Iron Maiden, “The Wasted Years”
Ozzy Osbourne, “Bark at the Moon”
Triumph, “Fight the Good Fight”
Kiss, “I Love it Loud”
Kiss, “Creatures of the Night”
Def Leppard, “Bringin’ On the Heartbreak”
Aldo Nova, “Fantasy”
Zebra, “Tell Me What You Want”
Zebra, “Who’s Behind the Door?” (starts off mellow, but picks up nicely)
Blue Oyster Cult, “Burnin’ for You”
Somehow I think doom metal might not quite fit the mold he’s trying to fill. 
Lots of great suggestions here. Here are some more that I would include in a definitive 80s metal playlist:
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[li]Dokken- Breaking the Chains[/li][li]Dokken- Into the Fire[/li][li]Europe- The Final Countdown[/li][li]Krokus- Headhunter[/li][li]Sammy Hagar- Heavy Metal (he was better as a soloist than as the frontman for Van [del]Hagar[/del] Halen)[/li][li]Sammy Hagar- I Can’t Drive 55 [/li][li]Skid Row- 18 and Life[/li][li]W.A.S.P.- I Wanna Be Somebody[/li][li]W.A.S.P.- Wildchild[/li][li]Warrant- Cherry Pie[/li][li]Winger- Headed for a Heartbreak[/li][/ul]
On an related note, you can download **Metallica ** from Napster, but you need to pay by song. You can download like every **Iron Maiden ** album though.
You do seem a bit light in the **Van Halen ** area.
You could also do with a bit more **Dio ** and Priest
And what the FUCK man?!! No Alice Cooper?
Man, that thing makes me cry every time.
Def Leppard --Rock of Ages is essential (off Pyromania as mentioned) as an ode to rock and roll
Slade – My Oh My, Run Runaway
Forgot one – “Yankee Rose”, by David Lee Roth.
Speaking of Roth, msmith is right about the untapped Van Halen. Check out “And the Cradle Will Rock”, “Everybody Wants Some”, “Top Jimmy”, and “Ice Cream Man”.
Alice Cooper - Poison and Love’s A Loaded Gun
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“Shot Through the Heart” is a midtempo song fron their self-titled first release, and not a bad song at that.
“You Give Love a Bad Name” is the popular song from “Slippery When Wet.”
You want Bon Jovi? You want the entire A-side of “New Jersey.” You want “Raise Your Hands,” “Social Disease,” and “Let it Rock” from Slippery, you want “In and Out of Love” from 7800, and you want “Bounce” from the album of that name.
And where in the name of Aqua Net is your Poison? Especially their cover of “Your Mama Don’t Dance,” “Fallen Angel,” “Look What the Cat Dragged In,” “#1 Bad Boy,” “Unskinny Bop,” and “Ride the Wind.”
You want “Shelter Me” and “Gypsy Road” from Cinderella.
You want “Easy Come, Easy Go” from Winger. You may also want “Little Dirty Blonde.”
You want “You’re the Only Hell Your Mama Ever Raised” and “Cherry Pie” from Warrant.
You want “Poison” from Alice Cooper. REALLY underrated.
You want “Don’t Treat Me Bad,” “Lover’s Lane,” and “Shake and Tumble” from Firehouse.
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As has been mentioned you gotta have some KISS, & Alice Cooper
You absolutely have to get some Akka Dakka (That’s AC/DC to the uninitiated ) If you want some specific suggestions for them go with -
- Long way to the Top
- Jailbreak
- TNT
- Dirty Deeds (done dirt cheap)
- Back in Black
- For those about to Rock
- Thunderstruck (personal favourite of mine)
If you’ll try a little Aussie hard rock, try The Angels - they have plenty of good stuff but their “known for” tunes are -
- Am I ever Going to See your Face Again
- ShadowBoxer
- Dogs are Talking
While you’re on the Oz Rock go Khe Sanh by Cold Chisel.
You’ve got some Def Leppard there, but I don’t see their track “Rocket” on your list.
Already mentioned but I’d agree with Dokken (“In My Dreams” is one of my favorite songs of their’s) and Queensryche “Operation Mindcrime”, their best work in my opinion.
I also like some of Great White’s 80s stuff.
What Dio and Judas Priest is must have?
Never a big Dio fan myself (Holy Diver is the only one I know offhand).
For Priest:
My primary recommendation is “Priest…Live!” Tons of great songs and they sound great live; the studio versions feel a little flat after listening to Live.
“British Steel” and “Screaming For Vengeance” have plenty of good stuff. Other albums include “Hell Bent For Leather”, “Turbo”, “Ram It Down”, “Rocka Rolla”, “Point Of Entry” and “Painkiller” (check Amazon or someplace for a good discography), you’ll have to listen to them and see what appeals as workout music. I didn’t think much of “Jugulator” which they released when Rob Halford left the band. “Angel Of Retribution”, their new album now that they’re one big happy family again, is quite good but much of the music is more operatic (once you’ve listened to a bunch of Priest you’ll see what I mean, they do some extremely hard/fast stuff and also really big slower tunes), I wouldn’t crank up a tune like “Loch Ness” while hitting the weights.
