This album is not at all as good as the last "Social Distortion" from 1990. Overall the songs are pretty boring compared to it and it didn't seem like they had any more ideas even if it was 2 years since the last album. The songs go on and on for too long and without any variation. It peaked on nr. 76 on the Billboard-list.

See also:

115) Social Distortion-Social Distortion 1990 (Score: 7,05)

119) Social Distortion-White Light White Heat White Trash 1996 (Score: 7,13)

1)Cold feelings (7,5) Okey start. Melodic aggression.

2)Bad luck (6,5) Nothing special.

3)Making believe (7,0) Happy and punky.

4)Born to lose (6,5)

5)Bye bye baby (7,0)

6)When she begins (6,0)

7)99 to life (5,5) Too melodic and poppy.

8)King of fools (6,5) Fast and very melodic. Too melodic.

9)Sometimes I do (6,0)

10)This time darlin' (5,0) Kind of a ballad. Why?

Score: 6,35

Mike Ness-vocals and guitars (b.1962)

Dennis Danell-guitars (1961-2000)

John Maurer-bass (b.1964)

Christopher Reece-drums (b.1959)

30 years after the last album by Magazine, here came their 5th album. It's an album full of progressive pop-rock like I have never heard anywhere else and I like it a lot except for a couple of songs that's not as good as the rest. I like the psychadelic rhythms and guitar- and bassplaying that make the songs interesting all the way through.

Since the last album Magazine's guitarrist John McGeoch had died (in 2004, 48 years old) and bassist Barry Adamsondid not participate due to other musical obligations.

1)Do the meaning (8,0) Spacy guitar, mystic, melodic and very charming song!

2)Other thematic material (8,0) Advanced progressive pop-rock with some really cool guitarpicking.

3)The worst of progress... (7,0) Slow, heavy song that reminds of Midnight Oil but with very interesting noises and pianoplaying that don't fit but in this music it does anyway...

4)Hello Mister Curtis (With apologies) (6,5) Heavy main bass line but somewhat dull song.

5)Psysics (6,5) Kind of a ballad that sounds like Bryan Ferry.

6)Happening in english (7,0) Odd and cool rhythms.

7)Holy dotage (7,5) Uptempo rocker.

8)Of course Howard (1979) (7,0) Spacy and big sounding that draws my thoughts to Pink Floyd.

9)Final analysis waltz (7,0) Laid back and slow but anyway a good song but the album looses some of the good quality from the beginning.

10)The burden of a song (6,0) Odd rhythm again and not the best uptempo song they could have made.

Score: 7,05

Howard Devoto (Howard Trafford)-vocals (b.1952)

Noko (Norman Fisher-Jones)-guitars (b.1962)

Stan (Jonathan White)-bass

John Doyle-drums (b.1959)

Dave Formula (David Tomilson) -keyboards (b.1946)

The former Soundgarden and Audioslave singer's 2nd album. It's not at all as hard as those bands, but more of an ordinary rock-album with a lot of melody and simple riffs. As always with Chris, the singing is full of soul and feeling but I feel that the songs on this album is too low key and "sweet" for my taste. There ain't no bad songs here but the overall feeling is...dull.

Chris had just left Audioslave when he released this album. He said that the split from the band was permanent. The year before, in 2006, he hade recorded the theme song to the new James Bond-film.

The drummer Nir Zidkyahu is the brother of Blackfield's drummer Tomer Z. He has recorded with Genesis, John Mayer and others.

1)No such thing (6,5)

2)Poison eye (6,5)

3)Arms around your love (6,5)

4)Safe and sound (6,5)

5)She'll never be your man (6,5)

6)Ghosts (5,5)

7)Killing birds (6,0)

8)Billie Jean (7,5) (Michael Jackson-cover)

9)Scar on the sky (5,5)

10)Your soul today (6,5)

11)Finally forever (5,5)

12)Silence the voices (5,0)

13)Disappearing act (6,0)

14)You know my name (6,5)

Score: 6,11

Chris Cornell (Christopher John Boyle) -vocals and guitars (b.1964)

Gary Lucas-guitars

Nir Zidkyahu-drums (b.1967)

After the british then glam-band Slade peaked in popularity in 1975 they moved to USA to seek success in the only place that that far hadn't taken on to Slade's world wide popularity. They did not succeed and returned to Britain in 1977 just to see the music industry changed. Now it was punk that everything was about but Slade did not give up. They recorded this album that did not make any mark at all on the charts but, damn is it a good album! Superb songs and full tilt rock 'n roll all through makes this the absolutely best Slade album in my opinion! Get it!

