The 50 Greatest Hair Albums EVER. (1 Viewer)

[tom22406]

Pretty sure some of you used Columbia House to stock up on cassettes and CD's.

12 for a penny was a steal.

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/29/hugo_chavez_caption_contest/Columbia_House_page.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.png

What I did was use a buddy of mine who already was a member and had the book with all the titles they carried instead of what was offered in the print ad.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

4. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil (1983) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/ShoutattheDevil.jpg/220px-ShoutattheDevil.jpg

1. In the Beginning

2. Shout at the Devil

3. Looks That Kill

4. *******

5. God Bless the Children of the Beast

6. Helter Skelter

7. Red Hot

8. Too Young to Fall in Love

9. Knock Em Dead, Kid

10. Ten Seconds to Love

11. Danger

Wore this cassette out driving my friends to two-a-day freshman HS football practice. It will forever remind me of that.

I had it on vinyl. I remember having to buy a second copy after my dad threw the first one in the garbage upon hearing the lyrics to "Ten Seconds to Love."

 

[Warsteinner]

4. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil (1983) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/ShoutattheDevil.jpg/220px-ShoutattheDevil.jpg

1. In the Beginning

2. Shout at the Devil

3. Looks That Kill

4. *******

5. God Bless the Children of the Beast

6. Helter Skelter

7. Red Hot

8. Too Young to Fall in Love

9. Knock Em Dead, Kid

10. Ten Seconds to Love

11. Danger

Wore this cassette out driving my friends to two-a-day freshman HS football practice. It will forever remind me of that.

I had it on vinyl. I remember having to buy a second copy after my dad threw the first one in the garbage upon hearing the lyrics to "Ten Seconds to Love."

I used up my ration of positive votes today.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

4. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil (1983) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/ShoutattheDevil.jpg/220px-ShoutattheDevil.jpg

1. In the Beginning

2. Shout at the Devil

3. Looks That Kill

4. *******

5. God Bless the Children of the Beast

6. Helter Skelter

7. Red Hot

8. Too Young to Fall in Love

9. Knock Em Dead, Kid

10. Ten Seconds to Love

11. Danger

Wore this cassette out driving my friends to two-a-day freshman HS football practice. It will forever remind me of that.

I had it on vinyl. I remember having to buy a second copy after my dad threw the first one in the garbage upon hearing the lyrics to "Ten Seconds to Love."

I used up my ration of positive votes today.

In fairness to him, I was a pre-teen and those lyrics are pretty raucous. However, being a pre-teen, I had little to no idea what they meant.

 

[Warsteinner]

4. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil (1983) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/ShoutattheDevil.jpg/220px-ShoutattheDevil.jpg

1. In the Beginning

2. Shout at the Devil

3. Looks That Kill

4. *******

5. God Bless the Children of the Beast

6. Helter Skelter

7. Red Hot

8. Too Young to Fall in Love

9. Knock Em Dead, Kid

10. Ten Seconds to Love

11. Danger

Wore this cassette out driving my friends to two-a-day freshman HS football practice. It will forever remind me of that.

I had it on vinyl. I remember having to buy a second copy after my dad threw the first one in the garbage upon hearing the lyrics to "Ten Seconds to Love."

I used up my ration of positive votes today.

In fairness to him, I was a pre-teen and those lyrics are pretty raucous. However, being a pre-teen, I had little to no idea what they meant.

That's why I said it. I went through the same stuff.

 

[jamny]

4. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil (1983) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/ShoutattheDevil.jpg/220px-ShoutattheDevil.jpg

1. In the Beginning

2. Shout at the Devil

3. Looks That Kill

4. *******

5. God Bless the Children of the Beast

6. Helter Skelter

7. Red Hot

8. Too Young to Fall in Love

9. Knock Em Dead, Kid

10. Ten Seconds to Love

11. Danger

Wore this cassette out driving my friends to two-a-day freshman HS football practice. It will forever remind me of that.

I had it on vinyl. I remember having to buy a second copy after my dad threw the first one in the garbage upon hearing the lyrics to "Ten Seconds to Love."

Gave me a nice flashback. The only time it ever happened, my Dad said, go ahead pick out an album while we were at the mall. The mall was called Robert Hall. I knew exactly what I wanted. Came back with this. I was 13 and it had just come out.

The look on his face...

So did Kiss never figure in with hair bands?

