Rock the Mullet
Published March 12, 2003
Rock on.
Released yesterday was Sony's Mullets Rock, a killer 2-CD collection of '70s and '80s hard rock, hair metal, Southern rock, and arena rock including:
1. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
2. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
3. Hot Blooded - Foreigner
4. Slow Ride - Foghat
5. The Stroke - Billy Squier
6. Free-For-All - Ted Nugent
7. Smokin' In The Boys Room - Brownsville Station
8. Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
9. Surrender - Cheap Trick
10. Working For The Weekend - Loverboy
11. Any Way You Want It - Journey
12. Two Tickets To Paradise - Eddie Money
13. Hold The Line - Toto
14. Roll With The Changes - Reo Speedwagon
15. No One To Run With - Allman Brothers Band
16. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
17. Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood & The Destroyers
18. Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
1. Smokin' - Boston
2. Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet
3. Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
4. I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister
5. Metal Health (Bang Your Head) - Quiet Riot
6. Godzilla - Blue VYster Cult
7. Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
8. Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas
9. We're An American Band - Grand Funk Railroad
10. Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra
11. Takin' Care Of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
12. Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) - The Hollies
13. Rockin' Down The Highway - The Doobie Brothers
14. Black Betty - Ram Jam
15. School's Out - Alice Cooper
16. Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf
17. Hold Your Head Up - Argent
That CD alone could topple the government of Iraq.
- Rock the Mullet
- Published: March 12, 2003
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- Filed Under: Music: Classic Rock and Oldies, Music: Hard Rock, Music: Metal, Music: News, Music: Rock
- Writer: Eric Olsen
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mmm... prog rock.
peace.
As the article says, hair metal was about irresponsible fun. Today's music has so much whiny introspection. I don't listen to music to hear about some guys problems, I got problems of my own, let's get in the Camaro, crank up the tunes and go lookin' for big hair girls in spandex! BTW, that Sony list is about a decade too far back.
You're right that the Sony collectio nis more '70s than '80s - that's why I gave the track listing and described it a bit.
That's not "hair-band" metal! Where is Poison, Def Leppard, G'nR, Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Damn Yankees, Winger, etc? (dare I mention Great White??)
THOSE are the hair bands of the '80's... a "collection of '70s and '80s hard rock, hair metal, Southern rock, and arena rock.." yes, and a pretty killer one at that, but hair band metal, no.
Clearly Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot are "hair metal," and yes that is only two, but two is more than none. The reason I mentioned this here is more timing than anything - it came out on Tuesday and is not dissimilar to the original theme: mullets. The connection is tenuous, however, I will agree.
What an awesome collection! But it's missing one thing. Metallica. I mean, those guys STILL have mullets!
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I can't help feeling that 80s Hair Metal is to America what Prog Rock is to Britain; while there aren't many direct musical comparisons, both are very much the styles of music that 'cool' people love to sneer at.