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.

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

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

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.

"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.

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.

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?

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??

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Fantastic video! 👌👌

Def Leppard - Pyromania, Hysteria Europe - Final Coundown Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet Whitesnake - 1987 Pretty Maids - Future World Van Halen - 1984, 5150 Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood David Lee Roth - Skyscraper, Eat'em Up and Smile Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy Cinderella - Long Cold Winter Mr. Big - Lean into It Dokken - Under Lock and Key, Back for the Attack Great White - Once Bitten Winger - In the Heart of the Young, Pull Ozzy - No Rest for the Wicked, Ultimate Sin Aerosmith - Pump Queensryche - Rage for Order Crimson Glory - Transcendence White Lion - Pride, Mane Attraction Giant - Time to Burn, Last of the Runaways Blue Murder - s.t. Yngwie Malmsteen - Malmsteen Odyssey Bad Moon Rising - s.t. Alice Cooper - Constrictor, Raise your Fist and Yell

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.

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

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

Thanks Andy, great stuff.

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.

What about Smell The Glove?

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! 😁

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

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

love the new look!!! 😆😉

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!!

Next do 10 best smooth jazz albums.

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

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

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

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

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

Love the new look.

It's been well documented that Nikki Sixx can bearly play bass guitar and plays very little bass on any of the studio albums. I like the first 2 Motley albums quite a bit but they are more or less a fake band. Anyone who thinks a guy who can bearly play bass wrote all those songs isn't paying attention.

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.

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.

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.

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

Love your jacket 😮

Thanks for introducing us to Andy Edwards' alter ego.

🤣🤣🤣 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

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.

Hanoi Rocks deserve an honorable mention

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.

Great list, man. Extreme was a great band...even though I would have considered them more into funk-metal territory than so called 'hair metal'.

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

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.

Got most of the stuff you ranked😊

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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. 😂

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.

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.

I think that hair metal gets dismissed for being too popular; pop music isn't cool, so hair metal bands that had massive millions-selling albums can't be cool either. With the passage of time, and digital music, I've been able to back fill my music collection with some of the hair metal that I refused to buy three and four decades ago, lol! But, one of the biggest shames is that the 1983 recording of "Pyromania" still isn't available for purchase, not to my knowledge, anyway. I wish I could get it!

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.

26:59 Superb album

Permanent Vacation is bloody lovely

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! 😎

I especially liked the personal stories.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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?

How about a video on the 10 coolest band names?

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... 🎸🙂🙃😊

I wonder if Vince Neil has ever said to Steven Tyler, “Dude, YOU look like a lady !” ?

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.

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.

I was always under the impression that the reason for them calling him, "David Coverversion", was because whenever he went on stage with Deep Purple, he had to sing SOO many songs that Ian Gillan had originally put on Deep Purple album's, AND turned into some of their biggest hits, before "Mr walking ego," Ritchie Blackmore, decided that he'd had "one to many a artistic disagreement with" and walked away from Deep Purple to form Rainbow 🌈 ... "Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow" no less. No wonder they called him "Mr Walking Ego".

Yes! Mr Big is amazing!

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.

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

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

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.

It went right over my hair 😂

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.

I dont think you can have a proper band without a a shiney Dave Peverett suit or a Perigrine Took staring adoringly at you while playing bongos

The end of the Video needs to be a Short.

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.

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

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 😊

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.

I think Tom Hamilton is the Aerosmith member he's thinking of, not Tom Kennedy

You're being purposely obtuse "for clicks" now, Andy! And you have no room to talk about "hair" having hung around with the likes of IQ. Love you x

….there‘s a lot of Marc Bolan, Sweet and Slade in it !!! Ohhh, you mentioned later 😂😂😂 Anyway ! Luv it, When i‘m in the mood for it !!

Great outfit, though I did think I might have clicked on the Jolly Heretic channel.

Diggin' the look, your new name is Dandy Shredward, of the band Crotchrot. New album, with you on skins, Angle Of My Dangle comes out in 69 days and includes scratch and sniff photos of you in your favorite thong.😁

slippery when wet should be in this list.