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The more I work on this blog the more I realize that hair metal peaked around 1989, what came after that and how did rock music change? Thanks to playback.fm, Wikipedia.com, YouTube and my own iTunes, for providing the foundation for this blog. I believe Quiet Riot were the first band with popular hair metal songs. They hit big, and peaked, all in 1983. That was the year of "Cum On Feel The Noize" and "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)". In 1984 they had "Mama Weer All Crazee Now", but it's clear now that they were already on the way out. Also Twisted Sister had a great 1984 with "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock". But those were their two best and most memorable songs. 1985's "Leader Of The Pack" was essentially their attempt to further their success, but didn't really work.
It is interesting to note that Disco peaked and basically flamed out all in the same year, 1979. Ten years later another fad music genre was nearing its last days as a pop culture powerhouse. Hair metal didn't flame out in 1989, it still had a couple years more of relevance. Indeed the great Firehouse didn't break out until 1990.
This blog isn't only about hair metal, it's also about other rock music going on those same 5 years. Bands such as Cinderella, The Scorpions, Dio, Guns N' Roses I never considered to be hair metal. Although their more traditional rock sound and hair metal both fed off of each other. A lot of people lumped Cinderella in with hair metal, but their sound has no hair metal element in it at all. Early Bon Jovi was very much hair metal but they eventually developed into a more mature sound.
I can never quite decide whether I should include a song when the album was released or the actual song was released. I'm constantly changing my mind. I did my best.
There were a couple of decent hair metal songs in 1985, look below, but 1985 was a pretty weak year for hair metal.
1985:
1) AC/DC "Sink The Pink":
2) AC/DC "Shake The Foundations":
3) Ratt "Lay It Down":
4) Ratt "You're In Love":
5) Y&T "Summertime Girls":
6) Bon Jovi "In and Out of Love":
7) Asia "Go":
8) John Fogerty "The Old Man Down The Road":
9) Motley Crue "Smokin' In The Boys Room":
10) Motley Crue "Home Sweet Home":
11) Dire Straits "Money For Nothing":
12) Call To The Heart
13) Starship "We Built This City":
14) John Parr "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)":
15) Simple Minds "Sanctify Yourself":
16) Bruce Springsteen "Glory Days":
17) Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers "Don't Come Around Here No More":
18) The Hooters "All You Zombies":
19) Loverboy "Lovin' Every Minute Of It":
20) Heart "What About Love":
21) Huey Lewis and the News "Trouble In Paradise":
22) ZZ Top "Stages":
23) ZZ Top "Sleeping Bag":
24) ZZ Top "Planet of Women":
25) ZZ Top "Velcro Fly":
26) Tina Turner "We Don't Need Another Hero":
27) "Rain On The Scarecrow":
28) "Lonely Ol' Night":
29) "R.O.C.K. In The USA":
30) Dio "Hungry For Heaven":
31) Dio "Shoot Shoot":
32) David Lee Roth "California Girls":
33) David Lee Roth "Just A Gigolo/ I Ain't Got Nobody":
34) Dokken "In My Dreams":
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