The 50 Greatest Hair Albums EVER. (1 Viewer)

[coyote5]

Uh yeah, they were hair metal

What year was that?

I don't know, why? Are you suggesting they looked materially different when Metal Health was released??

 

[PIK95]

Jesus christ who are you people GTFO with your Quiet Riot shade!

There's a documentary from the last 2-3 years about the drummer from Quiet Riot trying to find a new vocalist and put the band back together to play the festival circuit: there are enough 80s nostalgia shows, hair metal weekends, and such in the US and UK for a band like Quiet Riot to play enough dates to make a living playing live shows. I don't know if it's right to say the documentary is a great film, but I was riveted.

I was a huge fan but that thing was awful imo. I didn't care for the drummer personally. Drama queen.

 

[coyote5]

Jesus christ who are you people GTFO with your Quiet Riot shade!

There's a documentary from the last 2-3 years about the drummer from Quiet Riot trying to find a new vocalist and put the band back together to play the festival circuit: there are enough 80s nostalgia shows, hair metal weekends, and such in the US and UK for a band like Quiet Riot to play enough dates to make a living playing live shows. I don't know if it's right to say the documentary is a great film, but I was riveted.

Yeah that was a fun look back

 

[PIK95]

Uh yeah, they were hair metal

What year was that?

I don't know, why? Are you suggesting they looked materially different when Metal Health was released??

That's not how I remember them from MTV. Only Sarzo had girl hair I thought. The drummer had a mullet. I don't know.

 

[Warsteinner]

What site is free and easy to use so I can upload a video and post the link here? I took a phone video of the best ballad ever a few months back.

 

[coyote5]

Uh yeah, they were hair metal

What year was that?

I don't know, why? Are you suggesting they looked materially different when Metal Health was released??

That's not how I remember them from MTV. Only Sarzo had girl hair I thought. The drummer had a mullet. I don't know.

I dunno, looks similar to me!

 

[PIK95]

Uh yeah, they were hair metal

What year was that?

I don't know, why? Are you suggesting they looked materially different when Metal Health was released??

That's not how I remember them from MTV. Only Sarzo had girl hair I thought. The drummer had a mullet. I don't know.

I dunno, looks similar to me!

Kev looks like the boyfriend in Coming to America with that curl. Carlos had a mullet, and Franki had a Brian May I think. Nobody was dressed like a broad. Well, almost nobody. Rudy was a girlie man.

 

[Warsteinner]

[SIZE=16pt]34. Cinderella – Long Cold Winter (1988)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Longcoldwinter.jpg/220px-Longcoldwinter.jpg

For those that have loved and lost this sums it all up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruwUj1OXfA

1. Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart at the Seams

2. Gypsy Road

3. Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)

4. The Last Mile

5. Second Wind

6. Long Cold Winter

7. If You Don’t Like It

8. Coming Home

9. Fire and Ice

10. Take Me Back

 

[DocHolliday]

[SIZE=16pt]34. Cinderella – Long Cold Winter (1988)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Longcoldwinter.jpg/220px-Longcoldwinter.jpg

For those that have loved and lost this sums it all up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruwUj1OXfA

1. Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart at the Seams

2. Gypsy Road

3. Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)

4. The Last Mile

5. Second Wind

6. Long Cold Winter

7. If You Don’t Like It

8. Coming Home

9. Fire and Ice

10. Take Me Back

Perfect spot for this killer album. I still listen to this album at least once a month. So bluesy. Track 3 has likely hit home for many of us.

Had to add. Speaking of bluesy, listened to Badlands Badlands this afternoon. Jake E Lee. Damn.

 

[Quint]

What site is free and easy to use so I can upload a video and post the link here? I took a phone video of the best ballad ever a few months back.

where did you see Steelheart?

 

[=Smackdown=]

Warrior Soul

Blue Murder

Dangerous Toys

 

[=Smackdown=]

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

Seen them at least a dozen times.

