Name your TOP 5 hair metal songs

[exitflagger]

Call it what you want: hair metal, sleaze metal, glam metal, butt rock, etc.

Gimmie your five favorite jams of the genre. Go.

[LAglamrocker]

Born To Be My Baby
Lovers Lane
Oughta Be A Law
Electric Harley House(Of Love))
Return To Serenity

[dmbrocker]

So many good ones, and my list could change by the day depending on my mood, but right now:

1. Ratt - "Round and Round" (my all-time #1 by a mile)
2. Winger - "Headed For a Heartbreak" (my #1 favorite hair ballad)
3. Motley Crue - "Girls, Girls, Girls"
4. Poison - "I Want Action"
5. Quiet Riot - "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)"

Of course, that's just my top five at the moment. I could easily include Ratt's "Back For More", Dokken's "In My Dreams", Warrant's "Down Boys", BulletBoys' "Smooth Up in Ya", Danger Danger's "Naughty Naughty", TS "I Wanna Rock", Autograph's "Turn Up the Radio", DL's "Photograph", Slaughter's "Up All Night", SR's "Youth Gone Wild", etc. My all-time favorite musical genre.

[Psychobolia.com]

Ratt - You Think You're Tuff
W.A.S.P. - The Flame (saw them play it tonight, fucking awesome!)
Steel Panther - I Got What You Want
Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil
Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some

[MetalSludgeCEO]

"Whip It" DEVO
"Planet Claire" The B-52's
"Love Plus One" Haircut 100
"I Ran" Flock Of Seaguls
"Cars" Gary Numan

Honorable Mention...

"Safety Dance" Men Without Hats

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[daveg]

Sleeze Beez - Stranger than paradise
BJ - Living on a Prayer
Crue - Wild Side
Poison - Every Rose
Cinderella - Comin Home

[Rocker4Real]

"Livin' on a Prayer"
"Wildside"
"Here I Go Again"
"Bringin' on the Heartbreak"
"Wild Child"

[exitflagger]

Mine:

1. High Wire - Badlands
2. Psychedelic Eyes - Electric Boys
3. Rest In Peace - Extreme
4. Lay It Down - Ratt
5. Dance Of The Dogs - Lynch Mob

Hard to get it down to just five.

[Borges]

Runaway- Bon Jovi
Fallen Angel- Poison
Live Wire- Motley Crue
Wild Child- WASP
Big Guns- Skid Row

[Velvis]

So many good ones, and my list could change by the day depending on my mood, but right now:

1. Ratt - "Round and Round" (my all-time #1 by a mile)
2. Winger - "Headed For a Heartbreak" (my #1 favorite hair ballad)
3. Motley Crue - "Girls, Girls, Girls"
4. Poison - "I Want Action"
5. Quiet Riot - "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)"

Of course, that's just my top five at the moment. I could easily include Ratt's "Back For More", Dokken's "In My Dreams", Warrant's "Down Boys", BulletBoys' "Smooth Up in Ya", Danger Danger's "Naughty Naughty", TS "I Wanna Rock", Autograph's "Turn Up the Radio", DL's "Photograph", Slaughter's "Up All Night", SR's "Youth Gone Wild", etc. My all-time favorite musical genre.

I am a big Twisted fan, but did you really list I Wanna Rock as a top five song? If I lived 1000 years I would never need to hear that song again.

[dmbrocker]

So many good ones, and my list could change by the day depending on my mood, but right now:

1. Ratt - "Round and Round" (my all-time #1 by a mile)
2. Winger - "Headed For a Heartbreak" (my #1 favorite hair ballad)
3. Motley Crue - "Girls, Girls, Girls"
4. Poison - "I Want Action"
5. Quiet Riot - "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)"

Of course, that's just my top five at the moment. I could easily include Ratt's "Back For More", Dokken's "In My Dreams", Warrant's "Down Boys", BulletBoys' "Smooth Up in Ya", Danger Danger's "Naughty Naughty", TS "I Wanna Rock", Autograph's "Turn Up the Radio", DL's "Photograph", Slaughter's "Up All Night", SR's "Youth Gone Wild", etc. My all-time favorite musical genre.

I am a big Twisted fan, but did you really list I Wanna Rock as a top five song? If I lived 1000 years I would never need to hear that song again.

Well, it's my favorite TS song, and I don't really get tired of it.

[gtshark1]

Dr. Feelgood- Motley
Here I go Again- Whitesnake
Nothin' But a Good Time- Poison
Inside The Electric Circus- WASP
No More Tears- Ozzy

[Zander]

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Warrant
Gypsy Road - Cinderella
I Hate Myself for Loving You - Joan Jett
Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
Big Guns - Skid Row

[roxxxtar]

Shotgun Messiah- Red Hot
Wildside- Just Another Night
Warrant Mr Rainmaker
Bon Jovi Stick To Your Guns
Ratt Givin Yourself Away

[Hellsinkey]

Sleeze Beez - Stranger than paradise

Electric Boys- Groovus Maximus
Havana Black- Hoo Myself
The Darkness- Friday Night
Vinnie Vincent Invasion- That Time Of Year

[Tommy2Tone84]

Diary of a Madman-Ozzy
Blackout-Scorpions
Rock of Ages-Def Leppard
King of the Mountain-KISS
Miles Away-Winger

[Love_Industry]

Unchained - VH
Wild Side - Mötley
Hang on Lucy - Wildside
Whites of their Eyes - Icon
Still of the Night - Whitesnake

nTomorrow it may be something else....

