Directors Your Favorite 80's Hair Bands (1 Viewer)

I am putting together a 2-3 disc set of the best hair bands and I am looking for suggestions of bands and their most popular songs.
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Trevor Harder
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One of my all-time favorite bands is Heart. I prefered their harder-edged seventies sound, but they made a big comeback in the eighties--and their hair was very big--both the Wilson sisters as well as the male band members.
Their biggest hits during that period were What About Love, Never, These Dreams, Nothin' At All, Alone, Who Will You Run To, and There's The Girl. (All I Wanna Do was also a big hit but that was 1990.)
Have fun
Tom

Dokken
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I don't know if I would call them a "Hairband", but to this very day, I LOVE 'Def Leppard'!
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Faster Pussycat and Skid Row were my personal favorites.

I will avoid many of the bands I expect to see listed here. Don't forget some of these.
Bulletboys
Kix
Loudness
Ratt
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The Dark Tower

Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)?

mmmm... hair bands
Stryper is by far the best, black and gold tights with giant salads and God rock to boost.

and honorable mention goes to:
Petra
White Lion
Cinderella
DISCLAIMER:
a hobby of mine is doing jigsaw puzzles of old hair bands and my choices have no basis on musical ability but how cool their puzzles are.

Oh yeah, you gotta include Ratt for sure.
Iron Maiden.
Ozzy had some wild locks
Brent L
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1.Quiet Riot
2.Poison
3.Tesla

1. Bon Jovi (You Give Love a Bad Name)
2. Twisted Sister (We're Not Gonna Take It [my personal belief is that this is America's theme song while striking back])
3. Anthrax ([more thrash than hair] Among The Living)
4. Britney Fox (Girl School)
5. Slaughter (Up All Night)
6. Overkill (We Don't Care What You Say, Fuck You!)
7. Xentrix (Running White-Faced City Boy)
8. Guns-n-Roses (Mr. Brownstone)
9. Kiss (Lick It Up)
10. Vinni Vincent's Invasion (I have no idea which song)
PS: Petra and Styper are god bands.
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BrentL,
My God Man!!! Iron Maiden is NOT a hair band.
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I pretty much HATED all of the hair bands of the 80's, but if I had to pick one as a "least hated" it would be Motley Crue.

MOTLEY CRUE (they capture the West Hollywood lifestyle in song like no other)
KIX (the most underrated band of it's time. Fun songs and they were actually talented to boot)
DOKKEN (I'm with Matthew on this one. Good to see some of todays teens still like fun songs)
TRIXTER
WINGER
CINDERELLA
POISON
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Motley Crue (Live Wire, Shout at the Devil) All MC rules
Kix (Don't close your eyes)
Cinderella (Nobodys fool, Night songs)
Dokken (Into the fire, Mr. Scary)
Skid Row (Youth gone wild, 18 and life)
Warrant (Uncle Tom's Cabin, Cherry Pie)
Hanoi Rocks (Million Miles away)
Quiet Riot (Mental Health)
Wasp (The Flame, F**k like a beast,Wild Child)
Ratt (You think your Tuff, Round and Round)
Stryper (Soldiers under command)
King Kobra (Hunger, Ready to Strike)
Twisted Sister (The Price, I wanna rock)
Guns n Roses (Welcome to the Jungle)And pretty much all GnR
Bon Jovi (Runaway, Wanted dead or alive)
Def Leppard (Bringing on the heartbreak) All DL rocks
Great White (Stick it)
I'm not sure I would classify all these as "Hair Bands" but have been called "Hair Bands" by some, they had big hair and TALENT to boot!
Weak Hair Bands would include:
Poison (Every rose has it's thorn)
Winger (Seventeen)
Nelson (After the rain)
L.A.Guns (Ballad of Jane)
Keel (Right to Rock)
Firehouse (All she wrote)
Trixter
Girl hair band:
Vixen (Edge of a broken heart)
Lita Ford (Gotta let go)
Gotta Go, The Chiefs are on!! OK I'm back the Chiefs suck!!!
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Sean
"I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said.......I drank what?"
[Edited last by Sean Conklin on October 28, 2001 at 08:42 PM]

What about Pretty Boy Floyd would they be considered a hair band ?
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Trevor Harder
My HT Page
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Thanks for the responses, but I still need some more
I remember seeing a 100 Greatest Hair Bands special on VH1 but I can't find the list on their web site, do any of you know where I can get this list?
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Trevor Harder
My HT Page
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Mr. Big
Bang Tango
Tuff Enuff
The Scorpions
Van Halen
White Lion
Lion
I must reiterate Britney Fox. I actually saw them in concert too. Such shame.
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My wife and I are 80's rockers ourselves (Heavy Metal) and we're not sure VH-1 had a 100 greatest "HAIR" bands special, heck we've heard of most 80's bands and it is hard to believe there are 100 hair bands worthy to make a 100 greatest hair band special.But we most certainly could be wrong on this.
But we did watch a greatest "Rock" bands of the 80's special, which did feature many good Hair bands.
Remember "MY" definition of a "HAIR" band is a band like Poison(Glam, girly, flash in the pans). For example Iron Maiden had lots of hair, but are not considered a "HAIR" band.
I'm sorry I cannot direct you to a list.
But I can name you 100 great rock bands from the 80's if you like.
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Sean
"I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said.......I drank what?"
[Edited last by Sean Conklin on October 28, 2001 at 09:00 PM]