Last time about 3 years ago - Randy has lost his voice.

 

[Warsteinner]

Just to get it out of the way now, I do consider David Hasselhoff in this category.

 

[Ash]

As far as power ballads go, there are a couple from Dokken I would put over a lot already listed in here.

I've actually been listening to Back for the Attack a bit lately. I always liked this one

 

[Christo]

Steel Dragon would make my list. :

Great movie

 

[DocHolliday]

Steel Dragon would make my list. :

Great movie

Steel Dragon would make my list. :

Great movie

Great soundtrack.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

Not sure I'd put Metal Health up there.

Has a ton of nostalgia for those of us that went to HS in the early to mid '80s, but kinda falls flat now when comparing to others from the genre.

BITE YOUR TONGUE

Slick Black Cadillac rules as does Run for Cover

 

[cstu]

Uh yeah, they were hair metal

What year was that?

I don't know, why? Are you suggesting they looked materially different when Metal Health was released??

That's not how I remember them from MTV. Only Sarzo had girl hair I thought. The drummer had a mullet. I don't know.

I dunno, looks similar to me!

A light bulb hanging in the room like that is a safety hazard.

 

[John Bender]

[SIZE=16pt]34. Cinderella – Long Cold Winter (1988)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Longcoldwinter.jpg/220px-Longcoldwinter.jpg

For those that have loved and lost this sums it all up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruwUj1OXfA

1. Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart at the Seams

2. Gypsy Road

3. Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)

4. The Last Mile

5. Second Wind

6. Long Cold Winter

7. If You Don’t Like It

8. Coming Home

9. Fire and Ice

10. Take Me Back

Perfect spot for this killer album. I still listen to this album at least once a month. So bluesy. Track 3 has likely hit home for many of us.

Had to add. Speaking of bluesy, listened to Badlands Badlands this afternoon. Jake E Lee. Damn.

Great album. One of my favorites and I don't really like this genre

 

[cstu]

Jesus christ who are you people GTFO with your Quiet Riot shade!

There's a documentary from the last 2-3 years about the drummer from Quiet Riot trying to find a new vocalist and put the band back together to play the festival circuit: there are enough 80s nostalgia shows, hair metal weekends, and such in the US and UK for a band like Quiet Riot to play enough dates to make a living playing live shows. I don't know if it's right to say the documentary is a great film, but I was riveted.

I was a huge fan but that thing was awful imo. I didn't care for the drummer personally. Drama queen.

Frankie Banali is...interesting.

Here's the doc: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560840/

 

[jomar]

Quiet Riot and Twisted Sister were two of the first truly hair metal bands I started listening to. I remember blasting Cum On Feel The Noise in my room like it was yesterday. It was like I was the kid in the video

 

[Warsteinner]

[SIZE=16pt]33. Bon Jovi – New Jersey (1988) [/SIZE]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2c/Bon_Jovi_New_Jersey.jpg/220px-Bon_Jovi_New_Jersey.jpg

I actually like this album better than the one you cats do, but in an attempt to avoid perma-ban I won’t rank this one higher. As stated before, I love me some slooty broads, but even this old buck gets tamed from time to time. Whenever I find one of those gals, I always introduce her to Born to Be My Baby.

1. Lay Your Hands on Me

2. Bad Medicine

3. Born to Be My Baby

4. Living in Sin

5. Blood on Blood

6. Homebound Train

7. Wild is the Wind

8. Ride Cowboy Ride

9. Stick to Your Guns

10. I’ll Be There for You

11. 99 in the Shad

12. Love for Sale

 

[jomar]

Gotta say Long Cold Winter would probably be in my 20-25 range. Browsing through my list, I'm having a hard time finding 33 better albums.

Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin Apart At The Seams is one of the all time great opening songs. My wife is 10 years younger than me and not into this genre, but even she loves Coming Home.

 

[Warsteinner]

At work today I was on Youtube checking out some of these old badass music videos and kept forgetting how many of them are so NSFW in the pvssy world we live in now.

