Glam Metal Masterpieces

[@sunlightforthesoul]

I was born in 2000 but i truly love glam metal & the 80s

[@BrendonSnyder]

It’s such a unique cool genre of music. My favorite!

[@tapanim6576]

All great albums. 🤘🤘🤘

[@BrendonSnyder]

I agree!

[@dimitriosmetalos]

This is the reason we are here. For topics like this one!

[@srf6161]

Great albums....I graduated in 92....So all of these are in my era.....Great times 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@brucezidarich8141]

You are dead on with Ratt!! That album should’ve been huge, every song rocks. Great job!

[@BrendonSnyder]

It’s absolutely brilliant. I just think it wasn’t promoted right. It should have been as big as Motley Crue’s Dr. Feelgood IMO.

[@brucezidarich8141]

@@BrendonSnyder totally agree!!

[@ScogginsDiscGolf]

Detonator is the pinnacle of RATT! One of the hardest hitting records from that decade!

[@BrendonSnyder]

Some of the best indeed! 🤘

[@heavychevy4616]

another great video, love it! thank u sir

[@BrendonSnyder]

You’re welcome!

[@rebeccalangendorf3121]

Love the new series. Please do more. There's so many. So in keeping with the theme of high profile ones here's five of mine.. Winger debut, Cinderella Night Songs, Ratt Invasion of your Privacy, Warrant Cherry Pie and Dokken Back for the Attack.

[@BrendonSnyder]

Ahhh yes I love all of those too!

[@kennethhardbargeriii2798]

Great choices

[@gator7082]

What a great time period, late high school for me. Lots of great memories with these albums. Long Cold Winter is my favorite, and had stayed in rotation for the past 35 years!

[@BrendonSnyder]

Lots of great memories for me as well.

[@themindseyecmh]

Long Cold Winter is amazing, so many great songs... the album closer Take Me Back is my favorite Cinderella song!

[@michaelterry464]

Great video! I will admit that I was never a huge fan of Glam Metal. But with that having been said... You started off with the one band from that genre that I really dig! LONG COLD WINTER is one of those front-to-back albums where every song is a solid track!

[@BrendonSnyder]

They were really rooted in blues hard rock so their music easily cross boundaries.

[@benedictdonald4338]

Musically great, but the vocals are just too harsh. The guy could front a death metal band.

[@markblount8255]

Thankyou Brendon for awesome info as usual and my fav Glam metal time

[@147decibel]

Don't forget White Lion - Pride, Brendon. Just spinning that and what a fantastic album...! Second biggest missed opportunity in the genre - White Lion reforming with all original members! 😄 Vito's guitar sound is amazing with Tramps vocals.

[@BrendonSnyder]

Love White Lion and Mike Tramp. He’s one of my favorite singers from the era. His solo output is outstanding IMO.

[@147decibel]

Yes agreed, I like the new Mike Tramp's White Lion release. I hadn't paid much attention to 'Living On The Edge' on Big Game in the past but this new version is superb, along with the other songs.

[@42yearoldboy5]

Good pick with trash! I love that!!!!

[@BrendonSnyder]

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[@devonbrooks246]

Your list is top notch. Trash and Detonator are my picks for Alice Cooper and Ratts best albums. I never realized how great Desmond Child was as a writer. I think him and Jim Steinman could be head to head as for the best rock song writers.

[@SeanMorrisonRocks]

Great video Brendan....

[@nightdrive89]

Givin' Yourself Away should have been huge! It's one of my favourite ballads too, alongside Cinderella - Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) and White Lion - Till Death Do Us Part

[@heavychevy4616]

id like to add a personal favorite that gets very little attention... ALDO NOVA / BLOOD ON THE BRICKS ...big bon jovi & desmond child influences... one of my all time favorites in this genre... thank u sir

[@BrendonSnyder]

For me I’d consider that one a hidden gem. One that flew under the radar. But I love that album too, especially with Jon Bon Jovi’s involvement.

[@heavychevy4616]

@@BrendonSnyder yeah, that would be very appropriate on a "hidden gem" list wouldnt it... btw uve come up with some cool new video ideals lately, like these "top so-many of" list & such & i just wanted to put my 2 cents in & say im really enjoying em, so thanx again dude!

[@bobwire2414]

Love all of these albums! Can't wait for the next video. Hope you do some White Lion and Winger albums.

[@eardamage6870]

Great video. Some great choices. A real open ended conversation for sure. Always enjoy your morning videos. This deserves a part 2

[@DarthPizza777]

I agree with all of them but Poison. Even though I love Flesh and Blood, I personally think their masterpiece album is Open up and Say Ahh. That album is what Rock and Roll is all about. 🤘😎🤘

[@BrendonSnyder]

Oh I’m not saying that Open Up And Say Ah isn’t a masterpiece, but I still think Flesh & Blood is a masterpiece and happens to be my fave.

