1990 - best albums

Geoff · July 31, 2015

Yeah mate, definitely to each their own.

Just on the two songs you mention there, here's my take:

'Four on the floor' is a pointless, thoughtless hard rock song with no development to me at all, imo. It's the kind of 80's hard rock song I really dislike. Just that fast rubbishy song with no purpose at all. That type of song would normally get a 2-3 from me, but the vocals probably bring this one up a little higher for me. To me the chorus is probably slightly better than 'Skin to skin...' maybe, just. But not much more.

As for 'Skin to skin,' I agree the chorus is a simple pass & go line repeated. But, the verses in that song are absolutely killer. I absolutely love the groove and the backing vocals. It would be a really killer tune with a slightly better chorus. There's just nothing at all redeeming about 'Four on the floor' though, imo. It's a waste and any band with instruments could record it.

Nightrain · July 31, 2015

@chisel_chin : okay will try to sample your recommendation and see if I dig it as well, thanks mate

Nightrain · August 7, 2015

new ratings added

ALIAS s/t AOR Capitol 87.3%
48 CRASH Some Like It Hot Hard Rock Fortune Records 86.1%
VIXEN Rev It Up Melodic Rock EMI 85.5%
BOYSTOWN Angels With Dirty Faces AOR Ironhorse Records 80.3%
EXTREME II Pornografitti Funk / Hard Rock A & M 79.8%
EXHORDER Slaughter at The Vatican Thrash Metal Roadrunner 72.0%
SALTY DOG Every Dog Has Its Day Blues / Hard Rock Geffen 71.0%
BURNING TREE s/t Blues / Hard Rock Epic 70.6%
WARRIOR SOUL Last Decade Dead Century Hard Rock Geffen 55.7%

kourosofsteel3 · August 7, 2015

new ratings added

ALIAS s/t AOR Capitol 87.3%

48 CRASH Some Like It Hot Hard Rock Fortune Records 86.1%

VIXEN Rev It Up Melodic Rock EMI 85.5%

BOYSTOWN Angels With Dirty Faces AOR Ironhorse Records 80.3%

EXTREME II Pornografitti Funk / Hard Rock A & M 79.8%

EXHORDER Slaughter at The Vatican Thrash Metal Roadrunner 72.0%

SALTY DOG Every Dog Has Its Day Blues / Hard Rock Geffen 71.0%

BURNING TREE s/t Blues / Hard Rock Epic 70.6%

WARRIOR SOUL Last Decade Dead Century Hard Rock Geffen 55.7%

What about Pretty Maids+ Yngwie?

Geoff · August 7, 2015

new ratings added

ALIAS s/t AOR Capitol 87.3%

48 CRASH Some Like It Hot Hard Rock Fortune Records 86.1%

VIXEN Rev It Up Melodic Rock EMI 85.5%

BOYSTOWN Angels With Dirty Faces AOR Ironhorse Records 80.3%

EXTREME II Pornografitti Funk / Hard Rock A & M 79.8%

EXHORDER Slaughter at The Vatican Thrash Metal Roadrunner 72.0%

SALTY DOG Every Dog Has Its Day Blues / Hard Rock Geffen 71.0%

BURNING TREE s/t Blues / Hard Rock Epic 70.6%

WARRIOR SOUL Last Decade Dead Century Hard Rock Geffen 55.7%

48 Crash almost as good as Alias? Um, okay, so, uh, yeah. O, uh, kay.

And looks like you got your numbers back to front for Salty Dog too? Should be 17% not 71%?

Gibbo · August 7, 2015

Never heard of this album :

Burning Tree - Burning Tree

Fields Of The Nephilim - Elizium

The Mission - Carved In Sand / Grains Of Sand

New Model Army - Impurity

can you elaborate on these, mate ? what kind of style they're bringing and some cool songs to check out on youtube ?

Burning Tree were an American blues-rock trio, this was their only album. Try sampling "Mistreated Lover" or "Wigs Blues And High Heeled Shoes".

New Model Army were an alternative/post-punk band from the UK. Maybe try "Whirlwind" on Youtube from this album.

Both The Mission and Fields Of The Nephilim are UK goth bands. The Mission were much more upbeat and melodic, whilst The Nephilim went more for atmosphere and effect (e.g. occult influences) and the singer has a deeper gruff voice.

