1984 Sets The Stage For The Future Of Hair Metal 

A few more selections from the amazing year of 1984: Mercyful Fate - Don´t Break The Oath Warlock - Burning the Witches Manowar - Hail to England Fates Warning - Night on Brocken AC/DC - Jailbreak ´74 Motorhead - No Remorse Rush - Grace Under Pressure Marillion - Fugazi Toto - Isolation Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

Ryan and Metal Mike, just heard Headbangers Ball with the Guru. It truly slays, guys. Nice work. Can't wait to hear more from you guys. I live drumming along with it. Keep it up!

I've been rocking my way through this series and having an absolute blast! For like a week there's been no movies, no tv shows, no video games. It's basically just been living room to watch an episode and take notes, then spare room to research on the pc. I've picked up so many new bands and albums it's unreal. One of my favourite moments just happened there where you guys told the story of how Autograph formed. I'm a massive Autograph fan. I love all of their work. In fact just last week I bought the Fright Night soundtrack just so I could get "You can't hide from the Beast Inside". I've made a digital copy and inserted it into the 1985 album where it rightly belongs. It's one of their best tracks and it's trapped on that soundtrack. 3 episodes left after this one 😢

Krokus100% agreed 🤘

For a synth player like me, 1984 was the awakening and the most important cornerstone .. but we were still hidden behind the curtains throughout the 80s .. :)

My favorite album from 1984 is icon self titled amazing energy

HSAS Oh Even Higher Up Sammy Hagar is Rock’n Roll and Neal Schon is My Favorite Guitar Player and Santana Drummer and Billy Squires Bass Player! This is a Prized Super Group I got this when it came out and remember recording with my VCR MTV Had a HSAS Concert broadcast She’s Hot She’s Dirty! Neal Schon in his Guitar Solos with Journey will hit on Valley Of The Kings! Love This Album! In 2002 when they did a Planet Us Sammy Hagar Neal Schon Joe Satriani Deen Castronova Michael Anthony Finally HSAS should get some more listeners! Deep Purple Perfect Strangers 84 I am a Huge Concert goer!

Another great video!!! BTW, Michael Shrieve from HSAS was the drummer in Santana from 1969-1975. If you watch the Woodstock movie he is the drummer for Santana that does that awesome drum solo.

Looking forward to this one Guru!-all the best from NZ!

Kick ass video and song either the vintage rodeo!!!

I watch your podcast all the time, I enjoy it immensely and look forward to watching it. Great subject matter music I grew up with and I am 59 years old and a big collector of music and other hobbies. My musical taste is very eclectic which does take lots of time and money, but it is worth it. Still seeing concerts, I did see Kiss on their last farewell tour. Live in Detroit area after living in Florida for 25 years. As you know Detroit put Kiss on the map for sure. I also did see Black Sabbath's farewell tour and other shows. One great concert in 1984 that I went to was Dio's "Last In Line" tour with the opening act being Twisted Sister "Stay Hungry" tour. It was an awesome show and some dood was drunk and sleeping in the pavilion in his chair and Dee Snider woke him up and yelled at the guy and said "if you want to sleep at a concert go see a Englebert Humperdinck concert, because there is no sleeping at a Twisted Sister concert"!! He wound up the crowd and people instantly became Twisted Sister fans. My sister's boyfriend went to the music store and bought all their music the next day. Dio kicked ass it was a show I never wanted to end. Got to hear Rainbow, Dio's Black Sabbath's music but no Elf, Elves or Ronnie James Dio and the Prophets, lol. Dio could sing any style of music and you brought up some great memories for sure. Also it was an outdoor show at one of the best concert venues in America called Pine Knob in Clarkston Michigan I have seen countless shows there. My point is Pine Knob is not connected to Ticket Master etc so you can see a show at a much more affordable price. No bad seats, it is a bowl and has a pavilion for assigned seats, holds 15,000 people, free parking unless you go VIP. They let you in early so you can tailgate, rock out or whatever. It has won as being the best concert venue. For a while it was called DTE Energy but it's been changed back to being called Pine Knob. In winter it is a Ski hill and during May until September it is a concert venue. I highly recommend seeing some shows there, you can see shows and still grow your music hobby. So check it out there is nothing like a Detroit audience and Pine Knob.