[@DarthPizza777]

@@BrendonSnyder you are so awesome Brendon!!

[@markbunton9919]

Great vid. 100% agree with all of these choices. Love every one of those have owned all of them on both cassette and/or cd since they debuted. Can’t wait for part 2!

[@BrendonSnyder]

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[@Stephen1164]

Another great n interesting show! Not to go off Topic but a rare time Amazon delivered a new release 1 day early instead of late, the new John Mellencamp album “Orpheus Descending” arrived at my house today it comes out tomorrow

[@samhouston1979]

Detonator is my favorite Ratt cd too

[@JJBolli1]

I certainly enjoyed this episode. And I agree with you. I have all of the CDs you discussed in my collection. I have listened to them many, many times over the years and still dig 'em. For me, they have stood the test of time.

[@jamesbedford3774]

Pleased to say that I've got all of them and I'm delighted to see them get some love. Great picks, and I'm already looking forward to the next instalment.

[@DanAdlingtonOnline]

I enjoyed this video. I look forward to more on this topic.

[@MariahTahmisian]

I agree with all of these!! Absolutely love them and love seeing a video highlight great glam metal.

[@ericmiller1881]

Trash was one of my first cassette purchases 😂. Great memories of that one ✊️

[@vaughanband]

For me, Skid Row’s first album was by far their best.

[@BrendonSnyder]

Hands down, I agree!!

[@gregorybrucemurdoch3755]

Like the Ratt t-shirt...did you ever check out New York Dolls, Sweet & Slade...all bands I grew up listening to 😃...Cheers, Greg 🍻

[@BrendonSnyder]

Yes I listen to Glam Rock as well.

[@domielakrabi3276]

Great video! Thank you! I was totally into "glam metal" back in the late 80's and owned most of the albums you've shown. I saw Alice Cooper on the Trash Tour, it was a fantastic show. Ad. Skid Row - it was definitely in the same genre as the rest of the bands, as far as I can remember, they thought of themselves as the better GnR. Looking forward to the next episode

[@Dm-ui1fi]

No interest in glam metal but I still watch regardless. Sometimes discussions like these, can show potentially what I’m missing and might get me to re try.

[@BrendonSnyder]

I try to keep the discussions interesting beyond just the genre that’s being talked about so that even when someone’s not into it, they can still enjoy. Glad to hear you still get something out of it from time to time.

[@Dm-ui1fi]

I listen to every video as I enjoy them all :)

[@stevebubar6129]

When I first heard Why trust you on my Cooper trash cassette… I thought he was singing righteous dude for the chorus.

[@YUR7x3otjt]

Never think of Skid Row as a glam band, it was my first CD remember bought it at a JC penny; Alice Cooper my last song from that album is actually Trash, the rest of the album is a banger! Always 🤘🤘🤘 for Poison!!

[@Scottmcgee1111]

Not a bad song on any of those cd’s. I would definitely add Warrant and Wingers debuts as well. Looking forward to the next episode.

[@JohnThomasii]

Great video and topic!! Speaking of glam rock, the 50th anniversary of Bowie's Spiders From Mars is this year. The movie has been remastered and being released to a limited number of theaters soo with TWO extra songs not included in the original film. I've never seen the flick, but if it's near me, I'm gonna go. Anyway, thanks for this video and ALL the other, Really look forward to them, dude. Thanks and IMO, you and Eddie Trunk are keeping rock alive!!!

[@kevinsmith7-7-7]

Awesome Brendon

[@nicholaskruger9460]

I’m 55. This was an era in which I was like please bud help Me and I went back in time to get into doors and Hendrix and zeppelin. Then GNR and Janes addiction came in 87’. Saved the day and Metallica I found in 86. I was soooo starved for harder rock than this holly wood glam crap. Then grunge came and saved the day. Then it died. Loved those two first Crue records. Then after thst they lost the fire .. money…

[@lateramae]

Is that the original bloody cover of 'Flesh & Blood'? I've always liked that cover (bloodied or not). Great series!

[@mandyschmidt7960]

Are you going to do more album reviews? New Foo Fighters, new QOTSA

[@michellerosebrown]

My favorites are Invasion of Your Privacy by Ratt, Long Cold Winter by Cinderella, Dirty Rotten Stinking Flithy Rich by Warrant, Open Up and Say Ahh! by Posion and my most favorite album Dr. Feelgood by Mötley Crüe.

[@BrendonSnyder]

Motley Crue’s Dr. Feelgood is one of the ultimate classics for sure!