Try looking for these on YouTube:

The Mission:

Butterfly On A Wheel, Into The Blue, Bird Of Passage

Fields Of The Nephilim:

For Her Light was the first single off that album, but probably best to try the album as a whole experience on Youtube as it wasn't really made with hit singles or catchy tunes in mind (although surprisingly the band often made it into the UK Top 40 charts, which is something you wouldn't get nowadays).

'Elizium' is my favourite album by FoTN ... it's one of those albums that I have to listen to ALL the way through (without skipping anything, or simply putting it on for 'background' music) ... I saw them just after they'd released their previous album ('The Nephilim'), and they were superb!

Nightrain · August 8, 2015

new ratings added

ALIAS s/t AOR Capitol 87.3%

48 CRASH Some Like It Hot Hard Rock Fortune Records 86.1%

VIXEN Rev It Up Melodic Rock EMI 85.5%

BOYSTOWN Angels With Dirty Faces AOR Ironhorse Records 80.3%

EXTREME II Pornografitti Funk / Hard Rock A & M 79.8%

EXHORDER Slaughter at The Vatican Thrash Metal Roadrunner 72.0%

SALTY DOG Every Dog Has Its Day Blues / Hard Rock Geffen 71.0%

BURNING TREE s/t Blues / Hard Rock Epic 70.6%

WARRIOR SOUL Last Decade Dead Century Hard Rock Geffen 55.7%

What about Pretty Maids+ Yngwie?

already rated earlier

PRETTY MAIDS Jump The Gun Heavy Metal Sony Music 87.5%

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Eclipse Neoclassical Polydor 85.3%

Nightrain · August 8, 2015

new ratings added

ALIAS s/t AOR Capitol 87.3%

48 CRASH Some Like It Hot Hard Rock Fortune Records 86.1%

VIXEN Rev It Up Melodic Rock EMI 85.5%

BOYSTOWN Angels With Dirty Faces AOR Ironhorse Records 80.3%

EXTREME II Pornografitti Funk / Hard Rock A & M 79.8%

EXHORDER Slaughter at The Vatican Thrash Metal Roadrunner 72.0%

SALTY DOG Every Dog Has Its Day Blues / Hard Rock Geffen 71.0%

BURNING TREE s/t Blues / Hard Rock Epic 70.6%

WARRIOR SOUL Last Decade Dead Century Hard Rock Geffen 55.7%

48 Crash almost as good as Alias? Um, okay, so, uh, yeah. O, uh, kay.

And looks like you got your numbers back to front for Salty Dog too? Should be 17% not 71%?

yeah i'm surprised 48 CRASH is really great, love that album and SALTY DOG is reasonable around that too haha

Geoff · August 8, 2015

new ratings added

ALIAS s/t AOR Capitol 87.3%

48 CRASH Some Like It Hot Hard Rock Fortune Records 86.1%

VIXEN Rev It Up Melodic Rock EMI 85.5%

BOYSTOWN Angels With Dirty Faces AOR Ironhorse Records 80.3%

EXTREME II Pornografitti Funk / Hard Rock A & M 79.8%

EXHORDER Slaughter at The Vatican Thrash Metal Roadrunner 72.0%

SALTY DOG Every Dog Has Its Day Blues / Hard Rock Geffen 71.0%

BURNING TREE s/t Blues / Hard Rock Epic 70.6%

WARRIOR SOUL Last Decade Dead Century Hard Rock Geffen 55.7%

48 Crash almost as good as Alias? Um, okay, so, uh, yeah. O, uh, kay.

And looks like you got your numbers back to front for Salty Dog too? Should be 17% not 71%?

yeah i'm surprised 48 CRASH is really great, love that album and SALTY DOG is reasonable around that too haha

Don't get me wrong - I actually like the 48 Crash album too, but they are very, very different classes of album/band, imo. For the record, I rated Alias 87% and 48 Crash 71%. That seems about right to me.

