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Album Of The Week – March 28, 2022

On March 28, 2022March 27, 2022 By bigbadburchIn Album of the Week8 Comments

This week I'm taking a dive into the album that really hooked me into music. I talked about it in an older post, now it's time to get specific and go over the album in greater detail. I got the cassette as a Christmas gift a few months after its release and I played it …

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Who Killed Hair Metal? Part Four

On January 21, 2022January 20, 2022 By bigbadburchIn Controversy1 Comment

So far I've issued several verdicts in the case of The People versus Whoever Killed Hair Metal. I've found grunge, and by extension alt-rock, guilty. Guns N Roses too is guilty, having set the bar too high for anyone else to attain. And Metallica, of all people, is certainly also guilty of providing another alternative …

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Who Killed Hair Metal? Part Three

On January 20, 2022January 20, 2022 By bigbadburchIn Controversy2 Comments

It's on to part three of this exploration of who killed hair metal. I've already rendered verdicts on grunge, the prime and obvious suspect. I've also convicted Guns N Roses of killing their own scene by being better than it. Check out the links below to see all that in action. Part One - Grunge …

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Who Killed Hair Metal? Part Two

On January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 By bigbadburchIn Controversy5 Comments

Yesterday I opened my courtroom and began cracking the “cold case” of who killed hair metal. I visited the prime suspect, that being the grunge scene, and my findings indicated that Kurt and company were in fact culpable in the death of hair metal. But the fact is this – they didn't act alone. While …

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Who Killed Hair Metal? Part One

On January 18, 2022January 16, 2022 By bigbadburchIn Controversy5 Comments

Music has been rife with death. Many songs are about death, many great players have died, and many scenes and movements have also passed on. Hell, there's a whole metal subgenre about the subject, started by a band with the very name. But this isn't about death metal. No, this is about the death of …

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Album Of The Week – January 16, 2022

On January 17, 2022January 23, 2022 By bigbadburchIn Album of the Week8 Comments

I'm switching up the format a bit this week. There will be a post every day and the four others all deal with the subject of hair metal. So for my AOTW pick this week I'm not going to reminisce over some beloved-to-me work that I fondly recall and could write about at any given …

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S-Tier Songs, Vol. 5

On November 6, 2021 By bigbadburchIn S-Tier Songs1 Comment

In 1987 rock was king and it had hair. Everyone was on board the hair train – every new band, no matter their actual sound, made sure their luscious locks were on prominent display in press photos and videos. Many old guard rockers, such as Heart, joined in on the hair party. Rock some tunes, …

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