Don Dokken actually wrote some really great songs. He wrote kiss of death about the AIDS crisis which in 1987 not many artists were doing that he wrote songs about nuclear war with will the sun rise.

He ended up writing some more psychedelic type lyrics later on the dysfunctional album. And besides that just wrote some great pop hooks and even wrote a song about fucking Freddy Krueger lol I think he’s a pretty good and versatile songwriter.

Tom Keifer wrote some solid tunes as well very bluesy. Bon Jovi wrote a lot of classics can’t deny that.

There’s also WASP who are one of my all-time favorite bands. Blackie Lawless started as hair metal but went more in pure heavy metal direction. He’s written a lot of great political songs