In no particular order: Party All Night, Quiet Riot - If this was a real party, I'd leave Let's Put The X In Sex, KISS - Let's not. Super Cheesy Black & Blue, Van Halen - Makes the leap from cringe to misogynistic in a single bound Bad Medicine, Bon Jovi - My cure is the skip button I'll Be there For You, Bon Jovi - Why are you shouting at me, JBJ? Once Bitten Twice Shy, Great White - Skeevy unnecessary cover For The Love Of Money, Bulletboys - Just why? Unskinny Bop, Poison - Pointless slog Without You, Motley Crue - A consistent skip, just dull Hey Stoopid, Alice Cooper - Ugh Bonus: We Will Rock You, Warrant - Covers are almost always a sign of desperation. Bad ones are a kiss of death

Unskinny Bob-Poison...total cheesefest that blew azz!

Go Charley! Those little pups are awesome. I hope u are playing the pups some classic hair metal Anthony. Gotta say Smokin’ in the Boys room is a skip track for me as well. Also the Dave Lee Roth Just a Gigolo.

Don’t blame for our shows going so long. It’s not my fault you want to gaze into my eyes for 2 hours a week!

I love “Lovin’ You’s A Dirty Job”, “Women” and “Crazy Crazy Nights”.

No particular order 1. Slaughter- spend my life 2. Warrant- cherry pie 3. Firehouse- love of a life time 4. Twisted sister- we’re not gonna take it 5. Kiss- Uh! All night 6. Motley crue- smokin’ in the boys room 7. Def Leppard- let’s get rocked 8. Europe- final countdown 9. Quiet riot- cum on feel the noise 10. David Lee Roth- everything he’s ever put out on his own except for yankee rose and just like living in paradise lol. Love the channel brother 🤜🏼🤛🏼

You nailed it. I agree with everything on your list. My most despised singles; Winger - “ Seventeen”. The music is fine, but lyrics are gross… especially now that I have a teenage daughter. Slaugter- Up All Night and Fly to The Angels. Why is Mark Slaughter allowed near a microphone? Firehouse - Don’t Treat Me Bad and Love of a Lifetime. There are much better songs on the first album. KISS- Heavens On Fire, Lick it Up, Let’s Put the X In Sex. Ozzy and Lita- Close my Eyes Forever. Heavy metal duets don’t work… ever. When Ozzy sings “ Cloooose yoooor eyes” both my eyes end up in the same socket. Lita Ford- Kiss Me Deadly. What the hell does that mean? Lita ford, “ the queen of metal” , isn’t.

Great White- "Once Bitten Twice Shy", Def Leppard "Armageddon It", and Extreme 'More Than Words" come to mind for me.

Damn it! I really didnt know that Shandi song, i hate disco, but now that song is stuck in my head...THANKS!

Going to see Jackyl this Friday in Kentucky!!

Rock n roll all night -Kiss Cherry Pie -Warrant Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard

You are right about diamond daves solo output. I remember seeing the California girls video on MTV as a kid. I was disappointed as my father loved van Halen and I grew up listening to1984

Soon as you said def leppard, I knew you were going to say rocket. I've never liked that song either. However I really like Gods of War.

I love "Way Cool, Jr." and "Without You". I mostly love the drums on "Without You" not so much Vince.

You definitely missed one @hairmetalguru. Unskinny Bop is absolutely god awful. Possibly the worse to ever be recorded of any genre

Something interesting to look at would be bands that may have been huge in the 80s, but are actually releasing better albums in the 2000s (that is mostly getting ignored because radio thinks they're too old or they don't fit in with modern trends or whatever). Europe is on the top of my list for that. I liked a few songs by them in the 80s, can respect their 80s stuff a bit more now, but their more recent albums starting with 2006's Secret Society have been solid and regular listens. (I skip 2004's Start From the Dark because it felt like a misfire akin to Aerosmith's Done With Mirrors.) 2009's Last Look at Eden remains my favorite by them because they tried something different with it and it probably has some of the catchiest material they've ever written. The final track "In My Time" is probably their best ballad, though if you're a "not like the bluesy stuff" person you might think differently.