[@zakkjagneaux2600]

Dude .. this is dead on bullseye 🎯. You should do a best of sophomore albums . There was always that sophomore blues , it was like the deciding factor if you were doing ten years or 2 years in the spotlight . Long Cold Winter being one of those juggernaut second records , although Heartbreak Station is still my favorite . It had little more southern rock country element to it .

[@BrendonSnyder]

I have done a Top 10 countdown video of sophomore albums that are better than the debut, see link if you’re interested kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZizc3WooJ6ZZtU

[@zakkjagneaux2600]

@@BrendonSnyder I will check that out , gotta see if you tackle the great debate , Too Fast or Shout ..

[@guylanglois1802]

Thank you for these. One of my fav genres as well. I love Detonator. But I also love Invasion. The debut is great but never one I first grab when listening to ratt

[@BrendonSnyder]

Yeah the debut album is my least favorite. While I like all the hits, the rest of the album seems underbaked to me. I love Invasion. That’s probably my number two.

[@guylanglois1802]

@BrendonSnyder mine too invasion deep cuts are great. But detonator is underated

[@bigdave9269]

Ratt - They had a video for Giving Yourself Away. At least I am 98.2765195% sure! Ha… I agree with you, for me the top3 Ratt albums are Dancing Undercover. Reach For the Sky, and Detonantor… and I really live Infestation also. That Cinderella record is an all-time, all-time for me! I understand what you’re saying about Flesh and Blood, although I still go back to Open Up more than it even though two of my favorite Poison songs are Ride the Wind and Valley of Lost Souls.

[@mumu-ib5vk]

total agree 😊👍

[@rafalmeidas]

Interesting Bon Jovi was involved in Detonator, Trash, endorsed and supported Skid Row and Cinderella.

[@quagsiremetalhead1401]

Don't agree with all your picks, but I will say that cinderella is one of the most underrated bands ever. I love the first 2 albums especially and think that their mix of blues and glam, with a different style of vocals is awesome! Also, I agree, skid row started off as a glam band. Somewhat similar to extreme in a sense where they started changing very quick after the debut

[@147decibel]

Nice top ten Brendon of the greatest genre of rock. Skid Row tops this list for me. Skid Row not reforming with Seb Bach (even for some shows) might go down as one of the greatest missed opportunities in the genre. The time to have done it would have been 2016 same as GNR. Unfortunately anything done in the future will be too late, as the band members will be past it. Robert plant was age 59 for the 2007 one off Led Zeppelin reunion.

[@BrendonSnyder]

Since there was only 5, and they were not ranked, not a “Top 10”….but I agree it’s the “greatest” genre of music and glad you enjoyed it! 👍

[@ИванИванов-у8л9г]

Very good, as well as many of your other videos, thank you. All outstanding albums within the genre, certainly. I may like less Poison (band) and this Ratt release but Cinderella, Alice Cooper and Skid Row are just great albums. "Trash" was the first album of Alice Cooper I heard (and listened to) not surprisingly by time and place, liked it very, very much (and "Poison" video did not do any wrong for that back then 🙂and it is good now 🙂). Still like the album a lot, it had been my favourite of all Alice releases till I heard "Killer" and "Love It To Death" by Alice Cooper band 🙂 So, along with those 2 and "Hey Stoopid" it is the big album by Alice both band and and solo artist for me. Sorry, for a long comment 🙂 Take care.

[@km1366]

Trash is a great record all the way. Id add stuff like look what cat dragged in, cocked and loaded, pornograffiti, dr feelgood, dangerous toyz, drfsr, and lesser known shotgun messiah and psycho cafe

[@matthewchance8835]

Not really a Glam-Metal fan, but Alice Cooper & Ratt are fantastic though.

[@williamtindale2768]

5 absolutely outstanding albums and should be in everybody's collections! Ratt being my favourite of these 5 but they are all AMAZING!

[@BrendonSnyder]

I think Ratt is my favorite of the bunch too! I could so use a new Ratt album about now too. Unfortunately that does not seem likely.

[@turntabillist]

Great stuff! I must admit, I am not all that familiar with Trash or Detonator (other than the hits). But yeah, the other 3 are top-of-the-heap Glam Metal masterworks. In order to be considered a "masterpiece", does every single song on the album have to be great, or can there be one or two so-so tracks? Unskinny Bop for example, is such a preposterous song, lol, and I don't exactly dislike it, as I never skip it when playing that disc, but despite its overwhelming popularity, it's my least favorite song on that album. Regardless I do consider Flesh & Blood a masterpiece overall.

[@nicholaskruger9460]

84 and 85 It was big also

[@paulbirmingham1339]

I agree with all of these. I would personally add Crüe's Dr. Feelgood and W.A.S.P.'s debut, Def Leppard's Hysteria or Pyromania and GnR's Appetite if you want to debate if they're glam at that time.

