What are your 5 favorite "Hair Band" songs?

Dio was not a "hair band".

 

Ones I still enjoy listening to not counting Van Halen, Guns N Roses, or Tesla because the list would change considerably:

Whitesnake - Still of the Night
Skid Row - Wasted Time
Mötley Crüe - On With The Show
Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall
LA Guns - Crystal Eyes

 

That never occurred to me in all these years, but there is definitely a similarity there. Funny.

 

Yes, I hear it!

Which song was released first?

 

That's a great one! Should have made my list.

 

GNR wasn't a hair band at all (yes, I know about the early looks).

 

Great song, worth buying "invasion of your privacy" for alone.

 

I agree, and IMO Def Leppard wasn't either, but when I posted the topic I wanted to not define the term so as to cast as wide a net as possible.

 

Dr.Feelgood - Mötley Crüe
Rock the night - Europe
Talk dirty to me - Poison
Headed for a heartbreak - Winger
Forever young - Tyketto

 

Youth Gone Wild ... Skid Row

Should have been my #3, LOL.

 

Giant: I'll See You In My Dreams
Skid Row: 18 And Life
Enuff Z'Nuff: Fly High Michelle
Warrant: Down Boys
Extreme: More Than Words

and 5 more:

Steelheart: I'll Never Let You Go
Winger: Headed For A Heartbreak
Bon Jovi: Bad Medicine
Europe: Superstitious
Vixen: Cryin'

Edit: If Queensryche are a hair band, then "Silent Lucidity" should be in my top 5... but I don't really think they are.

 

I'm amazed no one has mentioned Twisted Sister yet. We're not gonna take it is a classic of the genre.

 

I can only come up with four, and three are by Skid Row--Eighteen and Life, I Remember You, Youth Gone Wild

The other is Ratt's Round and Round.....

 

Atomic Punk

 

Some of my favorites are:

Ratt - I'm Insane
Motley Crue - Bastard
Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Back on the Streets
White Lion - Wait
Dokken - The Hunter

 

If Bon Jovi counts as hair metal, definitely "Livin' on a Prayer" (although I'll never understand why they were bothering to pray if it didn't make a difference if they made it or not). "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake is another favorite. I'm not sure if I could come up with three more, but I'm surprised at the fond memories some of the other songs already mentioned have inspired.

 

I used to think bands that posed like this --with their glares and stares--were just trying to look "tough." I now realize that they are simply pissed off from having their hair "worked" on for three hours. And which one is Gino Vannelli? The guy in the middle--or the guy on the right?

 

That is a great song!

 

Fun topic! Tough to narrow it down to five, so my list would be different if you asked me next week. But some of my all time favorites:

1. I Remember You - Skid Row (my all-time favorite song)
2. Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
3. Talk Dirty to Me - Poison
4. Wait - White Lion
5. What It Takes - Aerosmith

Leaves out a lot of good stuff.

 

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About 12 years or so back, a friend and I went to a Sebastian Bach show. We were both other thirty, and we laughed at ourselves after singing along with "Youth Gone Wild" at the top of our lungs.

It was awesome.

Incidentally, I developed quite a bit of respect for him after he was a regular guest on Gilmore Girls, essentially playing himself as a washed up rock star. I thought it showed a great sense of humor about himself, which was quite a surprise considering what a genuine bad boy he was back in the day.

 

Vain - Beat The Bullet
Dokken - Unchain The Night
Ratt - Top Secret
White Lion - Tell Me
Bang Tango - Someone Like You

 

Tesla: What You Give
Cinderella: Shelter Me
Queensryche: Silent Lucidity
Firehouse: Don't Treat Me Bad
Skid Row: Wasted Time

 

Zebra - 'Who's behind the Door'
Motley Crue - 'Doctor Feelgood'
Ratt - 'Lay it Down'
Ratt - 'Round and Round'
Dokken - 'Alone Again'

 

That's a really interesting choice. First, I'm not even sure Hair Bands existed when that song came out, IIRC sometime in 1983. And the song always struck me as a strange combination of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Really good song.