Top 10 "Hair Metal" albums...

[ZombieHavoc]

Doing these lists for fun...join in, if you are into whatever genre.

My list:

10. Star Star- Love Drag Years
9. Big Bang Babies- Three Chords & the Truth (a compilation, but still)
8. Faster Pussycat- Wake Me When It's Over
7. Dirty Looks- Cool from the Wire
6. Tiwsted Sister- Love is for Suckers
5. Madam X- We Reserve the Right
4. Britny Fox- s/t
3. Motley Crue- Too Fast for Love (if that counts)
2. Faster Pussycat- s/t
1. Pretty Boy Floyd- Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz

[GozertheGozarian]

No Quiet Riot?

[ZombieHavoc]

No Quiet Riot?


Not in my top 10...thought if I took about half of Mental Health, and half of Condition Critical, and threw in a track or two from QRIII, to make the ultimate Quiet Riot album, that might make it.

[ghostrider666]

Throw Dokken's Tooth & Nail in there as well as something by Extreme.

[leonaozaki]

In no particular order:

Poison, Open Up and Say... Ahh!
Def Leppard, Hysteria
L.A. Guns, Cocked and Loaded
Motley Crue, Dr Feelgood
Faster Pussycat, s/t
Tesla, The Great Radio Controversy
Bulletboys, s/t
Twisted Sister, Stay Hungry
Kix, Blow my Fuse
L.A. Guns, s/t

[HectorP]

No Whitesnake?

[GozertheGozarian]

In no particular order:

Poison, Open Up and Say... Ahh!
Def Leppard, Hysteria
L.A. Guns, Cocked and Loaded
Motley Crue, Dr Feelgood
Faster Pussycat, s/t
Tesla, The Great Radio Controversy
Bulletboys, s/t
Twisted Sister, Stay Hungry
Kix, Blow my Fuse
L.A. Guns, s/t
Looks good, though I liked Kix's goofy first album over Fuse.

[Ottmeister X]

Def Leppard - Pyromania
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Whitesnake - Slide It In
Cinderella - Night Songs
Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Slaughter - Stick It To Ya


I would put all of the Tesla albums, but that would get redundant.

[howyadoin]

I'll give it a shot.

Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
L.A. Guns - Cocked and Loaded
Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
Cinderella - Heartbreak Station
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Enuff Z'Nuff - Enuff Z'Nuff
Bulletboys - Bulletboys
Jetboy - Feel the Shake
Skid Row - Skid Row
Hanoi Rocks - Back to Mystery City

Overall I think hair metal was a singles genre, though.

[Ottmeister X]

Overall I think hair metal was a singles genre, though.

I would have to agree with that. I still enjoy music from that era, but I can't bring myself to update my CD collection with albums from that era. There are some exceptions I believe -- Tesla, Def Leppard, Cinderella, Motley Crue -- but a set of compilation discs would probably be better. There were more than plenty of albums, once you got past the first couple of hits, that were filler material.

[ZombieHavoc]

Strongly disagree that this subset of rock n' roll is a singles genre.

At least for me though.

But I'm not a singles guy, though. I'll always take a full album over a singles comp. I would only get a singles comp if it was the only thing I could find from a band, or, as in the case of a lot of the late 70's punk bands, the band never released a proper album, just a bunch of singles, and they are now being released on a CD together.

[howyadoin]

Strongly disagree that this subset of rock n' roll is a singles genre.

At least for me though.Well, I think a lot of hair metal bands only had a couple good songs in them - Kix and the Möldy Crüe, for example.

[GozertheGozarian]

Kix's self titled album was good all the way through. After that, there wasn't much.

Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
L.A. Guns - Cocked and Loaded
Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
Cinderella - Heartbreak Station
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Enuff Z'Nuff - Enuff Z'Nuff
Bulletboys - Bulletboys
Skid Row - Skid Row

I owned these.

[ZombieHavoc]

Well, I think a lot of hair metal bands only had a couple good songs in them - Kix and the Möldy Crüe, for example.

Kix I wasn't too hardcore into...some of the tunes on their first couple albums were good...however their biggest single, "Don't Close Your Eyes", does nothing for me.

Motley Crue...TFFL and SATD are 2 of the greatest rock n' roll records, solid all the way through, in my opinion. And Theater of Pain is near perfect too, just take off "Home Sweet Home". Girls and Feelgood I enjoy but they aren't the crue at their absolute best. Fastfoward through the crap in the 90s and early 00s, and in 2008, the Crue comes out with Saints of Los Angeles, and damn that is a fun record.

