Badlands debut album was very impressive, but I always preferred more natural sounding grooves of VOODOO HIGHWAY. Badlands always seemed to get lumped in with the hair bands by marketing people when they were actually more of a traditional, classic hard rock band. Their style was very much a tribute to 70s bands like Bad Company, Zeppelin, Deep Purple, The James Gang, etc, but also felt very authentic. Ray Gillen could perfectly blend the styles of Robert Plant, Paul Rodgers and David Coverdale, yet make it is own. Sounds a lot like STORMBRINGER / COME TASTE THE BAND era Purple in spots, very funky, hard rock. Lots of great tracks including "The Last Time", "Shine On", "Show Me The Way", "3 Day Funk" and "Love Don't Mean A Thing". Love this album.
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