Hair Metal vs. Grunge

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I have made a blog on my website about two of the most popular genres from the past three decades. Although I copied the actual essay from RetroJunk.com, I made the introduction and outro of this outstanding essay.

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=4%2040810767&blogID=464662218

Hiar metal often has too much squealing guitar solos for my taste, and a lot of it is a bit too cheerful. I prefer the darker, rougher grunge sounds overall.

I prefer the transitional hair metal period (early to mid 90's) to the true hair band era. They still had long hair, but they'd lost the spandex, makeup, and hairspray, and the music tends to he heavier and darker.

I liked more hair metal than grunge, but then I like progressive more than either...

I listened to hair metal in the late 80's. In the early 90's I discovered death metal. I haven't listened to hair metal since, and never got into grunge.

grundge and hair metal are both good tho punk is the best yo I can't wait for punk altetnive bands like billy talent , three days grace and foo fighters to go post grundge this year tho lol.

Grunge, if you realise that Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains really aren't grunge bands, even though they were once a part of that scene. Bands like Tad, Mudhoney, Karp, Napalm Beach and The Supersuckers are the real thing, and were esentially an outgrowth of the Punk scene.

As an adult now, I slightly prefer hair metal now than I did back when I was in high school.

Since I am from Seattle, you would assume that I would go for grunge, but I am going for hair metal because even though it is mostly brainless, chessey, fun with virtrioso guitar riffs, it does pretend to be anything more than that wherethas grunge (although a short period time was real important in the music industry) thinks its the greatest thing since sliced bread what all they could play was only two chords.

I love both genres, but I am going for the hair metal genre slighty over grunge.

I think that the only time grunge rock had any real relevance was in the years preceding it's discovery by the music industry.

Grunge. I dislike most hair metal. I like a lot of "grunge" bands like Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Temple of the Dog.
They were part of the grunge era, so thats what I think of them as.

Hair metal is directly responsible for the over simplification of modern music, IMO. Almost all Hair Metal guitarists were simply ripping Eddie Van Halen off in some way, to the point that people got tired of hearing guitar solos and riffing (I always found Hair Metal guitarists pretty lame though. Mick Mars, C.C. Deville... sigh) of the patented Van Halen hard-rock style. Grunge was sort of a natural course of music in the sense that it is quite opposed to hair metal in many ways; stylistically it is very masculine, which is quite a departure from many of the bands of the 80's with their heavy glam influence. The chord structures are very simple and leads are even simpler. "Everyman" music in a sense. That being said, I don't care for Grunge any more then I care for Hair Metal, which I see as the emo of the 80's. Grunge, though, I must say, I am glad it came around, because I think I speak for many people when I say the time of the perm, the mullet, tight leopard print or leather pants, hot pink and green clothing, arm socks, or any combination of these, was definitely over, and I'm quite glad that we don't have to turn on MTV to see some fashion nightmare of a man playing a bright orange Gibson Explorer and playing mindless finger-tapping solos.

I don't like either that much but if I had to choose one I'd pick grunge over hair metal (I can't stand Pearl Jam but I liked the old Alice in Chains). I mostly like stuff from the mid-90s and later, like Radiohead.

I like Hair metal or glam rock. I could never get into grunge, but I did like Mudhoney. I think Dokken is a good hair metal band.

Poison is one of the better ones, because their music was so cheesy.

I always thought George Lynch was a fantastic guitarist. I totally forgot about Dokken. I still want his Kamikaze ESP signature guitar...

Can occasionally stand glam and hair metal bands, although I am a Mötley Crüe fan.

Grunge I have a strong liking for. Although Stone Temple Pilots moved away from grunge starting with Purple.
Alice In Chains kicks ass, too. I saw them live in '07, and William DuVall, the new singer, is awesome. Can't wait for their new album that's supposed to come out this year.