You can take back Justin Bieber and One Direction, give me back the metal bands from the 80's!

I don't know if I'm getting old or what, but when I listen to music these days, it all sounds the same with no heart or feeling. That's not to say that there aren't any good artists making music, but there are artists out there like Justin Bieber and One Direction who I just don't get. It's all marketing.

When you need to depend on shows like 'American Idol', 'The Voice', and 'X-Factor' to help find the 'next biggest star!', you are in serious trouble!

So what is this rant about? It's about 80's music and specifically the heavy metal bands of its day. I grew up listening to heavy metal during my formidable early teen years and straight through the end of high school.

I was anti-'New Wave' music like Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Erasure, and R.E.M.. It was all about the big hair, long hair, leather jacket, and head banging to the music that was blasting out of our headphones.

If you were a heavy metal fan like me, the only place to see these videos again are on Youtube. Thanks to various posters, you can practically find any video of your favorite band as long as they made a music video for it. That's right, MUSIC VIDEOS! Don't even get me started on MTV!

While we all have our favorite bands, some more hardcore than others, here are a collection of my favorite 'metal' videos from the late 80's. Granted, you might consider them more 'Glam' metal, than some of the real hardcore stuff from bands like Slayer or Testament, but I was never really into those bands.

Listening and watching the music videos bring you back to an age where things were more innocent and not the crazy mess our world is in now. The songs delivered messages and that's something we should all listen to now before we all go nuclear in a different way:

Tesla - Love Song

Poison - Fallen Angel

Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me

White Lion - Wait

Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy

Of course, there are a lot of bands that I haven't posted and tons of music videos that should be posted. I didn't include the obvious ones from bands like Guns 'N Roses, Cinderella, and of course Metallica.

I'll think about posting some more metal band videos in the future.

Leave a comment on which bands you think I should include and I'll post it in the future!