Most of them I didn't hate just heard them so much

I did not think that i hear anything by Jackyl mentioned here. Tho i disagree but i can understand why some people would not like The Lumberjack, it is a novelty song. But that chainsaw solo is badass. Freking love that song and the band.

Another very thoroughly entertaining discussion. Agreed with a lot of them. Smoking in the Boys Room was odious and adolescent and even though I was 15 I still didn't like it. Make Love Like a Man and Let's Get Rocked were insanely stupid and lame even back when they came out. Cherry Pie might be a somewhat simple catchy song about sex, but at least it did that well. Those Def songs to me weren't even decent "fun" hard rock. Keep up the good work! If you're looking for other topics, maybe something on what lyrics really meant the most to you of these albums.

I always loved the Jackyll track. It was hilarious. The chainsaw playing the cliched Chuck Berry licks was funny. It was a live track essentially - it would rule live. Just A Gigolo was funny too. And as Mike said - its a part of Dave. Dave went to shit after A Lil Aint Enuff though. And I'm with Mike on Shandi. It fits with the album, and Unmasked was my first KISS album. I love it, and Dynasty.

I agree with the Lepard part, but I think that diamond star halo is pretty good. Don’t put me down,I think if they would have done that after hysteria it could have done better.

Guru I agree on your list 100%

when you realize that Without You is about Tommy lee's Dog that passed away it takes on a new love....if you are a pet lover and have lost a pet those words are perfect

Agree on the Kiss song Shandi. It slipped under my radar somehow until I paused this video to check the song out. I'm now a little traumatized because of hearing it. Disagree on the hate for Def Leppard's Adrenalize. I'd even rank that as one of their best. I found the album to be pretty catchy and have a good energy to it. I have no idea how the songs on this album got dragged and the entire 'Slang' album got left untouched.

Thanks!

“Time for Change” was a substantially better choice as a ballad single over the generic and pedestrian “Without You” which came across as an uninspired safe by the numbers ballad that lacked any originality or conviction.

Rocket is probably one of my favorite songs on the album,women good song

I would take shandi 7 days a week over Beth 😁 I don’t get the hate for cherry pie ! Love bites might be one of the worst ballads ever 😂

Great lists guys. Huge RATT fan here & I totally agree with your Way Cool Jr pick. The first two tracks, City To City & I Want A Woman are way better tracks. Actually, I love all the other songs on the Reach For The Sky album. Great watch...Thanx Guru !!

@Hair Metal Guru Ok. KISS Shandie is a AM ready radio song. Thats it. Not good or bad. Just AM radio music. To prove my point, look up Alice Cooper's "You and Me" from 1977. Its a consequence or deliberate attempt to normalize metal/hard rock groups by the record companies. The freedom bands had in the early 70's was being pulled back in to corporate control

I agree with Guru, that Jackyl debut is great. Chainsaw solos in hard rock fit perfect. That early David Lee Roth is rough, I can see why Eddie didn't want to cover all those songs. As far as Def Leppard's Adrenaline album goes, its a low point for lyricism except for White Lightning and Tear It Down which were the two good songs on it. I don't mind Tease Me Please Me, it's got a great riff and the whole getting a little action on the side fits that genre well (no one needs to know😅). Your Mama Don't Dance is lame as hell, I hate the original too! I agree, Love On The Rocks is way better than that one and should have been a single. Love In An Elevator, that one I'm conflicted on, the music on it is pretty damn good but even when I was 11 in 1989 the lyrics were silly to me, but Pump as a whole was pretty good.

I have a soft spot for Way Cool Jr. I can see your point though Guru. I think the horns work on the song. I am also not a blues guy but this song still has some grit to it. I think if Adrenalize/Lets Get Rocked was released several years earlier, it would have been huge. I think it was bad timing for them. It's still horrible though!

I could be wrong. But i think the Crue sold more copies of Generation Swine than New Tattoo. GS was certified gold and sold some 300-some-K. NT didn't go gold (and wasn't released by a major label) and sold maybe 200-some-K. I know it only varies by about 100k, but 2/3's the sales #'s is certainly something. "First band on the moon" I.M.O would have been a more fun single and video.

