80´s Hair Metal

Ratt. Overkill. Crue. Wasp. Slaughter. you know, the usual

It looks like this was an old poll re-revisited.  The nostalgic days of the 1980's.  The Hair Metal was definitely the music of my youth, and the music that began my music collection days.  My vote went for Europe, however, all of the bands listed had there good and bad points.  My first two "real" LPs were Def Leppard's Pyromania and Quiet Riot - Bang Your Head.  I received them both as a Christmas present so many years ago.  My collection has grown quite alot since then.  The day I bought my first CD player, I also bought OU812 from Van Halen and Long Cold Winter from Cinderella, so both of those CDs have a special memory for me.

Actually, many other bands fall in the pop metal category more than in the hair metal category... I think the latter term should be used only to those really no-talent bands that survivied only because of looks, like Poison, Cinderella, Loverboy, Nelson, etc.... Don't spit too hard, some people put Van HAlen into the hair category (that is incredibly stupid but that's the misconception: every rock band with a couple members with long, sprayed-tall ultra-blonde hair is hair metal.....)

And whoever said Iron Maiden is hair metal.... well,