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HoldenSSV wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 2:56 pm Y&T - Rhythm Or Not
Shotgun Messiah - I Want More
Firehouse - Don't Walk Away
TNT - Intuition
Autograph - Turn Up The Radio
Just discovered the Shotgun and TNT tunes...terrible!
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str wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:35 pm 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
Not bad...for some reason it remindes me of this little known gem:

https://youtu.be/dPnY7Hifk5A?si=jLw3BMB0CC4Z9g39
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Blackout In The Red Room - Love/Hate
Dead, Jail or Rock n' Roll - Michael Monroe
Cry Tough - Poison
Babylon - Faster Pussycat
One More Reason - L.A Guns

Edit, shit, forgot Girlschool - Britny Fox!
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Just 5? Tough…call. Here’s 10.
One of the better playlist.
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Hard enough to narrow down to top 5 albums of the genre, never mind the top 5 songs.

Here are 5 off the top of my head, but probably forgetting some obvious great songs. These 5 are just a great representation of the scene for me.

Skid Row - 18 and Life
Motley Crue - Looks that Kill
Guns N'Roses - Paradise City
Def Leppard - Mirror Mirror (Look into my eyes)
Cinderella - Night Songs
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5. Ratt - Round and Round
4. Motley Crue - Live Wire
3. Whitesnake - Still of the Night
2. Def Leppard - Photograph
1. Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
My music library at last.fm:
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Psychobolia.com wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 10:23 am
exitflagger wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:33 pm 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.
As for yours...Ratt's is great, but the other 4 flat out SUCK, sorry!
Hmm. I guess I'll have to review my choices and rethink things...

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5. Knock Em Dead Kid - Mot
4. I Wanna B Somebody - 'ASP
3. Mantronic - 'ASP
2. Jihad - DAD
1. Stakk Attakk - Wraffchild
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Psychobolia.com wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 10:34 am
Hellsinkey wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 8:47 pm
daveg wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:18 pm 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!
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Dokken - Unchain the Night

Ratt - Never Use Love

Night Ranger - You Can Still Rock In America

Def Leppard - Photograph

Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'

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And since Rob had short hair so they may not be hair metal, Krokus - Headhunter or MSG's - Dogs of War

2nd wave:

Winger - Headed For a Heartbreak (best solo in all of hair metal)

Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin (maybe their only good song)

Vinnie Vincent - Invasion

GNR - Mr. Brownstone

Blue Murder - Riot
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Autograph-Turn Up The Radio
BulletBoys - Smooth Up In Ya
Ratt- Round And Round
Poison - Nothin’ But a Good Time
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
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Van Halen - Panama (don't think it counts? fuck off)
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Ratt - Round and Round
Cinderella - Night Songs
Dokken - Just Got Lucky

Runner ups
Whitesnake - Still of the Night
GW - Rock Me
Krokus - Screaming in the Night
WASP - Wild Child
Ozzy - I Don't Know
Cure - Too Young To Fall In Love
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