When hair metal died

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Moxie wrote this in the Jani Lane thread, and I never heard the songs he posted, probably because they came out after Nirvana killed metal. (or at least started its decline).

Anyway, that made me think of another hairband that never made it big because they emerged post-Nirvana. Too bad for them because if they would have released "Under the Influence" 5 years earlier, they would have had at least 3 big hits.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh9vfWA59b4]Wildside - Hang On Lucy (edited by TEO) - YouTube[/ame]

Moxie said:
Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin - YouTube




They had 4 or so other songs that were just as big of hits, Cherry Pie just kept getting brought up because it was easy to make fun of. In another interview later on he said that he didn't hate the Cherry Pie song, just that he didn't want to be entirely defined by it.

A lot of their better stuff was on later albums when they didn't have to worry about trying to write pop hits for record labels.

Warrant - Undertow - YouTube


Warrant - In the End (There's Nothing) - 1996 - YouTube
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Nirvana helped changed the landscape, but so did Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I first saw Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden on Headbanger's Ball. Alice in Chains used to be a sunset strip glam band. Kurt Cobain said he was influenced by Kiss and Black Sabbath. The top grossing tour a few years ago was Bon Jovi.

It's all rock music of some sort, but after Nirvana became popular the record labels and MTV had to attach a label to everything. When disco died, that was the end of disco for the most part. The death of hard rock music also supposedly happened long ago, but it's always remained popular in one form or another.
 
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Hair metal was already dying when Nirvana came out. I don't recall any good songs after '89 and the world was ready for a change.

Nirvana was actually a really good band. The problem was that all the other bands that tried to copy them weren't much good at all...save for a few like Pearl Jam.
 
^ Not to nitpick, but a lot of the "hair metal" hits were 1990-1992, "Cherry Pie" being one of them. Pearl Jam's "Ten" came out before Nirvana's "Nevermind." Two of the Pearl Jam guys were in Mother Love Bone, which was what Pearl Jam was more similar to. Nirvana was more like the Pixies and Sonic Youth, whereas Pearl Jam and Mother Love Bone were more similar to straight ahead hard rock.
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B94tdKkY_s8]Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls official video - YouTube[/ame]

I was literally blasting this shit earlier today guido fist pumping to people at every red light
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_KeCa9MmTY]David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose (music video) HQ - YouTube[/ame]
 
^^ Looking back at David Lee Roth I'm wondering how in the hell he wasn't gay.

On a more positive note Steve Vai was the shit even way back then.
 
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