The disco parts in their music was all paul Stanley's feminine side

Lmao my favorite KISS album never gets much love. I'll always have a soft spot for Crazy Nights, at 37 I missed the era and spent the late 90's/00's blissfully out of touch. Crazy Nights was my introduction to KISS thanks to milk crate of hand me down cassettes from an older cousin. As generic as Crazy, Crazy Nights or Turn On The Night are I've blasted those songs since I was 10 and still get pumped up!

So.... Less than 55 seconds in and I'm already hearing Def Leppard! The Love Bites diss continues!!!!! Even though we're going to beef forever over Love Bites, I hear ya about Hysteria, it is great album which does have it's own distinct sound and it is a sort of mix of pop and rock but overall it's a great set of songs. WOMEN, Animal and Love Bites are fantastic rock songs.... But.... You're kinda right when you say only half the album is good, Rocket, PSSOM, They're not great songs.... For me, listen to WOMEN, Animal, Love Bites, Hysteria, Armageddon It, Gods Of War, then listen to the rest at your will, I skip a few songs from the album. I agree with a lot of what you guys mentioned here... Now I come to think of it in retrospect from our future vantage point, it seems like we only listened to about half the songs on the albums we liked in our genre, only a few albums were so good you could listen start to finish... Hollywood Vampires (LA Guns), Back For The Attack (Dokken), Firehouse (Firehouse), Night Songs (Cinderella), Operation Mindcrime (Queensryche).... It's like the CD age all over again, pop the CD in, re-order the song list to listen to your faves in descending order.... We do that now with KZfaq, we just don't listen to the songs we don't like at all, some songs I haven't listened to in a loooooong time coz they're not my favourites!! What are my most hated songs... Hmmmmm.... Well I don't actually HATE many songs, There's the songs we love, the songs that are filler and the songs that are meh. I always find something to appreciate in most songs, good solo, good bass riff, good outro, good drum fill, etc.... There is one song I do hate with a passion though... More Than Words, Extreme.... I love a great Power Ballad (Anytime, I Remember You, Love Bites, Don't Wanna Be Your Fool Anymore, etc..) A bit of acoustic then into some rockin' riffs.... But More Than Words is just all bleeuugh.... It's the type of song a mid 2000's Irish Boy Band could do!! Songs I'm not so keen on.... Love Of A Lifetime, Firehouse... Too soppy, too slow, nah.... It's not as saccharine as More Than Words, but it's a bloody good 2nd place! LOL! . . . . Rock has the best love songs of any music genre, a love song doesn't need to be all acoustic and slow tempo, some of the best are fast, up tempo songs, like... I'd Die For You (Bon Jovi) Mr Rainmaker (Warrant) Helpless (Firehouse) Broken Heart (White Lion) Separate Ways (Journey) No One Like You (Scorps) ... And the greatest rock love song of all time... Photograph (Deff Lep) ... You get my drift!! Imma gonna think on this and draw up my list of least liked songs!!!

I think that's the thing. Most people, when they claim they are a fan of a band only know the hits or a handful of songs. To me that makes one a casual fan at best. Most bands best songs are the deep dives. Anyway, hits I dislike: Mr.Big-All Their Ballads Extreme-All Their Ballads (I like almost everything they did other than the ballads) Scorpions-Rock You Like a Hurricane (never liked that song) Ozzy Osbourne-Time After Time Lita Ford/Ozzy-Close My Eyes Forever Poison-Your Mama Don't Dance (hated the original, hate the cover even more) White Lion-Radar Love

Pour some sugar on me is the absolute worst cheeze

First song I thought of before watching the video-"With Out You" Motley Crue

When I listen to jackal the lumberjack doesn't get played l don't hate it but I don't love it butter are fantastic in concert I seen them at a club in Bay City Mi. Back in 1997 great show

There's a few songs like Unskinny Bop, Cherry Pie etc....that I won't go out of my way to listen to but won't skip them either. Dude (Looks Like A Lady) & More Than Words are two songs I absolutely hate. I love a cheesy ballad, I'll happily jam When The Children Cry all day BUT IMO More Than Words is just soulless and boring, it's the audio equivalent of watching paint dry and Dude Looks Like A Lady is an immediate skip or station change!

