Skid Row

Thankfully they're all readily available now.

Some were relegated to B-sides; others became career-defining hits.

Here are 15 times bands shouted themselves out in songs or referenced their moniker in another way. Some of the bands did it in more than one song.

During an interview with Billboard, Sebastian Bach apologized for the relationship he once had with actress Christina Applegate.

There's way more substance here than haters would lead you to believe.

They flopped commercially, but it wasn't for a lack of quality.

It was the decade of the guitar hero — but sometimes one wasn't enough.

The genre's best bands had a penchant for reinvention — making this list especially difficult.

The subgenre packed a harder punch than its detractors were willing to admit.

Are these bands hair metal or not? History lumps them into the subgenre, but there's some arguments to be made against it!