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Beyond Yacht Rock 2000

Bald Metal

Beyond Yacht Rock 2000

Dixon Denim Cutoffs, LLC

Music, Music Commentary

4.9936 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The guys discuss great lost hair metal songs.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the opening ladies and gentlemen, the opening notes of hysteria,

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the album hysteria,

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the lead track,

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Women.

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Deaf Leppert is one of the most successful hard rock bands of the 80s and hysteria was

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self-consciously designed to be a blockbuster like thriller except for pop metal.

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Every song was designed to be maximum melodic, able to be released as a single,

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able to make millions of dollars.

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And this song, in America anyway, was the first single released off of hysteria.

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An album that won on to sell 12.5 million copies in America,

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12 and a half more worldwide. This song is the first single

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fucking flopped. It did terrible. It almost took the entire album down with it.

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And there's nothing really that wrong with it. And there's nothing really that wrong with it. It just didn't hit. It just was not

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a commercial success. And now, I like the hair on top of my head, it's lost to memory.

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People look at me, they see a big gray beard.

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They don't see the beautiful head of hair I used to see.

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My beard is pour some sugar on me.

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This is some lost hair metal.

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Wait, or as we like to call it,

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bald metal.

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Hey, how's it going, guys?

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