so we were touching on the genre in the overrated bands thread and it's good to see people clearly have vastly different opinions

what would be your top hair metal band(s), if any?

I like White Lion circa Pride (their only album I've heard) : soulful voice, echo/effects on the guitar, ballads n rockers. sounds very hairy and metally. the lyrics are cheesy so there's that

if the singer's voice doesn't appeal to me, it's game over for me in the hair metal genre. sorry Poison, Hanoi Rocks etc