Who Was The Most Creative Hair Metal Band Ever?

[Luckey Haskins]

Discuss. I'm currently going through an old collection.

 

[Sallad]

Van Halen, if you ask me.

 

[No Name Girl]

You have to define Hair Metal Rainard. I like your posts more each day!

 

[s_is_for_skye]

Early on I'd say Def Leppard but they didn't exactly start as "hair metal"

 

[Krisy]

No definitely not. Their roots were in Thin Lizzy and T-Rex.

 

[hippo]

wait wait wait wait, CREATIVE hair metal? Sure I love me some cheesy 80's anthemic riRAB but it's not too creative.

 

[henryw25]

thats why she's asking which was the most creative...

 

[Laugh It Off =)]

I can't think of any that I would consider creative.
There are some banRAB that are better than others. It's unfair to lump all hair metal banRAB together.
The best of them such as LorRAB Of The New Church , Kill City Dragons , Uncle Sam , Hanoi Rocks & Dogs D'amour mixed the trashy blues side of the Rolling Stones & mixed it with a punk rock attitude rather than actually being creative.

 

[Anne Boylen]

I think there's at least an element of creativity in corabining certain premade ideas together in order to construct something new.

 

[ricardo9505]

Yeah but that is just it though. I personally don't think there was anything new about the scene. Cinderella went to the blues on their second album and were good musicians but were not that creative. The very nature of hair metal was to play certain music and link it with an OTT image.

What did you find in your collection? anything that leapt out at you?