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Hair Metal Song Lists

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lfmn16 said:
I did a search, but only found one thread. Does anyone have a good song list for a big hair metal band? Looking at the '80's, but any suggestions in the genre are welcome.

Thanks!
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Well, you'll have to incorporate a bunch of the ballads in there in addition to the rockers

Still Loving You
Home Sweet Home
I Remember You
Sweet Child O Mine
Here I Go Again
Talk Dirty to Me
Dead or Alive
Pour Some Sugar On Me
Living on a Prayer
Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Paradise City
Kickstart My Heart
Nothin' But a Good Time
Still of the Night
Kiss Me Deadly (if female vox)
Love Bites

It's a start anyway....
 
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pwhalen said:
Well, you'll have to incorporate a bunch of the ballads in there in addition to the rockers

Still Loving You
Home Sweet Home
I Remember You
Sweet Child O Mine
Here I Go Again
Talk Dirty to Me
Dead or Alive
Pour Some Sugar On Me
Living on a Prayer
Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Paradise City
Kickstart My Heart
Nothin' But a Good Time
Still of the Night
Kiss Me Deadly (if female vox)
Love Bites

It's a start anyway....
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Thanks!
 
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There are lots of CDs with titles like Hair Metal Anthems.

I would think "Still of the Night" has the potential of becoming a train wreck. "Is This Love" is a Whitesnake ballad, "Give Me All Your Love Tonight" is more uptempo. Obscure but with a great Zeppelin vibe is "Lay Down Your Love".

Britney Fox - Long Way to Love
Dangerous Toys - Teas'n, Pleas'n
Junkyard - Hollywood
Dirty Looks - Ruby
L.A. Guns - Electric Gypsy
Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall
Warrant - Cherry Pie
RATT - Lay It Down
Cinderella - Shake Me

That's all I got.
 
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I recently played in an 80s hair tribute for several years. My advice? Stick to the radio hits. And I mean the big radio hits. There were several songs we tried that we as a band liked, but the audience had no idea what they were. Even something like "Still Of The Night" is way too long to hold a crowd's attention.
 
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friskinator said:
I recently played in an 80s hair tribute for several years. My advice? Stick to the radio hits. And I mean the big radio hits. There were several songs we tried that we as a band liked, but the audience had no idea what they were. Even something like "Still Of The Night" is way too long to hold a crowd's attention.
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This. If you want to indulge your own sensibilities this will be a garage band. Probably a good idea would be to google up the top 100 songs for every year in the 80s. That should produce your set list easily.
 
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two fingers said:
Probably a good idea would be to google up hair the top 100 songs for every year in the 80s. That should produce your set list easily.
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Not sure about the easily part. Below are links to the top 100 from 1987 and 1988, essentially the height of hair metal, and of the 200 songs 7 fit the criteria. The hair metal thing was more video based than radio.

And for everyone who wants to fixate on Still of the Night, fine ignore that one, though I disagree.

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1987 - Wikipedia
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1988 - Wikipedia
 
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pwhalen said:
Not sure about the easily part. Below are links to the top 100 from 1987 and 1988, essentially the height of hair metal, and of the 200 songs 7 fit the criteria. The hair metal thing was more video based than radio.

And for everyone who wants to fixate on Still of the Night, fine ignore that one, though I disagree.

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1987 - Wikipedia
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1988 - Wikipedia
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Not a bad point. So go with the video countdowns then? The Top 100 videos of '89 didn't produce a whole lot more that I find useful for a set list.
MTV's Top 100 Videos Of 1989 | Pulse Music Board
 
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fretter said:
There are lots of CDs with titles like Hair Metal Anthems.

I would think "Still of the Night" has the potential of becoming a train wreck. "Is This Love" is a Whitesnake ballad, "Give Me All Your Love Tonight" is more uptempo. Obscure but with a great Zeppelin vibe is "Lay Down Your Love".

Britney Fox - Long Way to Love
Dangerous Toys - Teas'n, Pleas'n
Junkyard - Hollywood
Dirty Looks - Ruby
L.A. Guns - Electric Gypsy
Faster Pussycat - Bathroom Wall
Warrant - Cherry Pie
RATT - Lay It Down
Cinderella - Shake Me

That's all I got.
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We do Still of the Night and it kills. We actually do the first half as part of a medley...it works famously.
 
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Some songs in the hair metal vein my last band used to cover-

Round & Round- Ratt
Don't Go Away Mad- Motley Crue
Smooth Up In Ya- The Bullet Boys
Nightrain- Guns N Roses
Bad Medicine- Bon Jovi
Have A Drink On Me- ACDC (not really hair metal but it fits with this stuff and is a GREAT opener)
Still of the Night- Whitesnake
Uncle Tom's Cabin- Warrant
Drop Dead Legs- Van Halen
Fight For Your Right To Party- Beastie Boys (Again, not a hair metal song but the audience LOVES this and most people respond to this as a general 80s rock song everyone knows)
 
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two fingers said:
This. If you want to indulge your own sensibilities this will be a garage band. Probably a good idea would be to google up the top 100 songs for every year in the 80s. That should produce your set list easily.
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If you want to be a Top 40 or variety band, those lists are very useful. However, when it comes to Rock, those charts can be pretty misleading (especially in the bar band arena). When you think of the 70s, you think of iconic Rock bands like the Who, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc.. However, if you look at the charts it's filled with acts like Burt Bacharach, Donnie and Marie, and Helen Reddy. The reality is that iconic Rock started out somewhat cult and over the course of time become classic. It's similar for 80s metal. Even though the 80s were the heyday of hair, it was still a niche genre in a time when radio and the charts were dominated by the likes of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Hall and Oates, and Geroge Michael. Consider this: The New Kids on the Block have charted in the Billboard end of year top 100 4 times in that decade, while bands like Motley Crue, Metallica, Dokken, Tesla, never cracked that mark. Even an iconic album like the Joshua Tree from a band that helped define Rock in that era only had 2 songs hit the Billboard top 100 for 1987. And the New Kids on the Block beat out U2 4 to 3 on the Billboard top 100 in the 80s.
 
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jive1 said:
If you want to be a Top 40 or variety band, those lists are very useful. However, when it comes to Rock, those charts can be pretty misleading (especially in the bar band arena). When you think of the 70s, you think of iconic Rock bands like the Who, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc.. However, if you look at the charts it's filled with acts like Burt Bacharach, Donnie and Marie, and Helen Reddy. The reality is that iconic Rock started out somewhat cult and over the course of time become classic. It's similar for 80s metal. Even though the 80s were the heyday of hair, it was still a niche genre in a time when radio and the charts were dominated by the likes of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Hall and Oates, and Geroge Michael. Consider this: The New Kids on the Block have charted in the Billboard end of year top 100 4 times in that decade, while bands like Motley Crue, Metallica, Dokken, Tesla, never cracked that mark. Even an iconic album like the Joshua Tree from a band that helped define Rock in that era only had 2 songs hit the Billboard top 100 for 1987. And the New Kids on the Block beat out U2 4 to 3 on the Billboard top 100 in the 80s.
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This has been a useful thread to help me get thinking about places to look. I wanted to see what other bands were doing. I don't know where the self-indulgent comment comes from. If I was self-indulgent I wouldn't be looking for feedback on what other people were playing.
 
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