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  • I don't really like Rap either, especially the crap nowadays, but I'm cool with the old school stuff.

  • wtf this is unbelivable wheres the goddamn sound! they took thye goddamn sound off! damn it!

  • Rap virtually non-existent in the 80's?, uh no....Rap did exist, and was quite popular, it only started to suck around the mid-late 90's.

  • Great band from before Kurt Cobain came along and killed Rock and Roll. Rock now is a depression-fest filled with people saying how horrible their lives and the world is. There are times when I can't listen to it. It is so gloomy.

  • holmes can choke on all that vodka

  • God I wish I was alive during this time period.

  • no you don't. the clothes sucked and reagan was in charge. trust me. i was there.

  • Yes I do. Metal and rock were at its best, rap was virtually non existent, I could give two shits about the clothes or politics, and muscle cars were still roaming the streets.

  • rap sucks, country sucks.....80S METAL FOREVER

  • what???? rap doesnt suck!!

  • Many people was there, many loved it, many hated it, I personally love the 80's and the clothes, the whole 80's pop culture was just great, it's a decade where all genres of music was good in it's own way.

  • hey sentinel488 your fuckin out of your mind! i might have not lived through the 70s and 80s but i have heard the music i have seen movies and a lot more and i know the clothes were great and the music was better than anything is today!

  • exactly, and my two siblings were teens in the 80's, they loved it.

  • 80's ...is there really anything better than 80's....?

  • man,i miss the 80's bands and music..total CRAP that's out now!! bring em all back-crue,ratt,whitesnake,pois­on,dokken,skid row,priest,dio,sabbath,cindere­lla,bon jovi,great white,guns n'roses,scorpions,VH,def leppard,quiet riot,YOU GET THE POINT!!

  • thats cuz mick mars really isnt that great of a guitarist. i would say a really good musician from the glam bands who is underrated would be tom keifer of cinderella

  • Mick Mars aint that good of a guitarist! You have just made me laugth my ass of prick! Mick is great! Best Glam Metal band are W.A.S.P and Chris Holmes is best guitarist!

  • mick mars is a living legend and guitar god. and W.A.S.P is the shit also but i can't believe you said chris holmes is the best guitarist when slash is the best guitarist to come out of the 80's

  • 2 people named Joe Satriani and Steve Vai would disagree.

  • steven wished naughty things prob

  • i dont know Ratt's guitarist's name , but he's very good and very underrated

  • most glam guitarists are underrated like Mick Mars of Motley Crue. On Crue videos people only talk about Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx.

  • I'm just glad Stephen rejoined the band - just wasn't the same w/o him - I saw them w/ Poison, Great White, and LA Guns a few years back - they all kicked asssss

  • The heavy metal bands didn't wear those silly outfits, they dressed in jeans and t-shirts. More realist and the metal bands were part of the 80's party scene and excess as well.

  • Yes, but that is why the genre is called hair or glam metal. These bands emphasized and exaggerated the 80's trends going on at the time. When glam metal caught on, other bands followed suit sporting eye liner and big hair, too. On a smaller scale, the general population adopoted some of these 80's trends as well: big hair, exaggerated makeup, etc. Perhaps the glam look took away from the value of the music, but those who grew up in the 80's can separate the look from the music.

  • this song is far more then "cheese" and you'd have to be a musician to understand just how good this song really is...

    they don't write them like this since. period. this is 80's rock metal at it's finest. excellent musicians and writing. fact.

  • Totally agree, Edward.

    This song is musically, very tightly put-together. Warren's solo is fantastic...it sounds thought-out, yet is still engaging without sounding like a wanky exercise.

  • I concur with you.

    Warren is a great guitar player who knows how to get the most out of his guitar for a song without sounding contrived. For example, his solos for Givin' Yourself Away succeed in being highly emotional as well as highly technical.

    He's my favorite guitar player.

