Top 50 Greatest Music Albums
by Music4life46

These are some of my favorite hair band albums mostly from the 80's. I like a lot of different types of music so I am not saying these are necessarily all the greatest albums ever but the hair band era is underrated and these albums are a lot of fun. A few of these technically aren't true hair bands or hair band albums but close. For example, Alice Cooper influenced a lot of hair bands and put out some hair band albums but he is more classic hard rock (let's not forget even bands like Judas Priest with Turbo or Ozzy with the Ultimate Sin kind of went a bit hair band themsleves). I don't think Badlands was actually a hair band and I don't even know if Tesla was either.

• Chart updated: 06/15/2017 16:15
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Out Of The Cellar 

 Ratt

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Year of Release:

1984

Appears in:

93 charts

Rank Score:

273

Rank in 1984:

80

Rank in 1980s:

736

Overall Rank:

5,013

Average Rating:

 71 (110 votes)

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Dangerous Toys 

 Dangerous Toys

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Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

11 charts

Rank Score:

35

Rank in 1989:

354

Rank in 1980s:

3,298

Overall Rank:

25,967

Average Rating:

 73 (28 votes)

Comments:

0

3.

Hey Stoopid 

 Alice Cooper

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Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

50 charts

Rank Score:

141

Rank in 1991:

122

Rank in 1990s:

1,409

Overall Rank:

8,654

Average Rating:

 72 (95 votes)

Comments:

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4.

Long Cold Winter 

 Cinderella

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Year of Release:

1988

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

292

Rank in 1988:

64

Rank in 1980s:

698

Overall Rank:

4,751

Average Rating:

 72 (76 votes)

Comments:

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5.

High 'N' Dry 

 Def Leppard

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Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

129 charts

Rank Score:

660

Rank in 1981:

37

Rank in 1980s:

362

Overall Rank:

2,406

Average Rating:

 72 (165 votes)

Comments:

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6.

Skid Row 

 Skid Row (US)

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Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

97 charts

Rank Score:

437

Rank in 1989:

46

Rank in 1980s:

513

Overall Rank:

3,388

Average Rating:

 70 (134 votes)

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7.

Under Lock And Key 

 Dokken

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Year of Release:

1985

Appears in:

57 charts

Rank Score:

151

Rank in 1985:

104

Rank in 1980s:

1,195

Overall Rank:

8,191

Average Rating:

 71 (67 votes)

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8.

Britny Fox 

 Britny Fox

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Year of Release:

1988

Appears in:

7 charts

Rank Score:

18

Rank in 1988:

481

Rank in 1980s:

4,833

Overall Rank:

39,842

Average Rating:

 61 (8 votes)

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9.

Jackyl 

 Jackyl

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Year of Release:

1992

Appears in:

5 charts

Rank Score:

29

Rank in 1992:

438

Rank in 1990s:

4,616

Overall Rank:

29,660

Average Rating:

 69 (11 votes)

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10.

Cocked & Loaded 

 L.A. Guns

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Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

21 charts

Rank Score:

61

Rank in 1989:

243

Rank in 1980s:

2,365

Overall Rank:

17,701

Average Rating:

 72 (23 votes)

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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums composition

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From timosbuecherei 01/23/2025 12:26 | #307142

Ohhh yessss, sounds like Youth!

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From stefano 11/21/2017 10:41 | #201753

Nice chart!Me too i have a chart oriented on heavy rock but not as hairy and sleezy as yours.Your chart remembered me of some bands (and albums) of my youth i had forgotten.

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