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The 50 Greatest Hair Albums EVER. (1 Viewer)
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Kumerica
Footballguy
He never claimed it was best hair "metal," it's Hair Album. I'd argue Van Halen and a few other bands (KISS, NY Dolls, Free, etc.) could be considered, as Motley Crue, Dokken, Ratt, etc. arrived on the Strip wanting to BE the next Van Halen.
Also, Pyromania should absolutely be Top 5.
Also, Pyromania should absolutely be Top 5.
Warsteinner
Footballguy
[SIZE=16pt]40. Mr. Big – Lean Into It (1991)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Mr._Big_-_Lean_Into_It.jpg/220px-Mr._Big_-_Lean_Into_It.jpg
I have a soft spot for this album as it reminds me of my second ex-wife, we’ll call her Tanya. Yeah she was a dancer but she had a big heart and loved affection. We played this album over and over sometimes making love to the ballads and other times just nasty effin’ with the in your face tracks. I love you T-bird.
1. Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy
2. Alive and kickin’
3. Green Tinted Sixties Mind
4. CDFF – Lucky This Time
5. Voodoo Kiss
6. Never Say Never
7. Just Take My Heart
8. My Kinda Woman
9. A Little Too Loose
10. Road to Ruin
11. To Be with You
I have a soft spot for this album as it reminds me of my second ex-wife, we’ll call her Tanya. Yeah she was a dancer but she had a big heart and loved affection. We played this album over and over sometimes making love to the ballads and other times just nasty effin’ with the in your face tracks. I love you T-bird.
1. Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy
2. Alive and kickin’
3. Green Tinted Sixties Mind
4. CDFF – Lucky This Time
5. Voodoo Kiss
6. Never Say Never
7. Just Take My Heart
8. My Kinda Woman
9. A Little Too Loose
10. Road to Ruin
11. To Be with You
Warsteinner
Footballguy
As we dip into the final 39 I just want it to be know that I love Appetite for Destruction. I do not however put it into the "hair" category so will not include it in the list. Any other 80's rock list it would be #1 without a close challenger.
Apple Jack
Footballguy
yeah, the idea of putting hysteria over pyromania is absoludicrous. hysteria is more of a fried, frizzy, overcooked, treated once too many times ####knot walk of shame on the side of la cienega at nine in the morning hair album. a bridge too far.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
MindCrime
Footballguy
Agreed that the first record is awesome, but saw these guys original lineup last year here in Florida, they did the lizard start to finish, and it's still an amazing album.
MindCrime
Footballguy
Buzzbait
Footballguy
I'd be OK with that explanation except if you're putting VH on the list you can't exclude GnR. Makes no sense. GnR is just as close to the hair genera (actually more IMO) than VH.
Warsteinner
Footballguy
Apple Jack
Footballguy
Agree including Roth-era VH but not GnR does not reconcile.
Abraham
Footballguy
But Hysteria was a cultural touchstone in ways Pyromania wasn't. Yes, both albums were immensely popular but Hysteria was being played on top-40 radio for about 18 months and spawned 5 hit singles, hit #1 on the Top-40 album list, and sold 25 million copies. It also didn't get to number 1 until its 49th week of release, which is crazy even for a time when the charts worked the way they did in the 80's.
Its an easy argument to make that it isn't their "best" record, track for track. But the significance in pop culture (as with AfD, Open Up and Say Ahh..., and New Jersey) is worth a lot of points in my book. Hysteria also features the band's show ender (Pour Some Sugar on Me) which is also a big deal to me; what song does the band think the fans are most looking for at the apex of a concert? GNR ends with Paradise City, Poison Ends with "Nothing But a Good Time", Bon Jovi typically ends with two tracks from Slippery When Wet (Dead or ALive then Living on A Prayer) but otherwise the maxim holds true.
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DocHolliday
Footballguy
I love hair metal. I hate Mr Big.
Carry on though OP. You have a great thread going. I just put Helloween on in my office and turned the Xmas channel off. It is time to rock. Thank you for getting back to where I should be.
Buzzbait
Footballguy
So this post begs the question: Is this list the most popular top 50 or best top 50? If it's most popular (i.e. sales, singles) then I agree that Hysteria would be Def Leppard's #1 album. If it's best top 50 then it's DL's #3 at best (High n Dry and Pyromania are both better).
