Your one favorite 80's hairband song...

[trower]

This one actually would be a great song if it came out today..The drummer sounds familiar? ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74KheeagcLM

[lespaulreedsmith]

One of mine - Lynch Mob:bow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxMtn75BrO0&feature=related

[GAD]

Dokken - It's not love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSRMr9PuS_A&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideosearch%3 Fq%3Ddokken%26oe%3Dutf-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26um%3D1%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN%26hl%3Den%26t&feature=player_embedded

GAD

[enocaster]

Round and Round

[jesserides2005]

T-Ride - Backdoor Romeo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9-iFXmzl1M

or

Zombies From Hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hOyCxiIP4

[shredtrash]

Never Enough- LA Guns

[SouthernShred]

Lay it Down - Ratt

[DerekEstrada]

Dokken - It's not love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSRMr9PuS_A&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideosearch%3 Fq%3Ddokken%26oe%3Dutf-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26um%3D1%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN%26hl%3Den%26t&feature=player_embedded

GAD

:agree:agree:D

also loved THE HUNTER...song, and video....

[CharAznable]

Wasted Time by Skid Row

[freedom's door]

Ratt- You Think You're Tough

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

[coldfingaz]

Round and Round


:agree

Though, I'd have to give honorable mention to the Crue's Livewire.

[furry]

Pour Some Sugar on Me. You can't not sing along with that one.

[enocaster]

:agree

Though, I'd have to give honorable mention to the Crue's Livewire.

I see we share the same taste in hairbands! Too Fast For Love is one of my all time favorite albums, and always will be - and I mostly listen to 60's psych, power-pop, and artsy-fartsy "indie rock", so I'm not exactly an 80's holdover.

[eBay]

Round and Round
Paris is Burning (live)
Girls Girls Girls

[Sweetfinger]

I always liked this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF2etbteMUI

[GuitarsFromMars]

Turn Up The Radio-Autograph

[coldfingaz]

I see we share the same taste in hairbands! Too Fast For Love is one of my all time favorite albums, and always will be - and I mostly listen to 60's psych, power-pop, and artsy-fartsy "indie rock", so I'm not exactly an 80's holdover.


Me neither. Another big power pop, 60's rock, indie (plus some punk) fan. Too Fast For Love is a classic. Man, the sound they got for that record is so huge, raw and just amazing.

Given your neck of the woods, I wonder if you're a fan of the Figgs!

[ronmail65]

Although I never cared much for the band Warrant... I always thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was a very cool tune.

[gtrguy17]

Switchblade Serenade by Spread Eagle just popped into my mind...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQ7mWWi7Gs

Cool-ish solo, at least for that time. Now it's sort of, well, silly.

[Wiz-ski]

I still love Def Leppard's "Love Bites" to this day.

[rwe333]

A stretch to call 'em a "hair band" but the Hughes/Thrall release was a highlight of '80s rock (as was King Crimson's Discipline, but mos def not among the "hair bands"). You Know I Got Your Number (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Cw4mZq1q8) (very corny '80s vid too!)

[Paul Conway]

The last time I liked Vai: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il4KVUhSdTA

I'd forgotten exactly how, er - flamboyant DLR is. I also think this proves how much Vai needs the discipline of being a band member.

[gtrplayer23]

winger-seventeen

[lespaulreedsmith]

Also, you did know Bobbie Brown (Warrants Cherry Pie girl) was in other videos as well right? Great White had her in a couple and here's Hurricane with one she's in...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DssSCNufJ5U&feature=related

[ryan80]

Is this love, by Whitesnake...though that may be due partly to the video.

[Noah]

For hair band music I'd pick the entire Too Fast for Love album by Motley Crue. It's funny because I can't stand anything else they ever did. One of the only covers my band ever played was "Public Enemy No.1"

[dantedayjob]

Van Halen... The Cradle Will Rock ("Have you seen junior's grades?...")

[enocaster]

For hair band music I'd pick the entire Too Fast for Love album by Motley Crue. It's funny because I can't stand anything else they ever did. One of the only covers my band ever played was "Public Enemy No.1"

Yes! That's 3 votes for TFFL.

[scmavl]

GnR - Rocket Queen

[shredtrash]

Slow and Easy- Whitesnake

[Alvis]

Im torn between Waysted's The Price You Pay
OR
Cinderella's Shake Me

[fusion58]

A stretch to call 'em a "hair band" but the Hughes/Thrall release was a highlight of '80s rock (as was King Crimson's Discipline, but mos def not among the "hair bands"). You Know I Got Your Number (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Cw4mZq1q8) (very corny '80s vid too!)

Wow! Thanks - I didn't know Hughes/Thrall had ever done any videos (they are definitely not a hair band.)

BTW, just downloaded the H/T disc with the bonus track "Whiter Shade of Pale" the other day.

Smokin' version! http://www.clublakers.com/forum/images/smilies/stunoicecluh7.gif

[bwc3000]

I always liked this one a lot...I don't know if they were a hairband exactly, but they did have a Poison-style look in this video:

Enuff Z'Nuff, "Fly High Michelle"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlv4yfU6ZzU

[fusion58]

Your one favorite 80's hairband song

Night Ranger - "You Can Still Rock in America" (in a dead heat with "Don't Tell Me You Love Me.")

