The 10 Greatest HAIR METAL ALBUMS | Ranked

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[@holydiver73]

I was a teenage hair Metaller in the late 80’s and now I’m a 50 odd year old hair Metaller. It was a great genre. Much better than what replaced it. Hair Metal was all about fun, motorbikes, women and partying. Grunge came along and everyone was depressed, full of angst and suicidal. I just didn’t want to be around those people, I stuck with what I knew and loved.

[@philipholmes5884]

Plus grunge sucked too... except "Alice in chains" had some good songs...my opinion...

[@ChrisTian-rm7zm]

In the early 90s, especially after the passing of Steve Clark, I somehow had the feeling that the party was over.

[@scottmcgregor4829]

I might take issue with the British bands that you mentioned. Honestly I think that White Snake were just too good. And Def Leppard were a little too sick. American bands were more trashy sounding, and looking.I actually a think that the many of the newer female Japanese Hard rock/ metal bands are very close to many of the hair metal bands of the 80s. Their musicianship is off the charts and they don't seem to even be aware of any kind musical rules in hard rock. Having Said that, the spirit of the music is definitely of hair metal.

[@Mark.H3721]

​@philipholmes5884 As you say, it's your opinion, but for me, there wasn't a hair metal band who even came close to being as good as the likes of Soundgarden. To me, hair metal was a joke. Soundgarden's 'Superunknown' was a masterpiece.....in my opinion.

[@philipholmes5884]

@@Mark.H3721 yeah ! That guy could sure sing ! And they had some good melodies in their songs too ! I kinda forgot about them... they were in a different category than bands like Nirvana to me... It's just an opinion...like AIC & Soundgarden were more like hard rock bands to me !

[@Johnnysmithy24]

Hair/Glam Metal is the ultimate Party Music imo. I sometimes dream about owning a nightclub that would only play 80s Glam Metal

[@treff9226]

Open it up - I'm there right days a week!🎸🎸🤘🤘

[@timminore2126]

In 1988 I was working in a restaurant kitchen in Glacier National park. After meals were served we’d put tapes of hair metal bands in a tape player, and blast it while mopping the floor and cleaning up. I remember one day a kid put his tape of Appetite for Destruction in. Everybody just kind of stopped and listened in awe. It was unlike the other stuff we’d been listening to.

[@damienfoyer]

That was a fun chat. I own every one of these. Going for a drive and having this genre playing along metal, hard rock, jazz fusion and prog is all normal to me.

[@Johnnysmithy24]

Agree!

[@grahamnunn8998]

Eat 'em and Smile is still one of my favourite albums - I will always have a copy in my car. I love how much fun it is, I think Zappa's musical humour first showed up in Vai's music here.

[@treff9226]

I'm still amazed at how good Eat Em' And Smile was/is! Dave came out swinging after the Van Halen break up. Roth is really doing a shit ton of damage to his already shaky reputation with his current verbal diarrhea against Wolfgang......dude needs to shut his pie hole.

[@InService77]

I'm not a hair metal fan or 80's music in general, but I'm reminded of a time ('82) that as a high school senior I went with a friend to visit a small liberal arts college. We were invited in by some students who were listening to music in their dorm on a Friday night. They started off with Electric Ladyland, and this one guy who looked to be from India (ethnically) was just going off with enthusiasm throughout the entire record. Much to my shock and amusement, the next album was Lover Boy, and this Indian dude went off with equal enthusiasm and praise. I still don't like Lover Boy, but I could see that this guy had more opportunities for fun than me.

[@Pwecko]

"Oh, help me, Mrs Medlicott, I don't know what to do, I've only got three bullets, And there's four of Motley Crüe" From Upon Westminster Bridge by Half Man Half Biscuit.

[@DanielHuman1996]

Here's my top 10 for hair metal! Hanoi Rocks - Up And Around The Bend Gun N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Van Halen - Fair Warning Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In LA Guns - LA Guns Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat Jetboy - Feel The Shake Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic Ratt - Out of the Cellar

[@angryagain3801]

I'd swap out the 2nd LAG album for the first I'd also suggest adding Kick Axe "Vices" Lillian Axe "Love and War" Extreme "Pornograffitti" In place of Jetboy or the Aerosmith album

[@treff9226]

Great picks but Aerosmith aren't glam metal. Cheers!

