The WORST 80s Hair Band, and yes, Winger is one of the choices

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Poll question: The WORST 80s Hair Band, and yes, Winger is one of the choices

I want to vote vor Poison so bad I can't stand it...but not as long as WINGER is among the choices...



:evilgrin:

[Mabus]

1. Flock of Seagulls

[Archae]

4. Thank you.

Here I thought I'd forgotten completely about that bunch of ditwits led by a hairdresser, and you remind me of them and their merry-go-round video.

[Mabus]

12. Well, I didn't think Toni Basil

was considered a band.

[porkrind]

25. Metal hair vs. Dorky New Waver hair.

good distinction. While metal hair is goofy, there is no excuse for what you found. These people are guilty and should be punished beyond the full extent of the law! :)

[salvorhardin]

2. I once saw a Dokken concert

therefore it has to be my choice.

[Patsy Stone]

3. Winger had big hair and GREAT teeth.

None of these were particularly bad within the crap genre they were in. You have to seek out the truly terrible "B" level acts to ask this question, like Girlschool, or some of the other filler crap.

I hated Hair Metal.

[Patsy Stone]

39. Oops, didn't mean Girlschool -- meant Vixen. n/t

[NightTrain]

5. No doubt in my mind: Bon fuckin' Jovi!

Or as rock critic Jimmy Guterman once called their leader, "Pat Boone in leather." :evilgrin:

[Pepperbelly]

8. no way, buddy. You made love a BAD thing. nt

[TexasBushwhacker]

30. Excellent

Yeah, I voted Bon Jovi because they are way more successful than they deserve to be, and JBJ has the delusion it's because he's talented.

Oddly enough, I think he's an okay actor. He's just such a lame songwriter, and his stage act is so "polished". ICK!

And I know from a reliable source that he "only" accepts blowjobs from groupies because he doesn't consider that cheating on his wife. What a tool!

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. Slaughter - by virtue of the name alone

So what if it happenned to be the guy's name? It was still wrong to use a death-metal sounding band name for that cheese ballad crap.

Not that Poison and Winger didn't suck massively as well, they were just more honest about playing for the 14 year old girl crowd.

[intheflow]

7. I gotta go with Stryper, '80's Christian rock band.

Winner of the most obnoxious overall band "look" as well as music. IMHO.

[ET Awful]

11. Agreed, the bumble bee look just was NOT metal :)

Dokken gets a pass because they were cool enough to do the soundtrack to one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies :).

[TexasBushwhacker]

33. So did the Goo Goo Dolls - LOL

The Freddy's Dead one.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

13. HOW could I forget Stryper???

I'm sure they've made it onto a LOT of "worst" lists...

:toast:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

22. I worked for Stryper.

My time in another reality that had absolutely no relationship to any other reality that exists, has existed or may exist, in this or any other time/space continuum. An unbelievably negative experience.

Their crew was made up of some of the most horrid people ever to walk the earth. Each more horrible and noxious that the other, in some perverse competition to be the biggest, most hypocritical, lying-sack of-shit-jackoffs on the planet.

Presumably, many may be working in the maladministration now. It would explain a lot.

The lead singer, Michael Sweet, is now peddling his ass with short hair and a more conservative music and message.

Frankly, he's just gotten old and fat and it's all he really has. I saw him on TV and he was just...sad.

[crimson333]

24. well Frank Zappa

Thought the sweet brothers were good anyway. Of course he also said God doesn't belong in rock.


and your wrong the worst was Europe

[Longgrain]

9. STRYPER, STRYPER, STRYPER!!!!

With runner up...

Enfs'a'nuff

any one else remeber them?

"Fly high Michelle..." :hi:

[beam me up scottie]

10. Yep, Stryper's got my vote too.

[AntiCoup2K4]

14. Enough with the Stryper bashing

OK, the transvestite bees thing was way overdone, but musically, they were a Hell of a lot better (pardon the pun) than 3/4 of their contemporaries.

I will concede, however, that "Honestly" was a truly awful ballad.

[The Great Escape]

15. Britny Fox!

[porkrind]

23. OMG! You Win for Sure!

[Patsy Stone]

38. See, THAT's what I'm talking about

Awful "B Level" bands...I came up with Vixen, White Lion, Enuff Z'nuff, Kix and Faster Pussycat.

Those listed above were selling out arenas, these guys just sucked!

[Miami Liberal]

16. Whitesnake

Just look at this hair.

