"If only more strippers voted." - the Hard Rock and Hair Metal tracks poll nominations thread (not a current poll - just random hair metal chat)

Night Ranger - Sister Christian

little burnt out from polls, but can't let this go ahead with these tunes:

Poison - Nuthin' But A Good Time
Poison - Fallen Angel
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Poison - I Want Action
Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
Skid Row - Monkey Business
Warrant - Heaven
Motley Crue - SOS
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Motley Crue - Looks that Kill
Motley Crue - Piece of Your Actionl
Whitesnake - Is This Love
Cinderella - Gypsy Road
Cinderella - Shelter Me
Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall
Faster Pussycat - House of Pain
Def Leppard - Love Bites
Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Mr. Big - To Be With You

AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Big Gun
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC - Hells Bells
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
AC/DC - Who Made Who
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Accept - Love Child
Aerosmith - Back in the Saddle Again
Aerosmith - Dream On
Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
Aerosmith - Janie's Got a Gun
Aerosmith - Last Child
Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator
Aerosmith - Rag Doll
Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
Aldo Nova - Fantasy
Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Alice Cooper - Only Women Bleed
Alice Cooper - Poison
Bang Tango - Someone Like You
Billy Idol - Hot in the City
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Black Sabbath - Changes
Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
Boston - Don't Look Back
Cheap Trick - Auf Wiedersehen
Cheap Trick - I Want You to Want Me
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Cinderella - Gypsy Road
Cinderella - Night Songs
Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Cinderella - Shelter Me
Cinderella - Somebody Save Me
D*A*D - Rim of Hell
D*A*D - Sleeping My Day Away
David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise
David Lee Roth - Perfect Timing
David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose
Def Leppard - Animal
Def Leppard - Armageddon It
Def Leppard - Bringin' on the Heartbreak
Def Leppard - Foolin'
Def Leppard - Heaven Is
Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry
Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry
Def Leppard - Love Bites
Def Leppard - Photograph
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Def Leppard - Stand Up, Kick Love Into Motion
Def Leppard - Women
Dirty Looks - It's Not the Way You Rock
Dokken - In My Dreams
Dokken - Into the Fire
Dokken - It's Not Love
Dokken - Prisoner
Electric Eye - Judas Priest
Europe - The Final Countdown
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall
Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall
Faster Pussycat - House of Pain
Faster Pussycat - House of Pain
Fastway - Say What You Will
Foreigner - Hot Blooded
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
Girl - Hollywood Tease
Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
Guns 'N Roses - Anything Goes
Guns 'N Roses - It's So Easy
Guns 'N Roses - Mr. Brownstone
Guns 'N Roses - My Michelle
Guns 'N Roses - Nightrain
Guns 'N Roses - Out Ta Get Me
Guns 'N Roses - Paradise City
Guns 'N Roses - Rocket Queen
Guns 'N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Guns 'N Roses - Think About You
Guns 'N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Guns 'N Roses - You're Crazy
Guns N' Roses - One in a Million
Guns N' Roses - Patience
Hanoi Rocks - Don't Never Leave Me
Hanoi Rocks - Mental Beat
Hanoi Rocks - Motorvatin'
Hanoi Rocks - Tragedy
Hanoi Rocks - Until I Get You
Head East - Never Been Any Reason
Heart - Barracuda
Heart - Magic Man
Heart - Straight On
Helix - Rock You
Jackyl - The Lumberjack
Journey - Any Way You Want It
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Journey - Lights
Journey - Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Journey - Wheel in the Sky
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Junkyard - Hands Off
Kim Mitchell - Go For a Soda
Kingdom Come - Get it On
Kiss - Black Diamond
KISS - Christine Sixteen
Kiss - Crazy Crazy Nights
Kiss - Let's Put the X in Sex
Kiss - Lick it Up
KISS - Strutter
Kiss - Tears Are Falling
Kix - Cold Blood
Kix - Don't Close Your Eyes
Krokus - Heat Strokes
L.A. Guns - The Ballad of Jayne
Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er
Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days
Lillian Axe - Misery Loves Company
Little Dolls - Ozzy
Loudness -- Rock n Roll Crazy Nights
Loverboy - Lovin' Every Minute Of It
Mama's Boys - Hard 'N Loud
Mama's Boys - Needle in the Groove
Manic Street Preachers - You Love Us
Montrose - Rock The Nation
Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns
Motley Crue - Bastard
Motley Crue - Danger
Motley Crue - Don't Go Away Mad
Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Motley Crue - Live Wire
Motley Crue - Looks that Kill
Motley Crue - Piece of Your Actionl
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Motley Crue - SOS
Motley Crue - Wild Side
Mr. Big - To Be With You
Nelson - (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
New York Dolls - Frankenstein
New York Dolls - Jet Boy
Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Night Ranger - When You Close Your Eyes
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Ozzy Ozbourne - Little Dolls
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Pat Benatar - Shadows Of The Night
Pet Hate - The Bride Wore Red
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Poison - Fallen Angel
Poison - I Want Action
Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
Poison - Nuthin' But A Good Time
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
Prince - Purple Rain
Queen - Killer Queen
Queen - We Are the Champions
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noize
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Quiet Riot - The Wild and the Young
Ratt - Dance
Ratt - Round and Round
Ratt - Slip of the Lip
Ratt - Wanted Man
Ratt - You're In Love
Redd Kross - Zira (Call Out My Name)
Say What You Will - Fastway
Scorpions - No One Like You
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Skid Row - 18 & Life
Skid Row - I Remember You
Skid Row - Monkey Business
Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
Slaughter - Up All Night
Smashed Gladys - Legs Up
Starz - Cherry Baby
Sweet - Fox on the Run
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Tesla - Edison's Medicine
Tesla - Hang Tough
Tesla - Lady Luck
Tesla - Love Song
Tesla - Makin' Magic
Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
Tesla - Rock Me to the Top
Tesla - Yesterdaze Gone
Tex and the Horseheads - Big House part III
The Cult - Fire Woman
The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
Thin Lizzy - Angel From the Coast
Thin Lizzy - Emerald
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy - Rosalie
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
Triumph - I Live For The Weekend
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Van Halen - Dance the Night Away
Van Halen - Drop Dead Legs
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Van Halen - Jamie's Cryin'
Van Halen - Jump
Van Halen - Unchained
Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love
Vandenberg - Burning Heart
Warrant - Cherry Pie
Warrant - Down Boys
Warrant - Heaven
Wendy O. Williams - It's My Life
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Whitesnake - Is This Love
Whitesnake - Lovehunter
X Japan - Endless Rain (token visual kei nomination)
Y&T - Mean Streak
Zebra - Tell Me What You Want

