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Topic: Your "Big Hair" top 5...

Was just reminiscing with some of the old tunes I loved in the 80's smile Man they bring back some memories...
Big hair, jams, jelly bracelets, swatches, parachute pants, and those really funky shaped sunglasses lol

So, anybody want to share their favorites songs/bands from the period?

A few that came to my mind
Twisted Sister "I Wanna Rock"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmIFsNdRSoU
Ratt "Way Cool Jr." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMQa1-mToN8
Great White "Once Bittin' Twice Shy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITVKBVfv … annel_page
Gotta have some Kiss in there "God Gave Rock and Roll to you" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvZyGp-L … re=related
And some Crue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daHWxjuLihI

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2 Reply by riddler (edited by riddler 2009-07-19 22:59:43)

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Re: Your "Big Hair" top 5...

Twisted Sister comes to my mind too...:) It was my first concert... Dokken and Y&T opened for them...They said I really enjoyed it...lol

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Re: Your "Big Hair" top 5...

Yea man, Dokken was a good one to! I wore out 2 copies of "Tooth and Nail" I can't remember any of the songs from the album... But remember loving it smile Fixing to give it a listen...    I'm surprised I remember anything from those days myself lol         
Actually, I wonder how much of the stuff I do remember really happened....hmmm smile

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Re: Your "Big Hair" top 5...

pix I love all them songs, my type of music...apart from Kiss but good song.
I used to have long hair. I used to model my hair on Axel Rose when it was back combed and had a ton of hairspray in it lol
so my top 5 for mid 80's to late

Guns'n'Roses
Poison
Motley Crue
Bon Jovi ( but not anymore since after bad med they went right down hill)
Dogs D'Amour

Ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

5 Reply by dfoskey (edited by dfoskey 2009-07-20 10:45:13)

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Re: Your "Big Hair" top 5...

Some of my favorites then are still some of my favorites now.

Aerosmith
Guns N Roses
Def Leppard
Metallica
Poison
Motley Crue

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Re: Your "Big Hair" top 5...

My Big Hair Faves are:

Head and Shoulders.

Shock Waves.

Bug Rake.

Scrunchies with no metal bits.

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Re: Your "Big Hair" top 5...

Guitarpix wrote:

Yea man, Dokken was a good one to! I wore out 2 copies of "Tooth and Nail" I can't remember any of the songs from the album... But remember loving it smile Fixing to give it a listen...    I'm surprised I remember anything from those days myself lol         
Actually, I wonder how much of the stuff I do remember really happened....hmmm smile

Here you go Pix ...

1. Just Got Lucky
2. Tooth and Nail
3.  Alone Again

Those were my favorite songs from that album ... I love playing "In My Dreams" ... I can't do the lead but I love playing the rhythm

The bands I liked during that time were
1.  Slaughter
2.  Motley Crue
3.  Def Leppard
4.  Dokken
5.  G n R
6.  Journey (though not really a hair band)
7.  Styx (Mr Roboto WAS the 80's)
8.  Billy Idol

I remember only one song from Y & T (what did it stand for anyways?) and that was "Keep on Running" and the video had this robot that was in love with a human ... classic

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Re: Your "Big Hair" top 5...

Hey LPG.

In the 80's and early 90's I used to bleach my hair and everyone said I looked like Billy Idol, but my mate said "No he's his brother Bone!"

lol lol lol

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Re: Your "Big Hair" top 5...

Bottom five of the eighties:

1 Madonna
2 Jennifer Rush
3 Irene Cara
4 Kajagoogoo
5 Margaret Thatcher

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Re: Your "Big Hair" top 5...

KajiMa wrote:

Hey LPG.

In the 80's and early 90's I used to bleach my hair and everyone said I looked like Billy Idol, but my mate said "No he's his brother Bone!"

lol lol lol

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lol .... ahh it's good to be in-famous!

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