    The Reach for the Sky album is often seen as a so-so LP by RATT fans but Warren flat-out rips on songs like Chain Reaction, What's It Gonna Be, Bottom Line and What I'm After.

    He scored epic win on Detonator too.

  • warren demartini

  • I wholeheartedly agree.

    Warren, as a guitarist, is up there with Steve Vai & Eddie VH.

    RATT really were the best metal group of the '80s. They were a lot more diverse than people gave them credit for. They were just very subtle in the way they went about it rather than being heavy-handed.

    In my opinion, '80s metal cheese is something like Nitro or that song by Quiet Riot, The Wild and The Young.

    In regards to '80s rock in general, I'd say Europe and Bad English's Every Time I See You Smile.

  • duuude one of these guys is my uncle!!!

  • Which one of these guys is your uncle?

  • KID LOOKS LIKE THAT KID IN THE RING

  • LOL.

    Nice video. ;)

  • this song is pure classic cheese and so amazing because of it.

  • I love the the little flick the kid does at the end. TOO COOL.

  • Part of what sunk the hair metal movement was the goofy looking outfits they wore, I mean check out the digs in this video. Kids at the time could relate to the grunge bands, flanels, converse or combat boots and jeans, seemed more realistic.

  • those outfits are awesome

  • Excellent point. Also, there's the lyrics too.

    For all its technical flair, pop metal never seemed to go beyond the proletarian (low class) lyrics.

  • Problem being?

  • Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against the genre.

    It's just pop metal got derided for not being much other than having lyrics correlating to women, partying and not much else in terms of lyrics that go beyond rock music cliches.

    Had their been more bands like Dokken, willing to go beyond the lyrical standards of pop metal, the genre would have got more critical acclaim.

  • too right

  • Nice to see someone agrees. :D

  • I disagree. The outfits and hair were just symptoms of the larger "party era" going on. The 80's were the era of excess. The music, the clothes, the trends, and attitude were pure party and good time fun. When the social and political climate started to change and take on a more serious tone, it was then and only then that grunge music was embraced by the masses. Grunge would never have been embraced in the 80's with all its angst and socio-political commentary and fashion trends.

  • Keen sociological insight.

    I've been reading a book about The Beatles called Revolution in the Head (excellent book) which details intricately about how music reflected each decade.

    I always saw the '90s as an extended hang over period for the party-driven metal bands.

    It's a shame that a lot of people dismiss the bands because of the image because if the bands had a casual '80s image and it was just the videos themselves that were over the top, more people today (like teens) would dig it.

  • No question that the glam image was a distraction to the music, but from what I see here on YT and what I have seen at a few concerts, kids, tweens, and teens are digging this music from the 80's. They have discovered it either through their parents or on their own in response to all the "crappy" current music out there today. From what I see, kids are intrigued with the glam image and the music associated with that period. What was maligned before is actually quite popular now!

  • Good point.

    When searching for RATT and Motley Crue fans on MySpace, I've found some fairly young people getting into the music and even adopting the glam aesthetic.

    If this catches onto more people, hopefully the emo craze will whittle away like brittle bones, turning into artifacts that exist underground.

  • I agree, the clothes and big hair was all apart of the 80's, silly? no, it was fun....I wish it all would come back.

  • Strong riff, great solo.  I loved that snakeskin guitar.

  • This guitar riff steam-rolls the entire grunge movement...and I DO mean movement.

  • I love RATT and Motley Crue! 80's metal rules!:D

  • what this band went though is realy sad this was a great band and they had a great thing they are one of my favorit bands

  • does he KICK his cymbal at 2:48?! fucking awesome!

  • Exactly. How many times do you get to see a drummer kick a cymbal?

    Intense band.

  • I'm a singer/rhythm guitarist in a band, and I've discovered that kicking a cymbal (whilst pissing off your drummer) gets people excited.

    Not sure why, it just does.

  • hahaha. Just don't kick the expensive ride.

  • RIP Robbin Crosby

    Greatest Rhythm Guitar ever

    Great Duel Solos with DeMartini

  • Out of all of the countless MTV tracks, I give this trac some serious points because.

