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Black Light/White Noise is the second Smith/Kotzen album. Adrian Smith is of course first and foremost known for being a member of Iron Maiden. Ritchie Kotzen is harder to place for me. He was in Poison at an early stage, he was in the supergroup Mr Big. At preset he fronts The WInery Dogs. Neither band is something as I know from the back of my hand. AS mentioned, this is the second collaboration and...
High Voltage was AC/DC’s first album released in Australia in 1975. It’s a bit confusing since an album with the same name was released internationally the following year. The tracks are not the same though. On the latter, parts of the original Australian T.N.T. album were also included. Or if we should be frank, most of it is from the T.N.T. album. This means that High Voltage in its original Australian Release features songs not...
Powerzone is, if I understand it correctly, Chez Jane’s second album. It looks pretty hard if you dare to judge by the cover but It’s softer than it looks. There is certainly power both in the vocals and the guitar playing though. To me, the songs are good but not great, and I think that’s my curse and really not Chez’s fault. But power can mean different things. You know the Power Ballad formula. You...
Armageddon Boogie is the first album in a series of three (that I know of) from Amerikan Kaos. I’m not sure if you should call it at project or a band, or even if it’s Jeff Waters hiring other mucisioan to make the albums. I’ve read in his own statement that the three albums will differ musically and personnel-wise. But it’s hard to make any conclusion so far. The genre of Armageddon Boogie is more...
Blurred Lines is an album I received with a request to write a review a few years back. Of course, I wanted to, after all, that’s why I write these reviews! However, I realize the challenge of writing about something that is so far from what I usually write about. My reference points are likely to be very… personal! But I like what I hear, especially the first half of Blurred Lines. Which, if simplified,...
Revenge is the sixteenth studio album by Kiss. I have so far reviewed a significant portion of their album production and I have truly found varying qualities. Some albums are truly dismal to the point that I can hardly understand how they were released, while others are actually as good as one can expect from Kiss. I don’t mean this because they are musical geniuses, certainly not! But rather because Kiss is such a legendary...
When I acquired Revelations, many years ago now, I really had no idea what kind of music I was buying. I had vague notions of how it might sound, but oh how wrong I was. Instead, I learned a lesson about not having any preconceived notions about how music sounds until you’ve actually heard it and can form an opinion about it. It’s fantastically fun to be surprised in that way; listening becomes immediately unbiased...
Stunt is the fourth studio album by Canadian Pop/Rock act Barenaked Ladies. I got it many years ago to broaden my horizons, I sometimes acquire albums about which I have no prior knowledge. This is one such album! I really had no idea what I would hear when I ordered it. The name certainly led me to think it could be a girl band of some sort. Not that I literally expected fully naked girls...
Cat Scratch Fever is the song to know with Ted Nugent if you only can choose one. I wouldn’t exactly call him a one-hit wonder but if there’s anything he will go down in history for, music twice, it’s Cat Scratch Fever. And it sure is a catchy tune. To be totally honest I don’t know very much about his career as a musician. I think he had kind of a wild unstable image. If...
Unvarnished is the twelfth studio album from Joan Jett and the Blackheart. It has been a long time since I listened to her. I never really understood if the blackhearts was really a separate band or not though. I belive that she has released a few album solely as Joan Jett also. But as I said, it was a long time since I listened to her, the last time was the Change-Up album which to...
I guess there’s more than one reason to name your album 1984. First of all, since it was the year it came out of course. But I can’t help but think it also has something to do with George Orwell book about a future dystopian world where ‘Big Brother’ sees and hears everything you do. A Totalitarian world. 1984 Doesn’t sound too dystopian though. It’s mostly happy songs and the bigger hit from the album...
Diver Down is in my world a little so silly, too ridiculous. I’ve read somewhere that this was a step toward the lighter side after the previous album Fair Warning. And that might be true but I don’t care much for this album at all. It’s not bad, I don’t think these guys could ever release anything that could be called bad. But it’s utterly boring and the Covers on there are a disaster for...
