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

Critics coined the term “hair metal” as a shorthand dismissal of the countless copycat hard rock bands that cluttered the Sunset Strip and ruled the airwaves throughout much of the ’80s.

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