Write off our list of The Best ... you to believe. Hair metal — glam metal, pop-metal, whatever you want to call it — was never a huge hit with critics, and power ballads were perhaps the ...

Everybody loves power ballads, whether or not ... some of the biggest hits of the ‘80s, including Heart’s “Alone” (found elsewhere on this list). In 1988, they collaborated with the ...

and Tesla are not on this list. While, yes, some of these groups made massively successful pop-tinged metal albums during the '80s, they were either already successfully established hard-rock acts ...