Hair Metal In 1991: Not Yet Grunge... NOT F'ING YET. 

Back in the days, "Slave to the grind" was everything to me. Listening to it 20 times a day... But now that I'm older, "Screw it" by Danger Danger speaks to me so much more. Want to hear about girls, cars, party... And Danger Danger is all about that...

In no particular order: 01. Katmandu - Katmandu 02. Badlands - Voodoo Highway 03. Bulletboys - Freakshow 04. Dangerous Toys - Hellacious Acres 05. Great White - Hooked 06. Dirty Looks - Bootlegs And not sure if live albums count, but 1991 saw the release of Fastway's Live: Say What You Will.

Good on you! Anthony (Hair metal guru) for praising these bands and albums, thank you for your service. Another great mention is Drivin n Cryin-Fly me courageous (1991) awesome band and album

I never heard of Shadow King. Thanks Ryan! Love it

Found your channel a week ago, bing watching every day. Really enjoy the long form videos.

Katmandu! That's a 1991 album that should be talked about more! It slays! Dave King of Fastway on vox and Mandy Meyer on guitar! 🎸🎵😎 "Medicine Man", "Warzone", so many great songs!

Great picks for 91! Some honorable mentions of mine that I don't think were mentioned: Nasty Idols - Cruel Intentions, Badlands - Voodoo Highway, I,Napoleon- S/T, Outlaw Blood - S/T, Brighton Rock - Love Machine, Crimson Glory - Strange and Beautiful (not a hair metal band but this album had elements of it)

The tesla song you were talking about is called… Had Enough.

Great year in music! My list would be: 1. Don’t Come Easy - Tyketto 2. No Rules - Kik Tracee 3. Slave to the Grind - Skid Row 4. Psychotic Supper - Tesla 5. Hellacious Acres - Danger Toys 6. Hollywood Vampires - LA Guns 7. McQueen Street - S/T 8. Lean Into It - Mr.Big 9. F.U.C.K. - VH 10. Tainted Angel - Southgang And so many more!

Here we go!!

Thanks for turning me on to McQueen Street… I had never heard of them before yesterday… holy shit. Both albums are killer. I love discovering old “ new” music.

That Kane Roberts "Saints n Sinners" album was super hard to find in the music stores here in Ohio when it came out. I was a student at OSU living in Columbus, Ohio and I remember going to every music store I knew of trying to find a copy. I could find the self-titled one easily, but Saints was nowhere to be found. I asked around and one clerk said he had seen a used copy come through at one point and to keep stopping by from time to time. I never did find it in a store so I ended up ordering a CD Japanese import copy through an ad in Metal Edge magazine. I still have it to this day. Has lyrics and notes in both English and Japanese in the insert. You guys hit on pretty much all my fave bands/albums from 1991. Good show!

Another great episode! Please do part 2… more honorable mentions: Mcauley Schenker Group - MSG Casanova - S/T Katmandu - S/T Dangerous Toys - Hellacious Acres Barracuda - Memory Contraband - Contraband Pink Cream 69 - One Size Fits All Love Life - Goodbye Lady Jane

1. Skid Row - Slave to The Grind 2. Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid 3. Tesla - Psychottic Supper 4. D.A.D.- Riskin it All 5. Mr. Big - Lean into it 6. Kane Roberts - Saints And Sinners 7. Ozzy - No More Tears 8. L.A.Guns - Hollywood Vampires 9. McQueen Street 10. Asphalt Ballet

Kik Tracee, D2, Second Coming, Hot Wire, the "F$CK" album from VH. So many great picks. Good stuff guys!

Great choices from u guys! ...this might be my favorite year..it's a tough call between 89,91&92...both of u had awesome albums as ur No.1's...but liked Ryan's a little better.😁...Bite Down Hard is one of my all time favorite albums🤘...take care Guru.

You hit one a few that would make it to my list for sure! The 1991 self titled debut from Harem Scarem is an absolute hook filled masterpiece imo and one of my top albums of all time. I also think Wild Boyz - Unleashed, Big House - S/T & The Zeros - 4321...The Zeros deserve mention:)

The "rap" song on Danger Danger's Screw It was called "Yeah You Want It", featuring background vocals by Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme. It was goofy, but fun!