Here is the current list of nominations. I can't guarantee that it's de-duped. I can't guarantee that it's all hair metal/hard rock, but it mostly looks great, imo. Let me know if anything is fucked up.

Oh and sorry, Nick B. That particular Gene Loves Jezebel song just didn't make the cut. I watched it on youtube and they sure looked like a hair metal band, but they just didn't sound like one.

Joan Jett - I Hate Myself For Loving You
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly

how would you guys feel if i nominated tracks from Metallica's black album? I feel like it'd be interesting to have in here since a) "serious" metal fans generally hate it or don't consider it metal, b) it didn't make any impact on the metal poll and c) c'mon, it's pre-93 hard rock, they had long hair and toured with GNR

Hmmmm... that's a tricky one, but I could see perhaps the first few singles (Sandman, Unforgiven, Matters) being nominated.

Hard to tell, anyone else have an opinion on this?

It's pop metal so i don't see why not. A few pop metal fans complained that it wasn't in the big metal poll. I'm pretty damn sure it would make the strip club rule and um Kirk had an earring and wore make up during the Load period.

yeah, I'm just gonna go for it

Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - Unforgiven
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

I love "Sad But True" and "Wherever I May Roam" and some deep cuts too but maybe those are a little too true metal? I dunno.

How about Faith No More - Epic?

i think it should be here, totally. was hoping it'd be in the other poll but the less pop "Midlife Crisis" got the spot instead.

maybe our rule of thumb for gray area stuff is if it was a hit AND wasn't in the other poll.

xxp: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I mean, Henry Kvlt Pvp would disagree, but...

Faith No More? Do we open the funk-metal floodgates? Funk-metal as long as it's pop-metal, I guess.

So like, "Been Caught Stealing" if you like, but not something of the first Mr. Bungle album.

Billy Squier - The Stroke
Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover
Billy Squier - Emotions In Motion
Starz - Detroit Girls
Starz - Cherry Baby
Rex Smith - Do Me
Rex Smith - Ten Seconds Of Love
Rex Smith - Call Her "Easy"
Teaze - Hot To Trot
Teaze - Red Hot Ready
Ted Nugent - Wango Tango

Who's gonna host the pole dancing competition? I hear they're all the rage.

Ah, funk-pop-metal. Was just looking at "Cherry Pie" on the list and thinking how White Trash - "Apple Pie" is my favourite crassly jerkish comparison of possibly-underage girl to baked fruit+pastry product by a band beginning with W in that brief pre-Nevermind stretch of the 90s

(ok, I was reminded of it because I always have to stop and think for a minute to remember which is which. this post is not a nomination, I guess, just a musing)

LOL - White Trash.

yeah been caught stealing totally belongs. They were glam. As with the manics and redd kross, you can be glam & alt rock at the same time, but glam fans still liked them. Janes were the alt rock band glam fans, who generally hated alt rock, liked.

How about Enuff Z Nuff?
Im guessing Jellyfish is a no? (i never liked them but knew loads who did)
AOR bands I assume can qualify? I knew people who inexplicably liked Crown Of Thorns (google the singers hair!!)

http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p046/p04664y76j8.jpg
http://myplay.com/files/brightcove_stills/272967_14208860.jpg

Sad for GLJ but that was probably a fair call. Maybe not sufficiently glam but...

