Bands that went glam in the '80s and early '90s

candlemass wrote:

What the hell?!  

Death Angel weren't immune from the 'Extreme' factor either!!

 

Now, I don't think some of the bands mentioned here really belong here. While Stryper, Twisted Sister, Black N' Blue or Van Halen indeed softened their sound in the mid-late '80s, so did Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, Ratt, Def Leppard (Pyromania to Hysteria) and even Bon Jovi. And hell, WASP if anything started to slowly lose the glam element over time. To me, all of these bands were already hair/glam metal before choosing to go down an even more commercial route.

Can't really say ALL bands went glam during that period. AC/DC, Iron Maiden or Motorhead were certainly never hair metal bands.

The same goes for grunge and nu metal later on.

Warrant
Slaughter
Skid Row

Ok, I'm going to open a thread on bands that went grunge now. The first that come to mind are surely Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and Stone Temple Pilots.

Whats wrong with the Testament and Death Angel ballads? Yeah, theyre ballads, but nobody said they had to be 100% thrash all the time. Besides, what about Metallica's ballads?

Yea, but look at that Testament vid, they were definitely going for that "pretty boy look", they were even posing!  It just reeks of 80's glam ballads, plus they said the record co. pushed them into that.

iamrockerfun wrote:

Warrant
Slaughter
Skid Row

Those bands went the other way around.

Maybe he's thinking of the non-glam bands with the same name.

Malmsteen comes to my mind when it comes to one-man army cheesy glam

But hey, The Scorps fit into the trend excellently well

There are some loose interpretations of glam in this thread. Similarly, there are some loose interpretations of what earlier works by bands were not glam.

I don't think Europe's style changed by leaps and bounds, really.

I mean, so much of this was just the simple fact that the early 80s stuff was less watered down, by nature. By about 85/86, it was all just getting a lot more commercial. So Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Europe, et al., got poppier.

I mean, it's not the the early 80s stuff wasn't commercial. It's just that what was commerically successful happened to be a little harder edged. I'm pretty sure the first two Motley Crue records were pretty commercially successful.

And the Styx and Foreigner stuff. Their styles had definitely changed, as I checked those albums out on Spotify after reading this thread, looking for some good lost glam that I may be unaware of...The Styx is definitely not glam. Last ditch attempt at boring 80s pop success is more accurate. The Foreigner I could see more...but I still see it as just the natural evolution for a band like that. They started out as part of a then commercially viable genre and they were just trying to keep that going, by altering a little. But Pretty Boy Floyd that record was not, even with a former King Kobra vocalist.

It's kinda like when people used to tell me that before Cowboys, Pantera was a glam band that sounded just like Poison. That was obviously not the case when I finally got around to hearing the 4 pre-Cowboys albums.

TheGreatDuck wrote:

Maybe he's thinking of the non-glam bands with the same name.

Ah-ha.

(my reaction, not the band Ah Ha).

ZombieHavoc wrote:

There are some loose interpretations of glam in this thread. Similarly, there are some loose interpretations of what earlier works by bands were not glam.

I don't think Europe's style changed by leaps and bounds, really.

I mean, so much of this was just the simple fact that the early 80s stuff was less watered down, by nature. By about 85/86, it was all just getting a lot more commercial. So Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Europe, et al., got poppier.

I mean, it's not the the early 80s stuff wasn't commercial. It's just that what was commerically successful happened to be a little harder edged. I'm pretty sure the first two Motley Crue records were pretty commercially successful.

And the Styx and Foreigner stuff. Their styles had definitely changed, as I checked those albums out on Spotify after reading this thread, looking for some good lost glam that I may be unaware of...The Styx is definitely not glam. Last ditch attempt at boring 80s pop success is more accurate. The Foreigner I could see more...but I still see it as just the natural evolution for a band like that. They started out as part of a then commercially viable genre and they were just trying to keep that going, by altering a little. But Pretty Boy Floyd that record was not, even with a former King Kobra vocalist.

Europe cca. 1982-1983:



Europe cca. 1986:



Styx is definately glam here:


Also, that Foreigner album might have not sounded like a PBF album, but they did sound like, say, Damn Yankees, who were also a hair band, but didn't really sound much like PBF either.