[@treff9226]

I could list 50 albums, easily, but these come to mind first: Ratt - Out Of The Cellar Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love Faster Pussycat - Wake Me When Its Over Kix - Blow My Fuse Dokken - Back For The Attack Cinderella Night Songs Tesla - Mechanical Resonance Extreme - Pornograffitti Love/Hate - Blackout In The Red Room Def Leppard - Pyromania Honorable Mentions: Spread Eagle Cats n Boots - Kicked And Klawed Uncle Salty - Every Dog Has Its Day Tora Tora - Surprise Attack Black N Blue T. T Quick - Metal Of Honor TNT - Tell No Tales Sea Hags Warrior Soul - Salutations From The Ghetto Nation Saigon Kick Angel City - Face To Face Helix - No Rest For The Wicked WASP

[@hendrikheemels8615]

Tell No Tales, yes!!

[@hendrikheemels8615]

Hair metal felt like a guilty pleasure to me, so somewhere awfull and awesome at the same time. I was 18 in 1987 and loved the energy, positivity and fun of the music. Many guitar riffs just made you feel ecstatic, like Panama (Van Halen), Lay It Down (Ratt) and Modern Day Cowboy (Tesla). The music just reflected my intense happiness I was feeling in the summer of '87, so it will always have a special place in my heart.

[@svsugvcarter]

I need to see Andy decked out as a hippie. Can we get a top ten of the San Francisco psychedelic scene in dreads and tie-dye?

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

Excuse me, but the late, great John Lord showed EVERYONE how to "Rock Out" with the keyboards, MAN!!

[@upyours574]

You got that right!

[@garyh.238]

Indeed! Jon Lord was The Maestro of rock keyboards.

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

@@upyours574 Well thanks mate. And upyours to!! 🤣

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

@@garyh.238 ln my humble opinion, he had style and a set up, that allowed him to make it sound like the band had a second, better guitarist.

[@upyours574]

@@frenzalrhomb6919 🤣

[@matm4331]

In the David Bowie short film called Jazzin for Blue Jean, Bowie's character calls himself a "Berk" when he is trying to schmooz the bouncer. I am from the US and for almost 40 years I have wondered what he said, until today! THANK YOU Andy for filling that annoying gap in my understanding of British Slang! 😁

[@axxellein]

TRES Heavy=Angel They invented POMP Hair Metal in the Mid/Late 70s!! Epic.Majestic!!!

[@kevincorrigan7893]

Love this look, Andy. Keep it from now on. 🤘😎

[@rightchordleadership]

Appetite for Destruction is not a hair metal album. It’s a great hard rock album, nothing more, nothing less.

[@BoardGameBill]

I'm inclined to agree, but if G'n'R isn't Hair Metal, then Aerosmith probably isn't either.

[@johnsilver8059]

GnR was a failed hair metal band that stumbled into massive success. Look at the early photos and it’s clear they were going for that style.

[@freakybeaky1]

They kept the sound Ratt had when they were Mickey Ratt. Would have preferred the fashions to have held back too!!!

[@rocklanglois8378]

Accept - Balls to the Wall____Ratt - Out of the Cellar____Cinderella - Night Songs, would have made my list. But that's the fun of doing a list!!

[@jeff-ds2pr]

Accept isn't hair metal, they were real heavy metal. Great band though.

[@chris_24189]

Ya. Ratt, "Out of the Cellar" I thought was too sophisto for me though because guys who listened to it had cars and girlfriends and I was 13 when it came out so I stuck with "Pyromania", Twisted Sister, "Stay Hungry" and Quiet Riot, "Metal Health". Really, anything with an arbitrary umlaut or 2 stuck on it probably deserves a little attention.

[@timminore2126]

This was a lot of fun. I would concur with others that Appetite for Destruction was not hair metal. It was the first of two huge punches that killed off the glam metal genre, the second of which was Nevermind, in 1991. You could make a case that Def Leppard and Van Halen could both have two albums in this list: Hysteria, and Van Halen I.

