#80
March 22 1985
Alcatrazz
Disturbing the Peace
Genre: Pop Metal
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
God Blessed Video
Wire and Wood
Stripper
Sons and Lovers
This might be just run of the mill pedestrian 90s metal were it not for Steve Vai’s guitar work. And since that’s extraordinary it helps elevate this in ways that their first album did not but his solo album did.
Graham Bonnet is not a good singer, he’s a screamer but he services the songs with the energy that’s required and whenever the high notes are needed, Vai provides them on his axe. But he does hit them when he can.
Songs like “Stripper” are Van Halen meets Motley Crue. You can’t be a fan of those bands and dislike this. I mean, the song isn’t good but it’s stoopid and stoopid is to rock and roll what honey is to good triple cream.
I can’t get over how much “Sons and Lovers” sounds like Van Hagar, if Van Hagar was fronted by…David Lee Roth…?
I’m sorry. I loved the fuck out of this record.
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