Apple Jack
Footballguy
I think I was too old when Hysteria came out (9th grade) and had already moved into Metallica and Slayer, so it was lost on me. Pyromania was massive and was part of the first wave of MTV. To me, that was the bigger cultural touchstone. It also had balls relative to Hysteria. Hysteria sounds like it could have been a Shania Twain record.
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Buzzbait
Footballguy
Agree. Opinion of HnD vs Pyromania? I'd go HnD but it's a close call. They really started to wuss out after Pyromania.
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
Things this thread needs more of:
* Stories about crazy ex-girlfriends
* Stories about crazy fans at concerts
* Stories about crazy strippers
* Stories about crazy #### you did while listening to albums on this list and other candidates for it
Things this thread needs less of:
* Pretentious music #######s trying to define "hair metal" for everyone else
Warsteinner - you're killing it. Loving every word you're posting. Some of these albums I know pretty well, some I only know at most one song. Enjoying everything you're saying about it. As you were...
* Stories about crazy ex-girlfriends
* Stories about crazy fans at concerts
* Stories about crazy strippers
* Stories about crazy #### you did while listening to albums on this list and other candidates for it
Things this thread needs less of:
* Pretentious music #######s trying to define "hair metal" for everyone else
Warsteinner - you're killing it. Loving every word you're posting. Some of these albums I know pretty well, some I only know at most one song. Enjoying everything you're saying about it. As you were...
Apple Jack
Footballguy
I'd lean Pyromania, but I wore out Bringing on the Heartbreak on my Friday Night Videos beta recording.
Warsteinner
Footballguy
[SIZE=16pt]39. Britny Fox – Britny Fox (1988)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/BritnyFoxST.jpg/220px-BritnyFoxST.jpg
With the exception of Chris Isaak "Wicked Game" I can’t think of a sexier music video than Girlschool. Let it be known I do not like proper or cultured women. I love me some sloots. When I was 29 I casually dated a 19 year old dancer that would turn tricks in exchange for alcohol and Gumby, we’ll call her Hanna. For only being 19 she had the most amazing collection of dancer attire I’d ever seen and her school girl outfit and Girlschool made for some great, great nights. I can still feel it in my plums.
1. Girlschool
2. Long Way to Love
3. Kick ‘n’ Fight
4. Save the Weak
5. Fun in Texas
6. Rock Revolution
7. Don’t Hide
8. Gudbuy T’Jane
9. In America
10. Hold On
With the exception of Chris Isaak "Wicked Game" I can’t think of a sexier music video than Girlschool. Let it be known I do not like proper or cultured women. I love me some sloots. When I was 29 I casually dated a 19 year old dancer that would turn tricks in exchange for alcohol and Gumby, we’ll call her Hanna. For only being 19 she had the most amazing collection of dancer attire I’d ever seen and her school girl outfit and Girlschool made for some great, great nights. I can still feel it in my plums.
1. Girlschool
2. Long Way to Love
3. Kick ‘n’ Fight
4. Save the Weak
5. Fun in Texas
6. Rock Revolution
7. Don’t Hide
8. Gudbuy T’Jane
9. In America
10. Hold On
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Quint
Footballguy
hoping to see this one on here! great freaking album. and maybe one of the best Hair Metal videos for Girlschool.Warsteinner said:
coyote5
Footballguy
The last day of 8th grade we had a big outdoor "graduation" party at school in the afternoon. There was a big air band contest as part of it. Well, sometime that morning a buzz started circulating through the hallways; our resident stoners had entered a submission and they would be doing WASP's "Animal." Now I'm sure 95% of us had no idea who WASP was, or what the song was, but once a bunch of 14 year olds heard that the supposed real title to the song was #### Like a Beast.... well we couldn't friggin wait to see how this played out.
So the first few bands blew through, I think some guys did Livin on a Prayer, which sucked and the next band they did some Beastie Boys which was actually pretty awesome. But we didn't give a ####. Jason, Scott and the boys were on next and #### was about to get real. Let me tell ya, they went all out - full hair metal regalia... they were wearing painted, studded cups over their black jeans for cod pieces, eye liner, blown out hair, the whole nine. Real instruments, even a small drum kit. I mean, they painted the picture.
