The 50 Greatest Hair Albums EVER. (3 Viewers)

[PIK95]

45. Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood (1989) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Feelgood_(album)#/media/File:Motley_Crue_-_Dr_Feelgood-front.jpg

This is a top 50 for albums and we will see the best of Skid Row and we will see better Motley, but this album while is not the Crue's best. It still makes top 50. I was young, dumb, and full of batter at the time. I was done wrong by a hoe, we'll call her Megan and this album had my ballad to get me through.





. "T.n.T. (Terror 'n Tinseltown)" Sixx 0:42 2. "Dr. Feelgood" Mick Mars, Sixx 4:50 3. "Slice of Your Pie" Sixx, Mars 4:32 4. "Rattlesnake Shake" Mars, Sixx, Vince Neil, Tommy Lee 3:40 5. "Kickstart My Heart" Sixx 4:48 6. "Without You" Sixx, Mars 4:29 7. "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)" Lee, Sixx, Neil, Mars 4:12 8. "Sticky Sweet" Mars, Sixx 3:52 9. "She Goes Down" Mars, Sixx 4:37 10. "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" Sixx, Mars 11. "Time for Change"

I believe this was their first album when everyone in the band was clean.

If that is true, it explains why the best Crue has yet to come.

This is definitely Top 3. For me though, "Shout at the Devil" is my fav.

Hang tight, "Livewire" we got you.

Good song, Too Fast For Love, another good one

"the looks that kill"..... You killing my countdown homie.

Sorry bro, you got me all fired up!

I assume it will be #1. It's mine for sure.

 

[TakiToki]

[SIZE=16pt]44. Saigon Kick – The Lizard (1992)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ac/The_Lizard_%28Saigon_Kick_album%29_coverart.jpg/220px-The_Lizard_%28Saigon_Kick_album%29_coverart.jpg

This album helped round out the ear before we succumbed to the likes of Nirvana and the start of the Seattle grunge/alternative era. Great ballads and guitar riffs Bill and Ted would call most excellent.

1. Cruelty

2. Hostile Youth

3. Feel the Same Way

4. Freedom

5. God of 42nd Street

6. My Dog

7. Peppermint Tribe

8. Love Is on the Way

9. The Lizard

10. All Alright

11. Sleep

12. All I Want

13. Body Bags

14. Miss Jones

15. World Goes Round

16. Chanel

Guess we're getting the "best band named after a city a Vietnam" settled early.

 

[jomar]

48. Skid Row – Slave to the Grind (1991) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ec/Skidrow-slavecover.jpg/220px-Skidrow-slavecover.jpg

First heavy metal album to debut #1 on the Billboard 200. Sebastian Bach is a hair God.

1. Monkey Business

2. Slave To The Grind

3. The Threat

4. Quicksand Jesus

5. Psycho Love

6. Get The #### Out

7. Livin' On A Chain Gang

8. Creepshow

9. In A Darkened Room

10. Riot Act

11. Mudkicker

12. Wasted Time

Better than self-titled. #2 and #3 so good.

Not so fast, my friend. I love both but give me the self titled album.

Wasted time is such a great ballad. The first :42 intro to Monkey Business ending with the all time greatest hair metal scream is timeless.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

If Firehouse or Trixter turn up on this list, I'm going to go ape.

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

Not at all, but I have to admit, I was never a fan of Dangerous Toys. All my hair metal tastes skew heavier. I would put Night Songs, Shout at the Devil, and Mechanical Resonance as my top 3 in all likelihood (haven't really thought it through, this is just at a blush.) That's of course assuming VH and GNR don't count.

 

[cockroach]

Ok... Tesla and GnR aren't hair metal... what about Kix?

 

[Evilgrin 72]

If Firehouse or Trixter turn up on this list, I'm going to go ape.

When I look into your grinI can see how much I love you

And it makes me realize

When I look into your grin

I see all my dreams come true

When I look into your grin

If I remember tomorrow, I'll tell you guys about the Trixter parody video the band I was in did back in the late 80s.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

More lesser known names to make sure Warsteiner doesn't forget about them:

Armored Saint

Black n Blue

Bulletboys

Four Horsemen

Grim Reaper

Helix

Junkyard

Krokus

Y&t

i think at least three of those are shoe-ins for this list.

like to see Grim Reaper make it, just not sure they will. lyrical content might keep them out of the "hair metal" category.