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Rainbow - I Surrender

Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone

Sad for GLJ but that was probably a fair call. Maybe not sufficiently glam but...

If nothing else, "Jealous" certainly belongs in this poll. That track was LA glam all the way.

Nominations for Thin Lizzy, White Zombie, and (for fuck's sake) the Manic Street Preachers almost makes me not want to participate in this thread. Clearly, some of you were jamming Mr. Mister when Bon Jovi ruled the airwaves.

Also, no mention of Trixter? Skid Row fer chrissakes?

Trixter - Give It To Me Good
Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
Skid Row - I Remember You
Winger - Miles Away

Might as well complete the GNR singles...

Guns N' Roses - November Rain
Guns N' Roses - Estranged
Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry
Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine

xp: if you don't think Thin Lizzy belongs here, I just don't know.

it's funny how just 1 or 2 bands can make people froth at the mouth at a poll with hundreds of others in it.

Trixter were so precious with their dirtbikes and barbecues.

AC/DC - It's a Long Way to the Top
Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again
Van Halen - Panama

Wildhearts - My Baby Is A Headfuck

Foreigner - Cold As Ice
Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time
Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil
Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
Winger - Seventeen

ZZ Top - Legs
Van Halen - Top Jimmy
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Prince - Let's Go Crazy

Is there a limit on nominations? I may have exceeded it by now I think

Matt, you can have mine.

Quiet Riot - Love's a Bitch
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon

See, the thing is, I prefer Thin Lizzy to pretty much every other band on this thread. What I'm saying is it's totally revisionist to put them on any list that also includes Cinderella and Ratt. If the shit wasn't on Dial MTV, wasn't from LA, and wasn't played at every redneck senior prom from 82-90, it probably doesn't belong here.

For proto hair-metal purposes ...

UFO - Doctor Doctor
UFO - Only You Can Rock Me
UFO - Lonely Heart

Also some pre-Slippery JBJ
Bon Jovi - Runaway

I guess I'm against the 'proto' thing here. Doesn't make a lot of sense. You could argue that Sabbath was an influence on these guys, but so was fuckin' Springsteen and Southside Johnny. Where does it end?

Anyway, has anyone nominated "Don't Close Your Eyes" by Kix?

I take your point, and had originally thought of limiting the requirements to "Dial MTV, LA, etc" like you suggest, but if you exclude "proto hair-metal", do you exclude KISS, AC/DC, etc.? Those were some of the groups who weren't getting enough attention in the other poll because they didn't fit the mass definition of metal. I mean, the "If only more strippers voted" joke was in response to You Shook Me All Night Long not making it.

Now, I know there are problems because not every Thin Lizzy song could be called hair metal. Perhaps I'm a little prejudiced because my introduction to Thin Lizzy was through Bon Jovi's cover on "Stairway to Heaven, Highway to Hell." Anyone else have any thoughts?

I learned about Thin Lizzy in the first place by reading mags like Circus and Hit Parader in the '80s, when hair metal bands would talk about them with reverence. They don't fall in the Sunset Strip category for sure, but thankfully it's a HARD ROCK and Hair Metal poll.

I think that stripper compatibility is the deal-breaker here. Could you imagine a stripper gyrating to, say, Immigrant Song? Just about. Stairway To heaven? No. So, one counts and the other doesn't (ballads are I different matter I admit). There were plenty of bands on the previous poll who had a few songs that fitted the remit even if they weren't generally metal / hard rock bands, so the same can apply here in my opinion. Also, this :

By performers wearing makeup/hairspray/spandex/leather/gypsy scarves and jewelry

which excludes CCR, Springsteen etc but allows for Thin Lizzy, AC/DC (just) and the rest.

Also, Phil Mogg's nephew was in The Quireboys so UFO are in just on that.

gypsy scarves and jewelry

which excludes CCR, Springsteen etc

http://images.radcity.net/6718/3317440.jpg

: )

Phil Mogg was happy to wear a white jacket with spandex trousers. That's surely a hair metal combo.
UFO were hair metal before it was defined - much more than Lizzy, because they had none of the taste for epicry that Lynott had.

Ozzy Osbourne / Lita Ford - Close My Eyes Forever

Joan Jett - I Love Rock n'Roll
um, Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer?

Before chuck does it.
And it pains me to nominate celtic frost in this, but they did go full on hair metal, so wtf not.

Celtic Frost - Cherry Orchards

Here's to hoping they receive zero votes.

Just watched the video in the other thread. So terrible.

http://spendingloudnight.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/celtic-frost-cover-2web.jpg?w=600

It wont get any from Celtic Frost fans. Any votes it gets will be for the lols.

1st heard it in like 1992, saw it on Raw Power. It put me off checking their older records for a couple of years. By good luck i knew someone who had them and recorded them for me .