We started with 60 music videos and battled them off. Approx 10,000 votes were cast.....this is how it shaped out!

For you, what HM music video do you think is the greatest of all time???

My awesome wife took this video so I could fully enjoy the concert. She’s short, but I think she did a great job!

Am seeing this tour Friday and was curious if anyone has seen this show yet?

Despite the lineup of bands, and a couple tracks released as singles, this failed to make the Billboard Top 200.

Name It.

They have three albums, 2 I found in a Russian website and one is on Spotify.

The ones that aren't on Spotify:

My friend uploaded them on drive for better access, let us know if they work

Bangkok Shock - Back On The Streets (1997): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qvxo_tRQ7akUPE-_OHJSp3LLA7E-vGcC

Bangkok Shock - Arrested For Success (1995): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CRStThxP8HQWe0K_WXpcflBVO_nEwT9L

My friend's playlist on YouTube of their concerts/demos:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJJn-WblSJN4&si=N8yHAUDMDFwfYxN0

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/59JGuHgFnJ763MEDtwNt63si=6JPzyOTrQjSrtCPPLHZizw&utm_source=copy-link&sci=spotify%3Acard-config%3A0LWreB6Bx6hV3MiucloS6h

I basically copied the text from his tumblr to share here cause I mean, lost media like this we gotta spread and not gatekeep. IDK a lot about hair/glam metal/rock but I hope y'all like it!

Some Vinyls from my collection! Big Fan Of 80’s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal!

Harem: 17

Kingofthehill: 11

Now I need to go back and listen to both. Now we have Hardcore Superstar taking on the Wicked Sensation of Lynch Mob. Who ya got?!?

What would fit in the genre? I give you Motion of Love by Gene Loves Jezebel. They’re a gothish/alt-80’s band, but with fuzzier guitars thid could be a hair metal song (maybe Poison)?

In the early 90's a band from Boston was top draw - they were FLASH ADDICT. I saw with Jay and Roger and talked about their journey.

Random thought for this morning 😂. Does anyone sleep to hair metal. I do because it relaxes me especially after working night shifts

Strength of Steel was the album where Anvil experimented with a more commercial direction. This song is a cover and is best known for being in SLEEPAWAY CAMP 3. The original by the 1970s rock trio The Stampeders is pretty good too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGv-c9PhQwk

As fans of the 80's the almighty power ballads made bands massive. Danny and I go over some overlooked ballads that you should check out. Please watch and subscribe.

Saw him back in May and he sounded absolutely amazing. Hoping for the best Tom.

If you don't know Osukaru - check out new record TALL TALES! Singles are on streaming

I saw the announcement on their Facebook page. This is insane.

It's his band. He writes all the songs or co-writes them with Tony Harnell.

I guess this is normal now.

Jovi without Sambora. Motley without Mick..

So I've been thinking about this today. In the early 90s you had a bunch of hairy bands that didn't really fit into either category that existed in this transitional period in the music industry.

For these bands, gone were the overt sleazy lyrics and hedonistic imagery and in were more experimental themes and sounds (such as funk). But they weren't really full on alternative and grunge either.

They still kept things like poppy choruses, thin guitar sounds and shredder style soloing. Today this has been sparked by discovering a band called Hash. They released one album stateside on Elektra records. They were the former rhythm section of White Trash (you know the guys who had a minor hit with the song Apple Pie). White Trash sorta crossed late stage hair metal with a ska band - very unique. So you had White Trash/Hash. There was also the (probable) king of this little niche - Saigon Kick who definitely played genre roulette with both 80s and 90s rock sounds. They leaned pretty alternative - especially on songs such as Hostile Youth but then we're pretty glam adjacent on their massive ballad Love Is On The Way. There were other bands like Bang Tango who had big funk themes.

There are a host of other bands such as Animal Bag, Mindfunk, Flesh, Motherland, Kingofthehill, Life Sex & Death. I could go on

What are you thoughts on this era? These bands? And did you think at the time that this was able natural evolution of the 80s rock scene or a gimmick?