Hair Metal is gold

Pethead wrote:

Superjuice wrote:

Pethead wrote:Hair metal's popularity arose around the same time as thrash came on the scene. Quiet Riot's Metal Health, one of the early big hair metal albums, came out the same year as Kill 'Em All and Show No Mercy.

Now Metal Health is Glam?  They didn't even have that much hair:



Now this is Hair Metal:

Why I don’t like the label “hair” Metal, although I use it. Glam is also a tricky label, because 70s glam and 80s glam are quite different.

But I think a lot of people would agree that Metal Health helped make the sound mainstream that a lot of recognizable hair bands followed.

That being said, I don’t particularly care how anyone categorizes Metal Health. My main point was that thrash developed too early to be a reaction to hair metal.