Are You An Avid Listener of the Glam Classics?

Let me say this first: I grew up in the 80s, and I love the music of that era. If "Kickstart My Heart" comes on the radio, I'll turn it up and sing my lungs out. For all that, I realized recently that I never, ever, get out a Ratt or Dokken or Motley Crue CD and put it on. I just don't have it in me to listen to the same songs for decades on end.

What do I listen to now? I love the new Lacuna Coil, Black Veil Brides, Avenged Sevenfold, the new Nightwish, bands like Electric Mary, Mastadon, older stuff like The Sweet (who I only recently discovered), Rodrigo y Gabriella and so on. Now, when a band from the 80s comes out with a new CD, I'll give it a go. I love the new Van Halen, for example.

I saw Motley Crue on the Carnival of Sins tour and loved it. I've seen them a few times since and I've seen Poison a few times and all these bands play the same set list every time. Does that mean the people who love to go over and over, are also listening to the same CD's over and over at home? I have to admit, Motley toured Australia late last year and I did not even consider it. It's not that I don't like it, it's that I've seen it and I don't see the point in spending a fortune to see it again. I want to keep adding to my music collection, and enjoying new music as well as continuing to like the music I grew up with.

I will say that Metallica are in a much better place. They are less of a "chart" band to start with, so they have a group of songs they do every night and then they change the rest of their set. As a result, fans follow them from city to city and they sell enough repeat tickets to easily do several shows in each city. Iron Maiden are the same in that they alternate between a "classics" tour and a new album tour, and they have a lot more scope for each tour to contain different material, which makes them worth seeing over and over. Surely bands that do the same set list are going to struggle to find new people to come to see them, and will lose more people on each touring cycle?

Am I alone in loving new rock music as much as I love the old stuff?

Comments

[Shadow]

I'm into a lot of the newer stuff but a lot of older stuff. Newer Thrash metal is definitely my niche with bands like Toxic Holocaust, Warbringer and newer releases from Overkill, Slayer and Megadeth etc . I still get the newer stuff from older bands like Ratt, Van Halen, Accept, and Kiss and i am very glad when they play it live. Granted to Metllica i feel cant do justice to the olde songs nowadays but maiden and priest can which s why when they do things how they are doing them its awesome! I mean Who thought they would hear Blood Red Skies and Starbreaker in 2012?? Anthing that rocks is great in my book!

[Metalboy!]

NEW ERA GLAM METAL & HARD ROCK
NEW ERA GLAM METAL & HARD ROCK ACTS*
(In order on my iTunes playlist, "New Metal")

