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I would have scored this a classic but still a solid score from a solid and classic album

I had mentioned it before in light of it as a classic and there was derision.

Excellent album.

This album is most definitely a classic, as is the debut. You just can't fuck with those albums. And as great as the debut is, Slave just blows it away. It's 80s rock perfection!

Too bad they kind of shit the bed on Subhuman Race. And then the two after it...yawn. They're decent, but Skid Row doing 3 Doors Down just doesn't really work for me.

Their latest single is pretty good, though. The closest they've come to the first two albums since Bach left. You guys hear it yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vi0UmCJF_o

Skid Row's best album. It's still a go-to album when I'm drinking with friends. Classic! But a score of 90+ is nice too.

I fucking hate you. Track is fucking shit. I enjoyed Angel Down and not so much Kicking and Screaming; that track makes those albums look like fucking gold. The track is so obviously an attempt to recapture the glory of Slave to the Grind. Too bad it's a fail. GET IN BACK YOU CAN RIDE WITH THE BULLETS.

Baz was always the heart of the band. No Baz equals no Skid Row in my book.

Love this album and Subhuman Race. Kicking and Screaming is pretty good, not great, but I like the approach he took on it. I could say a lot of crap about his live performances of late, but lets just say that some age gracefully and some not so much. Very few people can stay on top of their game as they grow older and Bach has had a crazy life. He's not necessarily slaying it, but he's not making a complete fool of himself either. Skid Row had a few really good albums and Slave to the Grind is arguably the best.

Shout At the Devil shits all over this.

Not in this world!

Damn, how I love this album. And rarely does an album have 3 ballads that are actually really good!

Awesome album and definitely worthy of being classed as a classic.

No, it's not shit. It's not great by any means, but it's surely not a bad song, either.

As for Bach, he isn't shit without someone else who can write songs for him. And his voice is going to shit.

Not nearly enough great songs on Shout to compare to this. Three great songs, nine decent songs at best.

Capitalizing on your twenty year old hit is not the first step to impressing me. From mimicking the riff to mimicking the vocal harmonies... The vocalist can't do those fast verses that Bach excelled at and never reaches any high notes like Baz. I'd say something other than bashing the vocalist if they did anything other than offer up a rehashed track.

Wait. I think you double negative'd that first sentence. And yeah, Bach could never write a song and was only the voice for a band that had formed years prior to him ever showing up. They had the songs already written for the self-titled before he entered the door. His voice is going to shit, but both of his albums' performances are way better than whatever constitutes as vocals for Kings of Demolition (despite being so nasally on K&S). And yeah, he sounds bad on Abachalypse, but dude is old and was never a singer you imagined lasting long, but he honestly has for what he is doing now. He's a character and he circulates for that reason.

This album was a disappointment to me and still is .. I believe they had lost the creative edge by this point and were trying to make up for it with heaviness.