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The Ultimate Hair Metal Playlist

Posted on May 14th 2010 8:30AM by Matthew Wilkening
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Feeling the urge to pull out the spandex and aquanet to rock out to your favorite classic hair metal songs? Enter the ultimate hair metal playlist. We'll make it easy for you to blast back to Sunset Strip with 25 glam metal classics hand-picked by the music experts at AOL Radio.

The songs were ordered in a way to make the perfect mixtape, and we only picked one song per artist for maximum variety!
01
'Welcome to the Jungle'
Guns N' Roses
An amazingly appropriate title when you think of all the craziness associated with Axl since this came out.
iTunes | Lyrics
Guns N Roses Welcome To The Jungle
02
'Cum on Feel the Noize'
Quiet Riot
Kevin DuBrow & company rode this supercharged cover of Slade's party anthem to the top of the charts.
iTunes | Lyrics
Quiet Riot Cum On Feel The Noize
03
'Nothin' but a Good Time'
Poison
Write enough catchy rock anthems and eventually they'll have to respect you, no matter how weirdly you dress.
iTunes | Lyrics | Top 10 Poison Songs
Poison Nothin But A Good Time
04
'Don't Treat Me Bad'
Firehouse
Try as you might, you won't stop singing along to this pop metal guilty pleasure.
iTunes | Lyrics
Firehouse Don't Treat Me Bad
05
'Cold Blood'
Kix
If you want no-nonsense, black and white label hard rock music, you can't go wrong with Kix. This uptempo, AC/DC-styled riff rocker was one of their biggest hits.
iTunes | Lyrics
Kix Cold Blooded
06
'Lick It Up'
Kiss
The masked marvels drop the makeup and start their second decade with one of their catchiest songs ever.
iTunes | Lyrics
Kiss Lick It Up
07
'The Ballad of Jayne'
L.A. Guns
This haunting tune shows how easily L.A. Guns, and not Guns N Roses, could have been the Sunset Strip kings.
iTunes | Lyrics
L.A. Guns The Ballad Of Jayne
08
'Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)'
Cinderella
Cinderella stops rocking, briefly, with this surprisingly touching hair metal ballad about what's important in life.
iTunes | Lyrics
Cinderella Don't Know What You Got Till It's Gone
09
'In My Dreams'
Dokken
I'm determined to get the phrase "Rockin' with Dokken" into this blurb. Oh, I did it! And look how smoothly..
iTunes | Lyrics
Dokken In My Dreams
10
'House of Pain'
Faster Pussycat
Named after Russ Meyer's camp-classic film, Faster Pussycat shows depth with this song about domestic abuse.
iTunes | Lyrics
Faster Pussycat House Of Pain
11
'Love Song'
Tesla
Tesla stood apart as an image-free band in the glam era, earning lots of fans purely on merit and musicality.
iTunes | Lyrics
Tesla Love Song
12
'I'll Never Let You Go'
Steelheart
The video for this song is the best example ever of a romance novel cover coming to life for four full minutes.
iTunes | Lyrics
Steelheart I'll Never Let You Go
13
'Livin' on a Prayer'
Bon Jovi
This song is perfectly placed on this list. Why? 'Cause "Whoooooooaaaaaah, we're halfway there!..."
iTunes | Lyrics
Bon Jovi Livin On a Prayer
14
'Screaming in the Night'
Krokus
Krokus has represented Switzerland proudly in the metal world for decades. Even if they are named after a flower.
iTunes | Lyrics
Krokus Screaming in the Night
15
'Pour Some Sugar on Me'
Def Leppard
Reportedly, this was the hair metal song most often played at strip clubs during the nineties. According to, uh...a friend.
Lyrics
Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar On Me
16
'Rainbow in the Dark'
Dio
Who says keyboards can't be evil? Not Ronnie James Dio, acknowledged inventor of the famous devil-horn salute!
iTunes | Lyrics
Dio Rainbow In The Dark
17
'Smooth Up In Ya'
BulletBoys
This bass heavy groove-rocker from the late eighties just popped up in the hit comedy 'Hot Tub Time Machine.'
iTunes
Bulletboys Smooth Up In Ya
18
'Round and Round'
Ratt
The song that started it all for the recently reunited Los Angeles hard rockers. Catch them on tour this summer!
iTunes | Lyrics
Ratt Round and Round
19
'Seventeen'
Winger
Beavis & Butthead mocked Winger relentlessly. They should make an exception for this ridiculously rocking hair metal song.
iTunes | Lyrics
Winger Seventeen
20
'Fly to the Angels'
Slaughter
Slaughter started as a backing band, fired the boss (Kiss's Vinnie Vincent) and became big stars themselves.
iTunes | Lyrics
Slaughter Fly To The Angels
21
'Turn Up the Radio'
Autograph
Simplicity isn't usually as easy as Autograph makes it sound on this pop-metal call to action from 1984.
iTunes | Lyrics
Autograph Turn Up The Radio
22
'Still of the Night'
Whitesnake
Yeah, it's a Zeppelin knock-off. It's a darn good one; you gonna stand on principles or rock the ____ out?
iTunes | Lyrics
Whitesnake Still Of The Night
23
'We're Not Gonna Take It'
Twisted Sister
Like a cross between James Dean and Kiss, Dee Snider and Company don makeup and rebel against whatever you got.
iTunes | Lyrics
Twisted Sister We're Not Gonna Take It
24
'Youth Gone Wild'
Skid Row
Bon Jovi's proteges proved themselves to have a nastier streak than their mentors with this rebellious hair metal anthem.
iTunes | Lyrics
Skid Row Youth Gone Wild
25
'Kickstart My Heart'
Motley Crue
This track is probably responsible for more speeding tickets than any song this side of 'I Can't Drive 55.'
iTunes | Lyrics
Motley Crue Kickstart My Heart

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