 

[JZilla]

4. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil (1983) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/ShoutattheDevil.jpg/220px-ShoutattheDevil.jpg

1. In the Beginning

2. Shout at the Devil

3. Looks That Kill

4. *******

5. God Bless the Children of the Beast

6. Helter Skelter

7. Red Hot

8. Too Young to Fall in Love

9. Knock Em Dead, Kid

10. Ten Seconds to Love

11. Danger

Wore this cassette out driving my friends to two-a-day freshman HS football practice. It will forever remind me of that.

I had it on vinyl. I remember having to buy a second copy after my dad threw the first one in the garbage upon hearing the lyrics to "Ten Seconds to Love."

Gave me a nice flashback. The only time it ever happened, my Dad said, go ahead pick out an album while we were at the mall. The mall was called Robert Hall. I knew exactly what I wanted. Came back with this. I was 13 and it had just come out.

The look on his face...

So did Kiss never figure in with hair bands?

Post-makeup KISS was the ugliest hair band around

 

[jamny]

4. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil (1983) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/ShoutattheDevil.jpg/220px-ShoutattheDevil.jpg

1. In the Beginning

2. Shout at the Devil

3. Looks That Kill

4. *******

5. God Bless the Children of the Beast

6. Helter Skelter

7. Red Hot

8. Too Young to Fall in Love

9. Knock Em Dead, Kid

10. Ten Seconds to Love

11. Danger

Wore this cassette out driving my friends to two-a-day freshman HS football practice. It will forever remind me of that.

I had it on vinyl. I remember having to buy a second copy after my dad threw the first one in the garbage upon hearing the lyrics to "Ten Seconds to Love."

Gave me a nice flashback. The only time it ever happened, my Dad said, go ahead pick out an album while we were at the mall. The mall was called Robert Hall. I knew exactly what I wanted. Came back with this. I was 13 and it had just come out.

The look on his face...

So did Kiss never figure in with hair bands?

Post-makeup KISS was the ugliest hair band around

Did that have something to do with it? Was their music any good during that time?

 

[beer 30]

One song, Photograph. Maybe Rock of Ages, after that drivel. They had a lot of potential and even corralled some of it with Pour Some Sugar On Me on Hysteria but Pyromania was waaay over rated imo compared to everything out there during that time period.

one song?

Rock Rock Til You Drop is a great tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7PF-rrxsxU

Too Late For Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02QjLszgz5k

Billys Got a Gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BDBVszev5E

Comin Under Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuCJ5nRP6d0

these are all above and beyond Rock of Ages, Photograph, Foolin'. Like I said, I don't mind people preferring High N Dry, but don't talk like Pyromania wasn't a great album. Hysteria sucked and was the end of Def Leppard but those 2nd and 3rd albums were as good as any of the era

Nope





Just don't do it for me, all sound the same after you listen to it for a while. But that's the great thing about a list. They are unique to the guy who puts it together and while Pyromania wasn't my thing I can't tell steinner or you that you're wrong for ranking it where you do. It still woulda made my list but not this high.

 

[Hawks64]

Here is the Spotify playlist. All full albums. Also, I added the following to the list as they seem to come up more than once in the comments:

Blue Murder - Blue Murder
Extreme II Pornograffitti
Y&T Down for the Count

Also Spotify doesn't have the Def Leppard albums so I added Mirror Ball which has a lot of songs but not all of them.

Merry Christmas!!

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

4. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil (1983) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/ShoutattheDevil.jpg/220px-ShoutattheDevil.jpg

1. In the Beginning

2. Shout at the Devil

3. Looks That Kill

4. *******

5. God Bless the Children of the Beast

6. Helter Skelter

7. Red Hot

8. Too Young to Fall in Love

9. Knock Em Dead, Kid

10. Ten Seconds to Love

11. Danger

Wore this cassette out driving my friends to two-a-day freshman HS football practice. It will forever remind me of that.

I had it on vinyl. I remember having to buy a second copy after my dad threw the first one in the garbage upon hearing the lyrics to "Ten Seconds to Love."

Gave me a nice flashback. The only time it ever happened, my Dad said, go ahead pick out an album while we were at the mall. The mall was called Robert Hall. I knew exactly what I wanted. Came back with this. I was 13 and it had just come out.

The look on his face...

So did Kiss never figure in with hair bands?

Post-makeup KISS was the ugliest hair band around

Did that have something to do with it? Was their music any good during that time?

