Anything new out there in the same vein as Shout at the Devil & Appetite for Destruction?

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/9090000/9094772.jpg

http://www.joshhornik.com/images/sufjan_illinois.jpg

Andrew WK to thread (first album better than both ref'd in the thread title too btw)

that sufjan album cover just makes me want to kill

i can make you madder in about 3.5 seconds.

http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/decemberists/photos/Decemberists_press3.jpg

BOOM

a winner is you, lamestain

i deserve it.

"OMG are we a band or a civil war reenactment society WHO KNOWS??????"

my kingdom for grapeshot

i hope they all get crotch rot and scurvy

Nope- not what I'm looking for.

I mean we hit post punk pretty hard with remakes...
When are we going to see the take no shit metal bands pop up?

dude, the decemberists take no shit from chimbley sweepers

i hope they all get crotch rot and scurvy

Scurvy is for pirates.

how about scarlet fever and typhoid?

Scurvy is for pirates.

And at least one Minnesotan I know.

The indie kids are still tackling 70s metal right now (The Sword, Witch, Black Mountain, etc.). They'll get there eventually.

how bout that latest Buckcherry? The one with 'Crazy Bitch' (. That sounded very 80's metal to me(i am not joking).

I think Jeff is correct about this. I think the indie take on this kind of party metal is going to be obnoxiously super-ironic when it arrives, though, and nothing like the real swagger.

buckcherry are real hollywood cokeheads.

http://www.hippopress.com/061116/CD_KelliePickler.jpg

http://www.thefunkstore.com/CurrentCDs/March2006/CD-WickedWisdomD12006.jpg

this album is a treat:

http://www.nemesis-shop.biz/catalog/images/ABSOLUTE_STEEL_WomaniZer.jpg

just wait for the next Donnas album.

LA GUNS!

the latest RTX album, sorta

obnoxiously super-ironic when it arrives, though, and nothing like the real swagger.

totally agree as well

Well, the indie take on 70s metal is nowhere near as good as the original, either, mostly because of the horrible vocals they seem to love (see the Retro-Rock Itch thread). There are bands that have that 80s hair metal swagger right now, but they aren't hipster bands.

Kelly Clarkson

That Absolute Steel record is great, but still (way) too ironic and tongue-in-cheek.

The Kelly Clarkson album is indeed an awesome rock record, but lacks that sense of bravado that we're searching for here. Also, almost no guitar solos.

The Donnas' Spend the Night is the last great sincere, unironic, asskicking rock album I've heard, although it's a little more AC/DC than GNR.

This trend of bands only unleashing arena rock if they have the shelter of irony is very annoying. Electric Six is a great example: they can kick ass with the best of them, and have righteous guitar solos, but everything has to be humorous and winking.

no mention of the Darkness yet?

There are a lot of Finnish bands that have that 80s sleaze rock edge, but they're fairly gothy. Lullacry and the 69 Eyes have the 80s LA sound without any irony, while Lordi has the 80s arena stuff with a sense of humor.

Vains of Jenna come even closer:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=10595146

"no mention of the Darkness yet?"

again, way too ironic.

well I know, but people were bemoaning the "eventual" indie kid ironic take on 80s metal and my point in bringing up the Darkness was, uh, it already happened a few years ago (AWK too, but he's kinda a different, more arguable example)

69 Eyes reminded me of the Cult more than anything else

the "types" who would have been in glam metal bands in the 1980s are all in emo bands now.

Having met the man, I'm fairly sure that there's no irony in Andrew WK anywhere. Anyway, I think The Darkness were more of a sendup of Queen than hair metal.

darkness & donnas - not what i'm looking for

Vains of Jenna...I'll have to listen to them- they look the look

maybe i'm looking for an "authentic" take on this scene, for lack of better words

think early gnr and crue not full blown made-for-MTV poison hair metal sound.

I agree about the lack of irony in AWK, but other people (mostly his detractors) have argued quite the opposite

listen to buckcherry and brides of destruction you IDIOT.

fuck buckcherry

brides of destruction i will look into

you probably want to go ask the metal sludge board about this stuff

buckcherry gave a funny interview to this Christian rock magazine recently - the magazine was compelled to edit all the "Jesus is fuckin cool", "Jesus was the SHIT!" comments

I mean Buckcherry is the single answer to what you're looking for. I'm not kidding in the least. Their first two are great, especially. I liked 15 (I think...I can't really remember now) but I never really listened to it much.

think early gnr and crue not full blown made-for-MTV poison hair metal sound

lol

fuck buckcherry

lol

lol @ Ogr3 being interviewed by a xian rock mag

http://www.hmmagazine.com/issue/issue_125/skinny_puppy.php

Also:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/triggerrenegade

[ital]The Donnas' Spend the Night is the last great sincere, unironic, asskicking rock album I've heard[/i]

Try the latest Gore Gore Girls, Funny Money, Rich & Famous, and Sirens albums, for starters. Or maybe Damone, Leanne Kingwell, Atomic Bitch, Crucified Barbara, Rhino Bucket, and Big Dictator albums from last year. And yeah, some of those are more AC/DC (or Sonics maybe) than GnR, too. But this stuff really isn't that rare, actually. (Hell, there are country guys like Shooter Jennings who put plenty of '80s L.A. sleaze-rock in the sound too, nowadays.)

http://www.paviljongen.info/images/Wig%20Wam.jpg

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/TigertailzRockz/images/WigWam.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ze6cuygZg

whatever happened to that andrew w.k. is a fake construct rumor anyway?

anyway i bet if jeff buckley had lived he would be putting out kickass metal albums now

Oh yeah, these guys too:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/crashstkids2