<![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Tue, 06 May 2008 14:48:17 EDT Tue, 06 May 2008 14:48:17 EDT http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5550724 Also, what is up with the lack of Britny Fox and Tangier on this list? I specifically remember ripping out photos of both bands from Kerrang and Metal Edge and Hit Parader when I was younger - and gravely upsetting my poor mother in the process.

Wasp vs Stryper

]]> 33:386643:c5550724 Tue, 06 May 2008 14:48:17 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5544265 New York Dolls was glam punk and GNR was more hard rock, although they did have excellent hair.

Superawesomerad

]]> 33:386643:c5544265 Tue, 06 May 2008 11:22:12 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5532658 @tigerpop:

Yeah I know I did!

Where the hell is VENOM on this list?????????

Wasp vs Stryper

]]> 33:386643:c5532658 Mon, 05 May 2008 16:59:07 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5514398 If anything, Van Halen got less metal when Sammy joined.

brasstax

]]> 33:386643:c5514398 Sun, 04 May 2008 01:52:00 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5511672 I don't know if I would classify Van Halen pre-Sammy as hair metal. Jeez, That single event killed rock.

Priam

]]> 33:386643:c5511672 Sat, 03 May 2008 18:22:47 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5509436 Quiet Riot should be #1 on the best list. Metal Health rules.

capnbecki

]]> 33:386643:c5509436 Sat, 03 May 2008 12:13:55 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5507410 The Rob O'Connor definition of "hair metal" seems to refer to any rock band whose members have long hair. Either that or he mixed up the "best/worst" labels and instead of correcting his error, he hopes people will think he's being sarcastic.

Regardless of O'Connor's gross misunderstanding of his chosen subject matter, the fact that Winger and Stryper are not tied for #'s 1-25 on the Worst list should be punishable by death.

Or spending the remainder of his life as Kip Winger.

Swine

]]> 33:386643:c5507410 Sat, 03 May 2008 00:34:13 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5505865 Wow, there's a lot to disagree with on both those lists. I was big into hair metal from about 84-89 and to me the best ones were RATT and Van Halen (Warren DeMartini is still an underrated guitar god).

I never got the appeal of most of the later hair bands (Poison, Skid Row, Winger, Warrant, etc). Though hands down KISS's neon spandex phase was the most embarrassing of all entrants.

Scorpions were awesome until about 1990. Oddly enough, about the same time Metallica started to suck.

revmatty

]]> 33:386643:c5505865 Fri, 02 May 2008 21:13:08 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5505242 Yahoo! Music is shite.

owenmeany

]]> 33:386643:c5505242 Fri, 02 May 2008 19:53:16 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5503418     Those were two outstanding Youtubes! I ran my kids out of the room blasting 'em, and I'm on headphones...

    Poison would be on my number 1 worst list, I think. There are too many "not metal" bands in both lists: Loverboy (Metal? really?), WASP (I always throught these guys were a thrash band, or at least a noise band.), Europe (The Final Countdown, with that big horn synth? Please!), Winger (I guess Journey's a hair metal band, too, then.) Aerosmith and Damn Yankees are not metal, rather, old-school rock.

    Whitesnake in the top 5, maybe. Oh, wait! Top five WORST? Total loss of credibility, there. And when you rank Spinal Tap, who are just RANK, in the good list...

AcidReign

]]> 33:386643:c5503418 Fri, 02 May 2008 17:29:58 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5503036 Hell yeah Kix on the best. Why are you shocked?

brasstax

]]> 33:386643:c5503036 Fri, 02 May 2008 17:11:05 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5502529 @Big Gray.: Wait...Kix? Best?

Big Gray.

]]> 33:386643:c5502529 Fri, 02 May 2008 16:49:26 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5502515 Are you suggesting Kiss should be on the worst list? That's crazy. And where are Kix and Nitro (on the worst?

Big Gray.

]]> 33:386643:c5502515 Fri, 02 May 2008 16:48:53 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5501765 They may not be metal, but the Alarm out-haired most of those pansies in their heyday.

mossdale

]]> 33:386643:c5501765 Fri, 02 May 2008 16:20:49 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5501136 All else pales in comparison to the mighty (and sadly short-lived) Dokken offshoot Lynch Mob:

+ Watch video

Chris N.

]]> 33:386643:c5501136 Fri, 02 May 2008 15:58:59 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5500902 With one or two exceptions the worst list is pretty spot on. Oddly enough I was just thinking about Giuffria the other day!

righteousmaelstrom

]]> 33:386643:c5500902 Fri, 02 May 2008 15:50:32 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5500116 I have albums by the New York Dolls, but the other 49 I missed. Although I do have some albums by The Cult, who started being eligible for one of those lists around the time I stopped listening to them. They seem conspicuous by their absence.

Lieutenant 030

]]> 33:386643:c5500116 Fri, 02 May 2008 15:18:54 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5499822 people still make lists about '80s bands? that is SO 2003.

Vince Neilstein

]]> 33:386643:c5499822 Fri, 02 May 2008 15:06:45 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5499805 Oh, I totally skimmed over Loverboy. Although, "Lovin' Every Minute of It" sounds like a Pyromania outtake.

brasstax

]]> 33:386643:c5499805 Fri, 02 May 2008 15:05:53 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5499389 @brasstax: i can see kiss and aerosmith being lumped into this genre, since both toured with other members of these lists during the hard-rock heyday. loverboy, on the other hand...

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:386643:c5499389 Fri, 02 May 2008 14:48:57 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5498971 @MTS: Yeah, WTF is that. (and to a lesser degree Kiss and Aerosmith)

brasstax

]]> 33:386643:c5498971 Fri, 02 May 2008 14:30:49 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5498906 I must have missed the memo where the New York Dolls were finally categorized as hair metal.

MTS

]]> 33:386643:c5498906 Fri, 02 May 2008 14:27:59 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5498873 I'm with you: I have had my moments of annoyance with Skid Row, but placing them second on a "worst" list is insane. The best of those debut-album singles are ace, cheesy though they are.

And what are Loverboy doing here?! On the "best" list, no less?

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:386643:c5498873 Fri, 02 May 2008 14:26:55 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5497615 On purpose.

tigerpop

]]> 33:386643:c5497615 Fri, 02 May 2008 13:42:56 EDT <![CDATA[Yahoo! Ranks Hair Metal Bands, Causes Me To Pull My Hair Out]]> http://idolator.com/386643/yahoo-ranks-hair-metal-bands-causes-me-to-pull-my-hair-out#c5497613 I think I actually saw Poison, Extreme and Skid Row on the same bill once.

tigerpop

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