Crue, James Durbin, Buckcherry, Van Halen, Tunnel, Zan Clan, Reckless Love, Nickelback ('Animals'), Black Spiders ('Kiss Tried To Kill Me'!!!), Shameless, Shotgun Alley, Stampede Queen, Bombay Black, Crazy Lixx, Miss Crazy ('Can't Get Enough'!!!), Gemini Five, Rock Sugar, Asking Alexandria ("Life Gone Wild" EP), Rockarma, Ratt ('Scatter'!!!), Crash Diet, Hansel ('Murder 101'!!!), Major Tom, Bad City, Slippery ('Two Hearts'!!!), Johnny Lima, The Magnificent, All I Know, Blind Date, Scorpions, H.E.A.T., Toxic Heart, Places of Power, Papa Roach ('Hollywood Wh***'), Stone Temple Pilot, Diamond Lane, Scarlet Violet, Heatseeker, New Device, Hot Leg (Justin Hawkins Side Project), Electric Mary, Jet ("Get Born" era), Mr. Nasty, Wednesday 13, Black Veil Brides ("Rebels" EP), Dirty Penny, Marcello/Vestry, Black Rain, Steadlur, Vains of Jenna (cover of Tom Petty's "Refugee"), The Screamin' Lords (cover of Fastway's "Say What You Will"), Loud 'n' Nasty, Mama Kin, Gunfire '76, Midnight Cowboys, Tango Down, Lipstixx 'n' Bulletz, Cowboy Prostitutes, Saxon ("Live To Rock"!!!), AC/DC ('Black Ice' album), Airbourne, Bullet, 77, Sideburn, Charm City Devils, Sunset Riot, Taddy Porter, Hell City Glamours, Love & A .38, Rival Sons, Volbeat ("Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood"!!!), Stonegods, Jetboy, Darlings of Chelsea, Blackwood Creek, Freakshow, Night Horse, Big C*ck, The Answer, Acey Slade and the Dark Party, The Erotics, Adrenalin Factor, Crash Kelly, StoneRider, Endeverafter, Fozzy, Crooked X, Wildstreet, Hungryheart, Cheap Trick ('The Latest' album), Sebastian Bach, Chickenfoot (Ugh!), The Last Vegas, Halestorm, Crucified Barbara, Dakota Fanning ("California Paradise" from 'The Runaways' Movie Soundtrack), Diemonds, Orianthi, Lynam, Saliva, Burn Halo, Theory of a Deadman, Avenged Sevenfold ("Almost Easy" from "Transformers" Soundtrack), Kissin' Dynamite, The Used, Stereoside, Treat, Whitesnake, Big Elf, Blind Guardian ("In A Gadda Da Vida" cover), Sabaton ("Metal Machine"!!!), Wolfmother, Jorn, Crossfire, Velvet Revolver, The Poodles, Dynazty, Loud'n'Nasty, Blacktide, Ozzy Osbourne, Stryper ("The Covering" album), Kid Ego ("Hair of the Dog" EP), Steel Panther, NOFX ("Eddie, Bruce & Paul", hahaha!!!), The Hellacopters, American Hi-Fi ("Hollywood Wh***"), SR-71, Skillet, Metallica ("That Was Just Your Life"), G'n'R ("Shakler's Revenge"), My Darkest Days ("Porn Star Dancing" featuring Zakk Wylde, Toxic Heart, Escape The Fate, Towers of London ("Freebird" cover), Wigwam, Sunstorm & Joe Lynn Turner, Scott Weiland, Tuff ("Dear Jani Lane"!!!), Killswitch Engage ("Holy Diver"), Heaven's Basement, Atom Smash, Vince Neil (cover of Cheap Trick's "He's A Wh***"), Million Dollar Reload, Sugar Red Drive, Mama Kin, Koritni, Rockets To Ruin, King Lizard, Bible of the Devil, Mad Margritt, Five Finger Death Punch (cover of Bad Company's "Bad Company"), L.A. Guns (cover of "Cry Little Sister" from "Lost Boys" Soundtrack), The Veer Union, Santana ("Guitar Heaven" or "Hell", depending on how you listen to it), Wired Desire, Skull Daze, Bang Camaro, Alabama Thunderpussy, British Whale, (Justin Hawkin's Side Project), Joe Elliot's Down 'n' Outz, Biters (!!!), Danger Avenue (!!!), Andre Coellho Matos (cover of "Separate Ways"), Hydrogyn, Slash, Babylon Bombs, Fireball Ministry, Kopek, Ghost, Babyjane, Supagroup, The Virginmarys, Overloaded ("Heavy Metal Highway"), Crank County Daredevils, American Sixgun ("Rockstars Never Die"), Firenote ("She Stole My Speedos" -- KILLARIOUS!!!), Sunset Riot

*Thanks to Allyson, all The ComMENTORS at BBG!, heavyharmonies.com for all the tips and iTunes for all the auto-tips when you buy a song!

[Metalboy!]

"300+ 80's and Early 90's Glam Metal & Hard Rock Bands You've Never Heard Of" coming tomorrow...

[Metalboy!]

Oh, yeah, AND on the previous list...

ACCEPT, "Blood of Nations"!!!

Huh-uh-lo-oh!!!

[Metalboy!]

Oh, and of course, if anyone has anything to add to that list, please do -- I NEED MORE ROCK AND ROLL!!! (BTW, Great Topic, Christian!!!)

[Spence]

Only just discovered the Sweet??? Better late than never, what a sick band!

[Devin]

Im not from the generation but i grew up on the classics, like skid row, motley crue, poison, so i love them, but i love a lot of newer stuff like avenged sevenfold trivium lucana coil crashdiet bullet for my valentine hardcore superstar, murderdolls, wildstreet, black veil brides etc/////

[Devin]

i grew up this generation with 80s stuff. motley, skid row, i love iron maiden, poison, metallica, i like avenged sevenfold now and bullet for my valentine i also love hardcore superstar, crashdiet, wildstreet, coheed and cambria, the list goes on and on i like black veil brides a little too, there newer stuff that is

[dj]

i agree with christian black veil brides are really great, i love newer bands like black veil brides, avenged sevenfold, slipknot, because they can put on shows and dont care. i still buy albums from older bands when they come out with new stuff, like motley, and i just got the new van halen, and motley has the stage show, the show is fantastic, they just need different mashups of songs........