Yahoo! Names GN'R Best Hair Metal BandRob O'Connor of Yahoo! lists The 25 Best Hair Metal Bands:
Through reckless use of hairspray, spandex, make-up, just plain goofy stage moves and even sillier videos, ‘80s hair-metal bands made themselves the butts of some pretty obvious jokes. Like any genre, hair metal had its share of lousy bands and inept performers, bland careerists and overconfident idiots. But there were some bands worth remembering.
Ranking them gets weird. Aside from the top 12 or so, the rest could probably switch places without anyone noticing. And while perhaps The Darkness should appear as a modern day example, I held off and stuck to bands who reigned when there was a reign to be had. And for those looking for AC/DC, Metallica, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden--they had plenty of hair, but too much denim and leather and not enough "pop" for this crowd--I let The Scorpions stand in for all of them.
Break out the Aqua Net and grab your Bic. Time to start a fire.
1) Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction ensured this volatile bunch of ne'er-do-wells their place in hair-metal history. (And Axl was pretty quick to tone down the aqua-net.) Combining punk, metal and pop in one slamming freight train, Guns n' Roses in one brief flicker of tension jumped to the head of the class and apparently will spend the rest of their days doing other things. Even if Chinese Democracy ever does surface, who will really think of it as the work of Guns N' Roses? Without Slash? Without Izzy? Without Duff? It's like getting a peanut-butter cup with no chocolate, no peanut butter and only an oily rapper.
2) Van Halen
3) New York Dolls
4) Def Leppard
5) Aerosmith
6) Kiss
7) Ozzy Osbourne
Motley Crue
9) Spinal Tap
10) Twisted Sister
Check out the rest of the list at Yahoo!:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/32122/the-25-best-hair-metal-bands
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