#323/958
August 25 1985
Black ’n’ Blue
Without Love
Genre: Glam Metal
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Rockin’ On Heaven’s Door
Without Love
We Got the Fire
Strange Things
Tommy Thayer is back.
You know what? I think this album is much better than their debut. Maybe that’s the Bruce Fairbairn influence. This is the hair metal sound we all know (and love…come on, you know you do) in full bloom.
The title track IS the sound of 70s glam rock with 80s production. I could hear any of the big Power Pop bands covering it. Easily. It’s holding hands in the roller rink and going to the movies at the mall.
A lot of this is the sound that Van Halen wrought but for some reason everyone either forgot how to do or just decided not to anymore. Isn’t that what VH really was all along? Glam Metal? Diamond Dave and all. Anyway, that’s what this record is. I like this stuff so most of it works for this guy.
But, listen to “We Got the Fire” and tell me that it isn’t begging for glisses. Dammit!
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Gb24RLBhF8NeX2qWka8nl?si=lsNHZfV6TUiptf7ipuqLxQ
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