Not really. Some solid tunes. Like lick it up. Heavens on fire. Tears are falling. Unholy. But for the most part kiss peaked with destroyer in 1977 then alive 2

 

[snogger]

4. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil (1983) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/ShoutattheDevil.jpg/220px-ShoutattheDevil.jpg

1. In the Beginning

2. Shout at the Devil

3. Looks That Kill

4. *******

5. God Bless the Children of the Beast

6. Helter Skelter

7. Red Hot

8. Too Young to Fall in Love

9. Knock Em Dead, Kid

10. Ten Seconds to Love

11. Danger

Wore this cassette out driving my friends to two-a-day freshman HS football practice. It will forever remind me of that.

I had it on vinyl. I remember having to buy a second copy after my dad threw the first one in the garbage upon hearing the lyrics to "Ten Seconds to Love."

Had

I still have it.. As well as about 50 other Vinyl's sitting in storage.. someday I'll get around to getting one of those players you can hook up to your computer so as to transfer them.

 

[snogger]

Here is the Spotify playlist. All full albums. Also, I added the following to the list as they seem to come up more than once in the comments:

Blue Murder - Blue Murder

Extreme II Pornograffitti

Y&T Down for the Count

Also Spotify doesn't have the Def Leppard albums so I added Mirror Ball which has a lot of songs but not all of them.

Merry Christmas!!

 

[snogger]

What's the best post-2000 album in this genre? The Darkness self-titled? Ratt's from last year?

Not sure about "best" but Crazy Lixx Is pretty good

ETA a Yea, I'd say they fit the post 2000's "Hair Album" band

Thought I'd get at least a couple of "other" responses ..

 

[FairWarning]

What's the best post-2000 album in this genre? The Darkness self-titled? Ratt's from last year?

Wolfmother self-titled (probably not really hair-metal), but one of the best rock albums in the last 10 years.

 

[kcfflguy]

What's the best post-2000 album in this genre? The Darkness self-titled? Ratt's from last year?

Wolfmother self-titled (probably not really hair-metal), but one of the best rock albums in the last 10 years.

Steel Panther-- Feel the Steel

 

[jamny]

4. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil (1983) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/ShoutattheDevil.jpg/220px-ShoutattheDevil.jpg

1. In the Beginning

2. Shout at the Devil

3. Looks That Kill

4. *******

5. God Bless the Children of the Beast

6. Helter Skelter

7. Red Hot

8. Too Young to Fall in Love

9. Knock Em Dead, Kid

10. Ten Seconds to Love

11. Danger

Wore this cassette out driving my friends to two-a-day freshman HS football practice. It will forever remind me of that.

I had it on vinyl. I remember having to buy a second copy after my dad threw the first one in the garbage upon hearing the lyrics to "Ten Seconds to Love."

Gave me a nice flashback. The only time it ever happened, my Dad said, go ahead pick out an album while we were at the mall. The mall was called Robert Hall. I knew exactly what I wanted. Came back with this. I was 13 and it had just come out.

The look on his face...

So did Kiss never figure in with hair bands?

Post-makeup KISS was the ugliest hair band around

Did that have something to do with it? Was their music any good during that time?

Not really. Some solid tunes. Like lick it up. Heavens on fire. Tears are falling. Unholy. But for the most part kiss peaked with destroyer in 1977 then alive 2

I know all those songs and just figured it fit right in with hair metal style and thought they were hits. Just surprised they don't get any attention here.

 

[KarmaPolice]

What's the best post-2000 album in this genre? The Darkness self-titled? Ratt's from last year?

Wolfmother self-titled (probably not really hair-metal), but one of the best rock albums in the last 10 years.

Steel Panther-- Feel the Steel

Crashdiet - Rest in Sleaze

 

[DocHolliday]

What's the best post-2000 album in this genre? The Darkness self-titled? Ratt's from last year?

Wolfmother self-titled (probably not really hair-metal), but one of the best rock albums in the last 10 years.

Steel Panther-- Feel the Steel

Crashdiet - Rest in Sleaze

Crash diet - Generation Wild (my favorite album of the last few years).

