This might not be genre most of you associate with me. It is one t I grew up with.Many of these s I still hold dear today . When the 80s were ranging I was not listening to the Cure, I did not get my interest peaked in them til 1990. I listened to music heavier and darker than this in the 80s for sure, but this was the sound of chasing girls at the mall and smoking pot in my cousins car. I choose 40 since many of these acts represent a time when this kind of music cracked the top 40 . It was a time when MTV began to dominate so image became every thing. Many of these band would put out album that were not metal at all, nor would I consider them metal bands. Granted most are on the low end of the heavy scale, with a few evolvoing into something heavier. I will make a Top 40 Glam Rock albums of all time to clearly contrast the difference, glam rock being more in the vein of Bowie and T-REX. Yes, some of these artists also crossed over into glam , but hair metal has a more cock rocking flair to it and is less androgynous.
These albums are more about doing cocaine and getting pussy, devoid of any political correctness, none of this would fly in 2020. It would get a hastag for sure. Any this list should speak for itself, in some cases it might not be the most popular album or the album that broke the band through , but the album I feel has the best songs when it comes to hair metal. Remember that as some of these bands have better heavy metal albums, but we are talking about the best to tease your hair up and get a blow job to. So here are the top 40 hair metal albums of all time.
30-Hurricane- "Over the Edge"
One of the most under rated bands from this genre. Kelly Hansen who is the current singer of Foreigner can outsing David Coverdale any day of the week.
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This album did not have a big single like "Wait". It did open the doors to a more diverse array of sounds that are more organic and blues based to prompt you to take them a little more seriously as a band.
28-Celtic Frost- "the Cold Lake 1988
This album gets weird in more ways than just the hair supply on the band that went onto inlfuence black metal, There are also rap elements. It might highlight Tom Warrior's lack of vocal skills, but the songs are pretty good if you are not expecting "Circle of the Tyrants" .
27- Areosmith- "Permanent Vacation" 1987
These guys were a bigger influence on hair metal than they were an acutal hair metal band , but they gave into commerical pressure with this one, but it's a goof fucking album for what it is.
26- Whitesnake "s/t" 1987
They took it to a mainstream audience, but aside from the Micheal Bolton like powerballads there are some pretty cool songs.
25- Fastaway- "Trick or Treat" soundtrack 1986
Dave King sang on this album which made a difference. Darker than your average hair metal ,it was in more of the zipcode of WASP.
24-WASP- "Inside the Electric Circus" 1986
These guys were more of a straight up metal ,band a while this album does have some of these qualitites it was slicker production wise and more anthemic when it came to the choruses and it was no mistake.
23-Alice Cooper - "Trash"
I always wondered if this was his idea or pressure from the label ? Alice doesn't have a bad album, and like Areosmith was leady a huge infleunce on the genre.
22- Warrior Soul-"God Drugs and the New Republic" 1991
I saw these guys open for Danzig and Soungarden when this album came out and went out and bought it the next day. Way ahead of their time, they bridged the coming gap between hair metal and alternative/.
21-David Lee Roth- "Eat'em and Smile" 1986
This album Dave proved he could hold his own without Van Halen which was a huge feat. His monster band with Steve Vai made this possible.
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