Your favorite 80's era Metal Band

[Taverner]

And this isn't a poll, since there were so damn many.

For the uninformed: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Ratt, Poison, Whitesnake - are real metal bands

Warrant, Ugly Kid Joe, Cinderella or Europe are not. Ballad bands are not metal bands.

[Phillycat]

1. Guns n Roses.

[MrCoffee]

34. seconded...GnFnR in their rightful place atop this list.

[porphyrian]

49. I hated Axel's stupid wiggle dance. -n/t

[Phillycat]

2. dupe.

[Nedsdag]

45. Triple dupe!

n/t

[flvegan]

3. Is Stryper metal?

I pick Poison. Loved 'em.

[porphyrian]

50. Eeeeew... -n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Motörhead -nt

[Taverner]

5. Would Motorhead be metal, or SpeedMetal?

Speed or Thrash Metal, being a totally different kind of music than Metal.

[SteppingRazor]

17. I'd call Motorhead quintessentially speed metal.

Lemmy practically invented the genre. They were doing that whole double-bass-drum and shredding guitars thing when the rest of the world was dancing to disco.

[Kat45]

68. I'd say, neither.

They're not metal, they're rock'n'roll--harder, louder and faster, but still just rock'n'roll. And I think they'd say the same thing, that they play rock'n'roll. When I interviewed and wrote and article about them, twice actually, I think I said they were 'Chuck Berry on steroids' or something like that.

[Ekirh]

16. Moterhead is best listening to

Watching barbie and ken dolls rocking to it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rnIuow93vo

[HughBeaumont]

6. Slayer!

Followed by S.O.D., D.R.I. (they were metalcore crossover, but still), Anthrax, Voivod, Forbidden, Dead Brain Cells, Forced Entry, Iron Maiden, pre-Smell the Glove Metallica, Motorhead, Nuclear Assault, Vio-Lence and Testament.

Tossing Poison and Whitesnake in that "real metal" mix . . . no. I'll grudgingly give you Motley Crue and Ratt for their earlier works, but not those two. Hard rock acts, not metal.

[Taverner]

8. Look - I'm not saying Poison and Whitesnake were good...

But Poison did write songs that followed the rules on what metal is. Even if they did a crappy job.

And yes, Whitesnake was a tough one. They were a ballad band for the most part - but I think the Coverdale creds and "Slide it In" qualify them.

[HughBeaumont]

10. You know what's funny about Poison?

To me, they sucked the flies off a dead dog's balls. Their fluffy, day-glo, ozone-destroying look was how most of the hipsters saw ALL forms of hard rock/heavy metal - as a vapid, empty headed stereotype. They were what I call a "fly-over" band . .. one of the millions of corporate hard rock poodle-haired bands I had to sit through during Headbangers Ball (because back then, your VCR was your "YouTube") for the first two hours before they played something by VoiVod, Megadeth or Nuclear Assault at 1:30 AM.

But play their songs to this day . . . I'll know every. single. word. The riffs. The solos. All of it. Even their not-so-heavily-played stuff. Eccch. Why is that? I blame repetitive play and the earworm phenomenon.

[porphyrian]

48. S.O.D.! I want some milk! -n/t

[Initech]

7. Iron Maiden

I cant fucking wait for their new tour! :headbang:

[distantearlywarning]

9. Guns N Roses.

I don't think Poison counts as a "metal band" either. Remember Every Rose Has It's Thorn????

[flvegan]

12. One word: "Patience"

Fucking whistling?

Kidding. I love(d) G'nR

[Ekirh]

11. Hey don't knock Europe. . .

IT'S THE FINALLLLL COUNTDOWN (Does cheesy keyboard thing)

Umm err... yah... Iron Maiden would be my vote as well . . .

I haven't put in a C.D of theirs in awhile, I think I need to make up for this mistake.

[HughBeaumont]

13. I still think "Number of the Beast" would make great car-chase music!

[SteppingRazor]

14. Dude, if you can't knock Europe, who CAN you knock?

:popcorn:

[Ekirh]

15. Damn . .

You caught me without an argument.. DAMN YOU!!! "Does angry fist" DAMMMNN YOU!!!!!!

[flvegan]

18. One could start with these guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIhhGVFKXoM

[Capn Sunshine]

36. The Ukraine?

:nuke:

[asthmaticeog]

19. Um, Whitesnake and Poison WEREN'T ballad bands?

A fucking break, give me.