[@thetruthhurts6652]

Having played with Plant what was his real opinion of Deep Purple and members and what did he think of Coverdale/Page?

[@riffmondo9733]

Love your content! Great stuff. I would like your take on the 82 and 83 US Festivals. I think they were magnificent and would cover a lot of musical ground for the time.

[@robertwatt4248]

A fun episode Andy! 'Hot For Teacher' was actually influenced by Cactus's 'Perchman Farm'. Eddie was a big fan of the guitarist , I think called Jim McCarty?. He actually confessed to Camine Appice that he somewhat plagiarised the song. Give it a listen and you'll hear the similarities.

[@mrbrick5907]

Cactus always get mentioned in 'proto metal' articles, I'd never heard them and assumed they'd be another sub-Blue Cheer stodgy heavy blues band. My mistake, what a banger that track is and yes, not just Hot for Teacher, that's the blueprint for half of Van Halen's up tempo repertoire.

[@treff9226]

Let's finally use the word "underrated" correctly to describe a music artist or group - CACTUS are sorely underrated, and so is Jim, beastly guitarist! Great comment, didn't know this about Eddie's Cactus influence!

[@RocknJazzer]

@@mrbrick5907Parchman Farm was not written by Cactus, it was an old blues song from the 40s by bukka white, remade by Mose Allison in the 50s, and in 1968 by Blue Cheer, 2 years before Cactus's 1970 version. Blue Cheer are far from stodgy, they were the first truly heavy band, their name came from the early SF acid made by owsley, were managed by hells angels, loudest most strung out band of their time, every heavy band to come after is basically sub blue cheer, as they were the first truly heavy, and still stands today as the heaviest most raw of anything. They went all the way from the get go, beyond any so called heavy styles to come, including all the metal genres (many of which I am a fan of) but BC opened and closed the door to all that is heavy in the span of one year, from late 67 to late 68. Nothing "stodgy" about that. Total opposite actually. You may not like their caveman approach to the blues, but with the volume and sound they played it at, they created all that is truly heavy before anyone and with barely a blueprint, just inspiration from jimi, cream, the who, the blues, and a wall of amps on 10 well before that became a thing

[@mrbrick5907]

@@RocknJazzer I am well versed in the 'Cheer, and their version of Parchman Farm, (I think every heavy blues band seemed to do a cover of it) their first two LPs are absolute bangers (the later ones I'm not so keen on). Yes, they are the Rosetta stone for loud heavy music, my favourite 'Cheer fable? The one about a bird flying past their wall of amps and getting vaporised... That's why I said 'sub-Blue Cheer', referring to bands that tried to ape their style but just ended up as plodding copies. I'll take the caveman approach over boring virtuosity any day. More power to your elbow though for jumping in to defend their honour!

[@RocknJazzer]

@@mrbrick5907Ah cool gotcha now, was thinking you were knocking on them, now I see it's the opposite. Yes only the first two (tho a few tunes on the 3rd ie new improved are ok with holden, but it was also when dickie wanted to go more towards the country rock sound, as he was very influenced by "The Band" at that point. As one of the top BC fans I have had contact here and there with some former band members and associates and yes there are quite the stories out there

[@FloatingAnarchy61]

God that was bloody funny. I especially like your hair metal version of Mambo No 5 at the start, 'A little bit of Aerosmirh in my life, a little bit of Van Halen on the side a little bit of Manilow, that's what I like, a little bit of AC/DC see me right'. I approached this one with a bit of trepidation because I largely ignored this genre at the time but I do own 1984 and Appetite and considered that one put the nail in the coffin for the genre. I remember being at Glastonbury in 1989 and someone we were camping with put on Appetite. I hadn't heard it even though it was a couple of years old by then. That monumental intro to Sweet Child was like a jolt of electricity. I'd never noticed the similarities between Quadrant 4 and Hot For Teacher but I think you're definitely onto something.

[@freshcobains]

Next do 10 best smooth jazz albums.

