Culture Club or Slayer?

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Yeah, it's poll time again! This time we've got two completely different styles (cuz why the fuck not?).

You know the drill:

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Perhaps surprisingly, I voted Culture Club because bands using the whole "we're so scary! we worship the devil!" schtick as a crutch to sell their music is fucking laughable (well, at least after I finally figured out decades later that those backwards masking messages on records weren't actually demons speaking to me...) that, and the Chameleon tune is kinda catchy.

 

[QQQ]

Obviously, it’s Wham!

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Obviously, it’s Wham!

Tough choices here.

 

[Zodiac]

If I had to make a choice between Culture Club and Slayer I'd seriously consider suicide.

 

[JiveTurkey]

If I had to make a choice between Culture Club and Slayer I'd seriously consider suicide.

....Mandatory...Suicide?

 

[paisleywookiee]

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Hah! It's currently a 3 way tie (3 votes for each)!

 

[Frodebro]

I voted for Culture Club. See, they were really popular when I was in high school, and there were some people that dressed like Boy George. At the same time, Madonna was also really popular, and a bunch of girls at my school dressed like HER, so when I think of Culture Club I think of all those girls dressed like total sluts. Culture Club for the win.

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

[…] when I was in high school, and there were some people that dressed like Boy George. At the same time, Madonna was also really popular, and a bunch of girls at my school dressed like HER, so when I think of Culture Club I think of all those girls dressed like total sluts. […]

Expendable Youth

 

[Frodebro]

Expendable Youth

This was my teenaged years:

 

[paisleywookiee]

This was my teenaged years:

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Poison? I had their second CD.

 

[Frodebro]

Poison? I had their second CD.

The Madonna Wannabes hit the scene a few years before hair metal. But the rocker chicks…. Yeah, they picked up where the Material Girls left off.

 

[AutomationBias]

Poison? I had their second CD.

On a related note, when I was a kid I had the cassette for Appetite for Destruction. There was a black and white photo of the band inside, and I thought Axl was a girl.

 

[Frodebro]

On a related note, when I was a kid I had the cassette for Appetite for Destruction. There was a black and white photo of the band inside, and I thought Axl was a girl.

Everybody looked like that in 1987.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Everybody looked like that in 1987.

Not me; I looked like a micro version of a Metallica fan.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Not me; I looked like a micro version of a Metallica fan.

I liked the first wave of Ratt, Motley Crue and Dokken records but went running SCREAMING in the direction of thrash/speed metal as quick as I could.

 

[paisleywookiee]

I liked the first wave of Ratt, Motley Crue and Dokken records but went running SCREAMING in the direction of thrash/speed metal as quick as good.

I went from 70's rock/80's arena rock (sister's influence) to VH, then a mixture of NWOBHM and thrash. Basically the big four - Slayer, and then mostly Maiden.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I went from 70's rock/80's arena rock (sister's influence) to VH, then a mixture of NWOBHM and thrash. Basically the big four - Slayer, and then mostly Maiden.

I did Priest/Maiden/Ozzy/Scorpions at the same time as Ratt/Dokken/Shout at the Devil. Saw Wasp and Metallica on RTL tour and then hit that 1-2-3 of Puppets/Reign in Blood and Peace Sells. I back filled the catalogs of the Big 4 and any other thrash stuff I could at the time. Followed that up with the earliest of death metal as well So much goodness

 

[Frodebro]

Not me; I looked like a micro version of a Metallica fan.

I leaned more in that direction as well (mullet, Levi’s jacked with a Judas Priest patch across the back), but there was no shortage of dudes in spandex and mascara, hanging out with chicks that looked just like them.