Various artists – 100 Hair Metal Essentials 2010
Although the original recordings still rock decades later, I found most of these somewhat altered versions, well, refreshing. The basic song structures are the same (no rap versions for example) and some of them are done by the original artists. There are a few that I really don’t care for, however for the most part, this is a great list of tunes that provide hours of headbanging entertainment.
1 Bathroom Wall (Re-Recorded) – Faster Pussycat
2 In My Dreams (Re-Recorded) – Dokken
3 Cum on Feel the Noize (Re-Recorded) – Quiet Riot
4 Round & Round – Stephen Pearcy
5 Rip & Tear (Re-Recorded) – L.A. Guns
6 Every Rose Has Its Thorn – Bret Michaels
7 Fly High Michelle – Enuff Z’Nuff
8 Smooth up in Ya (Re-Recorded) – Bullet Boys
9 Cherry Pie (Re-Recorded) – Warrant
10 When the Children Cry (Demo) – White Lion
11 Nobody’s Fool (Live) – Cinderella
12 Seventeen (Demo) – Winger
13 Working for the Weekend (Live) – Loverboy
14 Hold on to 18 (Re-Recorded) – Black N’ Blue
15 Paris Is Burning – Xciter
16 Once Bitten Twice Shy (Re-Recorded) – Great White
17 Hiroshima Mon Amour (Live) – Alcatrazz
18 Inside Out (Re-Recorded) – XYZ
19 Prime Mover (Re-Recorded) – Zodiac Mindwarp
20 Fight the Good Fight (Re-Recorded) – Triumph
21 Killing Time – Hollywood Rose
22 Stranger Dressed to Kill (Re-Recorded) – Rough Cutt
23 Hollywood (Re-Recorded) – Junkyard
24 Black Out (In the Red Room) (Re-Recorded) – Love/Hate
25 Wait (Demo) – White Lion
26 Exciter – Tim “Ripper” Owens
27 The Right to Rock (Live) – Keel
28 Sinner Street – Tuff
29 Breaking The Law – Motörhead
30 Turn up the Radio (Re-Recorded) – Autograph
31 Big City Nights – Kevin Dubrow
32 Girls, Girls, Girls – Pretty Boy Floyd
33 Sister Christian (Live) – Night Ranger
34 Finding My Way – Sebastian Bach
35 Rock Rock (Till You Drop) – Kevin Dubrow
36 We’re Not Gonna Take It (Live) – Twisted Sister
37 Set The Night On Fire – Pretty Boy Floyd
38 Blow My Fuse (Re-Recorded) – Kix
39 Take Her (Re-Recorded) – Rough Cutt
40 Fields of Rape (Live) – Saigon Kick
41 Tell The World – Ratt
42 Don’t Close Your Eyes (Re-Recorded) – Kix
43 Rock You Like A Hurricane – George Lynch
44 Dressed up Vamp (Re-Recorded) – Bang Tango
45 New Thing – Enuff Z’Nuff
46 Feel The Shake – Jetboy
47 Hell Bent For Leather – Warrant
48 You Shook Me All Night Long – Jetboy
49 Turbo Lover – Sin City All Stars
50 Wrathchild – Paul Dianno
51 Metal Health (Bang Your Head) (Re-Recorded) – Quiet Riot
52 Reckless Life – Hollywood Rose
53 Alone Again (Re-Recorded) – Dokken
54 The Ballad of Jayne (Re-Recorded) – L.A. Guns
55 Headed for a Heartbreak (Demo) – Winger
56 Jessie’s Girl – Faster Pussycat
57 Welcome To The Jungle – Kevin Dubrow
58 Cold Ethyl – Vince Neil
59 Hard to Handle – Jack Russell
60 Hold On – Rough Cutt
61 Someone Like You (Re-Recorded) – Bang Tango
62 Sweet Child O’ Mine – Gilby Clarke
63 Dream On – Ronnie James Dio
64 Nothin’ but a Good Time – Bret Michaels
65 Simple Man (Re-Recorded) – Junkyard
66 Shout at the Devil – London
67 Too Young to Fall in Love – Gilby Clarke
68 Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz (Re-Recorded) – Pretty Boy Floyd
69 Down Boys (Re-Recorded) – Warrant
70 Shake Me (Live) – Cinderella
71 Teas’n Pleas’n (Re-Recorded) – Dangerous Toys
72 Save Your Love (Re-Recorded) – Great White
73 Let It Go (Re-Recorded) – Dangerous Toys
74 I Wanna Be with You (Re-Recorded) – Pretty Boy Floyd
75 Breaking the Chains (Re-Recorded) – Dokken
76 Coming Home (Re-Recorded) – Saigon Kick
77 Cry Little Sister – L.A. Guns
78 Girl School (Re-Recorded) – Britny Fox
79 Pissed (Re-Recorded) – Dangerous Toys
80 Sometimes She Cries (Re-Recorded) – Warrant
81 Pour Some Sugar on Me – L.A. Guns
82 Girl Money (Re-Recorded) – Kix
83 Love’s a Bitch (Demo) – Quiet Riot
84 Runnin’ with the Devil – Stephen Pearcy
85 Home Sweet Home – Leif Garrett
86 Phantom of the Opera – Paul Dianno
87 Thunderstruck – Hair Rock Heores
88 Close My Eyes Forever (Live) – Lita Ford ‘
89 Overkill (Re-Recorded) – Motörhead
90 Turn Me Loose (Live) – Loverboy
91 Long Way to Love (Re-Recorded) – Britny Fox
92 Let’s Get Crazy (Re-Recorded) – Quiet Riot
93 I Saw Red (Re-Recorded) – Warrant
94 Crazy Train – Dee Snider
95 Heaven (Re-Recorded) – Warrant
96 School’s Out – Dave Mustaine
97 Gypsy Road (Live) – Cinderella
98 Can’t Find My Way Home – House Of Lords
99 Still Lovin’ You – Steve Whiteman
100 Don’t Tell Me You Love Me (Live) – Night Ranger
Various artists – 100 Hair Metal Essentials 2010