[@pluckinmageetar]

1. Europe - Out of this World 2. Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love 3. Dokken - Breaking the Chains 4. Ratt - Out of the Cellar 5. Winger - Winger 6. Skid Row - Slave to the Grind 7. White Snake - Slide it in 8. Cinderella - Night Songs 9. Tesla - Mechanical Resonance 10. McCauley Schenker Group - Perfect Timing With a special shout out, honorable mentions to the albums Loudness - Thunder in the East RiverDogs - Riverdogs

[@christophercheney1006]

I think you need to rock that "battle jacket" in every video. That is some badass shit!!

[@Johnnysmithy24]

Trueee

[@toniputin1096]

What about Smell The Glove?

[@michaelturner295]

With the black album cover. How much more black could it be? The answer is none!

[@toniputin1096]

@@michaelturner295 None more black.

[@billphelps5611]

Your a fun guy! I have a few of these records and they rock. Enjoyed the video!

[@bradjones801]

Slash is my guitar-hero, I've been playing guitar since '88 when I saw Slash perform Sweet Child 'O Mine.

[@peterjohansen3853]

I looove Whitesnakes early stuff. Judas Priest Thin Lizzy Black Sabbath Deep Purple Rainbow Clutch AC/DC Saxon Thats my favourite bands😊.

[@treff9226]

Clutch is mind-blowing! Such a unique, trippy, funky, riff fueled band. Nothing out there like em'. Cranked early Clutch classic Blast Tyrants last week, speakers were dripping sweat! Hell yeah!🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@PortugueseMACPOW]

None of those are Glam/Hair metal

[@peterjohansen3853]

​@@treff9226Hi my friend, I'm glad someone out there loves Clutch. I believe I'm the only one on the island really to appreciate them. Got everything they have done..Even tattooed on my arm.

[@treff9226]

That tattoo signifies killer taste in music! Not easy to create a unique and distinct sound in rock music, with all that's been done already, but Clutch, with their deep groove, unique riffs, Neils funky vocal delivery and shit loads of humor in lyrics.....UNICORNS! Clutch put out music - I get out my wallet! No need to sample their songs, no need to worry about them screwing up their badass chemistry! The only thing more consistent would be farts in a field of cows. Ant time Neil is interviewed, I'm all over it - the dude is hilarious! Best to you, Peter, keep the good stuff in rotation!​@@peterjohansen3853

[@pfzt]

Dear Sir, that is rather a classic hardrock of the 80s list than a Hair Metal one, because there would be no such list without the likes of LA Guns, Poison, Ratt, Cinderella, White Lion, Enuff Z'Nuff and of course the wonderful and brilliant Faster Pussycat. However, your list is nonetheless very inspiring because i will now dust off all those LPs in my collection.

[@LuisNunes-ps4sl]

And WASP. 🤘🤘

[@Exposure2life]

Thanks for introducing us to Andy Edwards' alter ego.

[@JohnCollins]

"Got to keep things moving till my personality starts improving" 😆 I haven't heard that for about 35 years!

[@kevincorrigan7893]

I listen to that album about 5 times a year still. Holds up great!

[@nightwisher751]

Thanks Andy for the verbiage, and directions to some bands i have not listened to. My pick would be for Keep the Faith Bon Jovi as i loved Dry County, and saw them at the old Wembley Stadium about 93. Must shout out my old mate the drummer from the Aol band YaYa from the 80s not least because he gave me the King Crimson album In the court of the Crimson King and got me into Rory Gallagher when we were at school

[@mfversluis]

I must break a lance for an awesome glam metal album. Come-back from an artist even older than Coverdale and Aerosmith: Trash by Alice Cooper. Great songs, full tongue-in-cheek (nothing strange for him), accompanied by over the top pretty babes videos and with the perfect meta album title.

[@grayjohn6332]

Yngwie Malmsteen- Odyssey. Malmsteen guitar craziness, Joe Lynn Turners Gillette the best you can get voice with some brilliant pop songs.

[@aminahmed2220]

What a fantastic video have you enjoyed listening to music Andy have a wonderful day ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@Drinckx2]

Ratt, Out of the Cellar, makes a strong case to be in a list of classic hair metal albums. Your sunglasses look like a nod to Captain Sensible.