"Sorry man gotta disappear...Let's get the Rock Outta here!!" 🎶 - Let's Get Rocked by Def Leopard...When they promoted the 1992 "Adrenalize" album...The lead singer said he loved Bart Simpson and he was an inspiration for the song...Still...The lyrics are horrifically bad...If the lyrics were better the song wouldn't be so bad...It's what happens when British guys try too hard..The album should have been titled "Americanize". 🎸 🇺🇲

How did you possibly limit this list to 20 songs? Calling them "hair metal hits" is a stretch when you're pulling songs off of New Tattoo, which basically opens the door to all of hair metal. You don't have to dig very deep into hair metal to find pure cheese. Pretty Boy Floyd - Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz, Rock N Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night on Fire) Judas Priest - Turbo, Ram it Down Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall, Don't Change That Song Danger Danger - Bang Bang, Naughty Naughty, Horny S.O.B., Get Your Shit Together Kix - Blow My Fuse, Ring Around Rosie Britny Fox - Girlschool, Shot from My Gun, SIx Guns Loaded Roxy Blue - Rob the Cradle, It's So Easy Hericane Alice - Tear the House Down, Wild, Young & Crazy Bulletboys - Hard as a Rock, Kissin' Kitty Cats N Boots - Whip it Out Sleeze Beez - When the Brains Go to the Balls, Don't Talk About Roses Don't get me wrong, nearly all of that list gets played in my regular rotation, so I definitely don't hate them (OK, maybe that's a whole other video). I'm also a special kind of broken when it comes to hair metal, so I lean into the cheese as much as any other part of it.

Not a big slaughter fan I do really like do ya know

What’s amusing to me about the Poison song YMDD is that they put THAT on the album and left an ass kicker like ‘Livin For The Minute’ OFF the album. YMDD should have been the B-side song.

As Sammy Hagar would say “Dave is Vaudeville”

Motley crue shouldn't even have to they should be able to give us some good rock n roll that's what we all want ,used to be my favorite band that changed,for a long time now dokken is my favorite band for good

Everything from Kiss I don't like really...Cherry Pie -Warrant first place!

Save the Weak by Britney Fox. It's like a bad parody of every pseudo socially conscious ballad ever. It reminds me of Russell Brand singing "We gotta do something " in Forgetting Sara Marshall.

Naughty Naughty- Danger Danger Save the weak- britny fox Shelter me- Cinderella Women- Def leppard That Jackyl song with the chainsaw

Love Bites is a great song,.....love stinks is good song

Lets go!!

I thought The Lumberjack was fun. You have a standard, generic blues shuffle with a chainsaw solo. I thought it was fun and creative.

Turbo lover by priest Just terrible

Britny Fox Girlschool Cant turn that garbage off fast enough when it comes on

I love Def Leppard but your description of “make love like a man” being like a Viagra commercial made me die laughing!! Haha I’ve never liked that song and as a musician hate the way they made that crappy chorus!

I think Motley's New Tattoo Album didn't do well is because Tommy wasn't there just like anything they do now without Mick will not do well either

Def leppard had to make changes after the drummers accident

For the most part, I can't think of many that I outright hated. Usually, it was I just got sick of hearing the songs over and over. Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet album is prime example. Loved the album, loved the singles but when they oversaturated the airwaves with "Wanted Dead Or Alive" in particular, I got so sick of Bon Jovi, to this day Slippery When Wet is one of my least listened to albums. Winger, though...hate "She's Only 17" Warrant ditto with "Down Boys"

What no love for on through the night cd. The whole point of hell on high heels was the innuendos. Yes the song is cheesy as fuck but it the sleaze of the song that makes it rock. Nikki is known for writing cheesy lyrics. Over half their catalog sux. I was a huge crue head. I think swine rocks in its own way. I cant understand why people don't like the blues. That's where rock came from. To each their own.

