If anyone is interested VH1 Classics has Metal Mania weekend this week!! They are showing some really rare stuff like Shotgun Messiah, Junkyard, Exodus, Warlock, Circus of Power... in addition to the normal Judas Priest, ACDC and Ozzy videos.

Nice to see some real rock again.

Why can't we have more bands like those today? All the rock on radio these days is some guy standing in one place mumbling at his shoe about how depressed he is.

Excellent

But I don't think I get VH1 Classics

Me have no cable.

I need to tell my parents to pop a tape in and get 6 hours for me

They are showing Savatage "Gutter Ballett" right now... wow, I haven't seen this video in over 10 years!

They also just showed Diamond Head, Warrant, Skid Row, Flotsam and Jetsom, Cinderella, Femme Fatal, Scorpoins, Alkatraz (sp?), Vixen and Anthrax.

Im having the best time watching this, I wish my VCR was working They are running it all day today and tomorrow.

I didn't even know they made a video for Black Sabbath "Thrashed" this is great

Awesome! This is a sweet channel!

wish i had this station, poop

Diamond Head!?! What song! I have 'Unskinny Bop' playing right now...bleh!

They really need to re-evaluate their video choices on this show. I mean Hanoi Rocks? They were never close to being considered "popular" (or good). They need to play more actual metal, and less of these crappy hair bands.

And that Sabbath video for Trashed, haha, what a bad video.

Who the Hell is "Sweet F.A." ?

On second thought, I don't care and I don't wanna know.

They have Poison playing on a "Metal Mania" weekend?

Poison is metal?

Like it or not, "hair metal" or "cock rock" is considered "metal" by some.

"Nu-metal," on the other hand....

I prefer the term "hair pop"....

I have no problem with what they're playing, except for having that clown from Mountain guest hosting on Saturday. At least they interviewed Angus, Malcolm, and Brian from AC/DC this afternoon.

wow, I don't know what to say about that.... I'm losing my mind seeing those ultra rare awesome videos from Vain, Rough Cutt, Keel, Badlands, D.A.D., Exodus, Helix, Manowar, WASP, Testament, Savatage, Overkill, Dokken, Pretty Boy Floyd, Shotgun Messiah, Saxon, Lillian Axe, Kix and others.... and someone else is thinking "what are they playing these crappy videos for? They aren't popular." I'm speachless. Amazing how people see things differently... I think it's ther greatest thing in the world that they are playing these videos... and someone else is thinking... "why don't they play more popular videos?"

sorry, but I love so called "hair bands" and yes... they are Metal. it's some of the best music ever. They are certainly more "metal" then this so called nu-metal we have today. What do you think of as "real" metal?? in the 70's Journey, Blue Osyter Cult, Deep Purple and Rush was considered to be Metal.

I forget

HA HA HA Sweet F.A. Rocks!

Personly I think they are showing a near perfect mix of glam metal/cock rock/hair bands ( Ratt, Warrant, Dokken, ect).... thrash (Testament, Overkill, Magedeth) and classic Metal (Sabbath, Saxon, Maiden, Preist, Warlock)

Not trolling.... when you watch these videos are you thinking, "Wow, great skills... cool idea for a video... nice spandex usage."? Seriously. I tape All Request Hour on VH1 Classics because sometimes they play videos I've never seen before. Just yesterday they played "Never Say Never" by Romeo Void and I didn't even know there was a video for that. In that show they also played Uriah Heep and I sat there in amazement that there was once a day that people really took the time to write it, record it, listen to it, sell it and people bought it. Too each his own I realize, but are these videos really more than deserving an incredulous chuckle?

Auugh, I'm so bummed I missed that one. (Was it "Am I Evil?"?) I was watching off and on throughout the weekend, but needed a break occasionally when I just couldn't swallow anymore Poison.

I thought i knew my metal... then I saw a video here from a band called Hear N' Aid....

Hear N' Aid? Who the ****

Funny, I don't remember mentioning or making fun of all (or even any!) of those bands in my post. The main band I mentioned (Hanoi Rocks), is only the least bit famous because their drummer was killed in the car crash by a drunk Vince Neil. That is the only reason anyone has ever heard of them.

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sorry, but I love so called "hair bands" and yes... they are Metal. it's some of the best music ever. They are certainly more "metal" then this so called nu-metal we have today. What do you think of as "real" metal?? in the 70's Journey, Blue Osyter Cult, Deep Purple and Rush was considered to be Metal.

Some of the best music ever? Well, that is your opinion.
Yes, they are metal. Hair metal. I won't argue with the nu-metal part. And I would much rather have seen BOC, DP, Rush, and Journey on this show than Kix or Vixex or Faster Pussycat. Matter of opinion.

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Personly I think they are showing a near perfect mix of glam metal/cock rock/hair bands ( Ratt, Warrant, Dokken, ect).... thrash (Testament, Overkill, Magedeth) and classic Metal (Sabbath, Saxon, Maiden, Preist, Warlock)

We'll just have to agree to disagree. For the record, many of the bands you listed I do like. I would loved to have seen them play more Ratt, Dokken, Testament, Overkill, Megadeth, Sabbath, Maiden, Priest, Exodus, Manowar, Savatage, Wasp, and stuff like that.

It is the hair bands that I don't consider to be metal. I know, you do. Again, matter of opinion. IMHO, many of those bands had practically zero musical talent, and were just stragglers who "looked the part" and so were given record contracts. There is good reason some bands are forgotten; they should have shown clips of their "where are they now" right after each bands video, so we could see the guy from Kix in his current job, painting over billboards. (yes, that is what we is doing, as shown in the "where are they now special" about 80's hair bands)

Early Metallica, Slayer, Pantera are some popular bands that I would consider "metal"
I think "metal" gets thrown around way too loosely. These "hair bands" I would consider pop rock, rock or hard rock at the most.

God, this is almost as geeky as arguing about what science fiction is.

It's all metal, even nu-metal (as much as it pains me to admit it) fits in to a certain extent. From Sabbath, through Poison, through Overkill, through the ballads of the early 90's, up to Linkin Park (shudder).

For my money, anything they were playing last weekend is preferrable to most of the music released in the US today. Some people don't like the poppier, hair metal, while I for one was always bored to tears by thrash metal acts like Overkill and Testament. It doesn't matter. There's an energy and an outlook in heavy metal that trancends stylistic differences, and sets it apart from what passes today for hard rock.

There will always be common ground somewhere under this umbrella, and I'd rather be an old metalhead than surrender to some clown staring at his shoes yelling about how his life sucks.

as apposed to someone with 10ft tall hair, spandex wearing, splits jumping clown yelling "talk dirty to me"!

If it's Lita Ford back in the day. Sure!!!!!

Hanoi Rocks were never very big in the US, but they were a big influence on the whole late-80s hair metal scene. They have at five studio albums... "Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks," "Self Destruction Blues," "Oriental Beat," "Back to Mystery City," and "Two Steps from the Move," which was their last album and was released on Epic records. In the late 80s, early 90s, Geffen re-released their first four albums on Guns-N-Roses Uzi Suicide label.