This month on Facebook I declared March “Hair Metal Month” and throughout the month we celebrated hair metal by spotlighting 30 different hair metal bands.

In the world today there sure is a lot of conflict. We had this in the 80s also, but then hair metal was born, and within a few years the Berlin Wall came down, the USSR dissolved, and things got a lot better. Maybe we should ditch all this modern garbage on the radio - and country, in particular - and go back to the really good stuff.

Anyway, here are the 30 bands, and my vote for their “best” song:

  • Britny Fox - “Long Way to Love”
  • Bon Jovi - “Wanted Dead or Alive”
  • Cinderella - “Don’t Know What You Got (‘Til It’s Gone)”
  • Def Leppard - “Rock of Ages”
  • Dokken - “Alone Again”
  • E’nuff Z’nuff - “Fly High Michelel”
  • Europe - “Rock the Night”
  • Firehouse - “When I Look Into Your Eyes”
  • Great White - “House of Broken Love”
  • Hurricane - “Over the Edge”
  • Kix - “Tear Down the Walls”
  • Lillian Axe - “The Day I Met You”
  • Mötley Crüe - “Wild Side”
  • MSG - “Gimme Your Love”
  • Ozzy Osbourne - “Flying High Again”
  • Poison - “Cry Tough”
  • Quiet Riot - “Come On Feel the Noise”
  • Ratt - “You’re In Love”
  • Roxy Blue - “Times Are Changin’”
  • Saints & Sinners - “We Belong”
  • Skid Row - “18 and Life”
  • Steel Dragon - “We All Die Young”
  • Steelheart - “I’ll Never Let You Go”
  • Stryper - “Calling On You”
  • Telsa - “Love Song”
  • Twisted Sister - “I Wanna Rock”
  • Warrant - “I Saw Red”
  • White Lion - “Wait”
  • Whitesnake - “Crying in the Rain”
  • Winger - “Madalaine”