 | Tracklist:
1. Crying in the Rain
2. Bad Boys
3. Still of the Night
4. Here I Go Again
5. Give Me All Your Love
6. Is This Love
7. Children of the Night
8. Straight for the Heart
9. Don't Turn Away
| Ranking: #39 for 1987 | |
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In 1987, hair metal dominated the charts. It was huge. Bands like Motley Crue and Def Leppard kick-started the trend, and countless bands followed. Some bands (like black metal titans Celtic Frost) changed their styles to hair metal just to be popular and make money. And one of the bands was Whitesnake.
Whitesnake's David Coverdale always wanted to be the next Robert Plant, there was no doubt about that. His voice emulated the Led Zeppelin vocalist, and even his hair did too. Whitesnake began as a bluesy hard rock band (like Led Zeppelin) but when hair metal was the thing to do, Coverdale jumped all over it and released Whitesnake's self-titled album. It was a success. I mean, the lead single had a hot chick in the video! It had to be huge! But the music was pretty terrible.
The Zeppelin influence is still clear in Coverdale's voice, yet on this album they seem to be ripping off a band that also adored Led Zeppelin. Def Leppard. In fact, when I first heard Here I Go Again, I thought it was Def Leppard. Yeah, so it's apparent that Coverdale is always ripping off someone.
The two lead singles from this album are the only decent songs. They are what singles should be. Catchy and fun, and you know whenever Whitesnake played those two songs live, the crowd went crazy. But it's clear as day that those are the only songs that Whitesnake actually put any sort of thought into. Every other song on the album is, well, awful. Typical hair metal garbage. You have the cheesy ballads, the rocking songs (that fail miserably) and everything else a hair metal album should have. But Whitesnake just couldn't pull of the genre as well as bands like Motley Crue and Twisted Sister could. They (at the beginning of their career) wrote songs that weren't actually meant to be huge, smash hits. Whitesnake was just jumping on a trend that wasn't that great to begin with, and they just couldn't pull it off.
It may sound like I just hate hair metal. Wrong. I love Motley Crue, I love WASP, I love Twisted Sister, I love Skid Row, and a few others as well. I just don't like Whitesnake. The pure lack of originality is bad enough, but the fact that they just can't pull off a good album is the main flaw.
1.5/5
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Nice Soundoff ;)
Still of Night is a good song. The solo is awesome and was way different for its time. Alot of bands had two or three good songs and the rest was filler because back then you could only get the three good songs if you paid for all the crap too. It was like ordering Filet Mignon, but having to remove all the microwavable gravy off the top to get to it.
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Better than your Converge review.
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Here I Go Again FTW
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I always hated that song.
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eff you dude.
WHITESNAKEEEE RULLEESSSS
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Motley Crue > all other hair bands
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no that would be Def Leppard.
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Def Leppard is horrible.
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Rick Allen is gonna beat you to death tonight with his stump.
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Some of their early stuff is alright. I guess almost all bands are better before they become superstars.
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As Kid Rock would say in the movie Joe Dirt..."And Def Leppard sucks!"
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This makes me want some Ratt.
ROUND N ROUND!
WHAT GOES AROUND COME AROUND!
ILL TELL U Y!
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nice soundoff
woah i am way late.This Message Edited On 09.14.08
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Just because you thought "Here I Go Again" was a Def Leppard song doesn't automatically mean they were ripping off someone. I agree they're unoriginal (from what I've heard), but that comment bothered me. Def Leppard rocks too hard to make "Here I Go Again."
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As much as I dislike both bands, Def Leppard kills Whitesnake.
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While everyone is arguing, let me just say that White Lion was definitely the best
band of the 80s to ever indulge in cock rock.
Edit: how are you going to censor "cock"? What if I was trying to say that they
play music for roosters?
Edit 2: whenever I edit on my iPhone it messes up the spacing for some reason. This Message Edited On 09.14.08
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My loyalty lies with Def Leppard and the Crue, possibly even Great White.
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Crue>Leppard>Whitesnake
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Skid Row>Crue>Whitesnake>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Leppard
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