Real '80s metal = Venom, Slayer and Napalm Death. I do love me some Priest & Maiden, though.

[Throd]

20. Dangerous Toys

"Sportin A Woodie", "Teas'n Pleas'n", "Scared"

Takes me back to the old days crankin' KNAC in my Chevette with a bunch of roaches in the ashtray.

[fudge stripe cookays]

21. KNAC...there's a station I haven't thought of in ages.

I heard the Back Room just closed a year or two ago. Didn't they realize how much history was in there?

Dangerous Toys were practically the house band there.

[Kat45]

67. You can still listen to KNAC online.

KNAC.com--it's just an online station now, but it's still playing metal as well as having a couple of shows that play the music from the late eighties/ealy nineties. I listen to it sometimes.

Yeah, Dangerous Toys. I did a story on them back in the day and met them backstage at a show. They seemed like nice guys.

[Broken_Hero]

22. Metallica,

[EnviroBat]

23. Fastway.

"Say what you weeeeiiiillll..."

[Throd]

24. Metal Church

[ghostsofgiants]

25. My vote goes to Maiden.

[InvisibleTouch]

26. The Scorpions, if they count.

I generally like softer rock, but I do love the Scorpions.

[southpaw]

27. Seriously, POISON is a metal band but WARRANT isn't?

Wow!

No really... I'd have to go with Maiden. Priest second. The rest don't qualify as metal, IMO. :evilgrin:

[Zavulon]

28. Poison is not a metal band. It just isn't. Now, I pick Iron Maiden, but as for Poison being a metal

band, with all due respect, PLEASE.

Listen to Cindrella's second album (Long Cold Winter) - everything except for perhaps one song on that album is harder than anything Poison EVER did.

Also, with all due respect, Poison SUCKED.

[Carrieyazel]

32. I agree, Poison is definitely NOT a metal band, but Cinderella was.

I'd also point to Cinderella's debut album, (Night Songs). Most of the songs were definitely metal.
However, I also liked Cinderella's move to blues-rock on their third album. A lot of the metalists hated it, but it was a musically sound album and quite good. Very few metal or hard rock bands managed to pull off what Cinderella did.

[eyepaddle]

41. I saw Cinderella open for Judas Priest once, to be honest I had

hated Cinderella from the word "go" but I came away from that show with a fair bit of respect for them. They were a pretty solid outfit, and a very good live band as well.

[Rude Horner]

53. Lumping Poison in with Priest is blasphemy

I mean, "Un-skinny bop"? :puke: vs "You've Got Another Thing Comin'". No contest

[mitchum]

Killing Joke

[mitchum]

29. Killing Joke

[Ahpook]

57. Yes:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f42MLoLbnnQ

[Nickster]

30. How in the hell am I supposed to just pick one??? BTW Poison is NOT a real metal band.

[Carrieyazel]

31. I'd take Cinderella over Poison myself.

Especially their third (non-metal) album, Heartbreak Station; solid blues-rock all around.

[Throd]

35. I'll take poison before I'd listen to Poison

[Zavulon]

38. Good one. Wish I'd thought of it. :)

:)

[IndianaJones]

33. White Lion? Europe? nt.

[Va Lefty]

37. Poison, Ratt, Cinderella are probaly better labeled as hair bands

Priest, Iron Maiden and the Crue as Metal bands. Whatever you call them, I like them all!

[redqueen]

39. Thank you! And hair bands = shite.

Just MHO, of course. :D

[eyepaddle]

40. Judas Priest

Followed by Iron Maiden

There weren't very many American Metal bands, a lot that had "metallic tendenciies" such as Warrant, Poison and so on, but one that always stood out as being the real article was Armored Saint.

[BulletproofLandshark]

42. Iron Maiden and Overkill

My favorite videos from both:

Iron Maiden
"Two Minutes To Midnight" http://youtube.com/watch?v=frMMeYTtHT4
"Aces High" http://youtube.com/watch?v=4Sam5omG0v0
"The Trooper" http://youtube.com/watch?v=vdd7WYe-7Tg

Overkill
"Elimination" http://youtube.com/watch?v=VoMCka5bBdU
"Hello From The Gutter" http://youtube.com/watch?v=QDT_XhgGKhE
"In Union We Stand" http://youtube.com/watch?v=vftqDnW6zKA

[Zodiak]

43. Too many to choose

Power metal: Iron Maiden....no question

Hair Metal: Queensryche

Thrash metal: Coroner.....then maybe Slayer. Metallica has been on thin ice with me since Napster, but I do like their Cliff Burton-inspired music.