"Suck It & See" fits right in.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Also hoping to see BulletBoys too. First album just spectacular hair metal anthems, like the previously-mentioned Hell on My Heels with its "One, two [bleep] you" intro.

And while this EG guy seems like a decent dude, I'll fight a mfer that talks stuff about Dangerous Toys. GNR, Skid Row and DT were the best three bands in the world at one point in time. I'm not sure of any real good metrics to show that, but it's true, dammit.

I wasn't ripping them even though it may have seemed like it based on the proximity of my response to my Trixter post. I just wouldn't have put that album anywhere near the top 40. Just one guy's opinion.

 

[Warsteinner]

Ok... Tesla and GnR aren't hair metal... what about Kix?

"Don't Close Your Eyes" my friend.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

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...

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.

Not to derail this thread (maybe it's a topic for a thread all its own), but given the choice, I'd rather live EG72's life over AZ Ron's.

Is Ron spinning yarns in the "Loaning a chick money" thread I always see on page 1? I've never looked at it, maybe I should.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Ok... Tesla and GnR aren't hair metal... what about Kix?

"Don't Close Your Eyes" my friend.

Don't close your I-E-Is.

 

[Mister CIA]

Best song you will listen to today.

 

[Abraham]

I was in a country rock band in 2001 ish. We played a Halloween show at a rock club. Started the set with bad seamstress blues and went right into falling apart at the seams. Place came unglued. Was a great show.

 

[Christo]

Best song you will listen to today.

 

[Warsteinner]

Best song you will listen to today.

If Joe Bryant still treaded these waters you might be in the middle of a good season, guy.

 

[snogger]

Best song you will listen to today.

If Joe Bryant still treaded these waters you might be in the middle of a good season, guy.

 

[Mister CIA]

Best song you will listen to today.

Most oddly attractive song you will hear today?

 

[Abraham]

I have spent the last decade on this board thinking I was the only person that still listened to warrant, Cinderella, bullet boys, tyketto, wild side, Bon jovi, skid row, Kik tracee, Tuff, slaughter, trixter, firehouse, Britney fox, Black-eyed Susan, asphalt ballet, so on and so forth. Glad to find some new friends. Because this #### is always going to be awesome.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

I have spent the last decade on this board thinking I was the only person that still listened to warrant, Cinderella, bullet boys, tyketto, wild side, Bon jovi, skid row, Kik tracee, Tuff, slaughter, trixter, firehouse, Britney fox, Black-eyed Susan, asphalt ballet, so on and so forth. Glad to find some new friends. Because this #### is always going to be awesome.

Ape mode nearing...

 

[snogger]

I have spent the last decade on this board thinking I was the only person that still listened to warrant, Cinderella, bullet boys, tyketto, wild side, Bon jovi, skid row, Kik tracee, Tuff, slaughter, trixter, firehouse, Britney fox, Black-eyed Susan, asphalt ballet, so on and so forth. Glad to find some new friends. Because this #### is always going to be awesome.

hair nation on Sirius is my main go to station... at work Pandora and google play have hair metal as my "most played" stations along with my made up Tesla and Judas Priest stations

 

[Evilgrin 72]

I have spent the last decade on this board thinking I was the only person that still listened to warrant, Cinderella, bullet boys, tyketto, wild side, Bon jovi, skid row, Kik tracee, Tuff, slaughter, trixter, firehouse, Britney fox, Black-eyed Susan, asphalt ballet, so on and so forth. Glad to find some new friends. Because this #### is always going to be awesome.

hair nation on Sirius is my main go to station

I'm usually up one or down one, but I always check 39 when flipping between them.

 

[Ash]

I was willing to let it go that 1984 somehow wasn't in the top 10 where it should be but this is a bridge too far.

Appetite for Destruction is the best American album ever. To say it isn't one of the top 10 hair metal albums is simply being contrarian to be contrarian. There is no metric - sales, popularity, re-listen ability, cultural and musical impact - where it isn't one of the most important pieces of music in the rock era.