The chainsaw speel turned me completely off from Jackyl. If I want to listen to amped up blues I put Led Zepplin one on the turntable.

I was 19 in 1985 you both disrespect Glam Metal by calling it Hair Metal that's a record company saying !

Some songs have a corny part but the rest is alright. For example 'born to be my baby' intro, straight into 'nah nah nah' - too desparate to be catchy.

Can’t disagree with a majority of your lists. Here’s my 10 “hot takes”. KISS - God Gave R-n-R To You, just pure corny garbage. JUDAS PRIEST - Parental Guidance (yes Turbo is a hair metal album), 40 year old men singing about not needing any parents around. WHITESNAKE - Fool For Your Loving, lifeless rehash of an older song after the complete brilliance of the 87 album. TWISTED SISTER - Leader Of The Pack, just why ??????? EUROPE - The Final Countdown, hated it from the very first time I heard it. I preface the next 5 with the fact that I love ballads ( just not these ballads) OZZY & LITA - Close My Eyes Forever, ughh makes my skin crawl. GUNS & ROSES - 3 shot, November Rain, Don’t Cry and Civil War, completely overblown, boring crap. And my absolute number 1 most hated hit of all time, SCORPIONS - Winds Of Change. I loathe this frigging song, I have never enjoyed one damn note of it. It makes me want to break things.

Rocket is actually my favorite song off of Hysteria. Women wasn't good though. Outside a couple songs, Adrenalize wasn't good either; especially lyrically. A worst song I'd add: More Than Words- Extreme. Love the band, hate that song. Also Love Of A LIfetime and When I look Into Your Eyes by Firehouse. Such generic ballad BS. I consider those songs one of the reasons why hair metal died out. You can also add To Be With You by Mr. Big to the generic ballad list.

Be cruel to your school by Twisted Sister was so bad.

i never understood “give it to me good” from trixter, and why everyone loved that. song was just dumb. bon jovi-lay your hands on me motley - hell on high heels was terrible, poorly written garbage. while i love ultraphobic, family picnic wasn’t the best choice to run with. always felt that album had so much to offer, but that song could have stayed an album cut, and used high or perhaps crawlspace as a single.

There's a lack of appreciation for humour in much of these choices - DLR, Jackyl, Def Leppard, Aerosmith, all tongue-in-cheek songs. You guys German or what?😁 When Def Leppard did update their sound with Slang, everyone hated it. But slagging hair metal tunes for cheesy lyrics? You may as well complain at the loud guitars! I enjoy just about every song discussed 😁😁

Hell Yeah! The song I hate the most is Sweating Bullets by Megadeth.

Motley crue anything after 1990 is a shit show

The main one I hate is “Don’t know what you got til it’s gone”. I don’t like Cinderella’s ballads. Tom should use his clean voice when singing a ballad. It’s not a terrible song but the way he sings it, I hate it.

Britny fox save the weak Ozzy osbourne so tired Acdc danger

I have a list of Hair Metal podcasters THAT I HATE! - 1) Metal Mike. 2) HairMetalGuru. It didn't have to be this way guys! :)

Way Cool jr,-Ratt....Really like their overall catalog....but that song sucked.

Way Cool Jr. is one of the best Ratt songs. Doesn't belong on this list

Aerosmith I agree don't like it not a fan period

I like stryper but I have to laugh at honestly. It touches on all the 80s topics but replaces the woman and or drugs/ venues with Jesus, church and throwing bibles instead of guitar picks and drum sticks into the audience.

Just don't like kiss at all their a re a few songs that are ok but over all don't like them

Some of my “nails on a chalkboard” songs: Your Momma Don’t Dance by Poison is dreadful. I Won’t Forget You also by Poison is a really weak ballad. Without You by Motley Crue is garbage. Let’s Put the X In Sex by Kiss is corny trash. Don’t Cry (both versions) by GnR stinks As a big Van Halen fan, I think Jump is cringe. Love Bites by Def Leppard is 10 pounds of shit in a 9 pound bag. That song SUCKS!!