Are these bands hair metal or not? History lumps them into the subgenre, but there's some arguments to be made against it!

The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty pleasures in music history. The hair spray, makeup, and catchy pop tunes touched up with distortion were made for MTV.

Rock music in the late 1980s ushered in a new breed of bands that encouraged makeup on men, big hair, out of control partying ...

The 1980s was a decade known for the birth of the last of Generation X and big-hair bands. It also produced some of the best ...