 

[jomar]

Could've ranked New Jersey higher too, IMO. I'd rank both of those over anything by Poison for example. They've stood the test of time better I think and even when I liked poison, I knew they were cheesy as hell. That's just me though. I'm sure plenty of people have a poison album or two up high.

 

[jomar]

Really enjoy Blood on Blood and that Ride Cowboy Ride intro into Stick To Your Guns. Really not a bad song on that album

 

[Warsteinner]

Really enjoy Blood on Blood and that Ride Cowboy Ride intro into Stick To Your Guns. Really not a bad song on that album

Totally agree. Most like the other one more though.

 

[cstu]

Could've ranked New Jersey higher too, IMO. I'd rank both of those over anything by Poison for example. They've stood the test of time better I think and even when I liked poison, I knew they were cheesy as hell. That's just me though. I'm sure plenty of people have a poison album or two up high.

Bon Jovi is pop rock, not hair metal.

ETA: Poison being cheesy was entire point.

 

[jomar]

Really enjoy Blood on Blood and that Ride Cowboy Ride intro into Stick To Your Guns. Really not a bad song on that album

Totally agree. Most like the other one more though.

I think I'm one of those people. Both great but the other one came at pretty much the best time in my life so I look back more fondly on it maybe

 

[jomar]

Could've ranked New Jersey higher too, IMO. I'd rank both of those over anything by Poison for example. They've stood the test of time better I think and even when I liked poison, I knew they were cheesy as hell. That's just me though. I'm sure plenty of people have a poison album or two up high.

Bon Jovi is pop rock, not hair metal.

ETA: Poison being cheesy was entire point.

Hair Metal was pop rock then. Bon jovi is definitely hair metal

 

[Warsteinner]

http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/07/23/the-top-ten-bands-most-often-miscategorized-as-hair-metal-1-skid-row/

Stumbled upon this list and can see their point on most, but Def Leppard is most definiteley HAIR>

 

[TripItUp]

I love this thread.

 

[JZilla]

http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/07/23/the-top-ten-bands-most-often-miscategorized-as-hair-metal-1-skid-row/

Stumbled upon this list and can see their point on most, but Def Leppard is most definiteley HAIR>

Going by all of this guy's long-winded rules I don't think there were any hair metal bands

 

[jomar]

http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/07/23/the-top-ten-bands-most-often-miscategorized-as-hair-metal-1-skid-row/

Stumbled upon this list and can see their point on most, but Def Leppard is most definiteley HAIR>

Going by all of this guy's long-winded rules I don't think there were any hair metal bands

When you compare everybody to Poison, I guess not. I say there are degrees to hair metal. While Poison is a 10, GnR might be a 1.

 

[beer 30]

[SIZE=16pt]34. Cinderella – Long Cold Winter (1988)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Longcoldwinter.jpg/220px-Longcoldwinter.jpg

For those that have loved and lost this sums it all up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruwUj1OXfA

1. Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart at the Seams

2. Gypsy Road

3. Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)

4. The Last Mile

5. Second Wind

6. Long Cold Winter

7. If You Don’t Like It

8. Coming Home

9. Fire and Ice

10. Take Me Back

Perfect spot for this killer album. I still listen to this album at least once a month. So bluesy. Track 3 has likely hit home for many of us.

Had to add. Speaking of bluesy, listened to Badlands Badlands this afternoon. Jake E Lee. Damn.

New Jersey was it for me with them. Liked most all of his stuff but like you said, that whole album was solid.