    1. my name is Steven

    2. the progression is CLASSICAL

    3. the solo is incredible

    4. the lyrical content is truthfull

  • !!!REST IN PEACE GRAND MA ELLI!!!

  • demartini shreds, man! f'n cool!

  • Yup he does shred. Warren had only been playing for 5 years when started with Ratt.

    Guess who his roomate was for a while?

    Jake E Lee....Holy Shit Balls!!!

  • Tell me about it.

    Imagine if Jake had joined the band when they reunited in 99?

    I think Jake was the only guitarist who had the right to replace Crosby especially since not only did Jake used to be in RATT but he also co-wrote another song from this album - Never Use Love.

    Robbin asked if he could do the solo Jake devised for this song. Jake declined but Rob took it anyway.

    Given the animosity that occurred between War and Rob in the late '80s and early '90s, Jake was more ideal.

  • Warren de martini hot damn old school

  • dude!! he kicked the fuckin symbol at 2:58 thats hilarious

  • I thought it was pretty funny too. :) :D

    Bobby was a pretty intense drummer. I've never seen Gene Hoglan or Dave Lombardo do that. =) =D

    :d :q :P :b

  • i love this song!! stephen pearcy is the hottest man in the world!!!!!!!! why o why did i have to be born in the 90's! 70s and 80s rock 4 ever!!!!!!!!!

  • The fucking balls on this intro here. This shit is still awesome after all these years.

  • I BOW DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Great song.

    Great era.

    'Nuff Said

  • This song kicks ass the beginning is fucking awesome with Whitby Hertford blowing out the candels. Now the kid looks even scarier haha

  • this song is ment 2 be. i love this song

  • wasnt he in in night mare on elm street 4 or 5

  • The little boy looks so familiar.  What is he in? I feel like I saw some sort of movie when I was little that he was in.

  • He was in Jurassic Park also as the smart ass kid in the beginning he says it looks like a giant turkey when he sees the raptor fossil.

  • Wow you're right! I never even thought of that! Although this wasn't the role I had in mind, I could find out what I was thinking of earlier thanks to you knowing his name. He played a role in an episode of some kids show McGee and Me as a little tiny kid who was picked on all the time. I believe it was made only a couple years after this video.

  • The little boy also played as one of Stephanie's friends on "Full House." I think they called him "the duck" or something.

  • I think he was in HBO series "home fires" if that makes any sense.

  • WHO DID YOU MEAN WOUNDERFULLHUMAN161

  • which comment? The little boy was in a hbo series. That one? Or the one about how cool this song is and it still has testicles after all these years?

  • I dont know why they are calling this "glam" This is 80s metal. You want glam? Watch: Sweet- "Ballroom Blitz". Gary Glitter, Mott the Hoople- "All the way to Memphis" Marc Bolan- "Jeepster" Glam was early 70s,Mostly English- period. This was metal when I saw them and listened to this. BTW - they sucked in concert. Good in the studio though.

  • I agree.

    I think people rely too much on image to make an assessment on RATT. Also, because they were friends with Crue and toured with glam bands, they got lumped in with the glam metal scene.

    A friend once told me that RATT were heavier live than they were on their albums which is why a lot of people felt that their producer Beau Hill weakened them (although Desmond Child softened them more when it came to being the producer for the Detonator album).

    I think it's just Ste who sucked live.

  • Lets bring Glam Metal back. Hell, lets bring the whole 80's back

  • yess let's make a band like no other ;-)

  • where you live at :D, lets do it!!!!!!!

  • I'm with ya. :) I have a fondness for music and videos from the 80's. The hair, the fashion---all seem ridiculous now but were quite the thing back then. I miss those days. :(

  • How utterly ridiculous!! LOL

  • You don't want to know what happened to the kids in this video! Man, sad story.

  • What happened?...

  • It's a sad story because I don't know what happened!!!