[@nddst77]

Glad to see you put Whitesnake on the list. It’s got some great songs. Still if the night and Crying in the Rain are great. John Sykes’ playing is great.

[@madmaf6011]

Thanks Andy, great stuff.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Bass599]

Fantastic video! 👌👌

[@3lullabies]

Ratt/Out of the Cellar Crue/Too Fast for Love Def Leppard/Pyromania Quiet Riot/Metal Health Cinderella/Night Songs Loudness/Thunder in the East

[@treff9226]

​@@angelaandradeus6290Listening to Lillian Axe last few days - should have been a lot bigger, with tasty riffs, harmonies, fiery soloing and all in all, stellar songs.....a lot of em'!!!

[@guarddl9522]

Cool video. A thinking man's rating of hair metal albums. Nice to see a one of these lists without Poison, Warrant, Cinderella, and the usual suspects...

[@LuchaLibertaria]

There's no 'thinking man's hair metal' Hair Metal is a derogatory term meaning it has nothing to offer beyond bighair. Its a grunge era term to stigmatise 80s bands as lame music

[@treff9226]

Facts! Party Metal is how my buds and I refer to it! A ton of stellar musicians during this era, way more to it than "big hair"! Long hair has forever been a part of hard rock.....hell, rock and roll in general!

[@guarddl9522]

No doubt there were stellar musicians in the scene. I enjoy some of these bands quite a bit. It was quite a successful run when you look back on it and many musicians play it today. I did like how the bands were starting to expand their sound until the plug was pulled. And yea rock has many many musicians with long hair dating from the late '60 and wouldn't be rock with these musicians.@@treff9226

[@austinfailz]

My list would look something like this: 1. Loudness - Lightning Strikes 2. Ratt - Reach for the Sky 3. Dokken - Back for the Attack 4. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moom 5. KISS - Animalize 6. Whitesnake - s/t (1987) 7/8. David Lee Roth - Eat Em and Smile 7/8. Van Halen - 5150 9. XYZ - Hungry 10. Shotgun Messiah - Second Coming 11. White Lion - Fight to Survive

[@treff9226]

That Loudness album rips! Akira is simply a beast on guitar, his tone, riffs and phrasing are jaw dropping! Loudness is a favorite of mine, got about 12 albums and all are loaded with top shelf tuneage! Dig Japanese band Anthem, as well. Cool list, great picks!

[@markflower8885]

I gave this a 👍 mainly for Andy making the effort with the wig and, glasses and clothing. I looked at the album choices and decided to listen to a Mr Bungle album as a musical palate cleanser. 😂

[@Johnnysmithy24]

Nice lol

[@ionpavlidis5978]

My daily music consists of classical, 30s big band music, hair metal and synthwave. No idea how these genres coexist in my head, I'm not a musician. But hair metal in particular I've always found to be wrongfully frowned upon. It's energetic, it's nostalgic, it's uplifting, it's got damn fine musicians who know their craft, what's not to like?

[@tristramcoffin926]

Check out Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Sakes, Hanoi Rocks by Hanoi Rocks. I think that belongs in the top 10. Power tools are excluded, however.

[@lozruston2204]

Permanent Vacation is bloody lovely

[@nddst77]

My last comment I promise. I lived through the 80s and I love your list. ❤

[@davidmillschills]

Oh yeah, Permanent Vacation was a great album. Loved the more unknown title "The Movie" and "Magic Touch" ... don't you know! Remember "bump and grind" from DLR, only he could get away with a title like this. 1984 had the greatest track with "Panama" on it, best riff and best bridge ever! Even my 2 yr old daughter loved it. Thanks for the nice trip back in time

[@YtuserSumone-rl6sw]

Like Axl Rose and so many point out, the LA glam image came from Hanoi Rocks, but Hanoi Rocks were more punky and less polished.