1)Be (7,0) Energic unpolished glam-bluesrock.

2)Lightning never strikes twice (8,0) High octane rock 'n roll!

3)Gypsy roadhog (7,5) A good rocker.

4)Dogs of vengeance (7,0)

5)When fantasy calls (8,0) A very heavy and strong song.

6)One eyed Jacks with moustaches (9,0) A great blues-heavy hardrocker!

7)Big apples blues (8,0) Hard, heavy and intense.

8)Dead men tell no tales (7,0)

9)She's got the lot (7,0) Really really heavy and strong and Holder's vocals is as strong as ever. Unfortunately very bad chaotic last minute.

10)It ain't love but it ain't bad (7,0)

11)The soul, the roll and the motion (8,0) Full tilt rock 'n roll!

Score: 7,59

Noddy Holder-vocals and guitars (b.1946)

Dave Hill-guitars (b.1946)

Jim Lea-bass (b.1949)

Don Powell-drums (b.1946)

This band is from Japan and is the first japanese album I write about. Flower Travellin' Band's 1st album (with the actual band name) from my birthyear 1971 is a complicated piece of work that is very hard to describe. When it comes to Japanese culture, art, music and so on it is many times "over the top" and very difficult for many to understand. This piece of music is inspired by the psychadelic wave of the time and probably by japanese music without knowing anyting about it. The guitarsound is never heard of before nor after this album. Very sharp and loud. There's not much singing but it doesn't matter much.

1)Satori Pt. 1 (6,0) Heavy and psychadelic hardrock. Too chaotic and monotone at the end.

2)Satori Pt. 2 (5,0) Very monotone shuffle-like heavy hardrocker.

3)Satori Pt. 3 (8,0) 10 minutes long instrumental psychadelica and I like it. They made this song in a very cool and interesting way.

4)Satori Pt. 4 (5,5) 11 minutes slow and a little too monotone and with some harmonica-guitar soloing.

5)Satori Pt. 5 (5,5) Very progressive 8-minute song.

Score: 6,00

Joe Yamanaka-vocals and harmonica (1946-2011)

Hideki Ishima-guitars (b.1944)

Jun Kozuki-bass and guitars

Joji "George" Wada-drums

After leaving Scorpions in which he played on the 1979 album "Lovedrive", Michael Schenker, of earlier UFO-fame, formed his own band and named it after himself. He left Scorpions after a tour to promote the album due to alcohol-related problems. He could not perform well on stage anymore. After this he actually auditioned for both The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith since their guitarrists had left their bands.

In MSG he continued more in the UFO-vein rather than Scorpions, laying some heavy trademark riffing to the very strong songs and adding Gary Barden's needle-sharp whiskey-vocals which suits the music perfectly. Gary Barden was discovered by Michael Schenker himself and was asked to sing on MSG's debutalbum.

I reall like this album since it has some superb songs, riffing out of this world and I really like the vocals and the mix of heaviness and melody. An album that is a must have for any hard rock-fan worth it's name!

1)Armed and ready (8,0) Full frontal riff-attack!

2)Cry for the nations (8,5)

3)Victim of illusion (7,5) Typical heavy and powerful Schenker-riffing but a little strange song.

4)Bijou pleasurette (8,0) Very nice melodic acoustic and electric guitarplaying in medieval style but only 2 minutes long.

5)Feels like a good thing (7,5) Heavy riffing and melodic refrain.

6)Into the arena (7,5) A good instrumental.

7)Looking out from nowhere (9,0) Superb song with a blistering guitarsolo!