[howyadoin]

I owned these.Yup, me too.
Kix I wasn't too hardcore into...some of the tunes on their first couple albums were good...however their biggest single, "Don't Close Your Eyes", does nothing for me."Cold Blood" was the one I liked. The rest of what I heard didn't do much for me.
Motley Crue...TFFL and SATD are 2 of the greatest rock n' roll records, solid all the way through, in my opinion. And Theater of Pain is near perfect too, just take off "Home Sweet Home". Girls and Feelgood I enjoy but they aren't the crue at their absolute best. Fastfoward through the crap in the 90s and early 00s, and in 2008, the Crue comes out with Saints of Los Angeles, and damn that is a fun record.Yeah, we're never gonna find any common ground on that issue. I think that other than a couple songs, they're completely worthless. Easily the biggest poseurs in a scene that consisted of almost nothing but, and aside from Tommy Lee, barely a shred of musical talent.

Plus I think they're a pack of douchebags, but that's kinda secondary.

[GozertheGozarian]

Yup, me too.

You're only the second other person I've come across to like Enuff'Znuff and Bulletboys. Got any thoughts on Dangerous Toys and Bang Tango?

[P-Man]

Yeah, we're never gonna find any common ground on that issue. I think that other than a couple songs, they're completely worthless. Easily the biggest poseurs in a scene that consisted of almost nothing but, and aside from Tommy Lee, barely a shred of musical talent.

Plus I think they're a pack of douchebags, but that's kinda secondary.

I agree. Probably about five or so pretty rockin' songs, and a whole bunch of crap. I also agree with the douchebag thing, although I can't think of anything shitty that Mick Mars has done. The other three though, oh yeah, first rate assholes.

[jdwrocks]

I agree. Probably about five or so pretty rockin' songs, and a whole bunch of crap. I also agree with the douchebag thing, although I can't think of anything shitty that Mick Mars has done. The other three though, oh yeah, first rate assholes.
Yeah, Mick Mars is pretty much a background musician. He knows how to play guitar & that's all he wants to be known as.

Actually I thought Crue's 1st album was pretty good. Raw & tight at the same time. Majority of the songs were pretty fuckin good.

[howyadoin]

You're only the second other person I've come across to like Enuff'Znuff and Bulletboys. Got any thoughts on Dangerous Toys and Bang Tango?I only barely remember them. Couldn't even name a song.
I also agree with the douchebag thing, although I can't think of anything shitty that Mick Mars has done.Yeah, that's a good point.

[ZombieHavoc]

You're only the second other person I've come across to like Enuff'Znuff and Bulletboys. Got any thoughts on Dangerous Toys and Bang Tango?

Dangerous Toys rules hard. I would've put their s/t album on my list, but I don't think they count at all. They just came out at a time when any band with long hair and guitars would get lumped into the same sub-genre.

Bang Tango were ok. They had some tracks on Psycho Cafe that I liked a lot, and others that I could certainly leave. They definitely had an original sound though.

[Romero]

Dangerous Toys' "Scared" is still one of the best songs of that era, to me.

The lead singer still plays in metal bands around Austin. I think he does an AC/DC tribute band too. He has the voice for it.

I really liked that Jake E. Lee group, Badlands, and their s/t album.

[GozertheGozarian]

Went through my brother's music last night. Borrowed Enuff Z'nuff s/t and Psycho Cafe to make copies of. Really wish I had the equipment to convert cassette to cd, there's lots of those I wanted to get.

[Abomination]

Here we go: No particular order.

1. Appetite for Destruction-Guns N' Roses
2. You Can't Stop Rock and Roll-Twisted Sister
3. Dio-Dio
4. Shout at the Devil-Motley Crue
5. The Great Radio Controversy-Tesla
6. Too Fast for Love-Motley Crue
7. Skid Row-Skid Row
8. Slide it in-Whitesnake
9. Out of the Cellar-Ratt
10. Tooth and Nail-Dokken

[ZombieHavoc]

Dangerous Toys' "Scared" is still one of the best songs of that era, to me.

The lead singer still plays in metal bands around Austin. I think he does an AC/DC tribute band too. He has the voice for it.

He's in a band called Broken Bones...just raunchy rn'r.

Also, have you ever heard Dangerous Toys' fourth album, "R-Tist 4-morely Know As..." or whatever. Terrible, terrible, terrible. I'm glad he returned to music more similar to DT's first 3 albums.

[ZombieHavoc]

I need to add Vain's No Respect in there somewhere too.

Don't know how I forgot about Vain. So good.

Also, L.A. Gun's first album.

[GozertheGozarian]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ClyPWemzY

Yeah I'm sad, I know.