
Slammin Gladys
Tigertailz
Smashed Gladys
Johnny Crash
Crank County Daredevils
Zan Clan
Diamond Rexx


...and so many more...

As to Kix/Funny Money....they are iffy, but they are KILLER!!!!


Arttie

This is my favourite genre of music fullstop. Hey Ult you should check out these 2 albums they are classics of the gritty sleaze metal genre of the late 80's and early 90's.

Sea Hags - Sea Hags (1989)
Brilliant 70's steeped Aerosmith sleaze metal from Seattlites transplanted to San Francisco. A gritty Faster Pussycat vibe to it but better than the aforementioned band, also an underlying darkness to it. Kirk Hammett produced their demo and Ian Astbury of the Cult expressed interest in producing the debut but Mike Clink (Producer of Appetite For Destruction) produced it. The band self destructed after this as their manager said "theres only so far you can get with 3 junkies and an alcoholic. Should of been Guns N' Roses slayers.

Sea Hags - Half The Way Valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fMvsJRga_8


Love/Hate - Wasted In America (1992)
Could have picked their first Blackout In The Red Room (1990) but this just takes the cake as Love/Hate's definative release. One of the greatest bands ever, LA sleazy blues based metal with funky basslines and a punk thrashing to it. Singer Jizzy Pearl has got one of the most distinctive voices in all of hard rock. Played with AC/DC, Dio, Ozzy Osbourne, Skid Row, Guns N' Roses. Another should of been huge band. And noted Metal author/expert Martin Popoff ranks this album as his #12 favourite Metal/Hard Rock album of all time (He must have listened to 10's of 1000's of Metal albums).

Love/Hate - Happy Hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJXySelvhqo

That Sea Hags album is getting a re-release with 3 bonus tracks.

Here's some that may or may not fit, depending on whether we are going more by sound or image.

Balaam and the Angel (used to be a goth band at one time!)
The Big F
The Front/Bakers Pink

And about the sleaziest old school Glam rock album, 16 and Savaged by Silverhead.

Oh yeah The Front, what a brilliant band they were critisized for being a Cult knock off but their is so much else going on. The Big F and Balaam And The Angel are both brilliant bands in a way you could call them alternative sleaze metal bands of the 80's but not sleaze as in Faster Pussycat or LA Guns.

Eyesore wrote:

That Sea Hags album is getting a re-release with 3 bonus tracks.

Cool. I have the Sea Hags album on vinyl. Need to pick it up on CD.

I saw the Sea Hags at L'amour in Brooklyn NY back in my college days... they were a pretty awful live band, if memory serves...my friends and I left halfway through their set...

Love/Hate were a FANTASTIC band! I miss them terribly. BLACKOUT IN THE RED ROOM is still one of my all time favorites, WASTED IN AMERICA is an excellent disc too. They got a little hit-and-miss on subsequent CDs though. I saw them live a few times as well, always an excellent live band (though there was always so much weed smoke in the air at their shows that I'd go home with a contact high, haha)

SEA HAGS were awesome....

some others I have thought of:

ROCK CITY ANGELS
LOVEMAKER
STAR STAR
TATTOOED LOVE BOYS
CRYSTAL PISTOL

could someone explain what sleaze is? is it like glam or is it different

Shiney wrote:

SEA HAGS were awesome....

I should have clarified that my friends and I did like the Sea Hags album at the time we went to see them, which is why we were so disappointed that they were such a crappy live band.

yeah he was sure right it is an awesome name for a band

Sleaze is a style of glam....a little grittier...sloppier...dirtier....

And I have been thinking about it off and on today...I am going to make the bold statement that the first "sleaze" band...to have any sort of large audience/following would be THE ROLLING STONES....while they started off as a modest blues cover band much like their mates THE BEATLES...the STONES got darker and grittier...and if EXILE ON MAIN STREET, STICKY FINGERS and BEGGARS BANQUET are not masterpieces of sleaze, then I don't know what is.....

i gotta be honest i have never seen anything about the stones what i like. but theyr success and work ethic are a credit to them at their age

the first three out of print Pantera albums maybe.