Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue

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We must say goodbye to Hair Metal Week at The Lost Soul of Rock and Roll. Don't worry kids, I will post more hair metal clips in the future. You know I'm a dreamer, right? The song of the day for November 9, 2012 is 'Home Sweet Home' by Motley Crue. This song was released in 1985 on the album Theatre of Pain.

Cheesy hair ballad? Check. Tommy Lee wearing a jock-strap while playing piano? Check. Typical 80's overindulgent hair metal concert footage? Check. We have something special today, kids. Hair Metal Week comes to an end with the poster children for everything hair metal. Motley Crue set the bar high for coked-up makeup wearing dudes playing the most awesome hair metal possible. 'Home Sweet Home' was their best ballad and it is one of my favorite songs by the Crue. If anyone wants to know why Grunge became so popular then look no further than the catalog of Motley Crue.Enjoy the hair metal.

House of Pain by Faster Pussycat

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Welcome back to Hair Metal Week at The Lost Soul of Rock & Roll. I ain't trying to fake it and I want you to know that the song of the day for November 8, 2012 is 'House of Pain' by Faster Pussycat. This song was released in 1989 and is featured on the album Wake Me When It's Over.

Did you know that the video for 'House of Pain' was directed by Michael Bay? I love hair metal videos, because they are completely outrageous. We have the black and white film with the flashbacks of the good ol' days with wife beater daddy. Did that mom in the video rent out the basement to Faster Pussycat to pay the bills when daddy bailed? The ending is unintentionally hilarious. The harmonica holding kid grows up to be a leather jacket wearing tough-guy and drops off the harmonica to his old man. The kid tries to walk out, but looks back at daddy one last time and the video ends. God, that was awful. Let us exit this 'House of Pain' and enter this House of Pain. Awwww yeah!

Love Song by Tesla

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Hair Metal Week will never die at The Lost Soul of Rock and Roll. Love is all around you, my faithful followers. The song of the day for November 7, 2012 is 'Love Song' by Tesla. This song was a major hit for the band in 1989, and was on the album The Great Radio Controversy. 

Ah, Tesla. I was a fan of this band back in the day. Five Man Acoustical Jam was on heavy rotation when I was a senior in high school. 'Love Song' was one of those popular hair metal ballads, and I'm certain there is some guy in the middle of a midlife crisis rocking out to this song right now in his Camaro. I like this song, but sometimes I can do without the minute and a half intro. It's cool, but someone in the recording studio should have taken charge and said, "Cut that intro shit in half, bro". Enjoy.

I Remember You by Skid Row

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Sorry folks, I am not doing an Election Week at the Lost Soul of Rock and Roll. I'm here to rock and not get all political on my followers. Welcome to Hair Metal Week, boys and girls. Remember yesterday? The song of the day is 'I Remember You' by Skid Row. This song was on their 1989 eponymous debut album.

This song is a guilty pleasure. The Skid Row album was the hotness back in '89 and '90 due to the popularity of tunes like '18 and Life' and 'I Remember You'. My wife was playing some Skid Row on Friday night and it inspired me to have a hair metal week at this site. Haters gonna hate, but my love of rock and roll goes into the hair metal universe.

Songs like 'I Remember You' were perfect for teen angst back in the late 80s and early 90s. There was the girl you liked in high school, but you saw her wearing some other dude's varsity jacket at the mall. Maybe there was a boy that you liked at work, but he started dating the bitchy girl who referred to you as "fat". What do you do? You play 'I Remember You' over and over until the pain goes away. You know you screamed along with Sebastian Bach at this point. Enjoy!