Steel Panther - Feel the Steel

Darkness - Darkness

Heavens Basement - Filthy Empire

Crazy Lixx - New Religion

I need to pick up more Crashdiet and Crazy Lixx.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

4. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil (1983) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/ShoutattheDevil.jpg/220px-ShoutattheDevil.jpg

1. In the Beginning

2. Shout at the Devil

3. Looks That Kill

4. *******

5. God Bless the Children of the Beast

6. Helter Skelter

7. Red Hot

8. Too Young to Fall in Love

9. Knock Em Dead, Kid

10. Ten Seconds to Love

11. Danger

Wore this cassette out driving my friends to two-a-day freshman HS football practice. It will forever remind me of that.

I had it on vinyl. I remember having to buy a second copy after my dad threw the first one in the garbage upon hearing the lyrics to "Ten Seconds to Love."

Gave me a nice flashback. The only time it ever happened, my Dad said, go ahead pick out an album while we were at the mall. The mall was called Robert Hall. I knew exactly what I wanted. Came back with this. I was 13 and it had just come out.

The look on his face...

So did Kiss never figure in with hair bands?

Post-makeup KISS was the ugliest hair band around

Did that have something to do with it? Was their music any good during that time?

Not really. Some solid tunes. Like lick it up. Heavens on fire. Tears are falling. Unholy. But for the most part kiss peaked with destroyer in 1977 then alive 2

I know all those songs and just figured it fit right in with hair metal style and thought they were hits. Just surprised they don't get any attention here.

well their good stuff didn't fit the genre time frame.

and their hair metal stuff was just kinda meh. I did see them live on the crazy nights tour, would animalize qualify in top50 list somewhere? maybe. but leaving them out is justified IMO

 

[jamny]

well their good stuff didn't fit the genre time frame.


and their hair metal stuff was just kinda meh. I did see them live on the crazy nights tour, would animalize qualify in top50 list somewhere? maybe. but leaving them out is justified IMO

Interesting...thx.

Do they at least get some credit as like The Grandfathers of Hair Metal or something. Wasn't even their earlier stuff kind of a precursor of the genre?

 

[Quint]

anybody ever hear of Rough Cutt? this was an anthem of ours back in high school:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5196DiCI9Y

had this one album that had a number of good songs but then fell off the map.

Saw a Ruff Cutt open for Dio in 1983 in Fresno. Holy Diver tour IIRC.

First time I got high too.... good times

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

I think david lee roths solo stuff could of made the list

 

[Apple Jack]

https://www.facebook.com/phebert/videos/10105829880165348/

 

[Quint]

https://www.facebook.com/phebert/videos/10105829880165348/

somehow i don't think Coldplay will be doing anything like this. ever.

metal rulez. \m/

 

[psychobillies]

I think david lee roths solo stuff could of made the list

Great point. Vai, Sheehan. Definitely qualify.

 

[Abraham]

Federal law enforcement expenditures ranked last in absolute dollars and accounted for only six percent of annual spending.

Great song.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Federal law enforcement expenditures ranked last in absolute dollars and accounted for only six percent of annual spending.

Great song.

Yes. But that line is dumb because the federal government isn't in the law enforcement business. That's what the police are for.Best I Can is a better song from that album.

 

[Abraham]

Federal law enforcement expenditures ranked last in absolute dollars and accounted for only six percent of annual spending.

Great song.

Yes. But that line is dumb because the federal government isn't in the law enforcement business. That's what the police are for.Best I Can is a better song from that album.

That's what makes it awesome, particularly because it calls out national defense as the biggest expenditure, which also factors in to fighting the drug trade.

 

[Statorama]

So when do the NES rankings start? Let's get our priorities in order, shall we?

I'm waiting for the top 50 Hair Band Singles list!

Will Fastway's 'Say what you will' make the cut? Will 'Bang Your Head (Metal Health)' be number 1?

 

[cstu]

well their good stuff didn't fit the genre time frame.

and their hair metal stuff was just kinda meh. I did see them live on the crazy nights tour, would animalize qualify in top50 list somewhere? maybe. but leaving them out is justified IMO

What, not a fan of 'Let's Put The X In Sex?'?

 

[psychobillies]

well their good stuff didn't fit the genre time frame.

and their hair metal stuff was just kinda meh. I did see them live on the crazy nights tour, would animalize qualify in top50 list somewhere? maybe. but leaving them out is justified IMO

What, not a fan of 'Let's Put The X In Sex?'?

That song is so bad it makes me angry.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

I loved that fastway album too. Would be in my top 50

 

[Rove!]

This video belongs in here....

Who cries for the children (raised on Rap)...I do...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G5H94GHb-10