Gimme your top 10 hair band albums

[Asshole_Rose]

These were my faves from back in the day:

L.a. Guns -s/t
Ratt - OotC
Dokken - Tooth and Nail
Motley Crue - TFfL
Faster Pussycat - Whipped
Black 'n'Blue - s/t
Shotgun Messiah - Second Coming
Def Leppard - Pyromania
D-A-D - NFLftP
Kix - Blow My Fuse

[pieceofme]

With VH on the table (which I agree with), I'm going to go buck wild on the definition of hair band.

That's right. AEROSMITH. Total hair band, bros.

1. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
2. Van Halen - Fair Warning
3. Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love
4. Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
5. Cinderella - Night Songs
6. Aerosmith - Pump
7. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
8. Def Leppard - Pyromania
9. Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
10. Kiss - Animalize

Yeah PV and Pump are definitely hair band.

Nice to see the most underrated KISS album on your list.

[The Sacred Cowman]

Dokken - Back For The Attack
Don Dokken - Up From The Ashes
Pretty Maids - Future World
Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
McAuley Schenker Group - Save Yourself
Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey
Giuffeia - S/T
House Of Lords - S/T
Danger Danger - S/T
Michael Bolton - Everybody's Crazy

1 album per artist

[Love_Industry]

1 album per artist

... and no bands that had a career before the 80s... sorry VH, Heart etc

Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Queensryche - Rage for Order
Icon - Night of the Crime
Pretty Maids - Future World
Electric Angels - s/t
GnR - AFD
Def Leppard - High'N Dry
House of Lords - Demons Down
Heavens Edge - s/t
Mötley - TFFL (could be any of their first three)

Ok, I'll add 5 best hair metal albums by old geezers too then...
Alice Cooper- Trash
VH - Fair Warning
Judas Priest- Turbo
Heart - s/t
Whitesnake- 1987

[DemonFilth2001]

Dokken - Back For The Attack
Don Dokken - Up From The Ashes
Pretty Maids - Future World
Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
McAuley Schenker Group - Save Yourself
Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey
Giuffeia - S/T
House Of Lords - S/T
Danger Danger - S/T
Michael Bolton - Everybody's Crazy

1 album per artist

I’m gonna check out some of these

[HueyRamone]

With VH on the table (which I agree with), I'm going to go buck wild on the definition of hair band.

That's right. AEROSMITH. Total hair band, bros.

1. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
2. Van Halen - Fair Warning
3. Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love
4. Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
5. Cinderella - Night Songs
6. Aerosmith - Pump
7. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
8. Def Leppard - Pyromania
9. Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
10. Kiss - Animalize

Yeah PV and Pump are definitely hair band.

Nice to see the most underrated KISS album on your list.

Oh, I want pump and PV on my list, then.

[pieceofme]

Mot - SATD
WASP
WASP - Last Command
WASP - ITEC
WASP - Headless Children (If this counts)
KISS - Lick It Up
DAD - No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims (If this counts)
DAD - Riskin it all (If this counts)
Aerosmith - Pump
Aerosmith - PV

I've updated your list Huey. You're welcome

[Sleek]

Ugh. This inevitably leads to the old "what is a hair band album?" problem. I just can't with Aerosmith or Van Halen, even tho they had hits during the hair era...plus, my whole list would just be their albums. I am also not going to put any records by bands that had albums on both sides, like Def Leppard or Priest, who, despite having some stuff that falls into that era, will always just be BHM bands, NW or not, going through a phase to me.

Imma draw an arbitrary cutoff of 1980 on the low side as well...and only include albums I actually owned.

Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Ozzy- Blizzard
Ozzy - Diary
Dokken- Tooth and Nail
Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Kix- Kix
Great White - Great White
Cinderella _ Night Songs

[Dee Dee King Diamond]

Maybe not all hair, but close enough. Great memories.