  • Grunge killed it thats what happened

  • oh with that sonar machine, yeah he was fat in the movie, sad....

  • wow what a wierd comment but i think ur right

  • dont know the kids name, but i think he was in the 1st jurrasic park,at the start of the movie ,when they found the raptors claw and bones..

  • its nice that some of the girls posting these comments listen to good music

  • who is that little kid?!?!

  • I LOVE RATT!!!

    I love Stephen!!! :)

  • i agree with italianbitch20 but im 14

  • omg! im only 13 years old so i didnt get to live through the 70s and 80s but omg the lead singer steven is THE HOTTEST MAN IN THE WORLD! god i wish i could have lived through the 70s and 80s!

  • Warren DeMartini is hotter, but Jon Bon Jovi is the hottest man alive :)

  • i agree with you inusgf13 bon jovi is hot and so is demartini but i think stephen pearcy's still the hottest.

  • Joni Lane any one?

  • no thanks :)

  • I don't know about that, Jon was cute but there's some photos of Warren which really showed how charismatic and handsome he is. ;)

    In the '90s, Warren had photos which showed how he charismatic and handsome he was. :)

    Once I've uploaded them on a friend's MySpace comment section, I'll show you them. :D

  • We played this at Christmas dinner at the home of my dysfunctional family... We also drank a ton.

  • Spelled Motley Crue

  • you mean mötley crüe :)

  • yeah

  • After being blown away by the "Out of the Cellar" album, was happy to see that RATT proved the doubters wrong by not falling to the Sophmore (Quiet Riot) blues. This video saie, "We're here bitches"!

  • see n these guys in 86 loved it then love it now thanks dad

  • I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • Ratt sure liked disrupting diner parties!

  • One more reason the music of the eighties is top notch, top notch!

  • I saw these guys(minus Pearcy) in a bar a few years ago and had the privilege of sitting at the bar with Warren after the show. Great musicians and cool guys. How many of us played this riff on our tennis racket.

  • nd "Night Ranger"

  • and great white and judas preice! and bon jovi =D

  • dude, dont forget Kiss and Dokken! :)

  • this is possibly the best sex song ever

  • RATT AND ROLL

  • never get tired off hearing that riff..n when stephens sings the first line

  • Ratt rocks !! Me Love Ratt <33<33<33<33<33

    Ratts= the fuckin' BEST !

  • !!!!RIP GRAND MA ELLI!!!!

  • People of Pardus, consider yourself Ratt-rolled.

  • My by far favortie RATT song EVER MY BUDDIES BAND PLAYS IT FOR ME LIVE IT IS FUCKIN KILLER WHAT A SONG

  • That guitar riff pretty much sums up music in the 80's.....AWESOME!

  • this and whitesnakes still of the night are the baddiest guitar riffs of the 80s hands down.

  • !!! RIP GRAND AM ELLI !!!

  • RATT is one of the most underrated rock bands ever...their sound and style is timeless. 1 0f my 3 favorites of all time included metallica and best band of this century Disturbed.......

  • Warren D. was so underrated as a guitar player. These guys kicked major ass back in the day.

  • !!! RIP GRAND MA ELLI !!!

  • right now!!

    AND HOW!

    I know you really want to LAY IT DOWN!!!

    ROCK N' ROLL!

  • Juan was weird but hilarious in 1:34

  • Juan was known for all his crazy moves, the band members had names for all the different moves he made. Definitely one of the more energetic and unique bass players of the genre.

  • whats really funny is how the rest of the band made up names for his stage moves because he did the same moves every night. hahahaha like the wonderland.

  • Ratt is one of the greatest...but dammit! Juan just acted soooo gay!!!

  • dude hes always like that watch their other videos and interviews. the kid swinging and sanpping is sick

  • Yeah, Robbin said that Juan was "a little bit more savvy than some" ;)

  • This songs pretty good, catchy i had it in my head for the whole fucking day when i first herad it. The best line is easily "If you give me just one chane to prove myself... (in the pants) lol

  • Reminds me of the o'l days doing coke. Glad they are over and never got in trouble.