[fusion58]

..... You Know I Got Your Number (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Cw4mZq1q8) ...

Thrall's solo on that track is just badass!

[rwe333]

Thrall's solo on that track is just badass!

Indeed... and the vocal is simply unreal.

[wickwire65]

I would go with Y&T either Open Fire or Mean Streak

Les Paul+Marshall = good in any decade

[hk45acp]

AUTOGRAPH-Turn Up The Radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfMT1hhhgZY
Cheese factor 100!

[relix63]

Shotgun Messiah - Heartbreak Blvd. Big time cheese but I like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUjDi0xKPQ

[Moominpapa]

Whitesnake, "In the Still of the Night". Still a killer song.

[mik777]

Great White's "House of Broken Love" :dude

[Plague Dog]

Whitesnake, "In the Still of the Night". Still a killer song.

Wow, took long enough.

[Cody]

Shotgun Messiah - Heartbreak Blvd. Big time cheese but I like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUjDi0xKPQ
Thanks! :beer

...cheese...?

Obviously, the guitar I used in the video is not the one I recorded the song with.

[Heinz W]

One - Metallica (so good it didn't need any bass!)

If Metallica doesn't count as hair metal then I'll name one no one mentioned yet:

Life Goes On - Poison :messedup :nuts :crazy

[The Last Rebel]

One - Metallica (so good it didn't need any bass!)

If Metallica doesn't count as hair metal then I'll name one no one mentioned yet:

Life Goes On - Poison :messedup :nuts :crazy
And Justice was about as far away from hair metal as you can get without being Kenny G.

My favorite hair metal song from the 80s would have to be 18 and Life.

[Big Boss Man]

Kix - Blow My Fuse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFqbyKMOE-o

[pgurlea]

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
This was an '80s anthem for me. I still love this song.
Take Care,
Paul

[ABKB]

Somebody mentioned Bonham. This tune still gets heavy rotation on my Ipod, and the solo is very interesting too, not your typical hair metal stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmamgYPdi3w

[benjammin420]

Pour Some Sugar on Me. You can't not sing along with that one.

:dude im pretty sure everyone loves that song

[Kayo88]

I would go with Y&T either Open Fire or Mean Streak

Les Paul+Marshall = good in any decade


Did someone say Y&T?:dude

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

[Polynitro]

Loudness :dude

[hellbender]

Into the Fire....Dokken

[waylay00]

Badlands, what a killer band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePo0gtjBFNs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDSIcYk1c6Y

[americananalog]

"She's got the looks that KILL!!!"

[Rocco Siffredi]

Thanks! :beer

...cheese...?

Obviously, the guitar I used in the video is not the one I recorded the song with.

I always liked your playing.

[cram]

damn! the op has it nearly right on with shake me from cindarella. what a killer tune. I'll give hairbands one thing - they can bring the goosebumps with the energy in the tunes at times. that's one of them. many other good ones mentioned here too.

[cram]

woohoo.

[Nergalled]

Thanks! :beer

...cheese...?

Obviously, the guitar I used in the video is not the one I recorded the song with.

Weren't you guys one of the first metal bands to use 7-strings? I remember seeing the ads with the green and yellow Jems.No offense, I was not a hair metal fan. Thrash, early Death and Black metal.

[relix63]

Thanks! :beer

...cheese...?

Obviously, the guitar I used in the video is not the one I recorded the song with.

No offense meant with the cheese comment. This song and the whole cd was a guilty pleasure for me. Loved the guitar parts but I was into a bit heavier music. Violent New Breed was more up my alley. A little more aggressive.

[Bankston]

Hard for me to give a short answer to this topic because some use the term "80's hairband" very broadly. Damn near every band had long hair in the 80's, regardless of genre. So I have to narrow it down.

If we're talking "hair metal" or "glam metal" to me that includes just about every band on the L.A. scene, some East Coast bands like Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Skid Row and Twisted Sister and a few European bands like Europe. The songs were usually about love, sex, drugs, partying, etc.

My favorites from those bands:

Metal Health -- Quiet Riot (this is really the song that started it all in the 80's)
Round and Round -- Ratt
Looks that Kill -- Motley Crue
Dream Warriors -- Dokken

Some acts that I wouldn't consider to be hair metal, like Def Leppard, Guns n' Roses, Billy Idol, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Ozzy, Whitesnake, Queensryche, Night Ranger, Triumph, Rush, and Iron Maiden, still had a commercial sound and pop influence in the 80's and some played the game by glamming up the image. But there was something different about each that in my mind separates them from the "hair metal" bands.

[big mike]

Doh there's some non-hair metal bands in this thread.

GnR-pretty much not even.
Thrall? No way. HE transcends. Badass.

