90's Hair Bands

[Dave78]

Wow... forgot all about Love/Hate! KNAC and Pirate Radio played "Blackout..." all the time. Love it!

"How Many Lies" is a great song from a band I'd neer heard of before... Wildside. They seem like a tamer version of Skid Row.

Ok, back to iTunes! hyeah:

 

[aeroplane]

Love the Candlebox video, though they constantly went out of their way to distance themselves from the hair band genre. Also, I seem to remember most "press" lumping them into the grunge and alternative rock era.

Unless I missed it on an earlier page, I didn't see any Black Crowes vids. When the first album came out, they used to be featured constantly in all the niche magazines that covered hair bands, so plenty of people lumped them into that genre earlier in their career.

 

[Soot and Stars]

Love the Candlebox video, though they constantly went out of their way to distance themselves from the hair band genre. Also, I seem to remember most "press" lumping them into the grunge and alternative rock era.

Unless I missed it on an earlier page, I didn't see any Black Crowes vids. When the first album came out, they used to be featured constantly in all the niche magazines that covered hair bands, so plenty of people lumped them into that genre earlier in their career.

Honestly I always saw Candlebox as a grunge band that wasn't afraid to be more accessible. They weren't anti-success and they played a cleaner sounding grunge. The songs weren't straying from being big and grand but the themes were still dark. The songs rather than being self deprecating dealt with others problems as well specifically being around friends in the drug scene. In a way the easiest thing to call them is a hard rock group with grunge elements.

As for Black Crowes I never got the hair band association. They seemed to be a hippy 60's revivalist band. If a bands a success though all magazines tend to fit them in IMO! By the way theirs a Candlebox thread:

http://www.classicrockforums.com/forum/f8/official-candlebox-thread-7641/

as well as Black Crowes thread

http://www.classicrockforums.com/forum/f7/black-crowes-7796/

if you're interested!

 

[Slip'nn2Darkness]

Honestly I always saw Candlebox as a grunge band that wasn't afraid to be more accessible. They weren't anti-success and they played a cleaner sounding grunge. The songs weren't straying from being big and grand but the themes were still dark. The songs rather than being self deprecating dealt with others problems as well specifically being around friends in the drug scene. In a way the easiest thing to call them is a hard rock group with grunge elements.

You pegged Candlebox Soot..
Allmusic Bio on them..
Candlebox rode the grunge bandwagon to multi-platinum success in the early '90s, despite howls of protest from the Seattle faithful who considered their music a watered-down version of the genuine article. To be sure, Candlebox's take on grunge diluted the punk and indie elements inherent in its original form; instead, they were rooted in the bluesy, classic-style hard rock that grunge had ostensibly replaced. Their resulting commercial appeal made them highly suspect in the minds of authenticity-obsessed scenesters, and it didn't help matters that the band hadn't formed until well after the Seattle hype machine had begun.

Also their style is arranged like this.

Alternative Pop/Rock
Grunge
Post Grunge
Alternative/Indie
Rock
Hard Rock

 

[Magic]

Lita Ford was rockin' it Hair style in the 90's......

Shot of Poison

 

[That 70s Guy]

Great thread!!

The early 90s did produce some really good "hair bands"

 

[Magic]

OOOooo! 70G, you posted a couple I have never heard of like Harem Scarem.

Great song by them, too

 

[That 70s Guy]

Forgot Trixter

 

[Whiskydrinker]

dont know if anyone's mentioned these guys.....ARCADE!!

Great song here

 

[Velvetclown]

B a l d