[@mrbrick5907]

Yes, Hanoi were more Stones meets Sex Pistols, I think Guns' main inspiration from them was the hairstyles and the drug habits

[@sanjayjani8099]

Andy, I kind of parallel the idea you put forth that the punk rock movement growing out of progressive rock, to Grunge emerging from “Hair” or “Glam” metal. I think many artists from the Grunge scene were quite massively influenced to make music by the albums of Motley Crue, Ratt. Mother Love Bone to me seemed to be very Glam/Hair at moments.

[@juniorjames7076]

Why did rock become so depressing (Grunge) in the '90s.

[@kubamatuszewski3563]

Hi, I'm very curious what Andy thinks about Crown Lands - a very cool Canadian band. like Rush plus Zepp.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

I especially liked the personal stories.

[@GLAM_METAL_MAN]

1. Ratt - out of the cellar 2. Cinderella - night songs 3. Poison - look what the cat 4. Britny fox - britny fox 5. Dokken - back from the attack 6. Slaughter - stick it to yah 7. Warrant - DRFSR 8. Firehouse - firehouse 9. Lynch Mob - wicked sensation 10. Harem Scarem - harem Scarem

[@Rog5446]

How about a video on the 10 coolest band names?

[@jvpresnall]

This is beneath you, and I’m glad you made it!

[@nddst77]

Honorable mention: Punk does hair metal. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

[@davebignell100]

Hanoi Rocks deserve an honorable mention

[@davidwylde8426]

“Pansy Rock …… but don’t see it like that !!!” 😂

[@seabud6408]

Ha! Loved the outfit/analysis. I prefer Hair Gel Metal … handful of Swarfega and you’re fit to go. Didn’t dawn on me that Dave probably called his album 1987 because he felt it could be huge like 1984.

[@misterpid]

Fun music will always be fun. Hair metal was all about having fun. My top 10 would include something by Kix (either their debut or Blow My Fuse). And it might include One on One by Cheap Trick - they're not really a hair metal band, but if you were to listen to that album without knowing who recorded it you'd swear that they were.

[@bluewidow6681]

About Def Leppard. I saw them at Reading Rock festival in 1980. Iron Maiden were also on the bill. Maiden went down really well. But Def Leppard got a hostile reception. Many in the crowd bombarded the stage with empty beer cans (those were the days - we still had beer cans). Confused, I asked someone why this was. The explanation was that Def Leppard were too American. Which was considered a bad thing. This was August 1980. Some saw those hair metal influences early.

[@edwardyazinski3858]

Lep only rocked first two albums after that was shite over processed click track slick top forty pablum

[@Ashley-il1yh]

Given the commerical success of tongue-in-cheek US hair metal bands in the 1980s, it's kind of surprising UK and European heavy rock bands didn't go with the times and do more humorous heavy rock songs. Thunder's 'Englishman on Holiday' and Helloween's 'Doctor Stein' are great fun songs but I can't think of many others.

[@FrankDux-rq7go]

Eric Martin has such an amazing voice. I really liked the self-titled album and bump ahead. as far as hair metal, I really liked Skid Row's first two albums, and I still love Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet and New Jersey. I turn those up in the summertime!

[@armourae]

Potty Time, Larry the Lamb in Toytown, Issi Noho; never forgotten. Only just hit the like button as I was busy playing paradiddles in a traditional grip while you were shouting. Neil Peart was right: the mind feel different/ a different approach when playing either traditional or matched grip.

[@stevendavid5370]

Andy you're a nut! But it's okay! Can you send me some hair though? Ansley Dunbar played with Zappa, but he also played with Journey. Great Drummer! You missed Tesla, Poison and Ratt.

[@peterjohansen3853]

Got most of the stuff you ranked😊

[@UFO314159]

The album Aerosmith put out prior to "Permanent Vacation" was called "Done with Mirrors."

[@georgedantz3617]

I rocked out to many of these bands in the 80s. I also rock out to them now as well! The difference about me now is the actual hair itself.. I could, maybe, start a band called "The Hairless Hair Metal Band!" Actually, my father, who is 93 years young, has a full head of long red hair... 🎸🙂🙃😊

[@arnoldjones]

Sea Hags, Rock City Angels, Spread Eagle, Bang Tango, Little Ceasar, Four Horsemen, Vain, Faster Pussycat, Rhino Bucket, Salty Dog mostly debut albums make up my top 10 😊

[@paulhyde-ic6cp]

slippery when wet should be in this list.

