Hair Band Songs Quiz

Guess the hair bands who wrote these famous songs.

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First submitted	July 30, 2012
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Average score	57.9%
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Song	Band
Welcome to the Jungle	Guns N' Roses
Dude (Looks Like a Lady)	Aerosmith
Livin' on a Prayer	Bon Jovi
Rock You Like a Hurricane	Scorpions
We're Not Gonna Take It	Twisted Sister
Pour Some Sugar on Me	Def Leppard
Cherry Pie	Warrant
Kickstart My Heart	Mötley Crüe
Every Rose Has Its Thorn	Poison
The Final Countdown	Europe

Song	Band
Hot for Teacher	Van Halen
Once Bitten Twice Shy	Great White
Here I Go Again	Whitesnake
Rock and Roll All Nite	KISS
Round and Round	Ratt
Metal Health (Bang Your Head)	Quiet Riot
18 and Life	Skid Row
Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)	Cinderella
Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight	Spinal Tap

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49 Comments

Level 92

Jul 26, 2012

Had no idea on that last one until I realized that it made no sense - which made the answer quite obvious, really. Stonehenge!!!!

Level ∞

Jul 26, 2012

I would have used Stonehenge, but the song is just too annoying to be included in the Spotify playlist!

Level 67

Nov 18, 2016

"I think the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage, that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyh1Va_mYWI

Level 90

Sep 24, 2018

All I could think is what kind of loser band came up with that title? Oh, yeah! Nigel Tufnel of course.

Level 60

Jul 26, 2012

Awesome quiz! ... Although whether Europe is a hair band or not is debatable.

R.I.P. to the victims of the Great White concert tragedy.

Level 22

Jul 26, 2012

yup the station

Level 81

Apr 13, 2015

I think we can agree that all of these bands had hair. If Pitbull, REM, or Phil Collins showed up then...

Level 28

Jul 20, 2022

Or Right Said Fred.

Level 90

Sep 24, 2018

The only image I have of the band Europe is Will Arnett in Arrested Development.

Level 22

Jul 26, 2012

guns and roses should also accept gnr

Level ∞

Jul 30, 2012

Okay, that will work now.

Level 33

Feb 4, 2013

Spinal Tap is not a band, at all.

Level 64

Mar 28, 2013

I concur

Level 78

Apr 15, 2015

Spinal Tap is absolutely a band. They were a spoof movie but a real band.

+14

Level 78

Sep 20, 2018

They wrote and performed all of their own music. They've released multiple albums and singles that have charted. They've performed live concerts. Just because they play characters and are parodying a style doesn't mean they're not a real band.

Level 68

Jul 16, 2021

They are almost as funny as some of the other bands on this list

Level 43

Apr 20, 2013

Spinal Tap is an actual band. They came out with a few albums after the mockumentary. With the all time classic Break Like the Wind, which peaked at number 61 on the US Billboard Charts). How could anyone ever forget them!?!?

Level 78

Jul 16, 2013

Saying Spinal Tap is not a band is like saying The Blues Brothers was not a band. I happen to have an album from each.

Level 9

Aug 1, 2013

14 right, and i'm only 13

Level 85

Jun 16, 2014

Loved the quiz. Got a few while guessing other songs. Perhaps make this one of those where you have to get it on the right line?

Level 72

Apr 16, 2015

Great quiz. Spinal Tap is 100% a real band. I saw them perform live and they are outstanding musicians with quality songs that are still regularly referenced 30 years later!

Level 44

Apr 19, 2015

in my opinion, spinal tap may be considered a "real" band but it is more of a novelty and doesn't fit in with the rest of the list. however, thanks for the flashbacks! :)

Level 65

Nov 17, 2015

ooohh... that "hair band" :o

Level 35

Jun 9, 2016

argument to be made for several, but NO WAY can you say Guns'n'Roses, Van Halen or Scorpions were 'hair bands' ... and, is that a derogatory term? it shouldn't be. talented musicians fell victim to the MTV era. imho

Level 63

Aug 30, 2017

I don't think it's a derogatory term. It just describes how some of them looked like. Not only the hair but clothes, accesoires and make-up. I think people have a better understanding of what is meant by hair band rather than Glam metal which is the same.

Level 90

Sep 24, 2018

Have you not seen Slash?

