CureTheSane

Listened to this album today. Reminds me of Danger Danger. Maybe D2 light. Or Cockroach time D2 It was OK, but very syrupy for me. I'll give a few more listens and see how it goes, but I was disappointed overall, maybe because this thread built it up so much...

Jack Reacher, because the new one is about to come out and I wanted to refresh. Great movie, little light on the Jason Bourne type action. Hoping the next one is a bit more intense.

I'd never heard this band before, so I'm coming in fresh as far as the vocals and sound goes. I'll have to check out the older staff

Just found this album (and band) at Sleaze Roxx Always great to discover a new band like this. I suspect this is probably the first album this year that will get a constant play , not wanting to hear anything else for a while - high praise. Some songs get about as close to AOR as I like to get, Heavy keyboards would have killed it for me, but some really really good stuff here.

I'll still give it a go. By all rights I should hate Bai Bang, but maybe the timing was right and I was open to that type of music. Can be subjective as well, I could say that pretty much all AOR needs more balls, but that's just the genre and it fits a large demographic. I just stay away from most of it.

Stop it Vince. You're drunk. haha, Vince Neil proving not only that anyone can sing Motley songs, but they can sing them better than him.

Sold!

Here's one you haven't heard for a while. Nice song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnM9WEha5E0

Wan gonna post Gene The Werewolf - If You Want Me, or The Best I Can but they're so new that they aren't on Youtube yet. Found this one though... Nice karaoke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLde9KsniTo

Watched this again because it's a kick ass movie. Supposed to be a sequel soon, hope that happens. Saw a trailer for Jack Reacher 2 the other day Look forward to that as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllJtOw0USI

More of a broad description for some 'soul' being added I guess.

If you like gospel. Yeah, I do. Hard rock songs with some gospel in them are cool. Stand by Poison Let Me Live - Queen even other songs like Black Or White - Michael Jackson

Yeah, that's cool.

As long as his business commitments are VERY important lol

Was that the Calder Park gig? cause I was there. I really enjoy the two Aussie's bands who supported them, they were Horsehead and Rose Tattoo. Yeah. Not sure why I didn't go, was a long time ago. Don't really regret it. I missed Motley on the Dr. Feelgood tour for some reason. That one I really regret

Never really did Metallica. My wife liked them way more than I did and she's generally into hipster or mainstream music. I guess she had a metal phase and ended up there/ But to me it was always pretty shit. I like the ballads and the radio songs, but that's about it. This new song is exactly why I don't like them. There are people here who's taste varies between heavy synth lollypop AOR and screamo death metal. I guess my taste aren't quite so varied in the genre.....

GNR toured once years ago in a mudpit outdoor concert. Didn't go, and soon after saw the Use Your Illusion Live DVD's and all I remember was that they were very average on video, so god knows what they were like at a standard non recorded show. For that reason, I doubt I';; catch this new tour next year.

I was in London when Robbie Williams released Escapology. The first single was pounded in to my head from the flight over through the whole trip. In the end I grew to love the song, Feel, and bought the CD on its merits. When I got home I listened over and over and loved it, then started exploring some of his older stuff which I'd largely ignored aside from Let Me Entertain You (where he wears Gene makeup) and Angels. Soon after that he toured, and I though "what the hell and ventured out to see him" Amazing show. From half naked girls, to theatrics and Dee Snider like energy. I still refer to it as the 3rd best concert I've seen. Another one would be Def Leppard who I saw last year. Had never seen them before and kind of expected them to be a bit old and over it. Aside from Phil all oiled up and strutting around, the show was really great. You could tell they'd been touring a while and knew what they were doing. Played most of the songs they needed to and had a lot of energy.

As mentioned in another thread, Tesla didn't light a fire under me. Once I saw The Angels at a pub, a few years before Doc passed. They were boring as hell, didn't talk to the audience, and just went through the motions. Motley on the tour where they had the industrial set up with saws and shit. Found out how bad Vince now was at singing. Meat Loaf maybe 12 years ago. Hadn't seen him before and he changed all his songs so the crowd felt like idiots singing along way out of place with him - that kinda sucked

Just had another listen, and it's not bad. Sometimes songs come and go. It took me ages to get in to Twice Shy, aside from Once Bitten Twice Shy I left God Of Thunder off all Kiss mixes I made because it took me 20 years or more to like the song Still trying to learn to like I Still Love You - don't know if I'll get there....

