A band that had everyone falling over themselves after the release of this album, that seemed to just slowly disappear after the release of each following album. Which is amazing, seeing as they have never given up and to date have released seventeen studio albums.
This album first came out in ’89 just before the whole musical landscape changed, and the follow up came out in ’91 when no one seemed to care about melody and great songs anymore. I would say they have been heavily influenced by Cheap Trick and The Beatles because there are little references there in each song. Donnie and Chip have the knack of writing super catchy pop rock songs and every one of the songs here could have been released as a single.
I’m sure everyone is familiar with Fly High Michelle, a very sleazy glam groove that was the smash single from this record, but I really like New Thing. It was the lead off single and I think it’s a much more of a complete pop song. My favourite track is In The Groove; a huge sounding Friday night dirty party anthem.
I guess some bands are destined not to be the next big thing, which is a shame because this album wipes anything that Poison put out around this time but hey…that’s just my opinion.
9/10 from The Grooveman.
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