I'm actually surprised Trash didn't sell more. Poison was a massive song. Alice's manager Shep Gordon deciding it was best to not allow Desmond Child to produce the next album was an absolutely massive mistake. "Hey Stoopid" has some great material, but it's missing that big hit Desmond C...

Anybody know how many of these guys are the originals? Two... Ivan and his brother Colin are originals. Anyone heard their hard rock-leaning record from 1991? The guitars were starting to creep into the two albums prior (but they kept the sound based in synth-pop). It's not half bad... You can tell...

And $800,000 to have Desmond Child write the songs and produce the album. I’m currently re-reading the 2023 book “World Infestation: The RATT story.” Man, this band was in shambles by this juncture and had no lyrics written ad thought the money would never run dry. The realist was, the band should ...

Bono Nettencourt wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 10:05 pm Lol. As if that would've helped. The Schenker MTV Unplugged is actually one of their career highlights. What they really needed to do was call Des Child in 1988. 1990 was too late.

Definitely true here.... Really surprised Atlantic didn't intervene after the "Dance" single flopped.

Steve Brown thinks we'll be blown away by the Trixter album he's working on. Are you interested? Should it be called Trixter with only one original member who isn't the lead singer? https://blabbermouth.net/news/steve-brown-fans-will-be-blown-away-by-new-trixter-album It's 2 OG members, P.J. Farley...

Yes i recall Conan being pretty geeky and awkward when he started. He was able to turn it into his shtick later, but at the time it was who he was and he couldn't really control it. Agree with you that altho Magic may have been objectively worse, CC was a bigger disappointment because he was expect...

In that time period, bubbling in the underground were the truly great pop/rock songwriters of that generation: Jon Brion, Jason Falkner, Andy Sturmer, Kevin Gilbert - people like that. And Steven Wilson was already getting going. No joke there.... The Grays and Jellyfish were two of the most underr...

Steve Vai's band Vai. He's not much of a songwriter. If he was gonna go that route, he needed to collaborate and not run the whole show. ITA. Him hooking up with the bald screamer ruined his career. Ego run rampant. It would have worked a lot better if Devin wasn't "just the singer". I be...

Wow..... this song is so "radio single" it's painful.
The lyrics are Bryan Adams' dumb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu2AWx4-iRs

After I posted, unbeknownst to me, they just released the first single from the next record.
They say it's coming out "this summer". I hope they're right.

FreddyFender wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 9:31 pm
Tattoos and Tequila (2010) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL3sJcYf8KU
The one Vince-penned original on his only solo release since Carved in Stone. It is really bad.

Vince didn't even write it.... that was all from the pen of Marti Frederiksen.

Great song, great album! They are still playing and making new music! https://youtu.be/9_v7GLzkDy0?si=S0VusRtw3_a3JvO9 The latest album, Alive , is OK. The songs are definitely HS.... but the production is really stiff. Like everything except the vocals and guitars are programmed. https://www.youtu...

I saw an interview with Emilio Estevez, where he was announcing that Young Guns 3 was gonna happen. Anyway, someone asked him if Jon Bon Jovi would be writing the soundtrack and he said he couldn’t announce anything but the Jon was very interested. Question is, is Jon even capable of writing such a...

Satch managed to ape some of EVH's guitar tones, and the chorus is OK, but the tune is little more than "meh".

I can't believe how big the Foo Fighters are. I get it, the early songs are catchy & it's the drummer from Nirvana. What I don't get is the fact they are, 30 years later, still THE #1 rock band that exclusively headlines stadiums, I don't get it. I say this as a fan.... I get why people shit on...

The production was shit... the whole thing sounds like it was written and recorded in a week. The "Home" tracks are probably the most interesting. "Wishful Thinkin" could have been better had more work gone into it. It was clear that the C.C. sung tracks were the most tossed off ...

It started with Lost Highway. To me, they peaked with the Have A Nice Day album and tour. Sure, the album had a couple clunkers...but the tour was close to their best. It's the last time they were a true rock band...or as much of a rock band that Bon Jovi could be. I'll second this one... That Lost...

The new single is completely underwhelming......I'm a big fan, but IMO the songwriting partnership of Josh Todd, Stevie D and Marti Frederickson has become very formulaic and "stale". There is usually enough "good" songs to make their albums listenable, but the inspiration/edge ...

That's probably why Rick has been so successful. :D :D :D If anyone is interested in checking out killer albums from Rick after he faded from radio, I'd suggest Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance and Songs for the End of the World. His more recent stuff is excellent too. The guy can write catchy, guitar...

Jason Jennifer Leigh wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 2:00 pm Bryan dropped a new one.

Make Up Your Mind

https://youtu.be/rZIalSCKhLU?si=8l5GLj39-4HtmYWJ


BONUS SONG AND VIDEO ALERT

New Rick Springfield - Lose Myself

https://youtu.be/agG7PkpKVOo?si=P35JH4clE63ZIDk5

The Springfield track blows most Adams' songs out of the water.

I see what you mean, but she barely wrote any songs, 2 per album or so. Maybe Per underestimates her importance abroad because of that and because in Sweden, she was moderately successful at best outside Roxette with a handful of solo hits, and Per was and is a big star with his other band Gyllene ...

She's definitely a better singer than her own music would indicate..
She, and especially her band, are clearly having fun.

Poor Lou.... I think he'd much rather sing one of the rockers than that song. He can still pull off most of the Foreigner material (maybe not a few of the high notes).
You can tell he's not thrilled to be singing it.

Never paid for one... I honestly don't think I would.

I've seen bands charge more than the ticket price for M&G...more often than not, it's just a picture and about 30 seconds of face time... no autographs or anything... and it doesn't include access to the show, it's just asinine.

If you want a guy that can channel EVH playing in his style, tone etc., your two choices are Phil X and/or Pete Thorn. ....Nuno, Satchel and Dweezil Zappa would do a killer job a well.. Dweezil is the first person I thought of. If anyone is actually going to actually play guitar on any of it, why n...

She needs to finish recovering before going back on the road. Damn... I thought their talk show appearances last year pre-chemo were rough (where she sat down while performing).... she couldn't hold any notes (she did hit most of them though). It definitely sounds like a handicap of circumstance rat...

Duran Duran. A lot of hit singles and mtv favourites in the early and mid 80s, but their biggest selling albums are not huge sellers like i would expect. I guess their albums didn't really have staying power and were not big sellers in the years after they were released. I guess there are only so m...

All of this surprised me because I absolutely despised his music with Smashing Pumpkins. I couldn't stand his voice and thought the songs were just annoying. So I figured he probably had terrible taste in music. In the list I mentioned above about half the albums he listed were ones that I was also...

Slippery Pete wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:49 pm Good... lord....

https://youtu.be/7CUu2bpAhaA?si=4bfjg79gnrN6TnPR

What the actual hell is that?

Between this and Pitbull doing some redux with "It's My Life", JBJ is pretty much willing to do anything resembling performing live.

Gene managing to be his usual insufferable self, platitudes and all. Corgan does a good job trying to keep Gene on topic but the latter needs to be the smartest guy in the room. https://youtu.be/TwRcOa7-qVg?si=I0_II5QoPM3ViY_5 From the clips I've been seeing on social media, Billy Corgan, to my sur...