 

[beer 30]

Cool video from one of the Buckeye Lake shows we worked,

. So backstage again, helicopter lands and out pops Tawny with Heather Locklear in tow. Both smoking hot in skin tight leather. Another great show but too busy hosing people down because of the heat and carting them off. Really surprised someone didn't die there. At the beginning of the video you see the dudes down front in yellow shirts (Hall Security ) hoist a chick over the rails. It was because she was passed out from the heat but the crush of the crowd was keeping her upright. Good times

 

[Christo]

[SIZE=16pt]34. Cinderella – Long Cold Winter (1988)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Longcoldwinter.jpg/220px-Longcoldwinter.jpg

For those that have loved and lost this sums it all up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruwUj1OXfA

1. Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart at the Seams

2. Gypsy Road

3. Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)

4. The Last Mile

5. Second Wind

6. Long Cold Winter

7. If You Don’t Like It

8. Coming Home

9. Fire and Ice

10. Take Me Back

Perfect spot for this killer album. I still listen to this album at least once a month. So bluesy. Track 3 has likely hit home for many of us.

Had to add. Speaking of bluesy, listened to Badlands Badlands this afternoon. Jake E Lee. Damn.

Here's the full album. This should be much higher.

 

[Abraham]

Long cold winter and New Jersey are both easily on the top 10.

 

[Warsteinner]

[SIZE=16pt]32. Whitesnake – Slide It In (1984)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Wslide.jpg/220px-Wslide.jpg

This is the sophisticated man’s bitty tar album. Back in aught 9 I was casually involved with a broad that actually had a job where she kept her clothes on. I got bored quickly with this one, but we’ve all been there and you can’t throw the Crue at all hoes.

1. Slide It In

2. Slow an’ Easy

3. Love Ain’t No Stranger

4. All or Nothing

5. Gambler

6. Guilty of Love

7. Hungry for Love

8. Give Me More Time

9. Spit It Out

10. Standing in the Shadow

 

[Warsteinner]

Cool video from one of the Buckeye Lake shows we worked,

That's badass!!! I'm about an hour south of BL but never ventured up that way. Definitely on my #### to do list.

 

[Apple Jack]

Cool video from one of the Buckeye Lake shows we worked,

Saw the Dead there in 91 and it was the most beautifully out of control, oversold mad house Ive ever seen anywhere. Mayhem. Not Woodstock 99 type mayhem, just everybody tripping their faces off, crazy eye mayhem. I saw a lot of Dead shows and a lot of mad houses. None quite like that. Buck the #### eye.

That link is a Cinderella video, btw.

 

[zamboni]

[SIZE=16pt]32. Whitesnake – Slide It In (1984)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Wslide.jpg/220px-Wslide.jpg

This is the sophisticated man’s bitty tar album. Back in aught 9 I was casually involved with a broad that actually had a job where she kept her clothes on. I got bored quickly with this one, but we’ve all been there and you can’t throw the Crue at all hoes.

1. Slide It In

2. Slow an’ Easy

3. Love Ain’t No Stranger

4. All or Nothing

5. Gambler

6. Guilty of Love

7. Hungry for Love

8. Give Me More Time

9. Spit It Out

10. Standing in the Shadow

I like this call - the last album before hitting it really big a few years later. Still had some ties with Deep Purple/Rainbow at that point with Coverdale, Jon Lord and Cozy Powell.

 

[beer 30]

Cool video from one of the Buckeye Lake shows we worked,

So it is, got my links f'd up, fixed in original post.

There were two bands in all the years we worked security that when they were announced you cringed then you got that grinch kinda smile on your face and hit the weights because you knew it was gonna be fight club the whole night. Happened every time they were in town, no questions asked and always required bringing in some extra beef (ie grabbing the the lineman off the local college D1 teams for a few extra bucks). The Dead & Bob Seger. For some reason Dead heads had a serious problem with listening to security and would just flat out get their asses beat down hard. Same with Seger for some reason, very similar crowds.

 

[Tom Skerritt]

I went to the Whitesnake/Crüe arena tour sometime in the 80's. A Golden era for sure.

 

[Apple Jack]

Cool video from one of the Buckeye Lake shows we worked,

Rent a cops beating down show-goers? For what? Sounds like a recipe for lawsuits. I dont recall anything like that, nor much security presence at all. I will say that many deadhead viewed security as little more than a nuisance. The concept of authority being blown to pieces at an early age for those types.

