Playlist: The Very Best of '80s Metal: Now Hair This!
collects 14 slabs of good-time spandex rock, including genre staples like "The Final Countdown" (
Europe
) and
Quiet Riot
's enormously popular take on the
Slade
classic "Cum on Feel the Noize", as well as deeper cuts like
Dangerous Toys
' "Naughty, Naughty" (not to be confused with the embarrassingly awesome
John Parr
track with the same name) and
Krokus
' "Midnite Maniac." There's a definite lack of stalwart hair metal gurus like
Moetley Cruee
,
Guns N' Roses
Poison
, or
Ratt
, but there's enough here to whet the appetite of anyone who came of age in the '80s, and quite possibly induce them into going on a full-on Hit Parader binge. ~ James Christopher Monger