8)Tales of mystery (8,0) Very melodic and good acoustic/electric ballad.

9)Lost horizons (6,5) First okey but then it gets too messy.

Score: 7,83

Gary Barden-vocals (b.1955)

Michael Schenker-guitars (b.1955)

Mo Foster-bass

Simon Phillips-drums (b.1957)

Don Airey-keyboards (b.1948)

A wonderful cover that suits the music, heavy and evil doom metal. Bobby Liebling leads he's band well into the 2010's and still creating great music and always with he's unique uncomperable vocals from hell that more talks than sings the lyrics, but oh boy, does he make it superbly! Music rooted in the progressive era of the end of the 60's and beginning of the 70's with modern production make this a album well worth having in the collection!

1)Treat me right (8,5) Superheavy, intense and great singing and guitarsolo!

2)Call the man (8,0) Heavy metal with attitude and that is full of life.

3)Into the ground (8,0)

4)8 (7,0) Interesting and different but a little too "in-here-out-there"-song that I won't remember.

5)Everything turning to night (8,0)

6)Windmills and chimes (8,0) A slow melodic rocker with both electric and acoustic guitar that melts deliciously together. Great long solo!

7)American dream (7,0) Doom heavy.

8)Walk in the blue light (7,5) Superheavy and good.

9)Horseman (6,0) The heavy riffing can be annoying after a while and the riff in this one is...annoying!

10)Death in 1st person (6,5)

11)Nothing left (7,0)

Score: 7,41

Bobby Liebling-vocals

Victor Griffin-guitars

Greg Turley-bass

Tim Tomasell-drums

Good review from www.blues.about.com:

"Like the blind men and the elephant, casual listeners can assume Robillard is all about jump blues, or jazz, or R&B, or whatever particular segment of his great love for blues-based forms they’ve happened to hear. This year, with the release of Low Down and Tore Up, Robillard is focusing on the hard-driving gutbucket blues styles of the mid-to-late 1950s, as exemplified by such greats as Guitar Slim, Eddie Taylor, Elmore James, Sugar Boy Crawford, and Pee Wee Crayton. Robillard covers material by each of these, and a few others.

The first thing to notice about this record is the devastatingly perfect sound of it. Robillard and his touring band, augmented by a couple of ex-members who dropped in for the session, just went into the studio and played live, recording the entire album in the space of a couple days. Producer/engineer Jack Gauthier has a paragraph in the liner notes detailing the specifics of microphone placement which led to this particularly exciting sonic blend. We may not understand exactly what he means, but listening to the results, there is no question that Gauthier knows how to make a blues band explode out of the speakers.

With playing this good, and a band this energized, and songs, most of them fairly unknown to all but the most ardent collectors, well worth hearing, Duke Robillard has added another enjoyable piece to his life-long musical puzzle."

Personally I like everything that I have heard from Duke Robillard. He has a way of playing and composing songs that is pure quality. Here he had made covers on old rock and blues songs and he gets away even with that.

1)Quicksand (8,0) Inspired vocals and crazy sax, guitar and pianoplaying in this heavy blues.

2)Trainfare home (7,5) A little too messy but fun and wild shuffle.

3)Mercy mercy mama (7,0) A standard blues.

4)Overboard (5,0) Totally insane! Too much.

5)Blues after hours (7,5) Slow and instrumental blues with delicate piano- and guitarplaying.

6)Want ad blues (6,0) Monotone heavy blues.

7)Do unto others (7,0)

8)It's alright (8,0) Wonderful slow blues.

9)Let me play with your poodle (7,5)

10)Tool bag boogie (7,0) Instrumental.

11)What's wrong (7,0)

12)I ain't mad at you (7,0)

13)The 12 year old boy (7,0)

14)Later for you baby (7,0)

Score: 7,04

Duke Robillard (Michael John Robillard)-vocals and guitars (b.1948)

Brad Hallen-bass

Mark Teixeira-drums and vocals on 4.

Bruce Bears-piano

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Matt McCabe-piano

Sax Gordon-saxophone