1.Skid Row-slave to the grind. (MONSTER ALBUM!) 2.Tesla-psychotic supper (Tesla does no wrong) 3.Van Halen-for unlawful carnal knowledge (my favorite VH with Sammy) 4.Ozzy-no more tears (One of Oz’s best) 5.Kik Tracee-no rules (Very underrated band) 6.Kix-hot wire(should’ve been released a year earlier) 7.Shotgun Messiah-second coming(another underrated album) 8.Enuff Z’Nuff-strength(it was 91 and the record label just quit on them from the beginning) 9.Richie Sambora-stranger in this town(I know it’s not hair metal but I’m throwing it in there because it deserves to be mentioned lol) 10.Britny Fox-bite down hard(could be their best) Alternates Junkyard-6’s 7’s and 9’s XYZ-hungry Big House-Self titled Tyketto-don’t come easy Baton Rouge-Lights out on the playground

Though not really hair metal but they are not grunge, Galactic Cowboys self titled debut on Geffen came out in 1991 and is in my top 5 of that year. Great band not many people heard of...

That second XYZ album has one of the best and heaviest metal chainsaw guitar sounds, solos and riffs are smokin. Love that album

Good day Sir. Great video as usual. I'm younger than you so maybe you would want to hear from someone who was in middle/highscool during the reign of alternative. I grew up with hair bands but by 7th grade it was grunge then alternative/pop punk. Rap and r&b really took over in 95-96. I can attest to the fact that the genres co existed until around 93 where I grew up. I have a lot to talk about, I'm thinking of making some content myself. I'm only 42 you prove I'm not too old.

KIX hot wire sooo underrated, always in my playlist. Wish it got more attention when released.

You guys should show up your CDs, that would be an extra to your wonderful discussions. Great job thou!

Baton Rouge - Lights out on the Playground

Fun Fact for you, Michael Lean from Tuff once played in the same band as Wiley Arnet from Sacred Riech. Also Todd Chase from Tuff is the younger brother of Kenny Chaison from Keel and the oldest brother Greg Chaison was in Badlands.

I'll show some love to my old buddies KingOfTheHill, who released their self-titled debut in 1991. It was a big deal for us Saint Louis-based bands when they got signed, even though they didn't make a huge splash it was pretty cool when one of their videos would show up on Headbanger's Ball Jealousy from X Japan. This one is a tough sell because they sing in Japanese but they were basically Dragonforce 20 years before Dragonforce. Lita Ford- Dangerous Curves. "Shot of Poison" did okay as a single and video. Nothing groundbreaking, just Lita being Lita. Otherwise, you guys pretty much covered all of the highlights of 1991. Hair metal wasn't quite dead yet, but it was on life support. For all the fuss made about grunge, it pretty much died a quick death (in many cases, literally). Yet critics would have you believe it was this huge movement. And they were right, it was a huge movement. A bowel movement. Painful while it's happening and a big relief when its over.

Foreigner's Usual Heat album from 1991 could pass off as hair metal. Johnny Edwards is a veteran of various hair bands.

I'll say it until I die: Grunge was a Psyop. Look at the politics of all of those bands & look where we're at today. I saw Tim Skold a few months back & he played Living Without You. He has never put out a bad record regardless of what genre he's doing.

Enjoy the conversation and as a fan of the 90s and the 80s it's too bad that you're mocking the 90s because there was some fantastic music. The 80 stuff was bloated and I was ready for a change. Still love the 80s...but come on guys...Brittany Fox or Sound Garden or Smashing Pumpkins. Not even close!!

Also the third Britny Fox album Bite Down Hard again with great heavy crunchy guitars and big hooks.

Don’t think I have heard you mention the SPREAD EAGLE debut album if not please check it out, great show BTW

Grunge was all about selling anti-depressants to the masses. But Motorhead and Motley Crue were still kicking. Backyard Babies formed in 1987. Monster Magnet in 1989.