Two is New Jersey

Three is Pyromania

Four I s Open up and say ahhh...

Five should have been Dr Feelgood but I'll settle for Too Fast for Love

Six is Destroyer

If I get motivated later I'll finish the list of 50.

One is absolutely Appetite. I'd be OK with Shout at the Devil being top 5 but neither Dr Feelgood or TFFL should be anywhere near that high. Pyromania and Destroyer wouldn't be in my top 5 but I think it's a matter of opinion and can see them as viable candidates.New Jersey and Open Up? You have got to be kidding me. :X (esp Open Up).

Open Up is the epitome of hair metal.

Poison is absolutely is hair metal. Didn't say otherwise. i said it's a horrendous choice for top 5. It's an over rated abysmal hair album that shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as many other options.

... and ballad (Every Rose) of all time.

Incorrect.

You're welcome.

 

[Warsteinner]

I was willing to let it go that 1984 somehow wasn't in the top 10 where it should be but this is a bridge too far.

Appetite for Destruction is the best American album ever. To say it isn't one of the top 10 hair metal albums is simply being contrarian to be contrarian. There is no metric - sales, popularity, re-listen ability, cultural and musical impact - where it isn't one of the most important pieces of music in the rock era.

Two is New Jersey

Three is Pyromania

Four I s Open up and say ahhh...

Five should have been Dr Feelgood but I'll settle for Too Fast for Love

Six is Destroyer

If I get motivated later I'll finish the list of 50.

One is absolutely Appetite. I'd be OK with Shout at the Devil being top 5 but neither Dr Feelgood or TFFL should be anywhere near that high. Pyromania and Destroyer wouldn't be in my top 5 but I think it's a matter of opinion and can see them as viable candidates.New Jersey and Open Up? You have got to be kidding me. :X (esp Open Up).

Open Up is the epitome of hair metal.

Poison is absolutely is hair metal. Didn't say otherwise. i said it's a horrendous choice for top 5. It's an over rated abysmal hair album that shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as many other options.

... and ballad (Every Rose) of all time.

Incorrect.

You're welcome.

Good picks,

Fellas but you're both wrong. We will be discussing the best GD power ballad of all time in due time.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Home Sweet Home is the correct answer

 

[Rove!]

Home Sweet Home is the correct answer

Needs a poll...somebody gather up nominations and run with this

 

[Abraham]

Every rose

Heaven

Beth

Home sweet home

Patience

Don't know what you've got

House of broken love

Love bites

I'll be there for you

But #1 is I remember you.

 

[Warsteinner]

Every rose

Heaven

Beth

Home sweet home

Patience

Don't know what you've got

House of broken love

Love bites

I'll be there for you

But #1 is I remember you.

You still left out the best ever.

 

[Abraham]

Every rose

Heaven

Beth

Home sweet home

Patience

Don't know what you've got

House of broken love

Love bites

I'll be there for you

But #1 is I remember you.

You still left out the best ever.

House of Pain is really good. Good point.

 

[Northern Voice]

Every rose

Heaven

Beth

Home sweet home

Patience

Don't know what you've got

House of broken love

Love bites

I'll be there for you

But #1 is I remember you.

It gets dicey here again, because if you want to include Van Halen, you can also likely include Night Ranger and then Sister Christian runs away with it.

 

[beer 30]

I have spent the last decade on this board thinking I was the only person that still listened to warrant, Cinderella, bullet boys, tyketto, wild side, Bon jovi, skid row, Kik tracee, Tuff, slaughter, trixter, firehouse, Britney fox, Black-eyed Susan, asphalt ballet, so on and so forth. Glad to find some new friends. Because this #### is always going to be awesome.

Think it moved a little

 

[pollardsvision]

Thank you for this thread.

But it seems ridiculous to me to say that Bon Jovi wasn't hair metal.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Heaven

Just a terrible song.

 

[Doug B]

Every rose

Heaven

Beth

Home sweet home

Patience

Don't know what you've got

House of broken love

Love bites

I'll be there for you

But #1 is I remember you.

You still left out the best ever.

Klaus Meine pouring his guts out on "Still Loving You" FTW.

