25 worst hair metal bands

BetterThanYou

gabers wrote:

The picture they had next to Mr. Big was freaking David Lee Roth's old band. C'mon, if you're gonna bash, get your shit together.

fuckin' a, gabers...you beat me to it. steve vai...way better than eddie van halen could ever hope to be. saw dlr live back in january of '87. tesla opened. had seats towards the back of the venue, but still got a hard-on when steve started wailing away on his axe. the guy's a-fuckin'-mazing.

suns rival

writersu wrote:

you must be a youngster........

haha, i think you're right.

writersu

suns rival wrote:

haha, i think you're right.

why, thank you............

pearljamgirl07

sebastian bach is the best ,he is on tour now with poison and his new cd angel down kick a**.He performed in broadway productions (Jekill and Hyde he also played the role of Jesus in jesus christ superstar)and appeared in two tv series .he is a really great artist!
Baz rules:)

mbangel10

As a teenager in the 80's - Hair bands were the majority of my music catalog. It was fun, it felt rebellious, and there were actually some great songs that those bands played. The hair metal scene was huge up until around 1990, and that's when bands like Firehouse, and Trixter started popping up and it all started turning into a big joke.

I look back fondly on the majority of those bands as a great memory and a time-stamp for an era. The music scene will never be like that again, and I'm grateful for being a fan of the genre in its heyday.

Those were some good times.

writersu

mbangel10 wrote:

As a teenager in the 80's - Hair bands were the majority of my music catalog. It was fun, it felt rebellious, and there were actually some great songs that those bands played. The hair metal scene was huge up until around 1990, and that's when bands like Firehouse, and Trixter started popping up and it all started turning into a big joke.

I look back fondly on the majority of those bands as a great memory and a time-stamp for an era. The music scene will never be like that again, and I'm grateful for being a fan of the genre in its heyday.

Those were some good times.

I was into that in my early 20's which makes me (I guess) older than you but as well enjoyed it when it was around .....

I admit the bands look really awkward when you look now at them but then it was hot........
And yeah, there were posers then as well as now, but some of the music was good.....

still, I know the article was talking about the worse hair bands not whether or not metal was good; sorry to offshoot here........

Ved in the Head91

Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj-ibqYdDbU

Awesome song, whether you like hair metal or not.

I agree that as time went on, they became a pretty credible band. Sure, the first album is a product of its time, but by the time they got to "Subhuman Race", they certainly were not a "hair" metal band.

LukinFan

I'm sorry but Poison still f'n rocks- I agree with some of this list, but Poison #1- BS

fanch75

You folks who like the "hair metal" genre should pick up the new Dokken, Lightning Strikes Again. It smokes and I guarantee it won't disappoint. It just gets better with each listen and there is a good selection of fast driving tunes, mid-tempo, and two ballads (Don was always a good ballad writer). Of the ballads, they aren't the "power ballad" type but sound like Dokken yet modern at the same time.

The new Whitesnake is good too.....and still am sinking my teeth into the new double-CD from Judas Priest.

captainwisejam

How is the new Judas Priest, franch75 ?

btw, "Too high to fly" is the most recent Dokken song I have heard and it's badass.

speaking as a child of the 80's.

writersu

fanch75 wrote:

You folks who like the "hair metal" genre should pick up the new Dokken, Lightning Strikes Again. It smokes and I guarantee it won't disappoint. It just gets better with each listen and there is a good selection of fast driving tunes, mid-tempo, and two ballads (Don was always a good ballad writer). Of the ballads, they aren't the "power ballad" type but sound like Dokken yet modern at the same time.

The new Whitesnake is good too.....and still am sinking my teeth into the new double-CD from Judas Priest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_PNgIK6Uc0

BamaPJFan

Damn Yankees shouldn't be on that list. Any band with Tommy Shaw deserves better than that. Maybe I'm just being biased since Shaw is from my hometown of Montgomery.