The 21st Century Revival of 1970s/80s Rock and Hair Metal

[PTRACER]

By the early-90s, it was MEGA unfashionable.....Seems like people are starting to see sense in the 21st Century and are playing what I call "REAL" rock music. Bands are still able to pull it off without it sounding dated. Groups like My Chemical Romance are kidding themselves by playing their poncey music and thinking it's rock.


The Darkness was the first real successful glam band of the 00s:


Wigwam released a few pretty good songs in this style around the same time, but were pretty much unknown in the UK:


Another one I discovered today is Steel Panther...some of their stuff is pretty good:


Anything else to add?

[James B]

The latter two sound like bad Bon Jovi parodies (sorry)

The Darkness were awesome, though. Got both albums. Just a shame Justin's coke habit got in the way

[caneparo]

Steel Panthers are basically a spoof band, that recall the 80's glam metal with irony, with an eye to Spinal Tap. I also discovered them recently but they're around by a couple of years. Indeed they are very good musicians; the guitarist was the axeman of Fight, the band that Rob Halford put up after he left Judas Priest.
I don't know WIG WAM but I've heard Darkness first album. When I listened to I believe a thing called love I thought, "finally a band that records a guitar solo", but the whole tracklist of the album is boring their sound production is cleaner than the original counterpart but they sound really floppy and are missing the punch of real r n' r. I've heard a song yesterday in the radio and the falsetto voice of the singer is boring because he uses them in every song. Love is only a feeling was indeed a good song.

There has a been a thrash metal recently, even if I haven't listened to this much, the guitarist of my band lent me the cd of Lazarus AD, a song of whom he took the name of the band from.

[Cheeveer]

Oh fuck, what you posted PT is not rock & roll, not by a long shot!

Well, overall the 80's rock scene was absolutely atrocious. All gimmicks and dick waving, fucking hell. Glam metal is better off dead.

[Jesper Hvid]

The 80s rock scene was purely down to Heavy Metal in a variety of shades and forms. Some of it was atrocious. Overall, it was bloody great.

[PTRACER]

[DoubleFault]

The latter two sound like bad Bon Jovi parodies (sorry)

The Darkness were awesome, though. Got both albums. Just a shame Justin's coke habit got in the way

Got in the way the first time round. Watch this space.

[Jesper Hvid]

The latter two sound like bad Bon Jovi parodies (sorry)

The Darkness were awesome, though. Got both albums. Just a shame Justin's coke habit got in the way

Got in the way the first time round. Watch this space.

Bon Jovi was a Van Halen parody. Van Halen was a jukebox version of Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin was an uptempo blues rock injection. Blues rock was slow jazz, with marijuana instead of hard drugs. Jazz was inspired by traffic noises of the early American era of automobiles as transportation. Heavy Metal was born from the industrial hells of England and Germany in the late 70s. Now we are full circle, rock wise.

Classical music was born from the freedom, love, and beauty of the soul of man.

What went wrong here was Industrialisation. Mechanical man putting the n***** out of business, and making the wheels turn, instead. We've had total war ever since.

[Jesper Hvid]

Silence for close to 25 years, and then this, the metal gene (not Simmons) doesn't always shrivel up its own arse. This is beautiful, a 70s band who hangovered the 80s, rehabbed the 90s, hadn't a clue about the 00s, and retroed themselves strangely, had this album been released in their own age and time, Meat Loaf would have packed it in.