Nightrain · August 9, 2015

That seems wrong mate, although I must admit that rating came from only 2 spins because I just found out about em, I don't mind it to swing 5%, but I think 71% is just too low for me, they deserved more love

Geoff · August 9, 2015

That seems wrong mate, although I must admit that rating came from only 2 spins because I just found out about em, I don't mind it to swing 5%, but I think 71% is just too low for me, they deserved more love

2 spins? Trust me, mate, I've lived with it for about 10 year +, so I can assure you that my rating is correct.

But anyway, it's not so much the rating itself I care about... moreso the suggestion that it is basically on par with Alias. Like I said, in my eyes they're just complete different classes of band.

kourosofsteel3 · August 11, 2015

That seems wrong mate, although I must admit that rating came from only 2 spins because I just found out about em, I don't mind it to swing 5%, but I think 71% is just too low for me, they deserved more love

Buddy, you would love Gravestone (previous 48 Crash band) lps (of course their first couple ones are psych/prog rock).

Gawd, I love this anthem of pure Teutonic steele.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy_52bc1Lso

"Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”F. Nietzsche

Nightrain · August 13, 2015

Pretty good song, I like it too

I wonder if their whole album is good, but probably 48 CRASH is better ?

new ratings in today :

JON BON JOVI OST. Young Guns II AOR Phonogram 86.9%
BATON ROUGE Shake Your Soul Hard Rock Atlantic 84.1%
STEELHEART s/t Hard Rock MCA 82.3%
SCORPIONS Crazy World Hard Rock Mercury 80.7%
LYNCH MOB Wicked Sensation Hard Rock Elektra 75.0%
LOVE/HATE Blackout In The Red Room Sleaze / Hard Rock CBS 75.0%

kourosofsteel3 · August 13, 2015

Pretty good song, I like it too

I wonder if their whole album is good, but probably 48 CRASH is better ?

new ratings in today :

JON BON JOVI OST. Young Guns II AOR Phonogram 86.9%

BATON ROUGE Shake Your Soul Hard Rock Atlantic 84.1%

STEELHEART s/t Hard Rock MCA 82.3%

SCORPIONS Crazy World Hard Rock Mercury 80.7%

LYNCH MOB Wicked Sensation Hard Rock Elektra 75.0%

LOVE/HATE Blackout In The Red Room Sleaze / Hard Rock CBS 75.0%

Generally,my initial thought is that I prefer Gravestone (48 Crash has 2 godly tracks: Madeleine+ All Your Love and the great Walking In The Shadow. I have rated it recently and I will spin it again the next week, after finishing 1990+ 1980 ratings, to verify it.) because they have more great tracks (I'm not referring to their hard/psych era).I will be more certain after finishing my ratings for the years 1979-2014.

Btw, I have also rated JBJ and Baton Rouge yesterday. :lol: It was like a Kelly Keeling release party in da house the last couple days with lots of sparkling wine. Don't know its impact over my ratings, but it has 4 godly tracks (over 9/10 each of them: Walks Like a Woman, It's About Time, Melenie, There Was Time- Ha, seems like some of them were reading poetry of T.S. Eliot).

Glen · August 13, 2015

Pretty good song, I like it too

I wonder if their whole album is good, but probably 48 CRASH is better ?

new ratings in today :

JON BON JOVI OST. Young Guns II AOR Phonogram 86.9%

BATON ROUGE Shake Your Soul Hard Rock Atlantic 84.1%

STEELHEART s/t Hard Rock MCA 82.3%

SCORPIONS Crazy World Hard Rock Mercury 80.7%

LYNCH MOB Wicked Sensation Hard Rock Elektra 75.0%

LOVE/HATE Blackout In The Red Room Sleaze / Hard Rock CBS 75.0%

Without even rating it yet, i know that BITRR will be in my top 10 of 1990. Amazing sleaze album.

Geoff · August 13, 2015

Pretty good song, I like it too

I wonder if their whole album is good, but probably 48 CRASH is better ?

new ratings in today :

JON BON JOVI OST. Young Guns II AOR Phonogram 86.9%

BATON ROUGE Shake Your Soul Hard Rock Atlantic 84.1%

STEELHEART s/t Hard Rock MCA 82.3%

SCORPIONS Crazy World Hard Rock Mercury 80.7%

LYNCH MOB Wicked Sensation Hard Rock Elektra 75.0%

LOVE/HATE Blackout In The Red Room Sleaze / Hard Rock CBS 75.0%

Without even rating it yet, i know that BITRR will be in my top 10 of 1990. Amazing sleaze album.