 

[Apple Jack]

Motley Crue and Priest were already doing their things, but the way I remember it Quiet Riot were the first ones through the door to the mainstream. Ive always looked at them getting the ball rolling on the pop metal thing.

 

[SteevieG]

[SIZE=16pt]32. Whitesnake – Slide It In (1984)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Wslide.jpg/220px-Wslide.jpg

This is the sophisticated man’s bitty tar album. Back in aught 9 I was casually involved with a broad that actually had a job where she kept her clothes on. I got bored quickly with this one, but we’ve all been there and you can’t throw the Crue at all hoes.

1. Slide It In

2. Slow an’ Easy

3. Love Ain’t No Stranger

4. All or Nothing

5. Gambler

6. Guilty of Love

7. Hungry for Love

8. Give Me More Time

9. Spit It Out

10. Standing in the Shadow

 

[DocHolliday]

Motley Crue and Priest were already doing their things, but the way I remember it Quiet Riot were the first ones through the door to the mainstream. Ive always looked at them getting the ball rolling on the pop metal thing.

You are correct. I think they were the first metal band to get nationwide radio play.

 

[Buzzbait]

[SIZE=16pt]32. Whitesnake – Slide It In (1984)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Wslide.jpg/220px-Wslide.jpg

This is the sophisticated man’s bitty tar album. Back in aught 9 I was casually involved with a broad that actually had a job where she kept her clothes on. I got bored quickly with this one, but we’ve all been there and you can’t throw the Crue at all hoes.

1. Slide It In

2. Slow an’ Easy

3. Love Ain’t No Stranger

4. All or Nothing

5. Gambler

6. Guilty of Love

7. Hungry for Love

8. Give Me More Time

9. Spit It Out

10. Standing in the Shadow

Great album. I actually like it better than the self titled that broke them big in the US (also a great album but not as good as SIN IMO).

 

[Bull Dozier]

[SIZE=16pt]34. Cinderella – Long Cold Winter (1988)[/SIZE] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Longcoldwinter.jpg/220px-Longcoldwinter.jpg

For those that have loved and lost this sums it all up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruwUj1OXfA

1. Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart at the Seams

2. Gypsy Road

3. Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)

4. The Last Mile

5. Second Wind

6. Long Cold Winter

7. If You Don’t Like It

8. Coming Home

9. Fire and Ice

10. Take Me Back

Great album. Tom Kiefer is an amazing musical talent. I've seen Cinderalla a couple of times in the last ten years, in a smaller venue. The quality of his voice, his instrumentality, just blows me away. Love to hear Coming Home near the end of the set. I never get sick of that song.

[SIZE=16pt]33. Bon Jovi – New Jersey (1988) [/SIZE]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2c/Bon_Jovi_New_Jersey.jpg/220px-Bon_Jovi_New_Jersey.jpg

I actually like this album better than the one you cats do, but in an attempt to avoid perma-ban I won’t rank this one higher. As stated before, I love me some slooty broads, but even this old buck gets tamed from time to time. Whenever I find one of those gals, I always introduce her to Born to Be My Baby.

1. Lay Your Hands on Me

2. Bad Medicine

3. Born to Be My Baby

4. Living in Sin

5. Blood on Blood

6. Homebound Train

7. Wild is the Wind

8. Ride Cowboy Ride

9. Stick to Your Guns

10. I’ll Be There for You

11. 99 in the Shad

12. Love for Sale

I will shamelessly admit that I've had my face rocked by Bon Jovi multiple times. They are my wife's favorite so we've seen them numerous times. What is so frustrating about seeing them is that it is the exact same show every time with a couple of new songs thrown in. Since he has so much newer stuff he has to squeeze in, the two best songs on here, Wild is the Wind and Born to be My Baby, no longer make the cut while the annoyingly repetitive Lay Your Hands on Me and Bad Medicine are repeated every single show.