[beam me up scottie]

18. Can't defend Whitesnake's hair but I still love

"Still of the night"

[Miami Liberal]

20. Oooh yeah I love that song n/t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

21. Oh man...

Whatever possessed Rudy to bleach his hair? Such a nice Cuban boy and he goes and does that. Gah.

[Mike Niendorff]

17. Slaughter.

Enough said.


MDN

[Longgrain]

19. Where's Enuff'z'Enuff"

If I even spelled that correctly. :hi:

[Longgrain]

45. Here they are finally...

Enuff Z'nuff's fan site...I shamefully added it to my favorites list...

http://www.peachfuzz.org/

I did actually like these guys, and I sadly just learned Frigo, their guitarist, has passed on...

Once again "Fly high Michelle" :thumbsup:

[porkrind]

26. GUAR

or how about Boy George?

[dad]

27. now come on

I like most of those groups, and have seen a few in concert ha ha... When I saw Poison my seat wasn't too good, so they kind of looked like hot chicks to me from where I was standing. Are we voting worst hair or worst band? For band I pick Winger! For hair, I dunno, so many choices. EVERY band back then played up the hair. Even Pantera, check out their look from their first album -

[crimson333]

28. yep I liked everybody on that list, except winger

Had good times at their concerts

[Kat45]

29. Cinderella was a good band; I object to their inclusion in the poll.

They did some really good blues-based hard rock. I have a couple of albums, and I've seen them in concert a couple of times. I really liked that band a lot.

That said, I do agree with the rest of the bands in the poll as belonging on a worst hair-band list.

Disclosure: I loved hard rock music of the hair band era; wrote about music for regional rock mags at the time and specialized in this genre of music. Yes, a lot of them played poppy crap that appealed to 14-year-old girls. But, a lot of them played some really good music: Guns'N'Roses, Whitesnake, Cats In Boots (who nobody knew about, unfortunately), Bang Tango, Spreadeagle, Jackyl--I'm sure there were more, but I'm too tired to think right now.

[dad]

31. I knew about cats in boots!

I forgot all about them til you mentioned it. I wonder if I have their tape buried somewhere out in the garage?? Anyhow, google images for "Pantera Power Metal" for a laugh....

[Kat45]

35. Cool! I never run into anybody who knew Cats In Boots.

They were my absolutely favorite band in that time period. I even talked my editor into letting me do a cover story on them for the magazine. Man, I loved that band. Unfortunately, they broke up too soon after that album came out. But hey, they WERE big in Japan. Actually, I heard they are regrouping to play in Japan (or release something there, I forget which).

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

32. Yeah, I really like the song "Gypsy Road" a lot...

...as a matter of fact, I stuck it on one of my mix CDs for the car recently and had forgotten just how much I DID like it...

...but, in all fairness, they've always been grouped in with the hair bands, and if you remember that commercial that was played to death around the clock a few years ago for that 80s hair bands CD...

"They taught us how to LIVE...they taught us how to LOVE..."

...right in the middle of Poison and Warrant and Winger and Damn Yankees was CINDERELLA, and their song "Don't Know What You've Got (till It's Gone)"...and while they did do some fine, hard, rockin' songs, they DID ALSO DO "Don't Know What You've Got (till It's Gone)"...a hair metal power ballad if there ever was one...but I like 'em anyway.

:toast:

[dad]

34. Long Cold Winter had hits and misses

Night Songs, however, kicked ass start to finish.

PS, I just remembered even Ozzy got glam for one album in the 80s too. I think it was Bark at the Moon.. See, no one was immune!

[iconoclastic cat]

36. Winger should get more than one slot.

[Swamp Rat]

37. Other: They all suck.

Poison sucks donkey balls. :D

[MrSlayer]

40. They were all pretty bad but Poison and Stryper are Metal's arch enemies.

Man did I hate them. Having to explain the difference between Metal and Glam always drove me up the wall.

[flaminbats]

41. that's a tough one...

IMO Cinderella had the worst hair! I know playing enough Bon Jovi can even kill plants, and even did in my cactus..which needed little water but received ample light. God only knows what his shit does to humans!

[name not needed]

42. Europe

:puke:

[Cush]

46. The Final Countdown!

[Joe Power]

43. I wanted to vote for them all

But, since Skid Row had no votes, and they are as deserving as anyone, I voted for them.

[Boswells_Johnson]

44. Vixen

Stinky muzak...chix rawk out