You all know I LOVE the hair era!!! Carnut I'm shocked to hear someone mention "Cycles of the Moon" by Prophet, I've been listening to that lately! Excellent AOR band!!
Basically all I listen to is sleaze/glam, hard rock, melodic rock/AOR and hair metal... so here are my some of my fave bands out of those styles!!
On the more hard rock & sleaze side of the scene:
Arcade, Ana Black, Big Bang Babies, Black N Blue, Britny Fox, Bulletboys, Candy Harlots, Cats In Boots, Cold Sweat, Dangerous Toys, EZO, Every Mother's Nightmare, Erotic Suicide, Fastway, Faster Pussycat, Gypsy Rose, Hericane Alice, Jesse Strange, Johnny Crash, Keel, Kick Axe, KISS (mid-late 80s talkin about here!), Kix, Lynch Mob, Mad Margritt, Motley Crue, Nasty Idols, Poison, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ratt, David Lee Roth, Roxx, Roxx Gang, Roxy Blue, Shotgun Messiah, Skid Row, Skin N Bones, Slaughter, Slik Toxik, Sleeze Beez, Spread Eagle, Tigertailz, Tuff, Trouble Tribe, Vain, Van Halen, Vinnie Vincent Invasion, Warrant, Whitecross, Whitesnake, Wicked Kin, Wildside, XYZ, Zan Clan.
On the more melodic side of the scene:
Alien, Aviator, Bad English, Bad Habit, Blue Tears, Casanova, Crown of Thorns, Danger Danger, Dokken, Europe, FM, Mark Free, Frontline, Glory, Gunshy, Hardline, Harem Scarem, Heaven's Edge, House of Lords, Hurricane, Icon, Jaded Heart, Journey, King Kobra, Paul Laine, Lee Aaron, Message, Night Ranger, Pink Cream 69, Prophet, Red Dawn, Restless, Kane Roberts, Roxanne, Roxus, Sic Vikki, Signal, Silent Rage, Stage Dolls, Stun Leer, Swedish Erotica, TNT, Talisman, Treat, Tyketto, Unruly Child, Van Zant, Victory, Vixen, Winger, Zero, Zinatra.
kuier - You have excellent taste there with Black N Blue, Kix & Wildside, easily 3 of my all time favourites!! And "Under The Influence" is a definite top 10 of all time album for me!!!!