The 111 Best Hair Metal Songs of All Time

Knowing this genre wasn't the most difficult part of making this list.  I know this music better than I know the names of the members of my family.  The difficult journey in making this list was figuring out what bands belonged.  There are some giants of the metal field that have been obviously excluded.  Metallica is too metal.  AC/DC was too hard rock.  Iron Maiden and Judas Priest didn't belong.  Queensryche is really a prog band with more in common with Pink Floyd than Pretty Boy Floyd. Van Halen and Kiss were a tough call.  Both bands laid the foundation for the glam/hair metal to come...and even flirted with very cheesy makeovers...but neither fully committed, which really left the two of them squarely rooted in 70s rock.  On the flip side, the Scorpions and Whitesnake both started in 70s rock but completely embraced the hair metal movement, committed to a full make over.

The 90s wrecked havoc on the hair metal scene...but there's been a small comeback.  Sure you could argue to include the Darkness but then maybe Queen should be considered, too. But the comeback is really all because of the heroics of Steel Panther...with their full-on tongue-in-cheek Spinal Tap homage they are single-handedly trying to resurrect the genre.  They've been a badass cover band for years...and are finally making their own music that is as good if not better than the music they're used to mimicking.


Here are the 111 Best Hair Metal Songs of All Time:

1. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N Roses (Appetite For Destruction)
2. Livin On a Prayer - Bon Jovi (Slippery When Wet)
3. Paradise City - Guns N Roses (Appetite For Destruction)
4. Here I Go Again - Whitesnake (Whitesnake)
5. On With The Show - Motley Crue (Too Fast For Love)
6. Photograph - Def Leppard (Pyromania)
7. Rocket Queen - Guns N Roses (Appetite For Destruction)
8. No One Like You - Scorpions (Blackout)
9. Kiss Me Deadly - Lita Ford (Lita)
10. Is This Love? - Whitesnake (Whitesnake)
11. Mr. Brownstone - Guns N Roses (Appetite For Destruction)
12. Rock Me - Great White (Once Bitten)
13. Too Young To Fall In Love - Motley Crue (Shout At The Devil)
14. Armageddon It - Def Leppard (Hysteria)
15. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N Roses (Appetite For Destruction)
16. Still Loving You - Scorpions (Love At First Sting)
17. Runaway - Bon Jovi (Bon Jovi)
18. Patience - Guns N Roses (Lies)
19. Live Wire - Motley Crue (Too Fast For Love)
20. Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard (Hysteria)
21. Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions (Love At First Sting)
22. Cum On Feel The Noize - Quiet Riot (Metal Health)
23. Love Bites - Def Leppard (Hysteria)
24. Estranged - Guns N Roses (Use Your Illusion II)
25. Civil War - Guns N Roses (Use Your Illusion II)
26. Born To Be My Baby - Bon Jovi (New Jersey)
27. Gypsy Road - Cinderella (Long Cold Winter)
28. I Remember You - Skid Row (Skid Row)
29. Love Song - Tesla (The Great Radio Controversy)
30. Talk Dirty To Me - Poison (Look What The Cat Dragged In)
31. Round and Round - Ratt (Out of the Cellar)
32. Nobody's Fool - Cinderella (Night Songs)
33. In My Dreams - Dokken (Under Lock And Key)
34. You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi (Slippery When Wet)
35. You Could Be Mine - Guns N Roses (Use Your Illusion II)
36. Scared - Dangerous Toys (Dangerous Toys)
37. Fallen Angel  - Poison (Open Up and Say...Ahh!)
38. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Warrant (Cherry Pie)
39. House of Pain - Faster Pussycat (Wake Me When It's Over)
40. Someone Like You - Bang Tango (Psycho Cafe)