Another great video with Ryan! Also, thanks for the member shout out at the end! Out of the Cellar would also be my favorite from 1984. Glad you mentioned Icon and Great White in the honorable mentions. My honorable mentions would include Reckless- Heart of Steel, White Wolf - Standing Alone, Wrathchild - Stakk Attakk, Giuffria- s/t, Vyper - Prepared to Strike, and Kick Axe - Vices. I also gotta mention Shire - S/T EP, Don Dokken produced it and you can definitely hear his influence on it. Swift Kick's Long Live Rock is another great EP from 84 as well

Back in the day I would buy a album 90% on the cover and the way the band looked on the back, a show on album art is a great idea, great show as always

Bryan Adams’ “Kids Wanna Rock” is one of the best rock songs of the 80’s.

Glad your cohost included Y&T, Great band! Growing up in Reno, NV. I remember many trips to California to see them many times. Mean Streak is a great album cover!

About time for some Scorpions love… my first exposure was in 95 at our local record store they had used cassettes for a quarter. Of course in 95 all the cassettes were 80’s metal cassettes and I’d buy bags of them. I used to jam world wide live like crazy. 95 was great for 80’s fans on a budget cuz your a 15 y/o kid 😂😂😂

Plunk… Ish… and Lynch… When Autograph reformed after the passing of Isham, they did so without a keyboardist so their live version of Turn Up The Radio that they were playing during the Get Off Your Ass era was like you guys are talking about. Also, Keni the drummer was the guy in the band that was good friends with David Lee Roth which got them on the VH tour. Steve Plunkett had previously been in Silver Condor as a guitarist for their second album. Silver Condor had a semi hit with the song “You Could Take My Heart Away” from their debut album before Plunkett joined.

This is James Anthony love the video this year is special to me cause it's the year I was born I was born in 84 here is my list of the 84 albums Kiss Animalize Autograph Sign In Please Bon Jovi Bon Jovi Black N Blue Black N Blue Dokken Tooth And Nail Europe Wings Of Tomorrow Fastway All Fired Up Great White Great White Helix Walkin The Razor Edge Icon Icon Keel Lay Down The Law Krokus The Blitz Lita Ford Dancin On The Edge Ratt Out Of The Cellar Stryper The Yellow And Black Attack Twisted Sister Stay Hungry Van Halen 1984 Wasp Wasp Whitesnake Slide It In Y&T In Rock We Trust Zebra No Tellin Lies Triumph Thunder Seven Hanoi Rocks Two Steps From The Move TNT knights Of The New Thunder Sammy Hagar VOA Giuffria Giuffria Quiet Riot Condition Critical Keep up the great aswome videos I will always tune in

Great video and great lists! It's hard for me to choose a favorite from 1984 it's either VH, Dokken or Ratt. Anyway a lot of killer stuff!

Nice shout out for TnT .you guys like any more extreme stuff? Bathory Bathory ,Trouble Psalm 9-Voivod War and Pain and Running Wild Gates of Purgatory all came out in 84 as well

If you like Dee Snider you should check out the two solo albums he did in recent years. For the love of Metal and Leave A Scar. Both are excellent. Heavy rocking albums with just a touch of pop. I had that "revisit a cd" experience just a few days ago. The album is Kix - Blow My Fuse. I've owned the album for years and bought it because of the song 'Cold Blood' , but I never actually listened to the album. So I decided to put it on a few days ago and HOLY SHIT that album rocks! Top to bottom bangers and not a bad song on it. I feel stupid for not listening to it for so long. I had a similar experience with High N Dry a few years ago (21 i think) I had every DL album around HnD but never bought HnD or listened to it aside from the singles. I went to the ONE record store in Orlando one day and saw it and bought it. I put it on in the car on the way home and it blew my mind how good it was. Again, I felt stupid for ignoring it for all these ears.