  • Shit im glad they are over and im still alive man.

  • awesome comment

  • I dont think tha clown wants Steven to "BLOW" the candles.

  • Crashdietrock what do u mean linkin park, korn and dragonforce are bad exemple of their heritage? r u outta ur mind? and how dare u call them shitty bands u focking bastard. BAI DEN TONTI BO MAMA

  • heffner got to hit that, nice ;)-

  • respect ratt and not only ratt but all the 70s 80s rock. if it wasn't 4 them there will be no linkin park, no korn, no dragonforce no nothing. these guys r legends

  • Linkin park, Korn and Dragonforce are bad exemple of their heritage because those are shitty band. You should've said : . if it wasn't 4 them there will be no Crashdiet, no Vains Of Jenna, no Dirty Penny, no Snake Of eden, no Blackrain.

    Keep rokkin' !!!

  • Warren DiMartini is a ROCK GOD of the highest magnitude!! Great guitar riffs from one of the all time greats. I LOVE RATT!!!

  • george lynch my friend. nuff' said

  • Lynch is awesome as well. That time in music history produced soma of the finest guitarists ever.

  • to bizzmashup;

    TRG: I heard that the SWORD guitar will be reissued.

    WD:I think Wayne Charvel sold his company, so it can't be called Charvel. It's called Wayne Guitars, but he and his son, Michael, are gonna be building guitars and I gave them a license to do that to the sword guitar and the James Dean guitar and the snake guitar. Wayne Charvel, When I first picked up the Charvel guitar. It really took everything great about the '58 Fender Strato and it was kind of just made modern.

  • Never mind, found it! Marianne Gravette

  • Crue/Ratt...who cares!? Who's the cute blonde?

  • dumb assssssssssss

  • This song reminds me so much of Van Halen's "Unchained". In both songs, the guitar intro's are absolute masterpieces. It's too bad that a lot of people nowadays don't know about this stuff. Classic Rock is the best kind of music in my opinion.

  • you got that right!

  • Damn listen to the guitar in the beginning thats some of the best shit.

  • i had been playing guitar for about a year and the first time i heard that riff i about wet my pants. it just sounded SO cool.

  • te vimos bn en colombia exelente banda que energia love ratt

  • I am looking to learn this on bass but having trouble finding how to do it. any suggestions would be helpful.

  • Any guitar dudes tell me wht axe Warren plays here? Looks like a strat but has floyd rose, locking nut etc. unlike a stock strat..rock on!

  • damn such a damn shame that such a great song song but make a terrible vid to go with it...ahhhh 80's man, but gotta love'em

  • the starting riff is amazing i cant stop listening to it!! gooo ratt

  • !!! RIP GRAND MA ELLI !!!

  • !! RIP GRAND MA ELLI !!!

  • I don't remember her name. But if memory serves me right, she was a Playboy Playmate at the time...around '85 or '86 I think.

  • I'd love to just fucking rip off his fucking shirt & fuck him. =3

  • That lead is one of the shortest most emotionally powerful leads ever. Masterful.

  • Rocking tune,period motherfucker's.

  • yer a very bad example of a clown, makes em look likes paedophiles haha

  • fuckin freaky ass clown.

  • the intro is cool but I hate the clowns

  • I never said Motley was shit overall.

    I was mostly referring to their Theatre period.

    With that said, if I had to rate both bands in terms of overall quality, I'd say Motley were a very good band (8/10) and Ratt were great (9/10).

    I think Ratt were more groundbreaking. Their first record, the self-titled EP, was the first one to feature sludge metal and groove metal.

    The original version of You're in Trouble, which was on the European import of the '83 EP, is the first example of grunge.

  • I never said it was a bad album. It's a good one but Invasion was great.

  • can u say robin c. & warren d?....

  • Warren's just a great all around player :)