Come on,don't be embarrassed,name me some good Hair Metal.

breakstuff

Don't know what it is,maybe the Steel Panther effect,nostalgia,I don't know but I've found myself strangely drawn towards the travesty that is 'Hair Metal'.Never got it at the time.So come on,if there is such a thing,recommend me some good stuff to listen to while I veg around the house for the next few weeks.

Ta.

IanSavage

Skid Row!!!

breakstuff

Yes!!! @Ian Savage was just listening to them.Top man.

Col_Decker

Poison - Flesh & Blood

Warrant - Cherry Pie

 

two albums that are always on my ipod

Fazer

Fazer

bloodandtears

Ratt - Out Of The Cellar and Invasion of Your Privacy

not_the_dj

Motley Crue....best to check out a compilation...Decade of Decadence has all the hits on (and an awful Sex Pistols cover)

I was listening to Mr Big earlier this week, there's some great stuff there," Lean into it" and "Bump Ahead" are the ones to go for.

Early Van Halen of course. 

(plus Skid Row and Poison as mentioned above).

Awesome stuff!

BloodEagle

As close as I would get to actual hair metal in the 1st few W.A.S.P albums - theyre great

Moe_Zambeek

Cinderella were good as I recall. Also I had a few Vain albums.

FelineGuitars

There are a load of bands that rightly or wrongly get lumped in with the hair metal tag.

Some are glam rock based and others are more metal with a flashy image

There were other bands that predated the Hair metal era but had a lot of success in those years and whose videos got airplay on MTV at the same time...and these bands also might be counted....

But looking through my own album collection

Cinderella

Poison

Great White

Tesla

Motley Crue 

Ratt 

Black and Blue

WASP 

Dokken

Bon Jovi (early)

Europe

Keel

House Of Lords

Guiffria

Y&T

Night Ranger

Britney Fox

Teeze/Rough House

Gun N Roses

LA Guns

Faster Pussycat
Tigertailz

Kingdom Come

Sweet Savage

Skid Row

White Lion

Queensryche

Crimson Glory

Fifth Angel

King Kobra

Bulletboys

Badlands

Warrant

Also added later:

Quireboys

Love Hate

Lizzy Borden

Van Halen

Quiet Riot

Winger

Firehouse

Danger Danger

Enuff Znuff

Sven Gali

Freak Of Nature (although they were more grunge with Mike Tramp on Vocals)

Maybe a few good British bands too

Shy 

Robin George

Tobruk

FM

Blue Blud

Midnight Blue

Heavy Pettin

Thunder

Siam

Terraplane

Little Angels

Skin

Jagged Edge

breakstuff

Thanks guys.Any particular albums other than the ones suggested I should be giving a listen?

BloodEagle

Love/Hate 'Blackout in the Red Room'  is also really good imo.

mike_l

IanSavage said:

Skid Row!!!

This. Fahooking awesomes band.

Vanhalen (the first albums)

Actually I think @FelineGuitars nailed the entire list.

stimpsonslostson

I quite like Tesla.

Strangely I find Steel Panther amusing in short doses… it gets tiresome after a while, but Satchel appears to be a pretty darn good player.

xSkarloey

@felinguitars

You've more or less covered the entire contents of Kerrang and Hit parader from 86-90 there.

breakstuff

Yeah,wow @felineguitars somehow or other I missed your post (edit - looks like you where posting at the same time as me) but that's a hell of a comprehensive list.Should keep me busy for a while.
Thanks mate.

StefB

H.E.A.T

Philly_Q

WINGER

not_the_dj

Anyone mention Danger Danger yet?...nope, good...carry on.

FelineGuitars

StefB said:

H.E.A.T

Heat and a great many other bands that are current bands probably get left out as they weren't there at the time , although they are the right style of band.

Also Caught In The Act/Guild of Ages