In 24 hours this thread has garnered more responses than the metal thread down the folder gets in a week. Not sure how to take that one, but at least no one's started the nu-metal thread (yet)
Anyways, my opinion with this is the same as any genre, namely that there's no good or bad genres, just goods and bads within each genre. There's some songs I still listen to and enjoy, and others which I remember liking as a kid but now make me turn my nose up... and it's not just a nostalgia thing either, as I occasionally listen to Dee Snider's House of Hair show and find some good songs that I missed way back in the day.
Also, Skid Row is not hair metal. They're part of a group of bands (like GNR) that happened to come out at the same time hair metal was big and so they get lumped together despite being stylistically different. Songs like "Youth Gone Wild" and "18 and Life" were not similar to the likes of the Warrants, Poisons, Cinderellas and other HM bands with which they shared airtime on late-afternoon MTV in the late 80's, and I even recognized that when I was 9. Their music had a much harder edge to it, and their looks and lyrics for the most part had that "tough kids" image going that was definitely not shared by HM.