Wowser! Really? It has a small handful of really great songs (well, two at least - 'BITRR' and 'Straightjacket'), but is the rest really that great?!

Oh, I totz just realised I'll be able to tell you myself early next week. Should get to this one very soon. Some good ones coming up in the latter part of the letter L.

Nightrain · August 14, 2015

Pretty good song, I like it too

I wonder if their whole album is good, but probably 48 CRASH is better ?

new ratings in today :

JON BON JOVI OST. Young Guns II AOR Phonogram 86.9%

BATON ROUGE Shake Your Soul Hard Rock Atlantic 84.1%

STEELHEART s/t Hard Rock MCA 82.3%

SCORPIONS Crazy World Hard Rock Mercury 80.7%

LYNCH MOB Wicked Sensation Hard Rock Elektra 75.0%

LOVE/HATE Blackout In The Red Room Sleaze / Hard Rock CBS 75.0%

Without even rating it yet, i know that BITRR will be in my top 10 of 1990. Amazing sleaze album.

Wowser! Really? It has a small handful of really great songs (well, two at least - 'BITRR' and 'Straightjacket'), but is the rest really that great?!

Oh, I totz just realised I'll be able to tell you myself early next week. Should get to this one very soon. Some good ones coming up in the latter part of the letter L.

well one problem for me with LOVE/HATE is their music is really on the verge of mixing it with alternative/grunge even though the dose of classic sleaze still a lot. Problem also lies on some weaker songs like 'Fuel To Run', 'Mary Jane', or 'Slutsy Tipsy' that drag the score down. They're not horrible by any means but perhaps 7/10 or slightly lower. I think my fave tracks here are the title track, 'Rock Queen', 'Tumbleweed', and that third single, 'Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?'

I suspect your rating should not be far off from mine Geoff and i wonder what ticks Glen so much with this one, perhaps his soundtrack of couple backseat sex during the heyday ?

Nightrain · August 14, 2015

Pretty good song, I like it too

I wonder if their whole album is good, but probably 48 CRASH is better ?

new ratings in today :

JON BON JOVI OST. Young Guns II AOR Phonogram 86.9%

BATON ROUGE Shake Your Soul Hard Rock Atlantic 84.1%

STEELHEART s/t Hard Rock MCA 82.3%

SCORPIONS Crazy World Hard Rock Mercury 80.7%

LYNCH MOB Wicked Sensation Hard Rock Elektra 75.0%

LOVE/HATE Blackout In The Red Room Sleaze / Hard Rock CBS 75.0%

Generally,my initial thought is that I prefer Gravestone (48 Crash has 2 godly tracks: Madeleine+ All Your Love and the great Walking In The Shadow. I have rated it recently and I will spin it again the next week, after finishing 1990+ 1980 ratings, to verify it.) because they have more great tracks (I'm not referring to their hard/psych era).I will be more certain after finishing my ratings for the years 1979-2014.

Btw, I have also rated JBJ and Baton Rouge yesterday. It was like a Kelly Keeling release party in da house the last couple days with lots of sparkling wine. Don't know its impact over my ratings, but it has 4 godly tracks (over 9/10 each of them: Walks Like a Woman, It's About Time, Melenie, There Was Time- Ha, seems like some of them were reading poetry of T.S. Eliot).

what's your final thought on that two albums you rated ?

kourosofsteel3 · August 14, 2015

Pretty good song, I like it too

I wonder if their whole album is good, but probably 48 CRASH is better ?

new ratings in today :

JON BON JOVI OST. Young Guns II AOR Phonogram 86.9%

BATON ROUGE Shake Your Soul Hard Rock Atlantic 84.1%

STEELHEART s/t Hard Rock MCA 82.3%

SCORPIONS Crazy World Hard Rock Mercury 80.7%

LYNCH MOB Wicked Sensation Hard Rock Elektra 75.0%

LOVE/HATE Blackout In The Red Room Sleaze / Hard Rock CBS 75.0%

Generally,my initial thought is that I prefer Gravestone (48 Crash has 2 godly tracks: Madeleine+ All Your Love and the great Walking In The Shadow. I have rated it recently and I will spin it again the next week, after finishing 1990+ 1980 ratings, to verify it.) because they have more great tracks (I'm not referring to their hard/psych era).I will be more certain after finishing my ratings for the years 1979-2014.