I almost said "Lies" by Schon and Hammer, but that's not really hair band either...(esp. Jan)

I'm going to go with Poison 'Don't need nothin but a good time'

Great song inspite of the cheesy band. CC was pretty badass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JRs28-O4CY

[big mike]

Actually my fave is probably Bon Jovi Wanted Dead or Alive...

[stratovarius]

I guess I mostly slept through the eighties!

How about The Scorpions' Rock You Like a Hurricane or Whitesnake's Here I Go Again?

That's all I've got.

[mcknigs]

I spent most of that era trying to get away from the Hair Band stuff, though I did watch it on MTV occassionally for laughs. That said, I had a guitar student who gave me a cassette copy of whichever Ratt album had Round and Round on it (Out Of the Cellar?). I learned it in order to teach it to him. I liked that song. I liked the whole record actually. I remember listening to "She Wants Money" when I needed to wake up in a hurry.

-Scott

[Derwood]

Great White "Rock Me"

[bkd_guitarist]

I would not put Van Halen in the hair band category, and I would absolutely not call G 'N' R or Metallica hair bands.

[bkd_guitarist]

Tooth and Nail, by Dokken. Lynch's solo in that song kills.

Honorable mentions to In The Still of the Night, Wanted Dead or Alive, and Paris Is Burning (Live).

[Lance]

I really dug Skid Row's video for Monkey Business. Was there a vid for the title track, "Slave to the Grind?" Can't recall it visually, but I definitely recall seeing Bach singing into a road flare.

Oh, and how about the Dream Warriors video with Lynch playing the Bones guitar? Cheese factor 1000!

Then you had the cool metal ones like, "Freewheel Burning." Priest rules! Can't wait to see them in Concord.

[Julia343]

Okay you guys picked some good ones. Here's a couple more from a couple bands that get forgotten about:

(good video but sound needs to be turned up a bit) Vixen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPAeW9EPvP0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ5ICNckL9o

Cinderella: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W4YoS0Gppo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Pt_Il9KnM

Guys, notice all the girls (sadly we're all in our 40s and 50s now) in the audience...... Part of music is about creating. It's also about having fun. Shit's gotten to serious lately.

[Phil M]

I was never much of a fan of hair metal, but the guitars on Dio's Rainbow in the Dark were pretty slamming.

[Phil M]

...... Part of music is about creating. It's also about having fun. Shit's gotten to serious lately.

I hear you on this one.

[waylay00]

Cinderella rocks. These guys can still put it out too. Saw them three years ago and they were absolutely phenomenal:

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

[Andromeda]

"My doctor says, I need to take a laxative......not in my store you don't"


http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61v2Ufvi28L._SL500_AA280_.jpg

[Jube2550]

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

[cram]

This one actually would be a great song if it came out today..The drummer sounds familiar? ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74KheeagcLM

Sorry for my ignorance to your wink there, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Drnec

Jim Drnec? Is that you or someone on TGP?

[Cody]

I always liked your playing.
As a matter of fact, Rocco Siffredi... I always liked your work too! :roll

Seriously though, thanks! :beer

Weren't you guys one of the first metal bands to use 7-strings? I remember seeing the ads with the green and yellow Jems.No offense, I was not a hair metal fan. Thrash, early Death and Black metal.
Nope, never did the 7-string thing... you got the colors right, though. Mine was a custom job based on the Jem.

No offense meant with the cheese comment. This song and the whole cd was a guilty pleasure for me. Loved the guitar parts but I was into a bit heavier music. Violent New Breed was more up my alley. A little more aggressive.
Absolutely no offense taken.


:JAM

[jgraham]

This is probably marginal for the catagory... but its a kickass song from the era. Check out this 2008 performance in HD

Tesla: Comin atcha live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTuJYebKLQE&fmt=18

[Andromeda]

Hair band to me was an "era" that describes just about every band on MTV during the 80's who were using Aqua Net and spandex so yeah, that would include Van Halen and just about everyone else this side of the Atlantic who were cracking bread in southern California. Unfortunately, the term over the years has morphed into a derogatory catch phrase to describe bands that used makeup and eye liner (Poison, Britney Fox, etc).
When I think of "hair band" I think of the era, not a band. Since I lived it (as most of did here), I suppose each of us will define the term individually.

With that in mind, you can add "Hot for Teacher" as a song which definitely sums up the era.

[SL_22]

One of the first songs that got me hooked on 80's hair metal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNqNyi-9C9k
But this is probably my favorite song, video, & guitar solo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4457H6Gxd8

[DeeDub]

18 and Life - Skid Row

Say what you want about Sebastian Bach (and I'd probably agree with you), but DAMN the guy could sing!! Maybe he still can, but I haven't heard him lately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzmfpfIq0-4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzmfpfIq0-4)

[jet66]

It's hard to pick just one, but if I had to, I'd go with White Lion's 'Wait.'
Full-on self-indulgent, cheesy video? Check.
Cliche, sappy lyrics that could be used in a young man's written plea to his lost love? Check.
Radio-friendly? Check.
Overly-teased hair? Check.
One bad-ass guitar solo? Most definitely check.

[Droptop]

Rock Me by Great White
Jump by Van Halen
Play With Me by Extreme