New Wave Outpost Forum

This may be a "well Duh" topic, but I was at another forum, and the had a topic of who had more impact: New Wave or Hair Metal? intrestingly enough, you could tell who was New Wave and who was Hair Metal. One side was insisting that their side "rocked harder" and the other side insisted they "sounded better". just thought i'd post this. very interesting to me...

No doubt you should be expecting biased answers [:D]. To me hair metal was Led Zeppelin heavy metal dressed-up and amp-up to a comical degree. I think you just have to look around at the bands today and listen to who they're saying their influences were.

Absolutely. to me its such useless noise in music.

Back in '82 or '83, in either NME or Melody Maker, there was an interview with a heavy metal kid who was asked, "Is there such thing as bad heavy metal?" to which he responded, "yeah, it's called New Wave!"

This actually got me thinking about where the term Heavy Metal came from and I found this interesting post:
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists ... /0040.html

Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath are Heavy Metal bands. There

Hair Metal was like some huge, ellaborate joke that even it's most rabid fans didn't seem to be in on.

so much for "well duh". can't wait to sink my teeth into the music industry![:)]

[quote][i]Originally posted by dearly beloved[/i]
<br>Hair Metal was like some huge, ellaborate joke that even it's most rabid fans didn't

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>No doubt you should be expecting biased answers [:D]. To me hair metal was Led Zeppelin heavy m

i think hevy metal and new wave old school that is wer both two of a kind they both had aspects of one another the music was fun yet inventive metal had some punck in it were as new wave was puncks less angry sibbling both crossed gender lines and both we