That wasn't always the case, though. Hair metal — and '80s rock as a whole — was obsessed with power ballads and these melodramatic love songs often rocketed to the top of the charts.

I was watching on VH1 (oh lord, I must be getting old, im watching VH1) the top 40 hair bands, and I'm curious as to which songs were good. I was only a wee tike when these bands were at their ...

Lillian Axe were one of 80s hard rock’s great near misses – a band whose songs should have propelled them to hair metal-era superstardom but never did.

It's more than hair and metal that makes a hair metal band. The bands on this list are often given that label, but is the description fair?