Top 10 Albums that are Called Hair Metal/Glam Rock but Aren't

The Top Ten
1 Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses

I strongly agree with this - Axl used to wear a bandana like the glam guys but this can't make their music glam. Their music is hard rock.

I have always considered this a Hard Rock album considering that Guns N' Roses didn't want a image like most glam metal bands wanted

2 Queen II - Queen

I think people refer to this era of Queen as "glam rock" in the original term- Ziggy Stardust, T.Rex, Mott the Hoople, etc. Having said that, I don't think they were a glam band in that sense either.

Queen was never a Hair Metal band

3 Van Halen - Van Halen

Van Halen is not Hair Metal

Great album, but yeah.

4 Whitesnake - Whitesnake

Agree again - Whitesnake have always been a pretty underground hard rock band. What can mislead you are 2-3 glam-mish videos of 1987.

Story: a producer offered Coverdale to promote their music in the mainstream sector and the band made those glam-mish video clips for MTV. They also re-recorded some old songs with more poppy arrangements to fit the MTV standards.

Coverdale agreed because the band had a big debt due to bad management. their debt was strange because the band had previous albums with double platinum status. Coverdale said it wasn't something he wanted to do but this saved the band.

David Coverdale also said that he didn't even know how much hair spray to put on his hair before shooting those video clips and he made some mistakes, LOL.
I mean, these guys aren't glam deep inside. They were made look like glam for the purposes of the MTV business.

I don't consider this Hair Metal I consider it Hard Rock

5 Love at First Sting - Scorpions

I consider this Hard Rock

6 Pump - Aerosmith
7 Powerslave - Iron Maiden
8 Turbo - Judas Priest
9 1984 - Van Halen
10 Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
The Contenders
11 Dr. Feelgood - Mötley Crüe

Actually the Crue are a hair band.

great sound

12 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC
13 5150 - Van Halen
14 Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
15 Paranoid - Black Sabbath
16 Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
17 Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne
18 Use Your Illusion II - Guns N' Roses
19 Use Your Illusion I - Guns N' Roses
20 Van Halen II - Van Halen
21 Queen - Queen
22 Hot Space - Queen
23 Walls of Jericho - Helloween

This was on the Best hair metal albums list...

24 Coda - Led Zeppelin
25 Killers - Iron Maiden
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