[HughBeaumont]

52. Jesus, HOW could I forget Coroner????

"Masked Jackal" - riff after awesome rifff . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxzV_qDHng

[NoGOPZone]

44. Spinal Tap?

[Cabcere]

51. ...

:thumbsup: :D :hi:

[quip]

61. HANDS FRIGGIN' DOWN and up to 11!!!!

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

46. Iron Maiden

then Metallica

[porphyrian]

47. Metallica, until the Black Album.

But the list of what I liked was extensive, since I fucking hated 80s popular music. As metal began leaning that way, I started leaning more hardcore/punk. Ask me anything.

[kwassa]

54. What's to like about 80s metal?

or any metal, for that matter?

:shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[Perry Logan]

55. Jethro Tull

[Cabcere]

60. Mmmmm, flute

:D (I played in high school - band nerd, here!) :hi:

[Bluzmann57]

56. Judas Priest. Hands down

And Warrant REALLY sucked. Quite possibly the most overrated band in any genre ever.

[carly denise pt deux]

58. motley crue!!!!!!

Theatre of pain is their best album
Carly

[flying rabbit]

59. Accept, Priest, Maiden

in that order.

[unsavedtrash]

62. Wendy O. Williams/Plasmatics, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden,

Motley Crue, and Motorhead.
I loved Sabbath but not with Dio.

[Redneck Socialist]

63. Maiden. There is no other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAzyx8EsKU

Oh, and Accept comes in a very close second.

[flvegan]

64. Spinal Tap, you unwashed ninnies!!!

Jesus.

[DarkTirade]

73. 2nded.

None of the others have amps that go up to 11.

[TK421]

65. Where is Dokken?

:D

[TK421]

66. What about Ministry?

can't leave those guys out of the mix...probably above metal, but they still had the rifs

sorry...responded to my thread instead of the OP..I do that, sometimes.....

[judaspriestess]

69. I respectfully have to disagree with Ratt, Poison, Motley Crue and Whitesnake

they are NOT metal bands. Poison was a rock band almost bubble gum rock but not a metal band as well as the other guys. Motley Crue's first album "too fast for love" was fairly hard but not metal. Ratt was Hard Rock and whitesnake was hard rock too.

Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Triumph - yes and no but they were definitely hard rock

In the eighties I was into... Slayer, Metallica, Metal Church, Napalm Death, SOD, Anthrax..... shit I have to think back now. That was metal :)

Queensryche's "The Warning" was close to metal and that was my favorite band in the eighties.

on edit: Judas Priest is one of my all time favorite bands and so is Pantera, Slayer to name a few.

[Kat45]

70. I'd disagree with your definition of metal.

Priest and Maiden, yes; Cure, Ratt Poison, Whitesnake, no--I'd say they're hard rock. Back in the 80s, all of this music became the cool, popular music and somehow it was always called "metal." They lumped all the hard stuff into the category of metal, but much--if not most--of it was hard rock. I went to many a Wednesday night metal night in several clubs, and most of those bands were hard rock, with only a few being metal.

That said, my favorite band from that era was a band not many people heard: Cats In Boots. Great solid hard rock with an excellent singer and some cool lyrics. The band was two white American guys and two Japanese guys from Japan; they didn't speak each other's languages, but they sure communicated in the language of music. They did very well in Japan, then put out an album here and broke up not too long after.

Out of the bands everybody knows, I'd say Guns'N'Roses was my favorite. I'm still kicking myself for being too tired and blowing off an early GNR gig in a club after I'd gotten myself on the guest list.

[mvccd1000]

71. Priest. (Although one of my profs called them, "The Most Boring Band in Heavy Metal.")

Great workout music. I love that driving beat.

[Rhythm]

72. Danzig

Saw them for the first time in 1988... and 50+ times thence.

Wish i could have been in Baltimore a few days ago... heard the show was killer.

[mvd]

74. Ozzy, then Metallica up to and including the Black Album

Neither artist would be among my faves, but for metal, they are very listenable.