10 Rare Glam and Hair Metal Bands You Need To Listen To!

[@frankryan3998]

Vain, Roxx Gang, Heavens Edge & Babylon AD are my favorites of this group. I still play these albums all the time. I announce varsity & Junior High football games & always get their songs in at halftime. The crowd lives it. Roxx Gang's "Scratch My Back" is my ringtone on my phone.🙂🖤💛

[@80sglammetalcast]

Nice Frank! Keep teaching these kids about good music😂🤘

[@jonnyingram-v1y]

Wildside , helter skelter, harem scarem, jullliet, tyketto

[@mikecamilli1047]

Love Crazy Lixx!

[@Seize_Up]

Casanova, Firehouse, Slaughter, Alias, White Lion, Cinderella,

[@audreyclark7938]

I'm glad you mentioned Hurricane. I've been a fan of theirs since the beginning and their music was absolutely incredible.

[@80sglammetalcast]

Definitely a cool/underrated band👍

[@ΚωνσταντίνοςΚωνσταντίνου-θ1ψ]

Hurricane and Babylon A.D. and definitely Lilian Axe are no Glam or Hair Metal...awesome musicians no poser Attitude... Mention Raw Silk ( here in Greece 1989 )

[@larrymcmains3226]

Hericane Alice, Slave Raider and DAD (Disneyland After Dark) are some I liked at the time.

[@80sglammetalcast]

Good ones. Hericane Alice is on my 2nd installment of this. Check it out on my channel🤘

[@tbury2516]

Saw Babylon AD (in a club with about 20 people), Lillian Axe, Vain, Keel (met them), Hurricane, and Pretty Boy Floyd (met them also). The Best times and memories!

[@heatnationwpb]

Great list! Vain was a VERY underrated band. My old band back in the late 80's used to cover "Beat the Bullet" & "Icy". I think most kids thought those songs were our own because no one knew who Vain was, but we just loved that first album! We also covered "Misery Loves Company" from Lillian Axe. 💯

[@fbunited4140]

Love Tigertailz! Trying to get my other teenage friends into the glam scene is hard! 😂🤘

[@tonyeckman4822]

Man, great choices! Roxx Gang, Vain, Hurricane, Tiger Tailz, Pretty Boy Floyd (only first album) and Nitro rule! Check out- Salems Lott, Halloween, Creature, Tuff Luck, Geisha, Alien, Odin, London, Glamour Punks, The Ultras, Dogs D'amour, Seduce, Krank, Witch, Angel, Wikked Gypsy and Miami Riot.

[@renatohebeja2665]

I have all of them in CDs but I don’t think they belongs on the list making it big,they have some really good songs in their catalog but not enough making it big.J have them and sometime i enjoy them certain songs,I am a die hard fan of Rock And Roll Metal 80s style and I have all kinds of stuff even much less known bands than these here,anyways seduce London dogs d’amour Odin are known bands for those that belong to the music style and the era.

[@renatohebeja2665]

As well tuff and angel

[@chris-fc9im]

Vain "no respect" album is an all time masterpiece regardless of genre, hanoi rocks has many good songs, as for the rest, i'll stick to my sabbath priest maiden nightwish stuff lol

[@dragonqueen6589]

90s kid here... Love Def Leppard, Ratt, Vinnie Vincent Invasion, W.A.S.P., Hanoi Rocks, Lizzy Borden, BulletBoys, MSG etc. etc.

[@frankwester2369]

Lillian Axe - most underrated band of the genre! Amazing work, especially Love & War and then Poetic Justice and then followed up by the even better Psychoschizophrenia

[@80sglammetalcast]

Agree, agree, and agree🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@80sglammetalcast]

@Kevin Kinsey Love the debut....one of their best

[@juliereminiec4937]

Baton Rouge is another underrated metal band from the 80s Kelly Keeling still has one hell of a voice

[@juliereminiec4937]

@@80sglammetalcast Tiger tailz was a Welsh hair metal band

[@juliereminiec4937]

Lilian Axe released Love & War in 1989 closer to the end of glam metal

[@hopsmetalshow3413]

Didn’t Robin Crosby produce Lillian Ax ? Love me some Roxx Gang Red Rose is a Favorite. Child’s Play was awesome also

[@80sglammetalcast]

You are correct on Crosby! Roxx Gang had some killer tunes for sure🤘

[@inviduallytwisted5423]

Things You've Never Done Before is such a criminally underrated album

[@jamesbedford3774]

'No Respect' is still one of my favourite albums. The production on that record is phenomenal. Still sounds raw and like a band you'd want to see at a bar.

