Dokken Are Awesome (and other hair metal delights)
 

Best reggae infused post punk band ever.

Discuss.....

I strongly disagree 311 was the epicenter for reggae infused post pop punk top 40. George Lynch was an absolute dragon slayer on the six string mutha****a though. And that video was great for a chuckle.

Dokken came into my life at a time when i had a choice with my perception of music....

start looking into and finding new and interesting music that actually means something to me

or listen to hair metal

a few years later i stopped listening to hair metal and started on my own path

A few years later. LOL :)

there is NO denying the power of

Fa Fa fa FOOLIN!

I can see this thread catching on when Hair Metal makes its great comeback. You'll see, all of you will be pulling out your Dokken shirts and Stephen Pearcy posters.

Jesus Bob! That is Def Leppard your quoting/singing there.

edit:
Well..I see Urban is trying out new thread tactics. Maybe someone should start a new Nu-Metal thread?

We will see if this one last long..he, he,..

I like dokken and still listen to them every now and then.

I quite like 'under lock and key', I don't really care for their other albums.
There is a band called ICON which first two albums should appeal to fans of Dokken.

Dokken has a fanbase?

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Apparently George Clooney is a fan.

Didn't you hear?
Pitchfork retro-actively gave Under Lock & Key a 10 rating.

All the cool kids will be listening to Dokken in 2013, you wait and see.

Clooney was Rokken with Dokken way before it was cool to do so.

Hasn't hair metal been "cool" again for the past decade? Ever since GTA: Vice City everyone seems to think that Poison is a legitimately good band.

What, you don't like Unskinny Bop? LOL

Loveable cheesy 80's hair-metal at it's finest.

It's a guilty pleasure. George Lynch is legitimately great though. Don Dokken's voice can make a man weary though, talk about shrill.

Actually, I love Poison. I'm just sick of irony challenged rednecks and brainless twenty somethings who can't differentiate between fun but throwaway music and actual worthwhile music. You don't have to like it any less, but if you're gonna be a moron, go do it away from me.

and just in case anyone has forgotten the video...

I like a couple of songs, but I can't say they're good or even that I like them.

Ha, thanks for reminding me about these guys! Awesome!

I remember Dokken as being one of the (more) cool underground/less popular bands during that era along with a few other different bands like Krokus. These days it sounds so.."funny" and corny is one of the best ways I would describe it. George Lynch, Ive yet to hear anything by the Lynch Mob. I'm sure it sounds outdated as well. Our Love by Krokus is/was a favorite from the 80s. Haven't heard them in years. These two are like Power Ballads?

Actually I agree. Funny as it sounds I remember thinking they were among the few cool hair bands. Like, up there with Motley Crue, W.A.S.P., Twisted Sister, and 80s Ozzy.

edit: note Into The Fire

Twisted Sister, I always seen them as one of the first popular bands on MTV like Quiet Riot that had just a couple of popular songs and videos during that time. And I think they're both really overrated these days. They were never anything like that back then, just..so..so.

Why all the hype now?

Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot are pioneers within their own right though, I admit.

Motley Crue vindicated themselves with Dr. Feelgood. Slave To The Grind by Skid Row is still kinda cool. :)

I think Ozzy carried the best music through the 80s and 90s.

Blegh. Now, I love, love, love me some Motley Crue. Their first two albums are stone cold classics, and there material since New Tattoo has been surprisingly good, but Dr. Feelgood is totally overrated. Half the songs are cool ("Dr Feelgod", "Kickstart My Heart", "Same Ol' Situation", "She Goes Down", and "Don't Go Away Mad"), but the other half are either just decent ("Slice of Your Pie", "Sticky Sweet", "Rattlesnake Shake"), or just downright forgettable ("Without You" and "Time for Change"). Then, we have Bob Rock's ****ty, sanitized production that just takes most of the balls out of the music. If you want sleazy, cheesy arena metal, Skid Row do it so much better.



vs.



'Nuff said.

I didn't mind Skid Row but that Bon Jovi connection and all those sappy ballads put me off.

If you wanted really scuzzy rock in 1990 you listened to this band....

That is pretty sweet, but it doesn't have the same gloriously glorious cheesy gloriousness as this:

How many bands do you know would do this.....

:laughing: Dude, that fucking awesome. That whole thing was worth it just to make all those stiff, boring news twats have to keep saying "Jizzy Pearl".

I now have this really strong urge to go listen to Blackout In The Red Room for about the first time in 15 years.

At least nobody's mentioned Guns N Roses..Jesus! Thank God.

Who?

What, you mean that band with one of the most over rated singers of all time?

God! just the sound of his name..Axel..and one of the greatest front men of all-time?

In a bizarre twist of fate Necromancer has now made the thread about the one band he didn't want discussed in it :laughing:

Well Fuck! Its so bizarre.

:rolleyes:

Those happen to be two of my favorite mid-80's rock songs. There are musical oddities to both, and both have slightly dark lyrics that go well with the up-and-down pacing and moody singing. Now that I'm listening carefully to the former, I can say it's better lyrically and has better lead guitar and drumming.

My armour tape has covers of poison, wasp, & venom, 0.o

Favorite song by Dokken = The Hunter