Btw, I have also rated JBJ and Baton Rouge yesterday. It was like a Kelly Keeling release party in da house the last couple days with lots of sparkling wine. Don't know its impact over my ratings, but it has 4 godly tracks (over 9/10 each of them: Walks Like a Woman, It's About Time, Melenie, There Was Time- Ha, seems like some of them were reading poetry of T.S. Eliot).

what's your final thought on that two albums you rated ?

You're a competely JBJunkie.

Jon Bon Jovi-Blaze of Glory 72,5%

Baton Rouge- Shake Your Soul 82%

The funny thing with the ratings (still half done of 90), except maximizing my listening pleasure because I plan to listen only to songs rated 8+ in the future to come, is the fact that I can't listen to some stuff from well established metal bands anymore.

I've already done the years 1979 and 1980 and I'm seriously thinking to abolish them from my subconscious. Minus a couple of examples.

Glen · August 14, 2015

Pretty good song, I like it too

I wonder if their whole album is good, but probably 48 CRASH is better ?

new ratings in today :

JON BON JOVI OST. Young Guns II AOR Phonogram 86.9%

BATON ROUGE Shake Your Soul Hard Rock Atlantic 84.1%

STEELHEART s/t Hard Rock MCA 82.3%

SCORPIONS Crazy World Hard Rock Mercury 80.7%

LYNCH MOB Wicked Sensation Hard Rock Elektra 75.0%

LOVE/HATE Blackout In The Red Room Sleaze / Hard Rock CBS 75.0%

Without even rating it yet, i know that BITRR will be in my top 10 of 1990. Amazing sleaze album.

Wowser! Really? It has a small handful of really great songs (well, two at least - 'BITRR' and 'Straightjacket'), but is the rest really that great?!

Oh, I totz just realised I'll be able to tell you myself early next week. Should get to this one very soon. Some good ones coming up in the latter part of the letter L.

well one problem for me with LOVE/HATE is their music is really on the verge of mixing it with alternative/grunge even though the dose of classic sleaze still a lot. Problem also lies on some weaker songs like 'Fuel To Run', 'Mary Jane', or 'Slutsy Tipsy' that drag the score down. They're not horrible by any means but perhaps 7/10 or slightly lower. I think my fave tracks here are the title track, 'Rock Queen', 'Tumbleweed', and that third single, 'Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?'

I suspect your rating should not be far off from mine Geoff and i wonder what ticks Glen so much with this one, perhaps his soundtrack of couple backseat sex during the heyday ?

Angel is my fav.

kourosofsteel3 · August 15, 2015

You're all so q'ryche/JBJunkies you forgot to rate/mention Paul Laine's masterpiece. I had to open the cd to verify it was a 90 release.

I rated 6 tracks with absolute ratings. Man, this cd brings so many memories of an era full of high adventure, women, booze and erotic insomnia.

Paul Laine-Stick it in Your Ear 91%

Geoff · August 15, 2015

Got 85% from me. Some amazing tracks; a tiny handful of pretty average ones.

Glen · August 15, 2015

I struggled with Paul Laine.

Tracks 2-6 are excellent.

Tracks 7 & 8 are average

Then we have the lead track - starts out great but is almost ruined by a bizarre mid song instru break...WTF?!

Final verdict

80.5 %

kourosofsteel3 · August 16, 2015

Paul Laine-Stick it in Your Ear

1. One Step Over the Line 6,5

2. We Are the Young 10

3. Dorianna 10

4. Is It Love 10

5. Heart of America 10

6. Main Attraction 8

7. Doin' Time 7,75

8. I'll Be There 9,5

9. Break Down the Barricades 10

91%

Btw, I was listening to it from spotify and there are 4 bonus tracks, it was reissued. I'll grab it,probably, even if I already have it on cd+vinyl. And apparently there's a Japanese pressing availiable (I don't know about the reissue).

Nightrain · August 19, 2015

A bit too high maybe on your first couple of spins mate, I think a reasonable score probably should fall around 85%

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