41. Give Me All Your Love - Whitesnake (Whitesnake)
42. Somebody Save Me - Cinderella (Night Songs)
43. Edge of A Broken Heart - Vixen (Vixen)
44. Alone Again - Dokken (Tooth and Nail)
45. Blaze of Glory - Jon Bon Jovi (Young Guns Soundtrack)
46. Wait - White Lion (Pride)
47. Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue (Dr. Feelgood)
48. Lay your Hands On Me - Bon Jovi (New Jersey)
49. Shake Me - Cinderella (Night Songs)
50. Mirror Mirror - Don Dokken (Up From The Ashes)
51. Heaven - Warrant (Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich)
52. Never Enough - LA Guns (Cocked and Loaded)
53. Little Fighter - White Lion (Big Game)
54. Only Lonely - Bon Jovi (7800 Fahrenheit)
55. Don't Know What You Got - Cinderella (Long Cold Winter)
56. Nightrain - Guns N Roses (Appetite For Destruction)
57. Animal - Def Leppard (Hysteria)
58. Makin Magic - Tesla (The Great Radio Controversy)
59. Ride the Wind - Poison (Flesh & Blood)
60. Slave To The Grind - Skid Row (Slave to the Grind)
61. Breaking the Chains - Dokken (Breaking The Chains)
62. Shame Shame Shame - Ratt (Detonator)
63. Wicked Sensation - Lynch Mob (Wicked Sensation)
64. 18 and Life - Skid Row (Skid Row)
65. Love Ain't No Stranger - Whitesnake (Slide It In)
66. The Ballad of Jayne - LA Guns (Cocked And Loaded)
67. Babylon - Faster Pussycat (Faster Pussycat)
68. Crying in the Rain - Whitesnake (Whitesnake)
69. Too Fast For Love - Motley Crue (Too Fast For Love)
70. Lust of Love - Scorpions (Crazy World)
71. Mr. Rainmaker - Warrant (Cherry Pie)
72. Don't Cry - Guns N Roses (Use Your Illusion I)
73. Bringing On the Heartbreak - Def Leppard (High N Dry)
74. Youth Gone Wild - Skid Row (Skid Row)
75. Better - Guns N Roses (Chinese Democracy)
76. It Don't Matter - Def Leppard (On Through the Night)
77. Paradise - Tesla (The Great Radio Controversy)
78. Come Back - Bon Jovi (Bon Jovi)
79. Dream Warriors - Dokken (Back For The Attack)
80. Modern Day Cowboy - Tesla (Mechanical Resonance)
81. I'd Die For You - Bon Jovi (Slippery When Wet)
82. Signs - Tesla (Five Man Acoustical Jam)
83. A Little Too Much - Ratt (Infestation)
84. High Enough - Damn Yankees (Damn Yankees)
85. Tell Me - White Lion (Pride)
86. Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crue (Dr. Feelgood)
87. Blackout in the Red Room - Love/Hate (Blackout in the Red Room)
88. Coming Home - Cinderella (Long Cold Winter)
89. Satellite - Def Leppard (On Through the Night)
90. Magdalaine - LA Guns (Cocked and Loaded)
91. River of Love - Lynch Mob (Wicked Sensation)
92. Bathroom Wall - Faster Pussycat (Faster Pussycat)
93. The Deeper the Love - Whitesnake (Slip of the Tongue)
94. Looks that Kill - Motley Crue (Shout At The Devil)
95. The Zoo - Scorpions (Animal Magnetism)
96. Standing on the Outside - Dokken (Lightning Strikes Again)
97. Miles Away - Winger (In the Heart of the Young)
98. Spend My Life - Slaughter (Stick It To Ya)
99. Rock Queen - Love/Hate (Blackout in the Red Room)
100. Smoking in the Boys Room - Motley Crue (Theatre of Pain)
101. Holiday - Scorpions (Lovedrive)
102. The Final Countdown - Europe (The Final Countdown)
103. We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister (Stay Hungry)
104. Under the Gun - Danger Danger (Danger Danger)
105. When the Walls Come Tumbling Down - Def Leppard (On Through the Night)
106. Home Sweet Home - Motley Crue (Theatre of Pain)
107. November Rain - Guns N Roses (Use Your Illusion I)
108. Yesterdaze Gone - Tesla (The Great Radio Controversy)
109. Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi (Slippery When Wet)
110. Still of the Night - Whitesnake (Whitesnake)
111. Turn Up the Radio - Autograph (Sign In Please)

