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I saw the other Thread with the 70s and 80s and people had like 20 bands or groups listed. So I thought....let's narrow it down to your top 5. I even started a Poll. So here are mine:

1: Guns and Roses
2: Poison
3: Bon Jovi
4: RATT
5: OZZY

If Guns N' Roses is eligible for this list, then they would definitley be #1. However, I have never considered them to be a "hair" band, for two reasons. One, they were much heavier than the actual hair bands. Pretty much the whole Appetite album would blow your socks off. Two, other than the "Welcome to the Jungle" video, they never had the big, teased-up hair that the other bands did. Just long, rock-star hair.

I would also leave Ozzy out of the running for this. For one thing, he was around long before the 80's as the singer for Black Sabbath. Plus, like GNR, he was also much heavier than the mainstream hair band sound. I just consider GNR and Ozzy to be good hard rock/metal.

Now, my "True Hair Band" top 5:

1) Motley Crue
2) Skid Row
3) Poison
4) Ratt
5) Whitesnake