TangoCharlie

Has nobody heard this album?

Very raw glam/sleaze!

Take a listen...

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/sleeping-in-omaha/id775195372?i=775195461

Angry Machines - Dio

Voice of Reason -

Harem Scarem

Like this album. Although since they reformed after Hard Rain, they lost that 'instant' thing. None of their songs grab me on first listen but instead they slowly grow.

This album is worth sticking with. Good production and sounds better with each listen!!

Gotto laugh at Classic Rock's review…
"Magnum have been at it so long now they are starting to resemble little bearded elves, as featured in Rodney Matthews superb covers"

With Classic Rock Magazine calling Def Leppard's 'Slang' their 'grunge' album, it got me thinking about other bands they have down-tuned and jumped on the bandwagon.

Albums I can remember

Def Lep -'Slang' (really like it. More Zeppelin than grunge?)

Warrant -Ultraphobic (some great tracks and a killer ballad on there)

Kiss - 'Carnival of Souls' (never sure about this one!)

White Lion -'Freak of Nature' (ok so not really WL but twisting their elements. Loved it!)

Glenn Hughes -Addiction (contained some killer tunes. One of his best IMO)

Should they have bothered? Can you add any? Opinions of the above?

I like this song. Reminds me of the old 80's days. Rough production but the song stands up. And it's fun!!!

I quite like. I am amazed the ep has the same big production sound as most other TT releases. This is obviously without Pepsi. Have they kept a producer or engineer from the past? Their unique sound is still in there!

I think the big difference with Gotthard is that a) they had no choice but to change singers. and the vocals on Firebirth are so close to Steves, it makes it an easy transition.

The replacements in Skid Row and Warrant (I cant comment on Edens Curse) made them sound like a totally different band.

While Bon Scott and Brian Johnson do not sound alike, there was enough similarities in their style that the transition was easy, and there was no change in musical style which helped. When Hagar replaced Roth or Dio replaced Osbourne, the bands changed their musical style completely. Not every band can do this.

Gotthard not only stuck with a similar sound, they also went with a similar sounding vocalist.

But with Gotthard it wasnt really a worry of would they be able to recover from losing a vocalist, it was whether they could recover from losing one of their main song writers (something in my mind that Warrant never recovered from).

 

A very wise post. Some great points about bands who have replaced their main men!

I'm in love with the opening track! It's a good song with a top notch production! i haven't heard drums that loud since Creatures of the Night by Kiss!

Rise Up EPK:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmWBOtKhzVY

I think they should have used the same method as they did on the debut! So far the tracks I am hearing are not as instant and sound far too much JSS than W.E.T. I hope I am wrong!

I loved loved loved their Bad Sneakers and a Pina Colada album but every album after that lost something for me.

 

So, to summarise, you loved them when they sucked and hated them when they actually became a good band? Cool. Different, but cool.

Thats your way of looking at it.

What was wrong with Bad Sneakers and a Pina Colada? There are some good fast paced, memorable songs on there.

 

Honestly mate, this album, 'Thank you' and 'No regrets' are the reasons why I was probably about 5 years behind everyone else in actually liking the s/t disc.

 

Like you, I actually followed this band from the start when the "nu-breed" craze hit around 2000. I thought these guys were pretty decent compared to their peers in the early stages, but then bands like SR-71, Marvelous 3, Cauterize and The Donots (for example), who were their peers at the time, were all making - in my opinion - classic CDs, and these guys were producing, comparatively, two bit pieces of shit. And this is where I lost interest in bands like this and Buckcherry, because they just didn't cut it.

 

Then suddenly in 2005 everyone's raving about Hardcore Superstar and I'm all like, but that band suck. By that time I think they were the boy who cried wolf to me, and I'm not sure when I actually even gave the s/t album a fair go, as I was so down on the band. I think it wasn't until they released 'Dreamin' in a casket' that I took notice again and actually went back to the s/t disc and said yeah, these guys actually came good. And by then bands like Crashdiet and Crazy Lixx were their peers, and their change in style was no doubt the best thing they ever did.

Makes a lot lot of sense.

I saw Backyard Babies as their rivals. Many of my friends were into BB whilst I favoured Hardcore Superstar.