[@MrROTD]

Dr Feelgood , Hysteria and Flesh and Blood , my top three hair band albums.

[@Velvet_Torpedo]

love the new look!!! 😆😉

[@EddieReischl]

I think Edward was probably the influence behind all of the hair metal bands, much to his chagrin, but I'd call VH genre defying or unspecific. They are kind of the American Beatles in that sense. A lot of it is due to DLR. Listen to "Could This Be Magic", "Big Bad Bill", "I'm the One", "Atomic Punk", "Little Guitars", "Girl Gone Bad", "Top Jimmy", "Unchained", "Mean Street", and "Hear About it Later". These songs all have completely different rhythms. Eddie was a master rhythm player, and the band was a masterful rhythm section.

[@cbolt4492]

26:59 Superb album

[@DarkSideofSynth]

Nothing wrong with some GOOD hair metal EVH, the guy who not only became a guitar legend, and rightly so (and great at rhythm guitar, not just fancy lead), but also goes down in history for one of the most icon synth riffs AND sounds of all time with Jump. Every keyboard ever since must have a synthbrass patch inspired by Jump, a song that even your grandma and her parrot know ;) And soloing on one of the most sold albums of all time, with Lukather on rhtyhm gtr. 'nuff said.

[@david.leikam]

Saw Mötley Crüe on the Dr. Feelgood tour in Oakland, California (1990-02-16) with Warrant opening. Nice California pin on the jean jacket cut vest right chest pocket too! 😎

[@5150JAM]

saw Van Halen 5 times in the 80s....that 1984 tour was so good I saw 2 shows and had 3rd & 4th row

[@delorangeade]

Oh dear, I think the comment about influencing hair metal not being much might have been mine. I will admit I was laughing more than listening during this musical era, which sometimes is true of your videos as well. The difference is, I will rewind the videos in search of some nugget I might have missed, but I don't feel inclined to do the same for the 1980's. To be honest, I do own two of the albums on this list, 1987 and Appetite for Destruction, and I think a Tesla album would have been a worthy addition. Maybe even room for Queensryche, Rage for Order as well, so the 1980's wasn't all bad. But I think the fact that the music on the list is either American, or was much bigger on America than it ever was in the UK, is telling. It's missing the British aesthetic that informed so much of the best music of the previous two decades.

[@TheD4VR0S]

Thought you may have mentioned slippery when wet what made me laugh was bands like Saxon suddenly donning the spandex and the hair spray

[@SonofCastille]

H Any you chapps remember HeAVY Pettin' the Scottish Def Lep?

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

I do

[@peterjohansen3853]

Love your jacket 😮

[@jmj8596]

Andy ... good one ... I remember Michael Bentine's Potty Time 🙃🙂

[@juniorjames7076]

I don't consider the 1980s a dark period, it was a freaking Golden Age in almost every art form- new animation, comic books/graphic novels, rise of NewWave/Punk/Hair Metal, rise of Hip Hop, rise of Pop, Action Movies, Slasher films, dance, art-graffiti (Kieth Haring), WWF wrestling, etc. Why are you people so ashamed of the 1980s??

[@saltpeter7429]

It was a fantastic, extremely fun time to be a kid. What I wouldnt do to go back to a summer night playing Van Halen and Ratt on cassette while dreaming of all the cool shit life had in store. Here in the NOW sucks. All of it.

[@LuchaLibertaria]

80s music was mostly upbeat and fun . Todays music critics and self-appointed taste-makers praise music that promotes hopelessness, nihilism and misanthropy while they look down on music that's uplifting and positive. There are some exceptions here and there but there's a very clear bias.

