October 24, 2004
Hair Metal \ Cock Rock
Let’s say someone was to make a list of the best hair metal \ cock rock tunes ever in the history of anything. What should be on it? Your help, sexy ausculture.com readers, would be greatly appreciated.
Posted by Jess at October 24, 2004 01:39 AM— Filed under Common
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My knowledge in this field is limited to: She’s my cherry pie.. Tastes so good Make a grown man cry (Cherry Pie by Warrant)
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Yeah I was thinking that one too - a real one hit wonder of its time.
Also - lots of Def Leppard - Hysteria album, like love bites, or rocket. It’s funny how watching a tv doco on an album like that can convince you that it’s actually really cool music.
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a classic of its own
Unskinny bop! (the video is even more a classic of shampoo music)
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All these suggestions are brilliant!! I have been legally purchasing much of them (although I have a dodgy “local record store” so often I can’t find the song\am unable to “purchase” the whole song). So far I have\am in the midst of getting:
- Bon Jovi - “You Give Love A Bad Name”
- Warrant - “Cherry Pie”
- Def Leopard - “Pour Some Sugar On Me”
- AC\DC - “Back In Black”
- Journey - “Don’t Stop Believing”
- Aerosmith - “Janie’s Got A Gun”
- Scorpion - “Winds Of Change”
- Motley Crue - “Smoking In The Boys Room”
- Skid Row - “18 & Life”
- Twisted Sister - “We’re Not Gonna Take It”
- Alice Cooper - “Poison”
- Poison - “Unskinny Bop”
- Guns & Roses - “Paradise City”
I need MORE! MOREEEEEEEEEE!
PS: Does anyone remember some song from the early\mid nineties by a band called “Monster Magnet” or Monster SOMETHING, and the single had the same name as the band, and the singer was hairy with a beard and leather pants and the song was an absolute ball tearer? It’s doing my head in trying to remember, had it on tape at some point!
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Monster Magnet were awful.
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SO awful. It was such terribly cliched rawk that it was excellent. I can’t believe I remembered the name correctly! I would have googled it myself but I was so convinced I was wrong, I couldn’t be bothered.
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Nonsense. Monster Magnet were great. SPACE LORD, MOTHER MOTHER!
Ahem. Anyway, they had no song CALLED Monster Magnet.
As a side-note - The guitarist actually went on to form a genuinly good band, Atomic Bitchwax.
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I blame the infamous Taw who shoddily labelled it on my mix tape as “Monster Magnet - Monster Magnet”
Pure laziness. He will be bitch slapped.
If I recall correctly, the video clip was full of leather pants and horny ladies, not to mention fire. Exactly the sort of music I am after!
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And if the infamous Taw stops by here and reads this, I’d also like to mention his massive doodle and razor sharp wit, and let’s not forget his dazzling good looks.
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You’ll be needing “animal” by Def Leppard and “Paradise City” (at the very least) by Guns n Roses.
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I suggest raiding the Bill & Ted soundtracks! Especially for awesome bands like Power Tool. I might email you some.
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Hmmm. Have you just sent an mp3 to my ausculture address? It seems to be having a poo. Perhaps send mp3s to bustywench at gmail.com and see if that tries. That goes for anyone else sending festively plump files for that matter, bless you all :)
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Nevermind, the email came through!
Those songs are EXCELLENT. Truly divine and exactly what I was after. Who IS this band “Power Tool”? Or “Winger” for that matter? Regardless, they rock the proverbial cock.
If anyone is wondering what I mean by “cock rock songs”, just think “would it suit the Bill & Ted soundtrack?” If so - please suggest it!
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A bit different but still
It’s a bit different but I think it still counts, as all of them had hair going. (Didn’t they?)
Alice in Chains. Rooster.
Rock. It. Out.
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Alice in Chains were originally called Alice ‘n Chains. Had they kept that I think they’d maybe have passed as a “hair band.”
As it was they weren’t really a hair band of the classic type. I think you really had to be an 80’s glam rock band to fit in with that group.
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Anything by Quiet Riot? Whitesnake? Oh hang on…you mean best! Is there such a thing?
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Well, when I say “best” I probably mean “quintessential”.
Basically I need songs that are total unashamed RAWK songs in an almost sad but still completely enjoyable way a la “Bad Medicine” by Bon Jovi. I would have specified 80’s cock rock but I plan on including The Darkness in the list as well.
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Funny you should ask, i wrote a post about just this topic the other week.
There’s some great suggestions here, i’m going to have to revisit my tracklisting…
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Holy Diver - Dio The Trooper - Iron Maiden Symphony of Destruction - Megadeth Breaking the Law - Judas Priest Cum On Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot Don’t Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
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Uhm, apparently pressing the enter key doesn’t do anything. I’ll leave you to work out where the breaks should be in that list.
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Poison!
Oh whoops, you meant actual tunes and not bands.