GNR - Appetite
Motley - TFFL
Ozzy - No More Tears (less hair than his 80s style, but my favorite)
Tesla - Great Radio Controversy
Poison -LWTCDI
Skid Row - Slave
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Extreme - II Pornografitti
Kiss - Smashes, Thrashes, Hits (Got me to dig into older Kiss, which I dug, as a teenager, and a few gems amongst the cheese of 80s Kiss)
Aerosmith -Permanent Vacation

[thebends]

Faster pussycat- wake me
La guns-cocked and loaded
Love/hate- blackout in red room
Poison- look at
Great white- once bitten
Junkyard-st
Saigon kick-st
Aerosmith - permanent vacation
Gnr-afd
Motley-shout

[MotleyKaos]

in no particular order

Warrant - Cherry Pie
Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged in
Ratt - Invastion of Your Privacy
Dokken - Under Lock and Key
White Lion - Pride
Def Leppard - Pyromania
LA Guns - Cocked and Loaded
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

[TheCULTofMANSON]

Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Dokken - Back for the Attack
Don Dokken - Up from the Ashes
Rough Cutt - S/T
RATT - Out of the Cellar
Tesla - Mech Res
Whitesnake - 87
Malmsteen- Odyssey
GnR - Appetite
TUFF - What Comes Around

All trash besides GNR. Janes Addiction shits on all the rest

[Rocker4Real]

Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Faster Pussycat - Wake Me When It's Over
GNR - Appetite
Aerosmith - Pump
GNR - Use Your Illusion 2
LA Guns - Cocked and Loaded
Babylon AD S/T

[DangerZone]

Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Dokken - Back for the Attack
Don Dokken - Up from the Ashes
Rough Cutt - S/T
RATT - Out of the Cellar
Tesla - Mech Res
Whitesnake - 87
Malmsteen- Odyssey
GnR - Appetite
TUFF - What Comes Around

All trash besides GNR. Janes Addiction shits on all the rest

[Danzig in the Dark]

Give me all your hair band albums, all your CDs and cassette tapes too.

[Darrien]

L.A Guns - Self Titled
Skid Row - Slave To The Grind
Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
Slaughter - Stick It To Ya
Tuff - What Comes Around
The band we can't talk about
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Vain - No Respect

[exitflagger]

1. Love/Hate - Wasted In America
2. Lillian Axe - Love and War
3. Badlands - Voodoo Highway
4. L.A. Guns - S/T
5. Skid Row - Slave To The Grind
6. Four Horsemen - Gettin Pretty Good At Barely Gettin By
7. Cats In Boots - Kicked and Klawed
8. Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
9. Spread Eagle - S/T
10. Dangerous Toys - S/T

[Nobodyspecial]

In No particular order:

Ratt - Out of the cellar
Whitesnake - 1987
Dokken - Under lock and Key
Bon Jovi - Slippery When wet
Def Leppard - Hysteria
White Lion - Pride
Warrant - Dirty, rotten, fitly, sticking rich
Poison - Look what the cat dragged in
Danger Danger - Cockroach
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance

[daveg]

In No particular order:

Ratt - Out of the cellar
Whitesnake - 1987
Dokken - Under lock and Key
Bon Jovi - Slippery When wet
Def Leppard - Hysteria
White Lion - Pride
Warrant - Dirty, rotten, fitly, sticking rich
Poison - Look what the cat dragged in
Danger Danger - Cockroach
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance

There is a reason these albums are considered hair band classics. As much as I wanna say Jetboy, Cats in Boots, Childs Play..or whoever.. these albums are all awesome start to finish.

I'd put Long Cold Winter over D2 and probably have Shout in there somewhere, but every time I listen to one of those albums, it brings back great memories.

[daveg]

6. Four Horsemen - Gettin Pretty Good At Barely Gettin By

Not sure I'd call this a hair band, but this is one of my favorite albums ever. Most who know this band will say the debut is better....it's not, and this album is all kinds of kick ass

Saw this tour twice in small clubs. both amazing shows.

[sirthx2]

Riverdogs are a bit of a stretch too. They sounded more like Soul Asylum than White Lion.

And they sucked ass.

PS - Van Halen is NOT a hair band.

""""""""""""Van Halen is NOT a hair band.""""""""""""

They ABSOLUTELY morphed into 1 by 1984... 100%!

