Rolling Stone-50 Greatest Hair Metal albums

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-hair-metal-albums-of-all-time-20151013

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Some great stuff in that list! Nice to see Britny Fox and Stryper both make it!

Kix deserves such a high place! That was nice too. Good stuff.

I know people think of G'n'R as having transcended the genre like Metallica transcended thrash, but they still should have been on the list, with Appetite taking the #1 spot.

And of course I think Bride, Whitecross, and maybe Guardian should have been on there somewhere.  In a just world.

I agree about G'n'R. AFD is one of the best straight up sleeze metal, dirty rock albums of all time.

...and I hate the term " hair metal. " Because they lump soo much together. They lump great metal bands like WASP and great street metal bands like LA Guns with pop metal bands like Trixter and Firehouse.

Yeah, it's surprising not to see at least "Appetite for Destruction" on that list!

I don't like the term Hair Metal either. I prefer to call it by it's proper name. Glam Metal.

But that's just me. I understand when folks use the term and what not.

Nice to see Stryper, but honestly that is a strange list. I expected Def Leppard and Motley Crue and a few other standards, but Poison at #2? I'm not really a fan of the genre, so my opinion is of an outsider, but wasn't Poison one of the most despised and critically panned of the era? If we're talking popularity, Stryper should have placed higher. I mean half the albums above THWTD are much more obscure anyway. 

Agreed that G'n'R should count.

The problem with lists like these is that they stop at 1992. There were plenty of great albums in this genre that came out later, like Ratt's Infestation and of course Stryper's No More Hell to Pay. Heck, they should have at least put Vince Neil's Exposed, Motley Crue S/T, and  Winger's Pull on this list.

Would've liked to have seen Tora Tora's Surprise Attack and Roxx Gang's Things You've Never Done Before mentioned.

cookie cutter list for the most part (IMHO)

Didn't care for alot of this list.. the order didnt matter much to me but their are several albums here that are not hair metal and there are a few bands missing plus a few of those bands just sucked...being  somewhat of a glam "hair" metal super fan here is my list of the top 50..see what ya think...

1. Motley Crue..Too Fast for Love
2. Quiet Riot...Metal Health
3. Ratt...S/T Ep
4. Hanoi Rocks...Two Steps From The Move
5. Pretty Boy Floyd...Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz
6. Roxx Gang...Things You've Never Done Before
7. Stryper...To Hell With The Devil
8. W.A.S.P. ....S/t Debut
9. Poison...Look What The Cats Dragged In
10. L.A Guns...S/T Debut
11. Kiss...Creatures of The Night
12. Guns N Roses...Appetite For Destruction
13. Wildside...Under The Influence
14. Krokus....Headhunter
15. Warlock...True As Steel
16. Helix...Walkin The razors Edge
17. Bullet Boys...S/T Debut
18. Alice Cooper...Trash
19. Beau Nasty...Dirty But Well Dressed
20. Sweet Cheater...Eatin' ain't Cheatin'
21. Shotgun Messiah...S/T Debut
22. Pantera...I am The Night
23. Crashdiet...Rest In Sleaze
24. Dokken..Tooth and Nail
25. Reckless Love...S/T Debut
26. Autograph...Loud And Clear
27. The Sweet..Give Us A Wink
28. Crystavox...The Bottom Line
29. Femme Fatale...S/T Debut
30. Hurricane...Over The Edge
31. Kick Axe...Vices
32. Kix...Midnight Dynamite
33. Lizzy Borden...Menace To Society
34. Mad Margritt...Animal
35. Britny Fox...Boys In Heat
36. Rough Cutt...Rough Cutt Wants You
37. Skid Row...S/T Debut
38. Keel...Lay Down The Law
39. Black N Blue...In Heat
40. Vinnie Vincent Invasion...All Systems Go
41. Ace Frehley ...Frehleys Comet
42. Quiet Riot...Condition Critical
43. Sweet...Desolation Boulevard
44. T.N.T. ...Tell No tales
45. White Lion...Fight To Survive
46. Roxxy Blue...Want Some?
47. King Kobra...S/T (2011)
48. Lita Ford..Dangerous Curves
49. Ransom...S/T
50. Def Leppard...Pyromania

...and I hate the term " hair metal. "

me too..its degrading to me..Its Glam metal..a product and influence of the glitter bands of the 70s mixed with the 70s edge of bands like aerosmith

Savage Amusement wrote:

...and I hate the term " hair metal. "

me too..its degrading to me..Its Glam metal..a product and influence of the glitter bands of the 70s mixed with the 70s edge of bands like aerosmith

Yep!




nice list too!