[@Johnnysmithy24]

1980s is my favorite fucking decade, I love it

[@Johnnysmithy24]

@@LuchaLibertaria EXACTLY, you get it

[@Johnnysmithy24]

Also I’ll take the Hair Metal as popular music over todays Rap ANY DAY. At least Hair Metal had actual good musicians making fun music

[@gokhanaya]

Now this one can get me going for a subscription to you 😄😄

[@YtuserSumone-rl6sw]

This will be interesting. I could imagine in the light of great musicianship and at times sophisticated songwriter craftsmanship bands like Winger, Ratt and Whitesnake will be talked about. The use of the label "Hair Metal" puts too many styles in the same basket so that label does not work. Many of them I call either Hard Rock (Guns n Roses, The Cult, Cinderella,Badlands) or 80's Glam Rock rather than Glam Metal aka "Hair Metal". Bon Jovi on their part were more like 80's Pop Rock alike The Hollies, The Zombies or Herman's Hermits in their time. Lemmy's one phrase lives on at the end of the day: It's just rock'n'roll! Since David Lee Roth was nominated here, gotta say Skyscraper is one hell of an album and represents the 80's glam era very well too. Too many bands and albums to choose from to boil down to only 10 but just to piss off predictable people I would have put Saxon's 'Destiny' 5th because it doesn't get more polished melodic 80's metal than that, Queensryche's 'Empire' at 4th place (not sure is it more prog metal though?), Britny Fox's energetic hit run 'Boys In Heat' in 3rd place, U.D.O.'s _"Faceless World"_ at 2nd place because of the immaculate composition and execution and in 1st place none other than the mighty Zodiac Mindwarp and The Love Reaction's _"Tattooed Beat Messiah"_ , because they just rock while not taking themselves seriously. Also, special mention goes to Bad News: Bad News.

[@domielakrabi3276]

Cool episode and a great look Andy - thanks! 🤘 Whitesnake 1987 = Foreigner + LZ - maybe, but much heavier! It's a very heavy album for "hair metal" I disagree on Aerosmith - Pump was IMHO a stronger album than Permanent Vacation, but this record brought them back into the charts (with the Run DMC - Walk this way of course) I would add - Europe - The Final Countdown. The album and the song were huge in 86.

[@paulrivers4741]

These days more (back) hair metal... but still dig it 😂

[@JayJay-xd5lm]

Jazz Snobbery Stupor . There , right there , is your tihird albums title . You're going to be massive !

[@tonyclayton6975]

Love the new look.

[@jdewey8841]

I always thought Def Leppard's "On through the night" is not only an amazing album, but almost has this punk aesthetic.

[@nddst77]

Yes! Mr Big is amazing!

[@treff9226]

Aerosmith, Van Halen, Whitesnake and Guns N Roses are NOT glam metal bands. That said, Andy Edwards continues to be one of YT's bright spots! Smart and funny as always, big ups to ya, Mr. Edwards!

[@ventonthorn3455]

Any other Kix fans here? I was never *that* much into the hair metal scene, but they're still my favorite band from that era.

[@saltpeter7429]

KIX were awesome. I just pulled up BLOW MY FUSE and HOTWIRE while working nights cleaning Locker rooms at an Ivy league college. I havent listened to KIX since the early 90's, thanks to Spotify and 8 hours of pushing brooms and mops and scrubbing toilets, I have been reintroduced to their majesty. When I call myself a janitor, I am quickly corrected by supervisors and told I am a " Custodian".

[@jameswinborne3541]

Hey you said Aerosmith Permanent Vacation came out in 1977 but it was 1987. I saw them in concert that year for the first time. The album Done with Mirrors was the album before that. 😎👍🎸🎸🎶🎶💯

[@bobhale7302]

All I can say is that you and I have very different ideas about what Hair Metal is.

[@Sylv1ception71]

How many times should we repeats that bands like Def Leppard or Aerosmith (among others) were NOT hair metal bands ?? Anyway...

[@mausperson5854]

Dr.Feelgood is Motley Crue's Black Album. Not quite their Cold Lake but that's a different story.

[@kennethdias9988]

Andy do you read these? I got a band for you Aristocrats great stuff. A Steely Dan deep dive would be nice.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Yes, I know those guys....

[@johncrocker-nh7ey]

🤣🤣🤣 Can't beat pretty sense of humor it is just too good thank you so much now I'm going to go have to watch Faulty Towers or who are you serving