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.

Maybe they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. That could have been the case during the 1980s for these 20 bands, listed in alphabetical order.

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 reading material of the last 40 years. Stephen King, Jean M.