Hair Metal Friday is back again, this time with EVEN LESS TALENT and WAY MORE PARTY VIBES!

Our first matchup pits Ratt and its woefully-underseeded 6-seed “Round and Round” against a power ballad/rocker hybrid, 11-seed “Love Song” by Tesla. This one could go either way, but it won’t.

In the second frame, it would be nigh impossible for any matchup in any bracket in any region that we have ever done or will ever do, to accumulate less talent between two bands that we have here between Poison and Cinderella! It’s the absolutely trashy 3-seed Golgothan hit, “Nothin’ but a Good Time” against the annoyingly-whiny 14-seed power ballad “Don’t Know What You Got (Till [sic] It’s Gone).” If you can make it to the end of this one, you are truly earning your Hair Metal merit badge!

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