[@Mister_Greg]

Jamie was a local guitar instructor when I was in high school. The No Respect demo that’s out there they is far better, IMO. The songs on the Island release were whittled down. The guitar solos only give a small taste of what James Scott does on the demo. They played the Omni and The Stone regularly and yes, they were a band you wanted to see play live.

[@1peanut]

There is a live videos of Vain on KZbin from like 2017 2019 and 2020. Davey Vain still doing it and sounds great. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3aYhYJonsmbiMk

[@kathleech8044]

It’s a great album. I had a Saturday job in a record store and played that CD every week for around 2 years!

[@VoviqueTOcean414]

Great bands, great video! There's a certain vibe to those bands that's hard to explain, it's just the thing you grew up with)

[@80sglammetalcast]

Thanks man! Yes, great era….the best

[@libertas5552]

Anything from Steelheart.

[@ajvasta]

Only reason these are "rare" is because stations like Hair Nation rarely, if ever, play them anymore. If you were deep into the 80s hair scene, you'd have almost all these in your collection already.

[@DASamX5453]

No...A lot of it was cause the Radio Stations wouldn't play bands or songs unless they were popular or ballads...all about the ratings...and also cause a lot of these bands weren't shown much if at all on MTV. I use to watch MTV every day coming home from Middle School in the 80s and a majority of these bands weren't on their at the timeframe I was watching. Most the time...It was all about the countdowns for MTV...

[@hoosierdaddy2308]

Great stuff man! I think I knew them all.. I saw Pretty boy floyd either in Indy or Lousiville I think it was.. Great stuff.. Thanks man!

[@80sglammetalcast]

Thanks brother....keep rockin’

[@dtarn1]

Lillian Axe, Tigertailz and Vain still great albums. Love the shout out for Salty Dog above but for me Rock City Angels are the ones that I am surprised did not achieve great things. Still play Company of Wolves loads as well.

[@80sglammetalcast]

Yeah not putting in Salty Dog was a fail on my end😅

[@scottperrin9655]

Cold Sweat, Outlaw Blood, Baton Rouge, Julliete, Company of Wolves, Little Ceasar are a few great lesser knowns that come to mind

[@80sglammetalcast]

Good ones....I put Cold Sweat in my follow up to this vid🤘

[@scottperrin9655]

@@80sglammetalcast oh right on, I gotta watch that one!

[@ΚωνσταντίνοςΚωνσταντίνου-θ1ψ]

Little Caesar...Glam ??!! Hair Metal ??!! Dont think so

[@Gunnar.J]

Glam Metal and Hard Rock is my life! I know and have all these bands on cd and or cassette!

[@80sglammetalcast]

Nice Jeff! Me too🤘

[@davetyson1550]

Most of these I don’t consider rare especially Lillian Axe as they have over 10 albums and happen to be one of my all time favorites but good list and glad to see them get some recognition. Some others that might fit this kind of list: * Saracen (early 80’s), * Craaft - One of my favorite albums of 80's * Blue Murder First Album * Kik Tracee * Kane Roberts Saints and Sinners Solo album (Guitarist from Alice Cooper) * Bad Moon Rising - bunch of great albums * Katmandu - Singer from Fastway - great album * Gorky Park - Russian band part of that huge concert in late 80's * Shark Island, Leatherwolf, Rock City Angels all come to mind as well

[@80sglammetalcast]

Great bands.....maybe some of these will make part 2🤘

[@mikebehrend3152]

Bang Tango, Icon and Asphalt Ballet are great bands

[@kennethsmith8968]

i have all these bands.

[@semperconstance]

Some more bands from that era to chew on : 1. Victory (Culture Killed the Native) 2. LSD (Silent Majority) 3. T-Ride (self-titled) 4. American Angel 5. Spread Eagle 6. LeatherWolf 7. Galactic Cowboys 8. Sleeze Beez 9. Electric Angels 10. Saigon Kick

[@tbury2516]

Victory is one of the best bands ever! (with Fernando Garcia)

[@thomasburt2755]

Had and still have these bands on CD.Loved every one of them.

[@80sglammetalcast]

Yeah brother🤘👊

[@satannewsted]

Vain is fantastic. Love that debut album. They should've been huge. How about Wildside? Remember them?

