10 Best Hard Rock Albums Of The 80s

10. Dr Feelgood - Motley Crue

Motley Crue were always the toughest band to pin down in the hair-metal glory days. While the music was always pounding hard rock, the band's attitude varied from punk to glam to full-on metal during their initial steps. With the 80's reaching its last days, the rough-and-tumble gang out of Los Angeles decided to knuckle down and deliver some of the greatest material of their career.

Hooking up with sonic mastermind Bob Rock, the band set up shop in Vancouver to work out well-polished stories of rock decadence. Strangely enough, the band's odes to the excessive rock and roll lifestyle was put together after each member of the band had gotten clean from their more nefarious drug habits. On songs like the title track, Dr Feelgood is an album that is absolutely dripping with hard rock sleaze, from the solid backbeat of Tommy Lee to Nikki Sixx's from-the-gutter tales of debauchery. The album also features what many consider to be the definitive Crue tune with "Kickstart My Heart," which was written about Sixx's near-fatal drug overdose in the mid 80's.

Even if Motley Crue are ridiculed in some circles for their adolescent musical style, Dr. Feelgood is a bonafied classic and a perfect end to the hair metal era.