 

[tonydead]

Every rose

Heaven

Beth

Home sweet home

Patience

Don't know what you've got

House of broken love

Love bites

I'll be there for you

But #1 is I remember you.

You still left out the best ever.

House of Pain is really good. Good point.

Beth is the best ballad of all time. Start mixing in words like "power" and "hair" then sure whatever. But best ballad....its Beth.

 

[cockroach]

Ok... Tesla and GnR aren't hair metal... what about Kix?

"Don't Close Your Eyes" my friend.

Don't close your I-E-Is.

If they're not top 15ish I might blow my fuse.

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

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...

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.

Not to derail this thread (maybe it's a topic for a thread all its own), but given the choice, I'd rather live EG72's life over AZ Ron's.

Is Ron spinning yarns in the "Loaning a chick money" thread I always see on page 1? I've never looked at it, maybe I should.

Oh, it's a real scene in there, man.

 

[PIK95]

Every rose

Heaven

Beth

Home sweet home

Patience

Don't know what you've got

House of broken love

Love bites

I'll be there for you

But #1 is I remember you.

You still left out the best ever.

Tesla-Love Song is my vote.I'm thinking that November Rain has to count?

Oz and Lita?

 

[Abraham]

Most underrated ballad - Desperate by BAbylon aD. Great hook. Saw that last year that were plAying shows on a hair metal cruise ship.

 

[snogger]

Most underrated ballad - Desperate by BAbylon aD. Great hook. Saw that last year that were plAying shows on a hair metal cruise ship.

I'd put Y&T's "This Time" right up there as maybe "unknown ballad"

It was the "wedding dance" song for the wife and I

 

[Tom Skerritt]

Home Sweet Home is the correct answer

This would get my vote. But I also am partial to Fly to the Angels and More than Words.

 

[Sabertooth]

Every time I hear Kix I want to break out the NES and play Nobunaga's Ambition. Red Light Green Light TNT. And I also think of a chick I pined for back then. Too funny. No whoa whoa whoa Ring around Rosy!

 

[Sabertooth]

Home Sweet Home is the correct answer

This would get my vote. But I also am partial to Fly to the Angels and More than Words.

Fly to the Angels was my girlfriend and my "song." WTF? Guess we never listens to the words. Ate a lot of ##### to that one.

 

[Abraham]

Girl money is my favorite Kix song in the event my children search the Internet for this information when I am gone.

 

[Abraham]

Home Sweet Home is the correct answer

This would get my vote. But I also am partial to Fly to the Angels and More than Words.

Fly to the Angels was my girlfriend and my "song." WTF? Guess we never listens to the words. Ate a lot of ##### to that one.

 

[Sabertooth]

Motley Crue kind of defined hair metal for me. Incidentally I can find myself in the Same Old Situation video they filmed at Alpine Valley. Probably the defining concert of my youth. Maybe the best one I've ever been to. Tesla, Joe Satriani, Bonham, and the haunting melodies of Johnny Crash opened. 7-7-1990.

 

[Abraham]

Motley Crue kind of defined hair metal for me. Incidentally I can find myself in the Same Old Situation video they filmed at Alpine Valley. Probably the defining concert of my youth. Maybe the best one I've ever been to. Tesla, Joe Satriani, Bonham, and the haunting melodies of Johnny Crash opened. 7-7-1990.

Awesome. One of my favorite songs and videos by them. It's crazy thinking how big of a deal the music video used to be. That record had 5 in all that kept the band top of mind for the better part of two years.

 

[Eulogys]

I was in a country rock band in 2001 ish. We played a Halloween show at a rock club. Started the set with bad seamstress blues and went right into falling apart at the seams. Place came unglued. Was a great show.

IMO, Long Cold Winter was easily the best Cinderella Album.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Wanted Dead Or Alive was filmed at UIC Pavilion and at the 2:39 mark, a girl from the neighborhood I grew up in has proof that she was one of a million faces that has been rocked

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho

 

[Sabertooth]

I saw Bon Jovi and Kid Rock at Soldier field a few years back. Fantastic show.

 

[Statorama]

PSA - Zebra playing the Civic Theatre in New Orleans Friday.