The music hit and we were just waiting, one eye on them, one eye on the teachers. Waiting for the explosion. Well the first chorus is on the way... "I moan and growl and the hunt drives me crazy..." Oh ####, is this it? Is this what we've been waiting for?? "...I #### LIKE A BEAST!!" Boom, 300 kids explode, our meathead gym teacher, Body Bob, head snaps around like he just took a right cross from Tyson... but he wasn't exactly sure he heard what he thought he heard so he watches and listens... the lead-in to the second chorus hits "A pelvic thrust and the sweat starts to sting ya..." Body Bob starts heading quickly towards the stage "... I #### LIKE A BEAST!!" That dude was off like a shot towards those boys. They dropped the guitars like a shot and were off the stage in an instant, racing through the crowd of kids trying to escape. A few other teachers joined in what seemed like a 10 minute Benny Hill chase sequence (but I'm sure was much less than that) with the whole crowd of kids cheering and yelling.
2 of the band were caught at the scene, the other 2, well I mean it's not like everyone didn't know who they were so they just got rounded up later at home. One of the guys took a swing at Body Bob in the chase, cops were involved charges were filed and I don't think air band was allowed at that middle school for several years after that. But #######ed that was a fun afternoon!
Statorama
Footballguy
Oh come on, if Love In Stereo doesn't scratch your hair band itch you're just not a fun person.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Had a girlfriend from '89-'91 that was big into hair metal.
Sometime in 1990, she talked me into taking her to see Ratt / Warrant / Great White at Poplar Creek music theatre with was the huge outdoor music venue in the area.
We get there and the place is a ghost town. I had probably seen 20 shows at this venue and it was surreal to see it so empty. Great White plays their opening set and the crowd isn't growing. Warrant comes out and Janie Lane (or whatever the hell his name was) grabs the mic and announces to the crowd that 'there's plenty of room for everyone, so all you ####ers out in the lawn come on down to the seats so we can ####### party!'
The lawn crowd comes down to the seats in the pavilion and were still only about 50% full and there were about 50 people left on the lawn.
That's when I knew the era was over.
Full disclosure, Ratt killed that night. Whoever the drummer was at that time stole the show. Just a beast
Sometime in 1990, she talked me into taking her to see Ratt / Warrant / Great White at Poplar Creek music theatre with was the huge outdoor music venue in the area.
We get there and the place is a ghost town. I had probably seen 20 shows at this venue and it was surreal to see it so empty. Great White plays their opening set and the crowd isn't growing. Warrant comes out and Janie Lane (or whatever the hell his name was) grabs the mic and announces to the crowd that 'there's plenty of room for everyone, so all you ####ers out in the lawn come on down to the seats so we can ####### party!'
The lawn crowd comes down to the seats in the pavilion and were still only about 50% full and there were about 50 people left on the lawn.
That's when I knew the era was over.
Full disclosure, Ratt killed that night. Whoever the drummer was at that time stole the show. Just a beast
JZilla
Footballguy
I'm not a Cherry Pie fan either but I agree this is the track to have. I don't understand Uncle Tom's Cabin. Why is it called that? It's not about the book. I guess we'll never know. "I Saw Red" isn't horrible.
Say what you will about Winger.. better than 3-4 of these so far
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Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
I used to live by the Skid Row guys. I've been in Snake Sabo's house, a friend of mine used to live next door and once in a blue moon, he'd be home and we'd knock on the door. He would let us in and shoot the #### for a while over beers. Awesome dude. Bach lived near me too, I would see him in places like the supermarket or at the bank fairly regularly. I would usually say hi and we'd shake hands and exchange pleasantries.
One day I'm at a Motorhead show at the Stone Pony and standing stage left right up against the stage itself. It's preposterously loud, so much so that the sound is distorted and hard to even make out. I look over and standing kind of caddy-corner to me, just side-stage is Sebastian. He's smoking a joint roughly the size of a small burrito. I give him the horns and a smile of approval - he smiles at me in what sure appeared to be recognition - "that's that dude I've seen around." Then he takes the joint and kind of slide/skips it across the corner of the stage to me. I grabbed it, took a couple deep drags and then threw it back to him. He flashed me the horns and goes back to watching the show.
Metal.
Statorama
Footballguy
Buzzbait
Footballguy
Never a huge fan but saw them in 89 with Bullet Boys and Cinderella (Winger went on second). They were much better than I was expecting.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Gotta be Stryper time soon
Warsteinner
Footballguy
Quint
Footballguy
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Warsteinner
Footballguy
White Lion aka the Drake of 80's hair will not be making the cut either.