“Rainbow in the Dark” is his other best-known song.
I am a sad case in that I am a 33 year old preppie consultant that has a two hour commute everyday and I listen to 80’s metal for at least half of it almost every single day. I know how to party like it is 1988 I tell you.
Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction is the seminal piece if work for 1980’s style metal in my not so humble opinion. You need the whole thing really but you need to add Paradise City and Welcome to the Jungle badly. Sweet Child of Mine remains in my top 3 greatest songs ever.
Def Leppard is an unusual case for the reason listed above. They aren’t even really heavy metal exactly and they never really excelled at any one thing above all the other greats. However, Hysteria was the first album that made me shut up about albums being a ripoff because 3/4s of it is filler. Hysteria is a great album and you should get all or most of it. Pour Some Sugar on me is a song from them that you might recognize.
You are light on the Motely Crue. Their very early stuff is sometimes Satanic and rough around the edges but you need some of their later work. Wild Side, Home Sweet Home (ballad), and Dr. Feelgood are good places to start although Girls, Girls, Girls is all metal and fast paced although true metalheads consider it too poppy.
Yeah, when I said I had enough Guns N’ Roses what I meant was I have the whole Appetite for Destruction album. You are right, it is gold. Def Leopard Hysteria you say huh? I’ll take a listen. For some reason I’ve been avoiding Motely Crue. I think I don’t like Tommy Lee for beating up women or something. Then again, didn’t they all? I should know better than to trust the showbiz rumor factory. Girls, girls girls it is.
If you can find it, get all four volumes of “Youth Gone Wild: Heavy Metal Hits of the 80’s.” It’s one of the best collections I’ve found, and introduces you to bands you may not have heard otherwise. Volume 2 is my favorite, but it looks like only Volume 1 is still in print at the moment. You may be able to scare them up at used cd shops or Ebay though.
That being said, here are my contributions to the thread:
“Ace of Spades” – Motorhead
“Over My Head” – King’s X
“I’m Onto You” – Hurricane
“Rock Me” – Great White
“L.O.V.E. Machine” - W.A.S.P.
“All The Time In the World” and “Hollywood” – Junkyard
“Guilty” – Tora Tora
“Life Loves a Tragedy” – Poison
“Breakin’ the Chains” and “It’s Not Love” – Dokken (though “Heaven Sent” is a good ballad)
“Rattlesnake Kisses” and “The Drinking Song” – Electric Angels
“East Coast Rose” – by Lord Tracy
"Fool For Your Lovin’ " and “Still of the Night” – Whitesnake
“Somebody Save Me” – Cinderella (And I second the suggestions for “Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart At the Seams” and “Shelter Me” by Cinderella as well.)
And being as you mentioned you love the Scorpions, get “The Zoo.”
Oh, and a very small nitpick. “Someone Like You” is by Bang Tango, not Bango Tango. But it does kick ass. Love that bass line.
Dokken, Krokus and W.A.S.P. 
Hi, 14 year old me. That shit was always in my Walkman.
I had a W.A.S.P. poster (that was also one of their album covers, IIRC) that had the four band members heads on stakes. . .dripping blood. Awesome.
I’d love to see one of these emo bands try to pull that off today. . .the 4 dorks from Chemical Romance with their bloody heads on stakes.
It occured to me, Christopher, that you might enjoy some acts that might not necessarily be considered “metal”, but have a lot in common musically with metal.
One that came to mind is Billy Squier. “Stroke Me” is his most famous song by far, but he’s got a bunch of nice guitar rock in his repetoire: “In the Dark”, “Lonely Is The Night”, “My Kinda Lover”, “Everybody Wants You”. “Rock Me Tonight” is a solid track, but might have too heavy of a synthesizer sound to go with a metal collection.
Do you like instrumental guitar-virtuoso music? Perhaps the collections of Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, or Joe Satriani would be of interest.
Montrose. You might have heard “Rock Candy” or “Bad Motor Scooter”, but my favorite from the self-titled Montrose album is “Make it Last”.
Judas Priest. My must have is British Steel and Hell Bent for Leather. Both are the essential Priest IMHO.
Ted Nugent. Cat Scratch Fever, anything but the title track. The rest of the album is much better than that song. Also Double Live Gonzo and Free For All, anything else is a waste IMHO.
Nazareth. Classics, Vol. 16. “This Flight Tonight”, “Shanghai’d in Shanghai”, “Razamanaz”, “Go Down Fighting”, all rockin’ songs.