[@80sglammetalcast]

Yes....Wildside was pretty cool🤘

[@michaelblack9458]

Both are killer

[@1peanut]

There is a live videos of Vain on KZbin from like 2017 2019 and 2020. Davey Vain still doing it and sounds great. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3aYhYJonsmbiMk

[@ericyochim2949]

All bands were good

[@steveeckert8396]

You forgot Roxy Blue. They were about 4 years too late. I believe they only put out one album

[@80sglammetalcast]

Never got into them personally

[@TheMattBoland]

Proud to say I know most of this “underrated” bands :)

[@Geerladenlad]

Child's Play- Rat Race Icon - Right Between The Eyes Hawk - Self Titled Eyes - Self Titled Tyketto Thunder - Backstreet Symphony Lizzy Borden - Master of Disguise Dirty Looks - Turn The Screw, Cool From the Wire Tora Tora - Surprise Attack, Wild America Cry Wolf - Crunch XYX - Self Titled, Hungry

[@80sglammetalcast]

Good stuff👍

[@kevinrose8299]

Mike - good stuff. Don’t forget Dirty Looks. Still waiting for that interview with Paul Lidel. He was also in Dangerous Toys so you can ask him about his time in that band to.

[@80sglammetalcast]

Thanks Kevin! Gotta get that interview in the books for 2021😅

[@Paula-on8vs]

I was also seven when my step dad hook cable on, let the metal begin. Ah the 80's.

[@metalfansavarani]

I have seen Babylon Ad live and they kicked butt when I show them live.

[@johntaylor9710]

Roxy Blue and Trixter were my favorites.

[@TheHanoirockstar]

Good list of great bands , but gotta correct you on one thing , Jay pepper left tigertailz for a few years and was replaced by Cy Danaher on the Wazbones album

[@theresawolfe7467]

I have Vain Babylon ad and heavens edge debut cds...awesome bands

[@jayrudie1600]

Love them all , only one I don’t see is Shotgun Messia , second album Second Coming . Didn’t care for the other 2 albums but this one has some great stuff on it !!

[@bwydeli]

Lillian Axe!

[@80sglammetalcast]

One of the finest bands to come out of the 80’s🤘

[@marcusjohansen8061]

Man i'm really in to hair metal but i was on 03' i wish i was a live in the time. I'm planning to to make my own hair metal band, most of these bands I've never heard before but i love this shit. Rock on 🤟

[@user-J.RPoole]

Roxx Gang hell yeah!!! "Things You've Never Done Before" is excellent from beginning to end. Still have the CD, and listen to them on Spotify

[@80sglammetalcast]

Killer band and album🤘🤘🤘

[@user-J.RPoole]

@@80sglammetalcast love your channel, I recently found it and subbed

[@80sglammetalcast]

@@user-J.RPoole Thanks so much! So glad you found me🤘🤘🤘

[@2AChef-n-BBQ]

Some great choices,others I would include might be Kick Axe, Leatherwolf, Tokyo Blade, Malice and Icon. There were hundreds of great bands that were signed and dropped in the early 90's that should have hit bigger if the trend didn't change.👍🏼🇺🇸

[@80sglammetalcast]

Good ones for sure! I gotta do a part 2

[@DannyGadish]

ICON IS THE FUCKIN BEST!!! those other bands you listed rule too

[@angryagain3801]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one banging the drum for KICK AXE.

[@2AChef-n-BBQ]

@@angryagain3801 Great band that these "80's Rock" channels seem to constantly ignore. Been a fan since I first heard Heavy Metal Shuffle in the mid 80's🤘🏼👍🏼🤘🏼

[@angryagain3801]

@@2AChef-n-BBQ they really deserved a lot more recognition. I discovered them when they opened for Judas Priest, summer of 84, and got "Vices" shortly thereafter . That 2nd album was outstanding too. The 3rd album they lost me, but those first two are classic "hair metal."

[@godetonter4764]

How about Ebony label UK bands Touched , and Rankelson ?

[@80sglammetalcast]

Not familiar with them. I’ll have to check them out

[@sirroxalot]

Keel "United Nations" is easily one of the catchiest songs of the decade.

[@mindcrime8545]

Two of my favorite underrated bands from that era are Thunder, Danger Danger and Tuff.

[@russdavies9686]

That's 3.

[@superawesomecaillougod6664]

I’ve never heard of Thunder, Danger Danger is too known to be on this list, and Tuff is uh....... Tuff

[@jamesbedford3774]

Thunder are great, but not really hair/glam. They've always been a blues-rock band, and they're bloody good at it.

[@Mister_Greg]

@@jamesbedford3774 Danger Danger was straight up butt rock. Andy Timmons. Who’d have guessed?