Northern Voice
Footballguy
My mom taught Sebastian Bach (Bierk) when he was young. He always said he was going to be a musician when he grew up. Talented family.
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Statorama
Footballguy
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Northern Voice
Footballguy
I've probably argued for both Hysteria and High n Dry in the past, but Pyromania is the best Def Leppard album. It has both the harder rock that makes HnD great and the pop instincts that make Hysteria great. Perfect sweet spot of their sound IMO.
bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
Thank god eg72 showed up for story time.
Got to say. Even though i was one of them thrash dudes that pretty much hated glam hair metal. We used to all watch headbangers ball and go to the poison show for the hot chics that were there.
Just the other day i was saying to my wife about how mtv sucks now and why dont they have a good channel playing good videos now adays. Somehow someway vh1 classic just doesnt cut it.
Getoff. My lawn!!!
Got to say. Even though i was one of them thrash dudes that pretty much hated glam hair metal. We used to all watch headbangers ball and go to the poison show for the hot chics that were there.
Just the other day i was saying to my wife about how mtv sucks now and why dont they have a good channel playing good videos now adays. Somehow someway vh1 classic just doesnt cut it.
Getoff. My lawn!!!
Warsteinner
Footballguy
[SIZE=16pt]38. Dangerous Toys – Dangerous Toys (1989) [/SIZE]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0a/Dangerous_Toys_self-titled.jpg/220px-Dangerous_Toys_self-titled.jpg
6-7 months ago I was in my local dive bar where I had been dodging a particular bar wench that had the hots for old Warsteinner for several weeks, we’ll call her Sherry. From the neck down the body was absolutely smoking, but the face, as GB Chain from the FFAWT would put it, looked like she had ran a 40 yard dash in a 30 yard gym. This night I was on God only knows what and feeling rather randy. I made up my mind early I was just going to take her back my place and beat the effing brakes off of it. This sort of occasion demanded an album from a band with mind supplanted in the gutter. Enter- Dangerous Toys.
1. Teas’n, Pleas’n
2. Scared
3. Bones in the Gutter
4. Take Me Drunk
5. Feels Like a Hammer
6. Sport’n a Woody
7. Queen of the Nile
8. Outlaw
9. Here Comes Trouble
10. Ten Boots
11. That Dog
6-7 months ago I was in my local dive bar where I had been dodging a particular bar wench that had the hots for old Warsteinner for several weeks, we’ll call her Sherry. From the neck down the body was absolutely smoking, but the face, as GB Chain from the FFAWT would put it, looked like she had ran a 40 yard dash in a 30 yard gym. This night I was on God only knows what and feeling rather randy. I made up my mind early I was just going to take her back my place and beat the effing brakes off of it. This sort of occasion demanded an album from a band with mind supplanted in the gutter. Enter- Dangerous Toys.
1. Teas’n, Pleas’n
2. Scared
3. Bones in the Gutter
4. Take Me Drunk
5. Feels Like a Hammer
6. Sport’n a Woody
7. Queen of the Nile
8. Outlaw
9. Here Comes Trouble
10. Ten Boots
11. That Dog
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
Bach was a featured player for a season of one of my wife's favorite TV shows, Gilmore Girls. Bach may not have turned in Emmy-level work, but he wasn't a distraction, either. Played the frontman of a local rock band trying to make it big. He certainly knew a thing or two about that life.My first "real" concert, big-time arena show with national acts, was Bon Jovi with Skid Row as the opening act. Several tracks from New Jersey was all over the radio and MTV, near the pinnacle of Bon Jovi's fame if not the apex. 18 and Life had just broken through, so Skid Row was starting to make a name for themselves.Northern Voice said:
I wish I had an awesome stories about booze, drugs, or #### from that night, but sadly I don't. Both bands were fantastic, there were a lot of sizzling hot chicks in the crowd, my hearing fully returned late the next afternoon.
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
"Mechanical Resonance" should be top 5-10, depending on whether or not he's including 5 of Van Halen's first 6 albums (he should be if "1984" is in there.)
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
If Firehouse or Trixter turn up on this list, I'm going to go ape.
JZilla
Footballguy
If you're rating Dangerous Toys with this nutless, sugarcoated chick crap, I gotta say you're way off
There's another Texas debut that should be on here as well
Quint
Footballguy
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