The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty ... and Tesla are not on this list. While, yes, some of these groups made massively successful pop-tinged metal albums ...

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Maybe they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. That could have been the case during the 1980s for these 20 bands, listed in alphabetical order.

If you were rocking in the 1980s and 1990s ... Which '80s and '90s rock bands should have been bigger? Admittedly there are more than the bands who made this list, but here are a few choices ...

Hopefully these nods to some of the era's biggest and brightest bands helped legitimize hair metal in the eyes of the critical establishment and will pave the way for similar inductions in the future.

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