10 Greatest Hair Metal Albums Of All Time

If you're looking for the best of the best from the hair metal genre, you'd probably have the best luck looking towards the Sunset Strip. This was the place that birthed the hair metal movement and gave rockers permission to wear the massive spandex pants and mountains of hairspray in their hair. It's not like the other side of America couldn't hold their own though.

Then again, it almost feels weird giving someone like Twisted Sister the distinction of a hair metal band. Even though they were big at the same time as the legends of the genre, Dee Snider almost gives off the vibe of a glam rock singer from the '70s who just happened to break big at the dawn of the '80s. As opposed to the early days of people like Motley Crue though, Twisted Sister had the one ace up their sleeve: MTV.

Since their self proclaimed "bikers in drag" look was already eye catching as it is, their style made them darlings of the first wave of MTV bands, with the music videos for I Wanna Rock becoming a permanent fixture of the genre. In that respect, Stay Hungry isn't just a good album by hair metal standards. This was the one that helped turn the tide towards the glamorous side of rock and roll again.