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The 11 Best Hair Metal Albums You've Forgotten:

There was a time when people scoffed at Hair Metal. But now with bands like Fall Out Boy, Paramore, and Daughtry being the popular rock bands of the day...I think everyone wishes for a return to that craziness that was the 80s. Everyone thinks Adam Lambert is ground-breaking for his androgynous style. Seriously? Have you seen a Poison video? Kings of Leon are "cutting edge" because they have a song called "Sex On Fire." What about Warrant's "Cherry Pie," Faster Pussycat's "Bathroom Wall," Winger's "Seventeen?" I mean seriously...they may not have been the best bands to ever rock our worlds...but they at least knew how to rock.

Steel Panther (the world's greatest metal cover band) releases their first album of all new material this week, called Feel The Steel. And even as tongue-in-cheek as their material is...it's still far more rocking that anything else that's out there.

Before you run out and buy the album (which you should absolutely do)...here's a look back at some of the great hidden gems of the glam metal years. Everyone knows about the Hysterias...the Slippery When Wets...the Dr. Feelgoods...but what else was there when you peeled back the top layer?

The 11 Best Hair Metal Albums You've Forgotten About:

1. Def Leppard - On Through the Night (1980)
- It Don't Matter
2. Bon Jovi - 7800 Fahrenheit (1980)
3. L.A. Guns - Cocked and Loaded (1989)
- Never Enough
4. Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love (1981)
5. Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy (1989)
- Paradise
6. Whitesnake - Whitesnake (1987)
7. Cinderella - Long Cold Winter (1988)
- Gypsy Road
8. Skid Row - Skid Row (1989)
9. Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat (1987)
10. Dokken - Tooth and Nail (1984)
- Alone Again
11. Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy (1985)

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The 11 Best Whitesnake Songs

Blogging is becoming its own monster. Posting is now becoming a competition. Whether it's being the first to post Jeff Tweedy doing the theme song to Christina Appelgate's sitcom, "Jesse" (I have this) or the acoustic Nirvana gig at the UCLA radio station in 1990 (I used to have this), each blog wants to be the one that brings the most viewers to their blog because they are offering the coolest free shit.

My intention today was to post the White Stripes B-Sides album called, "Giraffe." It features 14 White Stripes B-Sides from the first half of their career. Then a couple of days from now, I would post the second B-Sides comp from the second half of their career called, "Get In Front of Me Jesus." But the only problem with that is every one under the sun is posting White Stripes B-Sides. I would just be lost in the crowd.

Then I thought about posting a White Stripes concert...those are also all over the internet...

Here's a good one from Michigan 02 (http://www.whitestripes.net/downloads.php)

I already posted their best songs, which was met with mild excitement. I thought about posting the best Polyphonic Spree songs...but does anyone really care about Tim DeLaughter?

So, that left me with one true option...the best Whitesnake songs. For all of you who thought Whitesnake was a forgettable 80s hair metal band, then you are sorely mistaken. They may be legends for having the coolest video of all time. If you were a teenage boy in the late 80s, the visual of Tawni Kaitan dancing on the white corvette is an image that may have defined your pubescent years.



But what a lot of people don't know or recall is that most members of Whitesnake came from the band Deep Purple, including lead singer David Coverdale. Their early work was a grungy blast of rock blues that could have possibly been the offspring of Led Zeppelin and Thin Lizzy. They sold out to the aerosol companies in the late 80s, still managing to deliver some gems. But their early work is where they truly shined.

Here are the 11 Best Whitesnake Songs:

1. Here I Go Again (Whitesnake/Saints & Sinners)
2. Is This Love? (Whitesnake)
3. Ain't No Love In The Heart of the City (Snakebite)
4. Time Is Right For Love (Trouble)
5. Victim of Love (Saints & Sinners)
6. Fool For Your Lovin' (Ready an' Willing)
7. Standing in the Shadow (Slide It In)
8. Til The Day I Die (Come An' Get It)
9. Breakdown (Snakebite)
10. Ain't Gonna Cry No More (Ready an' Willing)
11. Crying in the Rain (Saints & Sinners)