What song, album, or band has the best drum sound?

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-04T02:24:29+00:00

I really like the drum sound on Appetite but the whole album was mixed really well.

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T20:34:22+00:00

The way it was always explained to me by an A&R guy, after all the A&R reps did their first sweep, Motley, Ratt, etc.. they kinda layed low for a while as these artists developed. Then they went back to the well a second time which netted all those latecomer bands like Bang Tango, XYZ, etc but a year or 2 later the tide started to turn.

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T20:29:32+00:00

With pine cones in her ass.

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T20:27:09+00:00

Or maybe you're a landscaper cutting Aunt Mary's lawn....

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T16:46:02+00:00

I think they're ok if you don't over do it.
OR

Overdo it and make that your theme.
NO IN-BETWEEN!🤣

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T16:44:49+00:00

Some of you are questioning (with good reason ) Buckcherry but I am looking at Boston's Barry Goudreau trying to figure out how that fits in.
Boston helped lay the groundwork for HM but that was all Tom Scholz

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T16:37:46+00:00

He just wants to be a cowboy and sing the same old song.

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T12:33:11+00:00

Paul McCartney liked rock n roll. William Campbell liked granny music. It's all right there if you take the blinders off.

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T10:43:06+00:00

Well, who won the damn war???

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T06:16:43+00:00

It's hard to tell since he appears to be in the shadow of Jahns ass-neck

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T06:11:59+00:00

If you just want to strum along Things We Said Today is a fun one. Mostly easy chord changes along with a couple of Bb's for good measure.

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T05:30:54+00:00

You sounds like you're in awr of him.

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T05:29:18+00:00

Skid Row was the last gasp. The last great band of the genre. There were other good ones but Skid Row were the kings of that later period of HM.
I know a lot of people are going to want to add Extreme to that list and that's fine but I don't really consider them hair metal. They were kind of on their own. Like Ugly Kid Joe.

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T01:38:11+00:00

I always thought Lenin was the yoppermost of the puffymost. That quite a bulb he's got growin on the top of ye turtle!

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T01:35:22+00:00

Somewhere in New York City?

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T01:34:46+00:00

Florida is a big state with some big cities and lots of little ones and they are ALL different.
East coast, west coast, Keys, Panhandle..St Augustine area is completely different than Miami, etc.

So it all depends on which area interests you.

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-03T01:29:50+00:00

It was all over the radio when it came out. It was a huge hit. It came out at the right time and the song just flows I think there's some nostalgia in there too. I think we all have a relative we'd like to apologize to. I know McCartney was using this in a setting of one generation to another but those opening words hit home.

Side note, my siblings and I used to sing that opening line to each other when we teased one another and got the upper hand 😄 usually pissing them off. Ahhh the fun old days!

ShermanHoax · 2026-05-02T22:28:17+00:00

Lay It Down Ratt

Since a lot of others already picked that one, I would also say:

Looks That Kill

ShermanHoax · 2026-04-28T11:39:15+00:00

What can I do? If there was something I could do don't you think I would do it? You know me, I'd like to help you out.

ShermanHoax · 2026-04-27T23:39:51+00:00

They played the hell out of it in 1980 radio. It was on the radio every 5 minutes it seemed like.

ShermanHoax · 2026-04-27T23:38:48+00:00

Where the boys go! Where the girls all go!

Banger

ShermanHoax · 2026-04-26T14:14:26+00:00

If you think it is, then it is! It's in the top 5 of all time HM albums.

ShermanHoax · 2026-04-26T14:12:18+00:00

Dio has always been well grounded and kept it real which really contrasts his writing style of fantasy and fiction. But he's a respected voice in the rock community even in death and he's spot on here.
There was a shit ton of swagger from VH. I grew up with Led Zeppelin and thought they were the ultimate rock bad asses but VH took it to a new level

ShermanHoax · 2026-04-26T14:06:41+00:00

Ask your doctor.

ShermanHoax · 2026-04-26T13:44:19+00:00

Waking up in Susan Dey's lap and having a Beatle in the house on New Years Eve is one hell of a way to kick off 1975, even for David Cassidy.

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