$tEvil

Van Halen = not a hair band. If Van Halen is a hair band because they wore colorful clothes and teased their hair in 1984, then Dire Straits and Fleetwood Mac are hair bands too. Heck, even Bob Dylan joined the party.

[DangerZone]

And they sucked ass.

PS - Van Halen is NOT a hair band.

""""""""""""Van Halen is NOT a hair band.""""""""""""

They ABSOLUTELY morphed into 1 by 1984... 100%!

$tEvil

Van Halen = not a hair band. If Van Halen is a hair band because they wore colorful clothes and teased their hair in 1984, then Dire Straits and Fleetwood Mac are hair bands too. Heck, even Bob Dylan joined the party.

Van Halen are a hair band unless ‘hair band’ is relegated to that small group of 3rd & 4th wave of early 90s post-poison glam bands like Tuff, PBF, etc.

[exitflagger]

6. Four Horsemen - Gettin Pretty Good At Barely Gettin By

Not sure I'd call this a hair band, but this is one of my favorite albums ever. Most who know this band will say the debut is better....it's not, and this album is all kinds of kick ass

Saw this tour twice in small clubs. both amazing shows.

Okay if they're not hair then add Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation in it's place.

Gettin Pretty Good needs to be issued on vinyl. I bet it would sound great.

(Note: Do not trust the Four Horsemen guitarist, whom shall remain nameless, on a money deal. He's a nice guy but he's also VERY flaky. He handles all their online commerce and you might as well be tossing the money in the trash. Buy from somebody other than their official online site if at all possible.)

[Tommy2Tone84]

Definitely after 1978, dingis.

Given your timeline and line of thinking it’s safe to say that Quiet Riot, London, Twisted Sister, Def Leppard, Y&T, Night Ranger, WASP, Dokken, Motley Crue and Whitesnake aren’t hairbands either. Most of those bands were together in one form or another and doing roughly the same thing in 1977 that they were doing in 1984. I personally get very offended when people refer to Motley Crue as a hairband. They were together in 1981. Nothing about Too Fast For Love reminds me or makes me think of hairbands.

[Tommy2Tone84]

And they sucked ass.

PS - Van Halen is NOT a hair band.

""""""""""""Van Halen is NOT a hair band.""""""""""""

They ABSOLUTELY morphed into 1 by 1984... 100%!

$tEvil

Van Halen = not a hair band. If Van Halen is a hair band because they wore colorful clothes and teased their hair in 1984, then Dire Straits and Fleetwood Mac are hair bands too. Heck, even Bob Dylan joined the party.

Stevie is 100% correct. IF and that’s a big “if” VH were not one prior to 1984, they were one by 1984. DLR and the band continued down the hairband path as separate entities after their 1985 breakup.


Were Fleetwood Mac and Dire Straits even rock bands? Judas Priest definitely became one by Turbo

[Tommy2Tone84]

LEAVE VAN HALEN ALONE!!!!!!

[BernieTaupson]

I’m glad you didn’t forget that awesome hair band Fleetwood Mac.

[Wild Obsession]

The term "Hair Band" to me means "popular/ Top 40 hard rock of the late 80's to 92'". While VH, AC/DC, Aerosmith, KISS, etc. predate that time line, they are still associated with that genre. And it also includes bands like Kings X, Saigon Kick, Queensrych, etc.... they are also "hair bands"......

[Whatever Happened To…]

D'Molls - D'Molls
The Throbs - The Language Of Thieves and Vagabonds
Roxx Gang - Things You've Never Done Before
Shotgun Messiah - Shotgun Messiah
Cats In Boots - Kicked and Klawed
Hanoi Rocks - Self Destruction Blues
Vain - No Respect
Tigertailz - Young & Crazy
Skin n' Bones - Not A Pretty Sight
Celtic Frost - Cold Lake

[HoldenSSV]

Def Leppard - Hysteria
Dokken - Back For The Attack
Shotgun Messiah - Second Coming
Steelheart - S/T
Harem Scarem - S/T
Hardline - Double Eclipse
GNR - Appetite
Bon Jovi - Slippery
Ratt - Invasion
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