Best Of The Skids, The - Skids (The)

Advantages: Good vocal traning for budding singers
Disadvantages: You need a strong voice to sing along with sabastian

...SKID ROW - SKID ROW Debut album released 1989 by Atlantic Records. This is a 1995 reprint cd. Genre Heavy Metal / Hard Rock The band Sabastian Bach lead vocals Dave 'Snake' Sabo lead guitars Scotti Hill guitars Rachel Bolan bass guitar Rob Affuso drums Tracks Big Guns, Sweet Little Sister, Cant Stand The Heartache, Piece Of Me, 18 And Life, Rattle Snake Shake, Youth Gone Wild, Here I Am, Makin' A Mess, I Remember You and Midnight Tornado. Sabastian Bach the Canadian rocker nicknamed The Wolfman for his Wolf like growls, has a varied but excellent voice. When he can go from a wolfman growl to a sustained high pitch and hold the note without straining his vocal cords. Dave 'Snake' Sabo Played some excellent riffs on this great debut album. Songs that made them well known are 18 And Life, Youth Gone Wild and I Remember You... Read review

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Advantages: Great classic tunes
Disadvantages: The extra live versions weren't needed

...Who doesn't love a bit of early '90's hair metal - you just can beat it!! If you love your guitar riffs and heartfelt power ballards, give Skid Row a listen! From the opening classic drumming of Youth Gone Wild, this album is one fantastic song after another. 18 & Life and I Remember You should be up there with the greatest metal ballards of the '90's. This takes songs from their two albums, plus a smattering of extras from over the years, together with a couple of live tracks thrown in for good measure. I have loved this band since my early teenage years, and never get tired of listening to their tunes, but unfortunatly they never seemed to gain the following of bands in the same genre such as Gun's n Rose's. Buy this and play it LOUD!!!!... Read review

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Advantages: If you are singer, you must hear this
Disadvantages: No disandvantiges

...Great fu##in' balls to the wall HARD rock! In this album, above all, you can hear great singing qualities of one of hair metal's greatest frontmans of all time, mr. Sebastian Bach; but nothing would be in right place, if there were no song writing qualities of Rachel Bolan and Dave "the Snake" Sabo. This five men set standards for hard rock and heavy metal of that time(1989); and if you ask me, they were the last band who brought something new into true hard rock (I am not thinking about grunge and new metal shit, 'cos they are not HARD rock). If you are into nice boys with bad attitude and, above all, great music, than this is a must-have for you; and if you are not into this type of music than this is a must-hear for you. With Love from Pit Snake (the82snake@yahoo.com)... Read review

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