The 1985 Listening Post - Lee Aaron - Call of the Wild

Lee Aaron - Call of the Wild

#225/876

June 27 1985

Lee Aaron

Call of the Wild

Genre: Rock

3 out of 5

Highlights:

Hot to Be Rocked

I think, recognizing that Pat Benatar has abandoned the female rocker space, Lee has decided to fully embrace it. Even more than before. 

She’s enlisted Bob Ezrin to amp up that KISS sound and…well, it sounds like a female KISS band. 

On some tracks, like “Barely Holding On”, I swear she is aiming for the Bonnie Raitt lane but, also to be lead in a Rock and Roll Broadway Musical. 

It wouldn’t be a bad thing if the songs were there. But there’s no Jim Steinman for her. The songs are serviceable but forgettable. 

Betty Blowtorch will perfectly emulate the sound of “Hot to Be Rocked” 16 years later before she died in a car crash. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/call-of-the-wild/289313236

The 1984 Listening Post - Lee Aaron - Metal Queen

Lee Aaron - Metal Queen

#36

February 24 1984

Lee Aaron

Metal Queen

2.5 out of 5

Highlights:

Deceiver

Breakdown

While I appreciate the sound effects of dungeon chains being dragged around...Is this intentionally hilarious? When Lee sings her own backup with herself it’s so unintentionally funny but then I realize that she wants to be taken seriously and, well, I have Lita Ford for that. And Lita played her instrument. I have no doubt that Lee’s backing band was up to the task, as they prove on, say “Deceiver”. There are a million of these dual guitar attack shredders and they all do it either as well or better. I liked “Breakdown” however. But that’s more for the production, which is excellent, than for the song itself. Lee wants to be metal when she would be better off incorporating more glam into her act. She gets there at the end (“We Will Be Rockin’”) but it’s not enough to save her. 

Generic.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/metal-queen/289400998