Eyesore wrote:
I bought that first album without even hearing it. Everyone said it was amazing rock music, a return to that true rock sound. I was stoked, 80's rock being my all-time favorite style of music. So I bought the CD and I gave that fucking thing away within a month.
I absolutely hated it. I didn't find any of it to be genuine. The image was satirical, the music was decent at best and the vocals were atrocious! They seemed to take all the negatives of those flash-in-the-pan 80's rock bands—the cheese, the ridiculous outfits, the horrible wanky vocals, the mediocre music, etc.—that were just looking to cash in by copying the real 80's rock bands, and they actually tried to convince people it was great! And it fucking worked for the most part, the sheep flocked the media magnet.
Terrible band, terrible music. If you want real 80's rock, go buy Firehouse's Prime Time or Slaughter's Back To Reality or Winger's Pull or Babylon A.D.'s American Blitzkrieg if you want great 80's rock that came out long after 80's rock imploded. The Darkness are a joke.
Amen. Man that post totally could have been written by me, except I wouldn't have done it nearly as well.
Great to see another Firehouse fan around here, by the way...I only have their first album, but that one's a really excellent piece when it's on. I just wish it could be a bit more consistent; there are some real dogs on there for sure, but when the album starts to rock it rocks like nothing else. "All She Wrote", "Overnight Sensation", "Helpless", "Oughta Be a Law" and the album's highlight, "Shake & Tumble", all the make the album quite a worthwhile purchase. Been planning on picking up their second one, because the two tunes I heard from it ("Reach for the Sky" and "Get in Touch") both kick major ass.
'Pull' is wickedly awesome too - especially "Junkyard Dog", man what the fuck is up with that song anyway, it's just so absurdly heavy?? I like older Winger too, but this album is probably more interesting in the long run.
I think the first Firehouse is their worst one! Not counting the Good Acoustics album. Well, I may be convinced to say 02 is worse than the first CD. Good CDs either way.
And yes, Pull is a highly underrated album! It's the best Winger album, unfortunately it went nowhere because it came out during the Nirvana Age.
