The few times I’ve been to strip joints – okay, maybe eight or nine – it seemed that about 90% of the music the women disrobed to was 1980s-era hair rock.
So, why is hair rock the preferred music among strippers? What makes it more appropriate for stripping than other forms of rock?
It’s fast enough to dance sexy to and it’s got that party music quality.
80’s hair rock made me think of strippers before I’d even seen one. I suppose because of the videos. It does tend to be slow enough to “strut” to, but fast enough to dance, and it has a pretty strong rhythm and often “Cherry Pie”-ish overtones.
I once saw a stripper do her thing to a Meatloaf song. I think it was “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” but it might have been “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth”. Either way it scarred me for life. Big no no, that one.
Somebody had a hilarious story about “Ghostbusters” at the infamous Claremont Lounge, I’m not sure whether it was here or elsewhere - if it’s here I hope they find this thread. 
Worst stripper music ever: Some friends were walking past a (straight) strip clup from which they heard…
“Mmm Bop.”
One turned to the other in horror and said, “That’s … that’s pedophilia by proxy!”
The last time I went to our local boob establishment, there was a girl who came out rockin’ Sparta. I tipped her $5 for having good taste in music.
I think crap-metal is just made for stripping…bad guitar solos and all the songs are about fast, dangerous women (or, poking said women.)
I just want to say that I agree. Strippers and hair both rock. Can’t imagine life without either one. 
It’s the slow-paced 4/4 beat.
I think the hair-rock is there to appeal to the clientele, although the stripper I know seems to like it too.
She likes dancing to the Cult and AC/DC (they’re not full-on hair rock, but in that league).
And there are not many songs on this list that you could strip to without looking like an idiot.
Girls, girls, girls!!!
In general, rock and roll is my favorite music to strip to. You can’t go wrong with raunchy guitar licks. It’s that whole “sex, drugs and rock 'n roll” thing. Live fast, die young, blah blah. There was a four or five page thread about this a month or so ago.
You don’t think Vertigo would be a good one? I bet plenty of songs on that list are in constant rotation. A good dancer can dance to anything and make it look good.
I WISH the strippers around my area danced to hair metal. Not that it’s my favourite music, but it beats the crap out of the pseudo-hip hop/R&B crap that seems to be the standard fare these days.
Frankly, I’d like to see just one girl come out and do some slow, sultry moves to Sinatra’s “The Last Dance” or a decent version of “Fever”. Old-school burlesque. I’d tip for that.
Or - and I’m really dreaming here - an actual BAND. Can you imagine strippers dancing to live music? Or if they could actually DANCE? I know, I know, I’ve lost touch with reality. I’ll be happy that I live in an area that allows full nudity and lapdances…
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While that is a remarkably horrible song to strip to, this board has already scientifically determined that the actual quantifiable Worst Stripper Music Ever is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Sorry.
I’m pretty sure it’s because any music after 1992 kill old guys’ boners.
It all depends on where you go … I have a former SIL who’s a dancer, and most of the places she has worked play hip hop/R&B/pop type music. There’s a club on the south side that specializes in only rock-n-roll from the 60s on up till today.
You should really distinguish '80s hair rock (Whitesnake, Poison, RATT) from butt/mullet rock (Journey, R.E.O. Speedwagon, Loverboy).
What’s a butt mullet?
Sounds like something that would require a little extra effort during regular hygeine.
U2 makes the baby Bruce cry. They can’t even count right.