Playin' Makeup, Wearin' Guitars
This post had it's genesis in two things:
1)My utter lack of inspiration today
2)An offhand comment by Chuck Klosterman in his his exchange yesterday with the Sportsguy, namely "The only great Dokken song is 'Unchain the Night'."
Leaving aside the momentous issues this comment raises (Does Dokken in fact have only one great song? And is it really Unchain the Night?) let us turn to the subject of heavy metal. Or more accurately hair metal, which is not really heavy metal (of the Metallica/Megadeth variety) but is really a bastardized version of pop music, mixing rock n' roll, hairspray and makeup, plus bad 80s costumes and videos, into vaguely retarded but strangely anthemic songs. This kind of music is fun in a 'let's-revel-in-stupidity-and-cheesiness' kind of way; much like pogoing about the bar after you've had ten beers and Jump Around comes on is 'fun.' In short, the perfect music for certain, vey specific, situations.
One of those situations is an extended road trip in a fast vehicle - like the one The Bunny and I recently took. Since we were travelling in a car that, from any logical point of view, Bunny had no business owning and I had no business driving, a steady medley of hair metal seemed the obvious choice for a soundtrack. Naturally we mixed up our musical selections - we did a lot of driving - but over and over again we returned to the hair metal standards of our lost youth. So, for your edification, here is A Tribute to Spinal Tap: Eleven Hair Metal Songs Ideally Suited For a Long Roadtrip (in no particular order):
1. Nothin' but a Good Time - Poison
2. Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue
3. Into The Fire - Dokken
4. Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
5. Fallen Angel - Poison
6. Just Got Lucky - Dokken
7. Gettin' Better - Tesla*
8. Down Boys - Warrant
9. Youth Gone Wild - Skid Row*
10. Rock of Ages - Def Leppard*
11. Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
You may note the complete absence of any 'power ballads' from above list, due to the fact that while on the road the Bunny and I ixnayed listening to such as being unsuitable for fast driving. But fear not, my dozen readers - I may just delve into the subject of power ballads in a future post, along with an extended consideration of the Dokken Conundrum
*Sadly we left Annapolis without these three songs in the CD book. But we won't make that mistake next summer, and the songs in question certainly merit inclusion in any list of this sort.
1)My utter lack of inspiration today
2)An offhand comment by Chuck Klosterman in his his exchange yesterday with the Sportsguy, namely "The only great Dokken song is 'Unchain the Night'."
Leaving aside the momentous issues this comment raises (Does Dokken in fact have only one great song? And is it really Unchain the Night?) let us turn to the subject of heavy metal. Or more accurately hair metal, which is not really heavy metal (of the Metallica/Megadeth variety) but is really a bastardized version of pop music, mixing rock n' roll, hairspray and makeup, plus bad 80s costumes and videos, into vaguely retarded but strangely anthemic songs. This kind of music is fun in a 'let's-revel-in-stupidity-and-cheesiness' kind of way; much like pogoing about the bar after you've had ten beers and Jump Around comes on is 'fun.' In short, the perfect music for certain, vey specific, situations.
One of those situations is an extended road trip in a fast vehicle - like the one The Bunny and I recently took. Since we were travelling in a car that, from any logical point of view, Bunny had no business owning and I had no business driving, a steady medley of hair metal seemed the obvious choice for a soundtrack. Naturally we mixed up our musical selections - we did a lot of driving - but over and over again we returned to the hair metal standards of our lost youth. So, for your edification, here is A Tribute to Spinal Tap: Eleven Hair Metal Songs Ideally Suited For a Long Roadtrip (in no particular order):
1. Nothin' but a Good Time - Poison
2. Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue
3. Into The Fire - Dokken
4. Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
5. Fallen Angel - Poison
6. Just Got Lucky - Dokken
7. Gettin' Better - Tesla*
8. Down Boys - Warrant
9. Youth Gone Wild - Skid Row*
10. Rock of Ages - Def Leppard*
11. Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
You may note the complete absence of any 'power ballads' from above list, due to the fact that while on the road the Bunny and I ixnayed listening to such as being unsuitable for fast driving. But fear not, my dozen readers - I may just delve into the subject of power ballads in a future post, along with an extended consideration of the Dokken Conundrum
*Sadly we left Annapolis without these three songs in the CD book. But we won't make that mistake next summer, and the songs in question certainly merit inclusion in any list of this sort.
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