Great episode! Here's a confession of sorts - As much as I have nothing but contempt for the wokeish subculture that arose from Grunge, I do own and still enjoy particular albums/tracks from that era. Alice In Chains will always be standouts, as well as the first Pearl Jam album, Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, and Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie double album. Keep in mind though that this is coming from a 50 year old guy with a collection of approximately 5000+ Cds encompassing everything from Hair Metal to Thrash, Death, Power, and Black Metal, to Classic Rock, Prog, Jazz Fusion, and Soul. So I have pretty diverse tastes and am kind of a tough one to easily 'box in'. Thing is, when that whole Grunge thing started I was about 17-18. To this day I remember how weird it was one week when I came in to school in the morning and - literally overnight - guys who had been wearing Poison shirts the day before were suddenly in plaid shirts and Doc Martens. LOL! It really was THAT sudden. Never seen anything like it before or since. And hey - I'll be honest, I soon followed suit! Nobodys perfect, right!?! LOL! My friends and I had always been the 'Heavy Metal guys' - I.e. Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer - but I was also the ONE who was deeply into Warrant, Slaughter, Danger Danger, Winger, and Trixter as well. So for me, adding this new 90s stuff to my repertoire was no big deal. I could never understand why ALL of it couldn't coexist, and frankly, I still don't get it. I mean, it's not like you want to eat the same meal every day, so why would you listen to the same music all the time!?! After all, music is food for the soul and different moods/states of mind require different flavours of tunage to satisfy. That said, at this age, in retrospect as far as the whole 'Hair vs. Grunge' war is concerned, while I can still appreciate certain offerings from the Grunge era, overall I don't feel it's aged very well. The positive tone and message of the Hair Metal bands is imo FAR more universal, memorable, and uplifting to anything that slithered out of that weird Seattle scene. At the end of the day, I think most people want to pump their fist to a catchy, pounding riff, or feel their heartstrings pulled by a soulful ballad than to wallow in the monodrone, shoegazing monotony of fake 90s suburban despair. For me, Hair Metal takes the win by a country fucking mile!I

This is James Anthony another great video love you guys always learn alot my albums Great White Hooked Dangerous Toys Hellacious Acres Skid Row Slave To The Grind Mcqueen Street self titled album Danger Danger Screw It Britny Fox Bite Down Hard Bullet Boys Freak Show Mr.Big Lean Into It Tesla Psychotic Supper Enuff Znuff Strength Alice Cooper Hey Stoopid David Lee Roth Little Ain't Enough Tuff What Gose Around Comes Around Kix Hot Wire White Lion Main Attraction Europe Prisoners In Paradise LA Guns Hollywood Vampires Those are my pics as always thanks for the great content you guys rule

Did Hair metal even die at all? I don't think it did. It just took a long nap. This might be a controversial opinion, but I love me some Grunge from time to time depending on my mood.

McAuley Schenker Group released their self-titled album (MSG) in 91. If you haven't heard it, or just forgot it ever existed, give it a listen. This band didn't get nearly enough credit.

The only nice things I can say about "Grunge"... A) nirvana had some good punk rock. The stupid Grunge aspects are pure cheese, but their punk rock side was cool. B) Pearl Jam's "Ten" had some cool guitar work, like you can tell Gossard & Mccready had a big hand in the writing of the debut before Ed-Ved took over. C) Chris Cornel had an epic voice, but the music was boring and the darkness of the Grunge image is cheesy. Anyone who makes fun of the cheesyness of hair metal isn't paying attention to the cheesyness of Grunge and all the stuff that came after. Hair metal is at least fun, thank you guys for always bringing that up.

Once again, another great episode. That KIX - Hot Wire cd is awesome. Love the last song Hee Bee Jee Bee Crush. What a banger !! Have ya listened to the band Funny Money with Steve Whiteman? Some decent stuff. The song of the same name(Funny Money) is very catchy. Thanx for another great watch !!

Mr. Big Lean into it is definitely one of the greats from 1991 but also Axel Rudi Pell Nasty reputation and Europe prisoners in paradise

Atlantic pulled the funding on Shadow King to self sabotage it so Lou Gramm would return to Foreigner. He told me this himself after one of his solo shows in Biloxi, MS a few years back.

Enjoyable watch, checked out some of the bands I didn't know ( thanks for that). Not much of a grunge fan either although I really like Pearl Jams first two albums, also I rather like the blues and love the harmonica, cant remember who it was ( maybe Babylon AD ) someone had a song with a banjo in, loved that as well

I bought Skid Slave and VH FUCK the same day at a Sam Goody at the mall . Summer before I would enter high school . How good was Runaround on VH , the Skid record by far would be their best work . MTV found grunge , seeked it out , rolled dice with Teen Spirit and subsequently got even more richer , influential, and would lead to them becoming the shitbox they exist as now . Bands from the hard rock hair metal scene ruled for a solid decade , made great records and rolled great tours .

Prisoners in Paradise is a gem you can still listening to nowadays.

Hey Guru.The Wild Horses/Eyes section got me thinking…what about “right album/wrong single” video?