Do not start with Ram It Down. Start with Sad Wings of Destiny. There’s a ballad on there that you will love plus this was really their first real “Metal” sounding release. Great video guys! 🤘🏼

Thank you for mentioning Lita Ford-Dancing on the Edge!! That album made me a Headbanger. Also agree with Ratt, Dokken, and WASP. Hanoi Rocks never made it cus they sucked lol. Y&T I tried, but could never really embrace them.

Love Out of the Cellar

Not fair to day Neil Schon is hidden in zJourmry. Epic guitar tracks: Wheel in the Sky, Anyway You Want It, Stone in Love, Lay it Down, Edge of the Blade and I'm sure I'm missing more.

My #1 for '84 is Wrathchild - Stakk Attakk. A week hasn't gone by since the day I got it (in '84) that I haven't played it. Special ordered for me by the great Bob Plotnik (RIP) because it was impossible to find in the US. The follow up (The Biz Suxx) is equally as great. As for WASP, Fuck like a Beast was released prior to the debut as a single in Europe on the Music For Nations label (I actually have the 12" & the picture disc). It was hyped something like "the single they don't want you to hear from the band they don't want you to see". I'm with you on the revulsion for pineapple on Pizza...that will get you clipped where I come from. 😂🤣 and Summer of '69 still makes teary like a bitch to this day. BTW if you want to hear the origins of pretty much every Hanoi song, throw on L.A.M.F. by the Heartbreakers

Oh how could you leave off prince purple rain album just listen to the music and some of those guitar riffs. I know it's not hair metal or anything but it falls in place with Bryan adams which I love reckless as well. Still good lists. Someone on here needs some hair for hair metal lol. Everyone has short or no hair on a hair metal channel 😂😂😅 love you guys honestly love the channel keep it up.

I'd go for Def Leppard's Bringing On the Heartbreak as first metal hit ballad - 1981?

Per your Ram It Down convo - you have to add the songs from those sessions that ended up elsewhere - Thunder Road, Fire Burns Below, Heart of a Lion

Man, I remember the buzz around Stay Hungry.

I Still Love You on the Kiss Creatures album was a ballad

Great lists guys....don't know if you have heard of white wolf standing alone but it's a great 84 album ....if you haven't heard it before the song shadows in the night was a video and for the guru a ballad what the war will bring is awesome....greetings from Oklahoma y'all!!!

Back For More was the second single and had a video

Hey guru, new sub here. I think if you give Knights of the New Thunder a chance you might like it. TNT was heavier on that album. Listen to seven seas or deadly metal, great songs. Love the channel bro.

Ratt-"Back for More" was indeed a video. Funny video actually that featured a cameo scene with Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee from Motley Crue dressed as cops.

No love for the Bon Jovi debut?? 😭😭

condition critical - quiet riot wings of tomorrow - europe tooth and nail - dokken i admit freely, i struggle with albums from prior to 1987, mostly because i wasn't musically aware before then, and when i go back to those albums, the sound, production, and cheese-factor often lessens my enjoyment.

Check the song “All Or Nothing” off Slide It In. There are more good tunes than just the 3 you guys called out.

Other albums could have made the list iron maiden powerslave(not hair metal haha),queensryche the warning,yngwie rising force,Europe wings of tomorrow and one of my favorite albums to blast when I the car although not hair metal is metal church self titled(the first 4 songs will melt your ass!!!!!

Sticky Sweet was the tune…

I'm struggling to understand how you can rate an album so highly for 2-3 great tracks?

See an old picture of Bryan Adams he had super long hair and hey so did James hetfield

No love for kick axe on the road to rock .that album was all killer no filler i mean it had the most kick ass song for the drive to the concert back then "on the road to rock". Come on the song heavy metal shuffle. You dropped greatwhite for brian adams.

Lee Aaron is not the metal queen. Now give me Doro Pesch ! that's the true queen. I will pick the Warlock "Burning the Witches" album for 1984.

How about wrathchild stakk attakk

Tell ol buddy to stop trying to sing, he’s making Don Dokken sound good!!!

after 5150 I didn't buy a lot of Van Halen albums