[@paulbirmingham1339]

@@tiborosz1825 Yeah, you'll hear both sides of the debate about both of those bands. I think they tiptoe that line. DL more so in those years. I would also add TS's Stay Hungry and the Crüe's Shout at the Devil and probably W.A.S.P.'s Crimson Idol to my list of masterpieces.

[@paulbirmingham1339]

@@tiborosz1825 Definitely have to disagree on that one. TS and Quiet Riot are the pioneers that brought the whole Glam genre to mainstream.

[@BrendonSnyder]

I agree with them all except WASP was never Glam Metal.

[@paulbirmingham1339]

@@BrendonSnyder I consider some of their albums 'Glam' or 'Hair' metal. As a whole catalog, no. But, like what you did with Alice's Trash. I would never consider Alice Cooper Glam Metal, but that album I would. Same as Ozzy, The Ultimate Sin I would consider Glam album that fell on the fringe at the time. You'll see WASP albums listed in prominent lists for best glam or hair albums. Always a debate with them. And GnR. I respect everyone's opinion on it and can see how we all view it differently.

[@jimmycampbell78]

I guess WASP not always considered as glam because they are generally heavier than most of those other bands. But they were very much part of that scene.

[@terrymunoztrujillo483]

Pretty much undefinable and genre defying, I would have to add Extreme AND Saigon Kick's DEBUT Albums, they are both fantastic and I still listen to them today!

[@amusementdude1333]

🤘Ratt🤘

[@dcinsc7]

Warrior Soul and Love/Hate: not glam, but I just wanted to mention them.

[@captainbeyond7469]

The first two Ratt albums are head and shoulders above the rest of their glam contemporaries. After that everything just sounded the same. IMO Cheers

[@jimthar17]

The only one I disagree with you on is Flesh & Blood. Is it good? YES. But I really don't like all the nonsense tracks and bluegrass stuff on it. Swampjuice and so on. A good majority of the tracks are good but the rest are meh. That makes it less than a masterpiece to me. I much prefer 'Open up' and 'LWTCDI'. Trash is awesome. I really wish Alice would go back to this style of music. I honestly haven't been into hardly any of his albums as a whole after Hey Stoopid. Detonator is VERY under rated. It was the first RATT album I ever bought and still love it to this day. I think the timing of it was what brought it down a bit in the eyes of most people. I've had it since its release. The first Skid Row album is incredible. Not a bad song on it. The one-two punch of this and 'Slave' was incredible. Honestly not a fan of Subhuman Race though. That sounds too much like a grunge album trying to be metal. Their NEW album is actually really good though. I've not heard that Cinderella album in YEARS so I really don't have an opinion of it as a whole but the songs you mentioned are all great. Night Songs is my favorite from them.

[@jameshairfield556]

1986 -1991? Theatre of Pain - 1985, Invasion of Your Privacy -1985.

[@BrendonSnyder]

Yes there are albums that go back further. There always are. It’s like Nirvana releasing Bleach in 1989 and Soundgarden releasing Ultramega OK in 1988, yet the Grunge movement is considered to have started in 1991 with Nirvana’s Nvermind and Pearl Jam’s Ten. It doesn’t mean there weren’t albums of that type before.

[@willietrotter6530]

👍🤘🤙🎸🎛️🎙️🤟😎

[@BrendonSnyder]

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[@jaredlitherland2670]

Wonder if it makes sense to combine your glam metal show ideas into one. Start the video with a few masterpieces (for folks who may not know the subgenre as well). Then finish with some gems (for those of us looking for great, lesser-known bands/albums). And I know the term "hair metal" isn't necessarily a complimentary term -- but it's so commonly used for glam. I think working it into the titles of your glam metal videos (in some way) could boost your views. Maybe something like -- 'Splitting Hair: Glam Metal Greats and Hidden Gems'?

[@BrendonSnyder]

Haha…that’s a great title! I may steal that for the next episode 😂😂😂

[@barbiegirl3826]

Please stick to using the proper term Glam Metal. I can't take anybody seriously who uses the term "hair". Glam is a type of metal. Just like Glam Rock back in the 1970's. "Hair" is just a physical attribute & has nothing whatsoever to do with the sound of the music. Keep up the good work. I love your channel.🤘

[@jaredlitherland2670]

To be clear, I'm not saying to start calling glam "hair metal." I'm saying there are likely some KZbinrs out there who'll search on "hair metal" when looking for content. If both words can be incorporated into a video's title -- that increases the (potential) hits and views.

[@jesses.9843]

Late eighties glam metal is a weird one for me. Some of it I really love and on the other hand I find lot of it very cheesy and musically quite mediocre.

[@BrendonSnyder]

That’s no different than any other kind of music. There is always going to be bands you love and bands you don’t. Just follow what you like and ignore the rest.