[@Paula-on8vs]

I was seven when my uncle introduced me In to heavy metal. I love it. Then I was hook and wanted to hear more.

[@kennethsmith8968]

i have heard of all these bands except 1.nice list.

[@simonbell9107]

I've still got so many of those albums and they still rock 🤘

[@blacjack]

Great list, I think I own about 80% of those albums. I would have added EZO & Shotgun Messiah.

[@timburns3840]

You had me at Lillian Axe!!

[@DokkenSabbath]

Good list, bro!

[@80sglammetalcast]

Thanks Spence! Working on part 2 as we speak🤘

[@boicrazee]

Pretty Boy Floyd's Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz is still a good listen. Wild Angels is amazing. And really that while album is good. Too bad they came out right as the scene was dying. They were underrated for sure and could have given Poison a run for the money.

[@wolfen1101]

Julliet should have been massive but the timing was wrong. Check out the self titled album.

[@COTTERO]

Lets add: Tyketto, Hardline, XYZ, Saigon Kick, Chryssie Steele, Shy, Guardian, Saraya, TEN, and Shark Island.😎

[@80sglammetalcast]

Good ones🤘

[@kevindavis5434]

If you including Vain, PBF and Roxx Gang then you definately need to mention Bang Tango, Enuff ZNuff and Childs Play.

[@ThomasBurt-f7d]

Had them all Good bands Good music Good party memories.

[@leebrailsford1421]

Saw tigertailz just before lockdow ,,brilliant and Babylon AD were mint

[@80sglammetalcast]

Nice🤘

[@christophercrowder872]

I would add Tora Tora, Danger Danger, Banshee, XYZ, EZO, and Jet Boy to this list.

[@Jorgesebbastian]

I'm going to start listening to the bands you recommend one by one

[@80sglammetalcast]

Nice! Enjoy

[@DASamX5453]

Another rare band is Melidian...Great rock tunes but the band only lasted a year and had 1 album - Lost In The Wild - before they broke up. I can't find any live performances of them on KZbin and only 1 music video - Ready To Rock..so defiantly rare...

[@kathleech8044]

I am obsessed with No Respect by Vain over 30 years later. It is such a great album, not a dodgy track on it in my opinion.

[@wuphat]

Babylon AD's debut album has some killer tracks on it.

[@alessandro9740]

Saints & Sinners 1992 album is very solid and underrated album. sad they came on bad timing.

[@pfslik]

I spent ALOT of time with every one of these albums, all great, notably Vain, Nitro and Roxx Gang. Nitro though..the recording and the prevalence of the kick drum was crazy tight and loud. I was running two 18" Pyle subs in the trunk of my Z24 because of Nitro lol. And tell me you love Diamond Rexx, raw and sleaazzzy! And for the rest of you, there is STILL a TON of new glam, sleaze bands putting out music all the time, just look! Keep rockin.

[@jayrum7303]

Sleaz Beez, Tora Tora (all four original members still together!), Junkyard.

[@juliereminiec4937]

Both Hurricane & Keel were straight up metal bands that were mistakenly included in glam metal My favorite one hit wonder Glam metal band is D'molls D'molls was glam metal with a Chicago Twist....SS Priest ( ex Diamond Rex) did a very good immigration of a Southwest Pilot Revving the engine up...7 7 7 was their only memorable song My favorite Uk glam metal bands are Waysted & Wolfsbane

[@boblabo]

Great video

[@80sglammetalcast]

Thanks!

[@russianbot9471]

How about sleeze beez

[@80sglammetalcast]

Great band🤘

[@russianbot9471]

@@80sglammetalcast Right on brother

[@godetonter4764]

Metal Mike from Metal Maniacs and Metal Edge Magazines?

[@80sglammetalcast]

No sir

[@davidsilvagmail2188]

Always surprised me that Babylon didn’t get big

[@80sglammetalcast]

That debut is a monster!

[@LouKiss]

Icon (from New Mexico I believe), LOVE/HATE and SPREAD EAGLE

[@80sglammetalcast]

Good ones🤘

[@DannyGadish]

Arizona

[@exceptformeandmymonkey6964]

Through these eyes,Great song!

[@kenhall6525]

Early Shotgun Messiah !! Sleeze Beez

[@80sglammetalcast]

They are in my second installment kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWnceWynmJl8Z8U

[@daniellesaint8758]

Don't forget Tangier. 1989 Four Winds album

[@AKTIONAVANTGARDE]

Pharoah, No Sympathy, Seduce, Vinnie Vincent Invasion, Legs Up / Sledgehammer Ledge would be some more. Nitro & Pretty Boy Floyd are fucking awsome!