Really like this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgY5IJv9zK4

To give you an idea Glen, here's my compilation... There are only a few bands with this many songs that I really like - Kiss & Iron Maiden would be obvious ones Motley, GNR, Def Lep etc all come in around the mid 30's 01 Gimme Some Lovin'.mp3 02 Rock Me.mp3 03 All Over Now.mp3 04 Never Change Heart.mp3 05 On The Edge.mp3 06 Save Your Love.mp3 07 Hiway Nights.mp3 08 The Angel Song.mp3 09 Baby's On Fire.mp3 10 House Of Broken Love.mp3 11 She Only.mp3 12 Once Bitten Twice Shy.mp3 13 Wasted Rock Ranger.mp3 14 Call It Rock N' Roll.mp3 15 The Original Queen Of Sheba.mp3 16 Cold Hearted Lovin'.mp3 17 Can't Shake It.mp3 18 Lovin' Kind.mp3 19 South Bay Cities.mp3 20 Desert Moon.mp3 21 Afterglow.mp3 22 Psycho City.mp3 23 Step On You.mp3 24 Old Rose Motel.mp3 25 Maybe Someday.mp3 26 Big Goodbye.mp3 27 Doctor Me.mp3 28 I Want You.mp3 29 Never Trust A Pretty Face.mp3 30 Love Is A Lie.mp3 31 Get On Home.mp3 32 A Short Overture.mp3 33 Mother's Eyes.mp3 34 Cryin'.mp3 35 Momma Don't Stop.mp3 36 Alone.mp3 37 All Right.mp3 38 Sail Away.mp3 39 Livin' In The USA.mp3 40 If I Ever Saw A Good Thing.mp3 41 Lil' Mama.mp3 42 Where Is The Love.mp3 43 Hand On The Trigger.mp3 44 Easy.mp3 45 Pain Overload.mp3 46 Lives In Chains.mp3 47 Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady.mp3 48 Miles Away.mp3 49 Ain't No Shame.mp3 50 Silent Night.mp3 51 In The Tradition.mp3 52 Freedom Song.mp3 53 Sister Mary.mp3 54 Loveless Age.mp3 55 Love Removal Machine.mp3 56 Again And Again.mp3 57 No Matter What.mp3 58 Here Goes My Head Again.mp3 59 Play On.mp3 60 Was It The Night.mp3 61 I'm Alive.mp3 62 Standin' On The Edge.mp3

I thought "meh" at first, but it kind of grew on me.

I'd start with Rock Me - a classic epic with tempo and mood changes Lil' Mama is your up tempo rocker For a ballad I'd go with Love Is A Lie, but that song won't be for everybody (but I love the piano in it - reminds me of the bit at the end of Layla) so in place of that maybe Miles Away - a cool song about being out on the road.

Interesting, for me it would be the S/T and Shot In The Dark and some of Once Bitten. I find it interesting that every release or at least it seems has a cover song on it. Yeah, that just tweaked for me. Curethesane, are you saying you enjoy their music more from 'Hooked' onwards, than the albums before 'Hooked?' If so, that'd be wild. IMO, their best albums by a massive distance are s/t, 'Once Bitten' and 'Twice Shy.' Yep, Hooked really hooked me Before that it was Rock Me, All Over Now and Once Bitten Twice Shy. Over time I managed to get in to some of the other songs on those albums. There's nothing wrong with them, for me it was just timing and what I was doing at the time. Sometimes you put on a disc and are not instantly in to it, so you shelve it and never get back to it for a long time. I did try to get in to Shot In The Dark, but never could. I do love their later stuff more though, and that's just a personal thing Love Is A Lie Psycho City All Right Cryin' Lil' Mama Sister Mary I'm Alive Miles Away Another great cover is Love Removal Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3px4LUeX8