Hair Metal At Eleven
Every cowboy sings a sad, sad song.
February 25, 2010 11:00 pm
Posted in: Music
27 Comments
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27 Responses
tyrese - February 25, 2010 | 11:05 pm · Link
Brett Michaels wrote this song in a laundromat after he found out his stripper girlfriend had been cheating on him.
When I heard that story, I knew god was in his heaven, and all was right with the world.
Morbo - February 25, 2010 | 11:07 pm · Link
Hey, it’s Olympics time. You think this is unrelated to your post? It is not. Swedish Power Metal bands love curling. Well, at least one.
Oh, but they suck at it.
kommrade reproductive vigor - February 25, 2010 | 11:09 pm · Link
This song is not metal. This song isn’t even hair metal. This song is 100% high fructose corn syrup and a deadly hazard to anyone diabetics in the vicinity. A pox on you for digging it out of the back-vaults of the internons.
Moonbatting Average - February 25, 2010 | 11:10 pm · Link
Poison? Whatever… Poison, on the other hand? Awesome.
mr. whipple - February 25, 2010 | 11:12 pm · Link
Bah. Last night I go to bed early, and John posts Zappa. Tonight I’m up and get…....this.
God hates me.
Morbo - February 25, 2010 | 11:17 pm · Link
@kommrade reproductive vigor: Quite right, the “metal” part of hair metal is and always has been an unfortunate misnomer.
Yutsano - February 25, 2010 | 11:18 pm · Link
Anyone else having bizarre WP issues tonight? Or is the FSM displeased with me as well?
JGabriel - February 25, 2010 | 11:25 pm · Link
Poison? Good lord, what next?
Barry Manilow? Air Supply? Celine Dion?
Sigh.
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JGabriel - February 25, 2010 | 11:29 pm · Link
Here’s some old Outkast to flush the Poison from everyone’s system.
Hard to believe that was released before invading Iraq, or even 9/11.
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New Yorker - February 25, 2010 | 11:35 pm · Link
@JGabriel:
Appreciated, but everyone knows the only real Poison antitode is “Beavis and Butt-head”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suyPtIwHohI
Will - February 25, 2010 | 11:35 pm · Link
This song is the ultimate karaoke fallback. Anyone can sing it, and everyone loves it.
PeakVT - February 25, 2010 | 11:35 pm · Link
The BBC just had someone from American Thinker on to talk about the health care shindig. WTF?
JGabriel - February 25, 2010 | 11:38 pm · Link
Will:
I, for one, most assuredly do not.
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Will - February 25, 2010 | 11:38 pm · Link
@PeakVT:
that’s a goddamn crime.
Will - February 25, 2010 | 11:40 pm · Link
@JGabriel: @JGabriel:
Were you in junior high when this song came out and danced to it with a girl at the school mixer? If no on all counts, then I understand. But that was me and many others.
The Dangerman - February 25, 2010 | 11:40 pm · Link
I wonder what Winger is doing these days.
Yutsano - February 25, 2010 | 11:41 pm · Link
@Will: Ha. The number of karaoke crash and burns I have seen on this song alone I could write a volume about. It’s not hard to do at all (and I freely confess I’m a karaoke ringer) but even then it can be sung very very badly.
Comrade Kevin - February 25, 2010 | 11:42 pm · Link
@Will: I hate this song. Hate hate hate hate hate this song. Hate it. Hate every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hate the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hate the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.
robertdsc - February 25, 2010 | 11:57 pm · Link
@Will:
This.
JGabriel - February 26, 2010 | 12:07 am · Link
Will:
In ‘88? No I was 23, and into The Replacements, Sonic Youth, Husker Du, Prince, Jane Siberry, Rickie Lee Jones, New Order, REM, Let’s Active, NWA, The Geto Boys, The Pixies, etc.
But when I was in junior high, the big slow dance songs were Freebird, Stairway to Heaven, and Come Sail Away.
And I hated every one of those fucking songs too, still do. So I’m guessing I’d feel the same way about Poison even if I’d been in junior high at the time.
Anyway, I’m just a long time pseudo-hipster douchebag asshole, gone slightly overweight and slightly bald – like Prufrock. Nothing personal.
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MikeJ - February 26, 2010 | 12:20 am · Link
@JGabriel: Let’s Active? Damn, the puppy video would play really well here, no?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU_bJKRSf_A
JGabriel - February 26, 2010 | 12:30 am · Link
@MikeJ: Wow. Great song, but that video is terrible – although strangely likable. It must be the puppy. And the totally amateur quality. And the cliched 80’s clothes and hairdos. Surprisingly good sound, though.
Or maybe that’s not so surprising, given Mitch Easter’s production chops.
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WaterGirl - February 26, 2010 | 12:47 am · Link
@Yutsano: Yes! Tons of weird stuff tonight. So it’s not just you.
Anne Laurie - February 26, 2010 | 1:22 am · Link
@Yutsano: FYWP locked me out earlier today, and even after that I had to log back in—twice. Perhaps there was an “upgrade”, or maybe it just hates us for making it work harder.
JGabriel - February 26, 2010 | 8:35 am · Link
I prefer to think that it hates us for being beautiful.
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Rook - February 26, 2010 | 9:42 am · Link
Seriously Tim, this was totally not called for. Someone could get hurt. </snark>
Bill Hicks - February 26, 2010 | 3:55 pm · Link
Sweet, I get to use some of the useless trivia that makes up most of what I teach.
Botanically speaking, roses do not have thorns. Thorns are modified stems. Spines, like on cacti, are modified leaves. So what do roses have? Prickles. Prickles are epidermal extensions (the equivalent of a sharp bump growing out of your skin). One of my favorite times each year is the groan I get out of my students when I serenade them with, “every rose has its prickle”.