[@Rabant777]

I hate the term 'hair band', but I was done with the party by the time most of these bands released their debuts. Of these 10 I'd only seen Keel and Tigertailz live in the 80s, but I have been lucky enough to see almost all of them since (Nitro, Hurricane and Roxx Gang still elude me). Every one of the bands you listed was capable of writing one or two classics but for me Vain are the stand out band of this bunch, with Lillian Axe a close second.

[@Rabant777]

@Rob Schultz Some people may have used the term "Hair" band earlier, but my recollection of first seeing it used was in 1992/93 on MTV and it was a Rolling Stone writer speaking disparagingly about bands he felt empowered to put down. I can understand why some bands, promoters, labels etc. claimed the term back for themselves but to me I always picture a self-appointed gatekeeper sneering at a generation for their poor taste.

[@MotorSpeedway]

Rhino Bucket is another great band...also how come you didn't mention that Sam Kinnison was on Babylon AD's "kid goes wild"

[@travisharvey7911]

No TNT???

[@kipprickm]

nuff said nice list ...more ..

[@Seize_Up]

Tyketto, Nelson, Signal, Roxus, Damn Yankees...

[@dustyoldtapes580]

Some of these bands were cool, some I never cared for. Babylon A.D. were cool, and another in that vein was McQueen Street, very late to the game with their only hair-era album in '91. I really liked Child's Play's Rat Race album as well. I remember liking Roxy Blue and Wildside a lot at the time, but looking back I can see that they were both very derivative. As I get older, I gravitate more to the dirtier-sounding bands like Junkyard, Circus of Power and the like, rather than the smooth-voiced, flash-guitar bands like Heaven's Edge. It's all good though, or mostly so - the only one on this list that I actively dislike is Pretty Boy Floyd.

[@80sglammetalcast]

Nice! Did I mention there’s a part 2😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWnceWynmJl8Z8U

[@TabithaReminiec3399]

Black n Blue ( 1984), XYZ, King Kobra, Cats In Boots, Tuff ,D'Molls etc

[@inspiredenergyNOW]

Candy Harlots an awesome Australian glam band. Check out their album Five Wicked Ways.

[@crimsoncomics4273]

Nitro and Tigertailz rock 🤟. I love all the bands on this list

[@80sglammetalcast]

Me too....obviously 😂

[@theresawolfe7467]

Also Keel and Hurricane are also great bands

[@johnnelson3665]

TNT and Strangeways I would include. Maybe more Melodic Hard Rock than Glam though.

[@jonathanhill9800]

Killer dwarfs...southgang.every mother's nightmare

[@lordx4549]

You forgot Salty Dog

[@80sglammetalcast]

Nah man....I’m always showing love for the Dog 😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWnceWynmJl8Z8U

[@Kim.webbford]

Agree with all of these.

[@walpolescrew]

I have a Sons Of Angels tattoo on my back. (An Angel riding a Les Paul)

[@willskid1014]

Remember a band called Valentine, fkn great debut album

[@kissterio]

No Salty Dog?

[@80sglammetalcast]

In the next one😂

[@inviduallytwisted5423]

The Dogs D'Amour, D.A.D. , Smashed Gladys, The Quireboys, The D'Molls

[@newhampshirenate]

@5:55 - But, wudduhbout THAT guy, on the left?

[@stefanvo2347]

Hurricane -Slave to the thrill is so much better then Over the edge, it still sounds good today.

[@chelseafn104]

One of the Best Bands to ever hit. TKO..Brad Sinsel is the best male vocalist ever! I don’t know why they didn’t make it big. They were Seattle before Nirvana.

[@jgj67]

Black n Blue..

[@nelsonsantiago3426]

I thought TUFF would have been on the list.

[@brianroberts6670]

Roxxy

[@lukepreuss4585]

What about TNT not the song the glam band they are so underrated

[@80sglammetalcast]

Love TNT🤘

[@mariogallitognotta4613]

Kane Roberts 🎸

[@jasonwhittaker3940]

This kind of music doesn't do it for me anymore; but that Vain album was amazing. Only GNR Appetite betters it from that era. Lillian Axe Love and War was excellent for its time and some tracks still stand out. Shout out to Dirty Looks Cool From The Wire too.

[@bayarea8016]

One band u need to hear JETBOY "Feel The Shake" just like Vain better then most bands on here