80s hair metal vs todays metal?

Question

what music/era would win 80s hair metal or todays metal eplain for which one you pick my vote is 80s hair metal!!!!!!

Answer 1

Hair Metal mother-trucka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I wish I could be my age but back in 1980 so I could watch this AMAZING era unfold right before my eyes. Also I'd kill to get to know my favorite bands before they got big.

Answer 2

I still think that 80s hair metal wins because those guys were able to pack the stadiums. When I see stadiums being packed by today's metal artists then I will hand the baton over to them. Today's metal sound is very diverse and interesting but it does not have the same mass appeal that Guns N Roses or Bon Jovi had.

Answer 3

80s music including some hair metal is awesome, though musicians of both then and now could use some fashion assistance...my brother lists bon jovi as who he would most like to meet on his myspace...(www.myspace.com/ecoil)

he is also a musician, though not 80s style...

Answer 4

Hair Metal all the way!!!!! Gotta love that whole scene, man. I wish I lived in that time frame, man. It would've been sweet.



Hair metal wins because nothin' can beat its sleazy lyrics, awesome guitars, the awesome solos, and the fact that my favorite guitarist (Mick Mars, Motley Crue) came from that era, man. That was an awesome decade!

Answer 5

Today's metal hands down. It is so much more diverse than in the 80's. I never really liked Hair Metal, but it was alright. Today's metal is much better in my opinion though.

Answer 6

I'm going with the 80's stuff, too.



Why?



Well, for me it's because back then, the metal sound was pretty much "new" and "fresh". But with the modern stuff, it all just sounds the same. The modern stuff sounds too much like old stuff, which makes it boring to me.



Even though I can think of a few exceptions, most modern metal is either boring, or even worse, took metal in a bad direction (listen to the stuff coming out of Scandanavia right now where they mix metal sounds with female sopranos singing like in opera; now THAT is really, really, REALLY bad!).



Anyway, I think metal pretty much reached it's peak back in the 80's and either hasn't evolved since then, or (in the case of those Scandanavian bands) has evolved in a very wrong direction.

Answer 7

Today's metal, we have a better diverse of metal today than Bon Jovi, poison, warrant, quite riot, and stuff like that cause they all focused on theme of music which was nothing but cash and getting laid. Today's metal like Children of bodom, Dethklok, Behemoth, would school hair metal.

Answer 8

definitely todays metal, although 80s hair metal was amazing.

Def Leppard and Motley Crue are 2 of my favorite bands but still.

Answer 9

80s Thrash is 1,000,000x better than 80s hair metal, so I think it would have been a better contest if you chose 80s thrash vs. today's metal.



My answer....Today's metal by a moonshot.

That 80s hair/glam stuff aint really my thing. I like heavier music and talented musicians, which I can get from today's metal and not so much from 80s Hair metal

Answer 10

Today's metal destroys hair metal. There were basically no good hair metal bands IMO.

Answer 11

By today's metal you mean that popular nu metal/metalcore stuff, right? Jeez, this is tough. Both scenes are a disgrace to metal.



I prefer today's metal, I guess.

Answer 12

hair metal sucks.any Metal destroys hair metal. and i no i'll get thumbs down just for stating my opinion. i agree with jester and dive into a holy river.why be thumbs downed because of having an opinion?

Answer 13

you're really asking this?

there's alot more metalheads today.

80s hair metal is joke now....



todays metal will win for sure.

Answer 14

Today's metal hand's down, hair metal was mainstream garbage.

Answer 15

80's todays all sounds the same

Answer 16

You're insinuating that it would worth while to have the two battle it out?!



Please the hair was bigger in the 80s, the guitars were bigger, and the fricking solos were longer and louder, dude! Rock today is gnarly.

Answer 17

Today's metal.

I don't like a lot of hair metal.

Answer 18

hair metal. though alot of bands were less then spectacular, the ones that were good were great. none of today's metal bands are any good.

Answer 19

Van Halen, with one of the best guitarists in the world, Eddie Van Halen. Todays stuff is crap, like the NEW Guns N' Roses.

Answer 20

Todays "metal" is not real metal...it shouldnt even be called "metal".

Answer 21

ooh.... Hair Metal is my fave genre but todays stuff is good too...

Answer 22

yeah I agree Twisted sister rocks, make today's most band sound like elevator music



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs37NSLy3z4&feature=related



Alice Cooper, need I say more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xBNAwwqjkw&feature=related



and I saved one of the Best for last, KISS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4-5OtBx6u8&feature=related

Answer 23

Today's metal. I don't like 80's hair metal, and I don't enjoy 80's metal nearly as much as I do today's metal. My favorite genre is Melodic Death Metal and well that wasn't around in the 80's =P



Me and Jester are on the same page. And he's right, you guys are losers for not respecting our opinions. I prefer my metal be more about the music than the look, thank you very much.



7 thumbs down? awesome.

Answer 24

Dethklok. They get metal right.

Answer 25

twisted sister

Answer 26

80's

NO CONTEST

Answer 27

i can't choose.



i love both.

Answer 28

Todays metal hands down.



Even if it's metalcore or nu-metal.



I never really liked glam.

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Hair metals too soft.

And they dressed like chicks.