[Nate S Axel]

I’m going Top 10 because nobody follows thread rules, and after my Top 3, it’s hard to distinguish between 4-10.

1] “Dance The Night Away” Van Halen
2] “Summertime Girls” Y&T
3] “Wasted Time” Skid Row
4] “All She Wrote” Firehouse
5] “All My Bridges Are Burning” Warrant
6] “The Clock Strikes (Live)” Wildside
7] “All American Boy” Y&T
8] “Born To Be My Baby” Bon Jovi
9] “Crying In The Rain” Whitesnake
10] “Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)” Def Leppard

[ParaDime77]

Bon Jovi “Born To Be My Baby”
Firehouse “Home Is Where The Heart Is”
Winger “Without The Night”
Skid Row “Forever”
Slaughter “Desperately”

[eddie lee roth]

I’m going Top 10 because nobody follows thread rules, and after my Top 3, it’s hard to distinguish between 4-10.

1] “Dance The Night Away” Van Halen
2] “Summertime Girls” Y&T
3] “Wasted Time” Skid Row
4] “All She Wrote” Firehouse
5] “All My Bridges Are Burning” Warrant
6] “The Clock Strikes (Live)” Wildside
7] “All American Boy” Y&T
8] “Born To Be My Baby” Bon Jovi
9] “Crying In The Rain” Whitesnake
10] “Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)” Def Leppard

I agree fuck rules. Just pick any 5 or 10 songs from original VH. Save yourself from the debate.

[HoldenSSV]

Y&T - Rhythm Or Not
Shotgun Messiah - I Want More
Firehouse - Don't Walk Away
TNT - Intuition
Autograph - Turn Up The Radio

[str]

Like other posters , I can't pick 5 or 10 and it changes anyway
so I'll just mention 1 that no one else has
and there are even 2 mixes of it ,

"Wild And Seventeen" - Mad Max :

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZqiPRcjLX70 ... bnRlZW4%3D

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VI_6yE1jjOc ... bnRlZW4%3D

[LillianRoxyFA]

As with most of you, this list is ever changing, but at this moment:

"One More Round" - Love/Hate
"Run Outta Town" - TKO
"17 Going on Crazy" - Smashed Gladys
"Show a Little Love" - Lillian Axe
"Just Got Lucky" - Dokken

[Nate S Axel]

I agree fuck rules. Just pick any 5 or 10 songs from original VH. Save yourself from the debate.

Damn... you're psychic now too!

At first I was going to just go by most-played according to LastFM, but I'd have had five Van Halen songs (four from VH and "Dance The Night Away" from VHII) before a non-VH track, so I tried to limit my list to one song per band, but those two Y&T tracks are big-time favorites, so that rule was gone as well.

[Chip Z'Hoy]

Don't know that I can do a top 5 of all time (I'll remember 50 songs the second I post this) but today, 6/12/25, at this moment, my list is:

1. Cinderella - "Night Songs"
2. Alice Cooper - "Poison"
3. Scorpions - "Still Loving You"
4. Dokken - "Dream Warriors"
5. Motley Crue - "Too Fast for Love"

[The Sacred Cowman]

Dokken - So Many Tears
Whitesnake - The Deeper The Love
House Of Lords - Under Blue Skies
Danger Danger - Turn It Up
Lynch Mob - The Secret

[daveg]

Don't know that I can do a top 5 of all time (I'll remember 50 songs the second I post this) but today, 6/12/25, at this moment, my list is:

1. Cinderella - "Night Songs"
2. Alice Cooper - "Poison"
3. Scorpions - "Still Loving You"
4. Dokken - "Dream Warriors"
5. Motley Crue - "Too Fast for Love"

My list was the best ..but this is a very, very close second. Night Songs is all kinds of F'ing awesome...and I completely forgot it.

[Psychobolia.com]

Born To Be My Baby
Lovers Lane
Oughta Be A Law
Electric Harley House(Of Love))
Return To Serenity

Blow Jovi sucks
Firehouse, good choices
Green Jelly: first time I listened to them, interesting that they ripped of Enter Sandman and then joke about it in the lyrics.
Testament rules.

[Psychobolia.com]

Mine:

1. High Wire - Badlands
2. Psychedelic Eyes - Electric Boys
3. Rest In Peace - Extreme
4. Lay It Down - Ratt
5. Dance Of The Dogs - Lynch Mob

Hard to get it down to just five.

I'm going through your thread...am familiar with most submissions.

I had to check out LAGlamrocker's submissions as I wasn't familiar with them, they were pretty decent overall.

As for yours...Ratt's is great, but the other 4 flat out SUCK, sorry!

I will proceed with the other ones as appropriate.

[Psychobolia.com]

Sleeze Beez - Stranger than paradise

Electric Boys- Groovus Maximus
Havana Black- Hoo Myself
The Darkness- Friday Night
Vinnie Vincent Invasion- That Time Of Year

VV and Sleez Beez are cool...but those other 3 are staight up shite!