Category: 1981

Y&T - Earthshaker

Y&T – Earthshaker 5 (1)

A name change and a bit of a shake-up for Y&T. This is in terms of image and musical delivery…

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Mother's Finest - Iron Age

Mother’s Finest – Iron Age 4 (1)

Atlanta’s Mothers Finest are another popular outfit among the GDM brethren. Who would’ve thought their hard rock breakthrough album from…

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Henry Paul Band - Anytime

Henry Paul Band – Anytime 4 (1)

‘Anytime’ was perhaps the best known of the Henry Paul Band four album run from 1979 to 1982. It was…

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Lake - Hot Day

Lake – Hot Day 4 (2)

All in all this is a somewhat uneven album from Lake. However, the best tracks are REAL standouts! Figure out…

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Foghat - Girls To Chat Boys To Bounce

Foghat – Girls To Chat, Boys To Bounce 2 (1)

If you were a hardcore Foghat fan at the time I could understand your plight. Aside from the first two…

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Praying Mantis - Time Tells No Lies

Praying Mantis – Time Tells No Lies 3 (2)

When one thinks about the early days of the NWOBHM, a couple of bands spring to mind. Iron Maiden, Saxon,…

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Def Leppard - High N Dry

Def Leppard – High N Dry 4 (2)

Produced by ‘Mutt’ Lange, Def Leppard’s ‘High N Dry’ was a fairly successful follow up to the heavy but crude…

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Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman

Ozzy Osbourne – Diary Of A Madman 4 (1)

‘Dairy Of A Madman’ only contained nine tracks, but the material is some of the best from that early Ozzy…

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Anvil - Hard N Heavy

Anvil – Hard N Heavy 3.5 (2)

Anvil were an uncompromising band, with a vast discography. If your HM vocabulary is limited to sex, drugs and rock…

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Doc Holliday - Rides Again

Doc Holliday – Doc Holliday Rides Again 3 (1)

Southern fried boogie never sounded so good as with the first pair of Doc Holliday albums released during 1980 and…

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Toto - Turn Back

Toto – Turn Back 4 (1)

Toto’s third album ‘Turn Back’ is one of the harder rocking albums of their repertoire.

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Joe Perry Project - I've Got The Rock And Rolls Again

Joe Perry Project – I’ve Got The Rock And Rolls Again 0 (0)

After leaving Aerosmith in 1979, Joe put together a hard-rocking band, called the Joe Perry Project. This 2nd release features…

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Krokus - Hardware

Krokus – Hardware 0 (0)

Having made their elusive breakthrough with 1980’s ‘Metal Rendezvous’ Krokus didn’t take long following up, with ‘Hardware’ expanding on the…

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Toronto - Head On

Toronto – Head On 0 (0)

‘Head On’ is probably the least distinguished of Toronto’s four outings. The new wave influences and vitality so prevalent on…

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Tangerine Dream - Thief

Tangerine Dream – Thief (OST) 0 (0)

Soundtracks and film scores appeared to form the basis for Tangerine Dream during the 80’s, where they would conjure up…

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Genesis - Abacab

Genesis – Abacab 0 (0)

While a new pop direction brought Genesis greater success, much of their progressive fan base including this reviewer, lost interest…

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Klaatu - Magentalane

Klaatu – Magentalane 0 (0)

Klaatu were something of an art rock enigma hiding their true identities over the course of several albums of Beatle-esque…

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Jefferson Starship - Modern Times

Jefferson Starship – Modern Times 0 (0)

Retaining all of the line-up from the previous excellent LP ‘Freedom At Point Zero’, Jefferson Starship ‘re-introduced’ Grace Slick, returning…

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Molly Hatchet - Take No Prisoners

Molly Hatchet – Take No Prisoners 0 (0)

Molly Hatchet by this stage were a band caught between two worlds. Still captured by their southern rock origins, tentacles…

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Motley Crüe - Too Fast For Love

Motley Crüe – Too Fast For Love 4 (1)

I think few would dispute that the Motley Crüe story is one of the most worn out in the rock…

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