Kane Roberts is a killer saw him with Alice Cooper on the Raise Your Fists tour. Finally some love for XYZ. A band you are sadly missing are Pretty Maids!! They kick ass and have a huge catalog!!

Norum left Europe right before “The Final Countdown” single took off in America. Kee Marcello first appeared in the music video for “Rock The Night” and then was also in the album’s third and fourth videos for “Carrie” and “Cherokee”.

XYZ Hungry. Bad ass album. 1991.

I like good grunge bands like Alice In Chains and Soundgarden. I don't care what anyone has to say about the genre.

Please do 1996-2000! Maybe just a couple each. I'd love to see someone show that there were still stuff coming out in those years

Dare (Darren Wharton's band) "Blood from stone", all killers, no fillers album.

Checkout erotic suicide 1994 glam band from Oklahoma

Ryan said at 2:45 and You said at 3:45 I agree. I was 16 in 92 and I was abused as a kid, like if my stepdad found out I was watching MTV I got my ass kicked, so seeing Motley, Poison, Warrant etc. on stage was MY escape and it was exciting and then here came this godamn shit where they dressed sad and depressed, fuck that garbage shit! I lived that depressed shit as a child and it wasnt fun. Most of the kids I knew that listened to grunge and heavier metal that made fun of my music "hair metal/glam" were kids that had both parents and had all the new toys and lived in the good part of town, had dinner everyday etc. Touches a nerve with me.

Bang Tango Dancin on Coals was my go-to in 91, that and Mother Love Bone Apple. MLB was not Grunge, and I am not sure what would have happened had Andy lived. For one thing we probably wouldn't have to be listening to Eddie Vedder

1991 is probably the best year in Rock/metal. I think Ryan needs needs to open his ears a bit - he asks where are those bands now? Well Pearl Jam are currently selling out stadiums in US and Europe so..........I love both hair metal/rock and Grunge but will always lean towards pre-grunge metal/rock. Seb is a grade A dick but those 2 albums (even though I love the 3rd as well) are pure Gold! You missed LA Guns - Hollywood Vampires The Cult - Ceremony Metallica - The Black Album

Bang Tango - Dancing On Coals 👌

Were you able to check out the band Circus album coming for you?

Hey guys just wondering what happened to Havana Black they had a great album in 91

Hey guru, check out a band from 91 call Tall Stories...lmk what you think

Warrior Soul - Drugs, God and the New Republic ✊

Some say Blood From Stone is the worst Dare album since it is hard rock not AOR. I don't think at all. This is their best. Such a great album.

How about some love for Kingdom Come There's a whole lot of albums you may not know about

@hairmetakguru. Have you ever heard of Australia’s ROSE TATTOO, GNR were huge fans.

He said where are all the grunge bands in stadiums their all dead

Good job Guru.. another great video.. check it out I just uploaded some Vinnie Vincent invasion...and Johnny Crash Bang Tango

I call it the Grungepocalypse. I hate grunge then, I hate grunge now. It's atonal depressing garbage.

Early 90s for me, Hair Metal was no longer on my radar by then....I had converted to Thrash in mid 80s after hearing Girls, Girls, Girls, Dancing Under Cover and Night Songs....no thanks. And hearing Firehouse didn't help at all. For the record I hate Grunge. Also feel the industry started to push and dictate HipHop to the masses....and my heart was broken when they canceled Headbangers Ball.

Alright. First off. How the fuck does the best album of 1991, maybe the best album ever, Mr. Big Lean Into It not make either of your lists? Having said that, my honorable mentions: Asphalt Ballet - S/T Neverland - S/t Thunder - Laughing on Judgement Day

The song If My Mind Is Evil is one of my favorite Vito songs, he just rips on it. Would love to see James Lomenzo to get Dave/Megadeth to cover it. Mike seems to release some inner Dave in his singing in parts of this song, would fit in a Megadeth set perfect, imo.

5 years of the same gang choruses really got annoying and redundant. Thank God for the 90s

No such thing as "Hair Metal." It's either good music or bad music. The image was secondary.

Dude wtf was with you and the lack of love for VH? They literally created the genre we’re talking about here!!! 😂

Glam Metal NOT F'in Hair the record Co. made Hair Metal up to hurt / make fun of the Bands we all Love !!! Do some research Dudes come on !!

Tuff’s song American Hair Band is a classic.