>>130562706
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4sYKKEsqTc

I like Round 'n' Round

>>130562706
I like You're in Love

>>130562706
I saw them twice in their heydey in the mid-80s, on the Dancing Undercover tour and Reach For The Sky tour.

They were a hell of a lot better than Motley Crue

>>130564539
Crue were never that good live.

>>130562706
Beau Hill was a god among 80s producers, up there with Mutt Lang and a few others.

>>130564597
Crue were never that good

>>130564597
No argument there, in a way it isn't saying much that Ratt was far better than Crue - I just happened to see both bands at their respective peaks in the 80s which is why the comparison came to mind.

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>>130562706
hell yeah

>>130564606
well, they never could make an album that wasn't half filler

>>130564606
>they were never good
all of their records through Dr Feelgood were very good rock albums.

>>130564638
They were the only band to last the entire hair metal era whereas Ratt were only a thing for three years. To be completely fair Crue spaced out their albums more and didn't do one a year so they didn't get burned out as fast. Elektra seemed to be pretty generous and didn't demand annual releases as other labels did.

Lay it down is peak 80s rock

>>130564656
Twisted Sister are another example. Three in a row 82-84, tapped out.

>>130564597
Crue could barely play, everybody knew it. Their music was constructed in studio.

>>130564656
>They were the only band to last the entire hair metal era
you forgetting queensryche & bon jovi

>>130565815
I'm glad they had a huge hit when they did, if for no other reason than that Dee Snyder's testimony in front of the PMRC is absolute gold. They expected some half-articulate strung out patsy and instead he went in a schooled the lot of them.

>>130565245
based and Lay It Downpilled
also Dance Dance Dance, that intro alone is huge

>>130568990
and Poison

>>130562805
certified jam.

>>130568990
>you forgetting queensryche & bon jovi
Bon Jovi were only a thing 86-89.

>>130569225
>bon jovi
look them up and see their continued success during the 90s and beyond. keep the faith was released in 92 and sold 2 million copies in the USA and 6 million worldwide. their next album cross road has sold 21 million copies worldwide. plus their stadiums tours have always been massively successful

>>130569348
that other anon said "the entire hair metal era". bon jovi wasn't there for all of it

>>130564539
>Hell of a lot better than Mötley Crüe

That’s because Warren and Robin ran circles around that hack known as Mick Mars. RATT secretly had two of the best guitar players of the 80’s.

>>130569348
anyone who's seen them live though knows that they only ever play stuff from albums 3 and 4

>>130568990
Queensryche isn’t really hair metal

>>130564656
Don Dokken started hair metal and was there at the end, if you accept the premise that hair metal ended in 1992.
>>130569515
They weren't hair metal at all.

>>130569939
You could say Def Leppard although they weren't actually hair metal until album 3. However they could be cheating since their drummer literally got his arm lopped off which is why they took years between albums.

>>130569939
>Don Dokken started hair metal
i'd say van halen did as they established the aesthetics for the genre and every hair metal band basically wanted to be the next van halen

Cuckgau didn't review any Ratt albums so we're spared from whatever bullshit takes he had on them.

the only album I have of theirs is Detonator from 1990 which I found at a Goodwill
it's supposedly not their best but it's pretty good. I really like "One Step Away"
https://youtu.be/7x4oPr0DMTM

>>130569460
Warren yes but Robbin .... man have you even seen the Osaka 1991 shows?

Crosby was a great songwriter but not much of a guitar player

>>130572375
Shame Shame Shame is pretty tough too. Still though the big 3 are Out of The Cellar, Invasion of Your Privacy and Dancing Undercover.

Decent moments on Reach for the Sky but it really started to fall off then.

>>130562706
Looks like a band of office secretaries

>>130570610
mmmm kinda. Van Halen started the "happy/pop hard rock" thing but the glammed out / heavy makeup of Motley Crue and Poison etc was more of an LA mainstream answer to the NY Dolls

>>130570610
Van Halen laid the groundwork, but didn't start the scene.