Level 50

Apr 13, 2019

Have you seen the “welcome to the jungle” video? How high is Axle’s hair there? I can imagine he saw the clip and thought “dude, I gotta, like, fix that”

Level 92

May 13, 2021

I'm inclined to agree with fatfitnessguy. I always thought "hair band" meant something more specific than an '80's rock band with lots of hair. It was an aesthetic. Poison and Ratt were hair bands. Guns-N-Roses and Van Halen weren't. Then again, all these bands wound up (at least temporarily) on the same trash heap when Nirvana came along, so maybe they had more in common than I thought.

Level 60

Aug 27, 2016

I think the quizmaker might've played some Guitar Hero...

Level 59

Feb 11, 2017

This was Fun, Thanks!

Level 51

Sep 1, 2017

GNR is not a hair band.

Aerosmith is not a hair band.

Van Halen is not a hair band.

Bon Jovi is borderline, but I wouldn't call them a hair band.

Def Leppard...eeehhhhh

Part of being a hair band is being not very good, largely forgettable outside the 80s and their one or two big songs. Also, there's a difference in the type of rock they play. It has to be 100% 80s.

Level 91

Sep 20, 2018

A "hair band" is just another fancy term for glam metal. Glam metal typically involves fancy clothing, makeup, long hair, leather, etc. All of these bands have at least one of those elements. And yes, they were all popular in the 80s because that's when the genre was at its peak and continued to be until it was killed by grunge in the 90s (plus a few falling outs inside the bands themselves).

Level 50

Apr 13, 2019

For those who need “hair band” defined, look at the back cover of Motley Crüe’s “shout at the devil”. Nikki Sixx could have been hired by the Queen to guard her palace.

Level 95

Sep 20, 2018

i tried the who for we're not gonna take it.

they were a band, they had hairs, they had a song with that title

Level 90

Sep 24, 2018

They were mods who rode around on scooters.

Level 68

Feb 3, 2024

in Quadrophenia, yes, but really they were rockers. JK, I know Townsend was a mod.

Level 89

Sep 20, 2018

argh, so mad at myself for not getting Mötley Crüe

Level 66

Sep 20, 2018

Good god what a hideous list of bands! Nice quiz though!

Level 21

Sep 20, 2018

Make a part two wich includes Queen and Beatles idk some british bands :)

Level 78

Sep 20, 2018

Except... Queen and the Beatles aren't hair metal bands? I mean, not even a little bit.

Level 67

Sep 21, 2018

Brian May does have ridiculously large hair and absolutely shreds on guitar, but otherwise...yeah, they're not even close. But if all you saw was Brian May and the only song you knew was "Fat Bottom Girls," you could be forgiven for calling Queen a hair band.

Level 78

Oct 1, 2018

Brian May also has a PhD in astrophysics! Not that that really has anything to do with the current conversation. I just think it's awesome.

Level 80

Sep 21, 2018

...and in a completely different direction:

Hair + Band = Nelson

Level 90

Sep 24, 2018

Laura Ingalls from Little House On the Prairie.

Level 39

Sep 23, 2018

100% with 3:02 to spare which says absolutely nothing about my age or taste in music at the time. NOTHING. ;)

Level 34

Mar 23, 2019

Good quiz but 'once bitten, twice shy' was written by Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople' fame not Great White.

Level 76

Mar 31, 2023

Not really bothered that I didn't do well on this. Slightly bothered that there's one I thought of that was not included. Not sure whether to be bothered because I thought of it, or because it wasn't included. (Extreme)

Level 83

Oct 17, 2023

missed Mötley Crüe, which I thought I typed. Turns out I was typing "molty crue" instead. Very very different...

Level 46

Apr 23, 2024

Great quiz but I have few issues with some of the bands.

KISS - more classic rock, and shock rock. Not quite Hair metal. But a massive influence on Hair metal

Van Halen - The godfathers of Hair Metal, but more hard rock and classic rock. Big difference between a Van Halen album and a Poison/Motley Crue/ Ratt album

Aerosmith - Just about the same category as Van Halen

Guns n Roses - Always been on the fence for this one because, they had the spandex and the hair spray of a hair band, toured with Motley Crue on the Appetite tour, were formed out of the ashes of multiple hair metal bands, and owned the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles like the Crue did before them. However, Guns N Roses are more similar to Aerosmith than they are to Motley Crue.

Def Leppard - 100% a hair band. Spandex, and long hair? Check. Power Ballads? Check. Guitar solos, power chords, catchy riffs songs about Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll? Check. Def Leppard is among the hairiest of the hair metal bands.

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