10 Great Hair Metal Albums (yes, really)

Hair metal, glam rock, call it what you will but it gets laughed at in rock history. We need to remember just how great some of it was and how successful the albums were. This video looks at 10 great hair metal albums.

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Van Halen was an American rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972.

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1976 in Sheffield.

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1985.

Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1981.

Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey.

Poison is an American glam metal band formed in 1983, in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

Whitesnake are an English hard rock band formed in London in 1978.

Twisted Sister was an American heavy metal band originally from Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, and later based on Long Island, New York.

Dokken is an American glam metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1978.

Cinderella was an American rock band formed in 1983 in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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0:00 – Free Audible Trial
0:46 – Intro
1:40 – Motley Crue – Shout At The Devil
2:54 – Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry
4:04 – Poison – Open Up And Say…Ahh!
5:20 – Cinderella – Long Cold Winter
6:27 – Dokken – Under Lock And Key
7:36 – Whitesnake – Whitesnake
8:45 – Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet
9:58 – Def Leppard – Hysteria
11:13 – Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction
12:28 – Van Halen – 1984
13:40 – Thank you, Patrons!
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10 Great Hair Metal Albums (yes, really)
10 Great Hair Metal Albums
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[someguy]

I’ll throw in an honorable mention for Skid Row’s self titled album. Sebastian Bach is one of the best vocalists ever.

[_KayleeLovesMusic_]

I personally don't understand how Glam/Hair Metal is hated, I love the sound and look of it

Twisted Sister is my personal favorite Glam Metal band, Stay Hungry is an amazing album as well

[GrantH]

It’ll be a great day when rock music fans are finally able to talk about the hair band era unabashedly (instead of the usual “I don’t normally like this stuff, BUT…”) and we can be honest that a lot of this stuff, while certainly a product of its time, is still fun to listen to and some of it has actually aged well. I was a hardcore thrash metal guy as a teen and I remember how mind-blowing it was when I finally gave bands like Ratt and Skid Row a chance and realized I’d been missing out on some awesome music the whole time.

[BigDrew]

Def Lep's "High n Dry" is hands down their best album. While far from their biggest commercial success, it's their most raw and pure. Let It Go, Another Hit and Run, Mirror Mirror, You Got Me Runnin, Bringin On The Heartbreak...there's no track worth skipping

[venomousnate]

Dee Snider is also very intelligent. I mean he took on the PMRC, so his reputation in rock is set for his defense of free speech.

[RK-fhbp]

Out of the cellar and invasion of privacy are both killer albums by Ratt, and are both some of my favorite hair metal albums

[dwade]

Hair Metal is my fav type of music. 40 years after many of these bands started, they still tour and make a lot of dough. I'm not alone in supporting these bands. 🤟

[lw]

Hysteria is one of the best rock albums of all time, I will die on this hill.

[jaimerosado]

Slippery When Wet gave us both one of the best bass lines of all time (Living on a Prayer), and one best guitar riffs of all time in “Raise your Hands.” The latter wasn’t released as a single, but at least Mel Brooks included it in Spaceballs.

[MysticMindAnalysis]

I'm in your age demographic, so I didn't grow up in the 80s to see Hair Metal in their prime. But Hair Metal is what got me interested in Rock and Metal music to begin with, so it's a genre that always has a special place in my heart.

I think Skid Row's self-titled debut deserves a lot more credit than it got, despite coming right at the end of the 80s (the year I was born, in fact, 1989). It had the rebellious attitude of Twisted Sister and the melodic chops of Def Leppard all in one.

[Mxulin]

I'm so happy to see Cinderella on this list, my favorite hair metal band. Keifer is still sounding great too, saw him last year.

[TenguTalks]

I will always have a soft spot for "Skid Row." It's lasted the longest of any hair albums I've loved over the years. And somehow still holds up well today, even better than Appetite for Destruction in my mind.

[aaronman]

I'd like to throw in Ratt's Out of the Cellar as another top contender. Round and Round, Back for More, Wanted Man, this album has some great highlights and if you've ever cruised to Hair Nation on Sirius XM you know that Ratt has some good stuff to them.

The biggest Hair Metal backlash is probably just the oversaturation of the genre and the amount of "meh" bands riding it in the mid-late 80s, but that doesn't change how good and how fun the best bands of Hair Metal are.

[BeeTeej]

“Let me get this straight, you think hair metal is good?”

“I do. And I’m tired of pretending it’s not.”

[THFLCNx]

I guess Hysteria is an appropriate pick, since it's more "hairy", but Pyromania is their best album I think. Slightly heavier, and plus "Rock of Ages" is like one of the greatest songs ever.

[TheAwsomeman]

Surprised Quiet Riot's "Metal Health" album isn't on the list. both the title song and cover of "Cum On Feel the Noize" are iconic in pop culture

[TylerGuitar]

Needed Out of the Cellar by Ratt and Skid Row. Both amazing. Maybe a part 2 is needed.

[jamesm]

Had every one of these albums, listened to them all from front to back. Thank you for this list, it brings back great memories! One of my favorite albums from that time was Warrant's Dirty Rotton Filthy Stinkin Rich, great album all the way through, great hooks and melodies. RIP Jayne

[russell]

Shout at the Devil isn’t just a great “hair metal” album. In my opinion it’s one of the best hard rock albums ever. It was a life changing album for me 🤘🏻🔥