I loved loved loved their Bad Sneakers and a Pina Colada album but every album after that lost something for me.

 

So, to summarise, you loved them when they sucked and hated them when they actually became a good band? Cool. Different, but cool.

Thats your way of looking at it.

What was wrong with Bad Sneakers and a Pina Colada? There are some good fast paced, memorable songs on there.

Sure, details are all here

http://www.hrhaor.com/

Two of my current fav bands will be there..

The Morning After and Vega.

Also Tesla, Dante Fox, Ten and loads more!!!

I loved loved loved their Bad Sneakers and a Pina Colada album but every album after that lost something for me.

You can't say Gary Glitter any more can you? But similar!

Love the album. i was just going to sing it's praises when I saw this thread!! Very solid glam production and good songs. The lead vocals are the slight weak link but they have a certain charm. They remind me a little of 80's band Candy.

Who produced the album cos it's sonically great! the drum sound works!!

I'm playing this party album every day!!

Funnily enough, 'Don't come Easy' came onto my huge random iPod! Great song! I miss HS!

I love the bass sound on this album! So many albums lately have that bottom end missing!

Who plays bass for LA Guns nowadays? Some good work!

it is a killer intro! That scream and the guitar! Love this track! They are going full pelt as they get older!!

Good work Mr Lewis!

Just hearing the new LA Guns album, Hollywood Forever.

It is classy sleaze glam, as you would expect!

But wow!! Opening track and the title of the album sounds like it's vintage Blackie Lawless singing.

Check it out...

Good thane them back. Shame they cancelled their UK tour though!!

I love their complete lack of irony! i find that refreshing these days!

They play super-fast and seeing them live is pure entertainment!

And let's here it for their drummer! How the hell does he maintain that speed?

Gasp, it's finally official after I rated this album tonight. There is actually a worse album is 2012 than Van Halen.

 

I'm actually kind of sad. An evil part of me really actually wanted to see - in my opinion - Van Halen come in at the bottom of my list in 2012 for that atrocity of a new album. But alas, it is not to be.

 

I rated that Van Halen album a 39%, but I am sad to report that there is a worse album is 2012... so far. And that belongs to these clueless c*nts in Europe... the band. Coming in at a (rather generous, imo) 34% I do actually think that 'Bag of Bones' is even worse than Van Halen's new heap of shit.

 

Like I said in another thread, I cannot fathom who this album is meant to appeal to. I genuinely really have no idea who their target audience is. It's clearly not their 80's fans. And no other current bands are stupid enough to play this type of shit, so they can't be trying to appeal to new modern rock fans. So who is it? Who the f*ck is this f*cking shit meant to appeal to? I guess it can only be the dreamers out there holding onto the worst music of all that was produced in the mid to late 90's? I don't know, that's my only guess. Either way, these guys are just stupid. Plain and simple. Not just because I personally hate their new album, but because it is a stupid album and I can't believe the guys in the band are not aware of how bad it actually is.

 

Anyway, it goes without saying that this is Europe's worst album and I am truly disgusted with the band. If I'd actually paid money for this I'd spit on it, urinate on it, stomp on it and then grind the pieces of the shattered CD into sand-sized particles and set fire to the area.

 

C*nts.

Shame! They speak very highly of you!

So I take it you don't like them?

There are plenty that do like them and are pleased they are not stuck in their poodle perms playing thin AOR.

Extremes aside (of course the Europe site is the other side of the scale) a balanced view is found here..

http://www.amazon.co...howViewpoints=1

I wished they played London and the UK more! The big one was when they came over but without CC and had that Native Tongue album out. Not a bad album but not the Poison I liked.

Before that they were due to come over with Def Leppard to promote their debut but that fell through.

Pretty poor band nowadays though. Brett is slogging the name, anyone buy his tribute to Poison?! Shockingly bad! A rap version of Unskinny Bop anyone?

I still rate their debut as a classic of the time and won't forget the first time I say the 'Talk Dirty to Me' video!

Is she still with the Nitro guy? He destroyed her last album!

And i got fed up of her on twitter telling everyone how many times he'd shagged her last night etc!