MARILYN MANSON

A.Tourniquet
B.Tourniquet prosthetic dance mix

Industrial shocking gods,MM's 2nd single off the album _Antichrist Superstar_ was released on multi format. (2CD single + this 10" vinyl) These 2 tracks on this vinyl are available elsewhere, but the point why you have to buy is this flatter is pic-disc. The songs themselves are quite cool, so don't worry about wasting your money for this. (1997/10/11)

MEAT LOAF

©Virgin Records Ltd.

1.I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
2.Back Into Hell

Ultra havy weight vocalist Meat Loaf's 1st single off the album _Bat out Of Hell II_. This title track is nothing but a Meat Loaf style, produced by Jim Steinman. This Operatic sound is quite unique, and make him something special vocalist. Yeah, his massive body is good for him as vocalist, just the same with opera singers. The duo with lady on this track is good express for him and JS's abilities as good vocalist and producer respectively.
But track.2 is boring, just an instrumental track. Nothin' but a filler. (1999/01/15)

METALLICA

©Elektra Entertainment Group

1.Fuel
2.The Memory Remains
3.Devil's Dance
4.The Unforgiven II
5.Better Than You
6.Slither
7.Carpe Diem Baby
8.Bad Seed
9.Where The Wild Thing Are
10.Prince Charming
11.Low Man's Lyric
12.Attitude
13.Fixxxer

How the mighty falls................ The band used to be THE METAL GOD is no more. Money brought by the success of black album changed them a lot. No guts, no challenging, no passion, no energy, no no no..... They lost everything except the GREED. Yes, they know how to make money, so made the same album, they even titled RE-load this time. What the FUCK...
Musically, the first song "Fuel" is nice, typical post black album sound, and this one rocks, yeah, it's good start. Well, you know they know what the kids who became fans after black album came out want from them. He, he, he... but 2nd track consumes the teenage spirits, the appearance of Marianne Faithfull does Nothing to me and most of the fans who've been respecting them for decade. The 3rd one is also weak, they didn't recognized that this "Devil's Dance" is critically reviewd on the net. Yes, it's totally crap. the 4th track is second version of their hits on black album. He, he... Suck our money from our wallet asshole!! Well, most of the song are boring, but I happened to like track.11 "Low Man's Lyric". I felt this one is nice, maybe because of the fact that I was fed up with arrays of shits, and this one is some kind of dime in the piles of shit. The most beutiful thing in my mind was the fact that I paid only 590 Japanese yen (Thanks Virgin Megastore!!) for this frisbee. (1998/10/13)

THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES

©Mercury Music

1.Hell Of A Hat
2.That's Another Story

2tracks promo single by Bosstones. It's very Bosstones style again. You'll never dissapointed with their materials as long as you're into Bosstones. The same style they built up, I'm highly respected about that. The title track is rocker, and the latter is a bit weak to me, but You should buy regular album instead of this promo stuff. You can find more from them. (1997/08/19)

MONTROSE

©Warner Bros. Records Inc.

1.Rock The Nation
2.Bad Motor Scooter
3.Space Station #5
4.I Don't Want It
5.Good Rockin' Tonight
6.Rock Candy
7.One Thing On My Mind
8.Make It Last

1st album fronted by Sammy Hagar (known as frontman of Van Halen Mark. II). This album contains rock classics (frequently covered by rock bands grew up with listening this album) like "Rock The Nation" (covered by Tesla), "Space Station #5" (covered by Iron Maiden, etc...).
This one is nothin' but a 70's rock music. Song 'bout girls, rock ,music, etc... But not exaggerated like songs later on. Just hinted somehin' sexual.
This ain't killer, but it's true this is a good rock classics of 70's. (1999/04/17)

THE MONTROSE AVENUE

©Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.

1. She's Looking For Ne
2. Helplessly Hoping
3. Start Again
4. Yesterday's Return
5. Keep On The Road
6. Where Do I Stand
7. Emergency Exit
8. Shine
9. Leaving In The Morning
10. Closing Time
11. Lost For Words
12. Thirty Days Out
13. Ohio
14. Take One (bonus track)

Long-awaited first album from UK. They're playing the music only the Brit can play. What makes them something special is their vocal harmony, I think. Dual vocal parts become one main vocal part on almost very song on this album. These days, almost all the musicians forget about this sound approach, so this works. And melancholic atmosphere created by them. It's bitter-sweeted, you know, life ain't easy, everybody has to face the departure from someone they love in their lifetime, and have to revive from the depth of sadness. That's what they are playing.
My personal favs are all songs except "Closing Time"( the song for the man who drinks his sadness away at bar till it closes.), Neil Young's cover "Ohio", and instrumental track "Take One" taken from "Shine" CD-2.
If you are interested in them, then the very first thing you got to grab is this full album, instead of buying singles. (1998/11/07)

MOTLEY CRUE

©WEA International Inc.

1.Planet Boom
2.Bittersuite
3.Father
4.Friends
5.Babykills
6.10,000 Miles Away--bonus track for Japan
7.Hooligan's Holiday (Extended Holiday Version)--bonus track for Japan
8.Hammered (Demo)--bonus track for Japan
9.Livin' In The No (Demo)--bonus track for Japan

9 tracks extra offering from Crue (with Corabi on vox.). This disc was also entitled as _Raw Tracks III_. This one contains solo tracks by each member of the CRUE.
The first one "Planet Boom" is Tommy Lee's track. His attitude is here. You'll easily recognize the energy of rhythm on this track. It's nice, but a bit outdated when I picked this disc today.
The second track "Bittersuite" is done by Mick Mars. This bluesy instrumental is traditional one, and hardly feel something new. But this doesn't mean boring, his emotional playing is here.
And the third one "Father" is recorded by Nikki Sixx. According to the linernotes by himself, this tracks stems from his chilhood memory.
Finally, the last one "Friends" by John Corabi flows. Well, personally I don't think he's great singer, but he managed to sing this song well. This song reminds me of some Queen classics, well, actually what he did was far from what Mr.Mercury and Co. did.
Track.5 is done by 4 members of the band, but this is definitely outtake, and the same thing apply to the rest of this disc, nothing but fillers, except remix version of "Hooligan's Holiday". Yeah, I wasted my money for this disc. (1999/02/19)

©Motley Records

1.Live Wire
2.Come On And Dance
3.Public Enemy #1
4.Merry-Go-Round
5.Take Me To The Top
6.Piece Of Your Action
7.Starry Eyes
8.Too Fast For Love
9.On With The Show

1.Live Wire
2.Come On And Dance
3.Public Enemy #1
4.Merry-Go-Round
5.Take Me To The Top
6.Piece Of Your Action
7.Starry Eyes
8.Too Fast For Love
9.On With The Show
10.Toast Of The Town (unreleased track)
11.Tonight (unreleased track)
12.Too Fast For Love (Alt.Intro)
13.Stick To Your Guns (unreleased track)
14.Merry Go Round (Live San Antonio, TX) --bonus track for Japan

This is Millennium edition of their first album. All tracks on previously available release (trk.1-9) are remastered this time, and the difference is well recognizable. Elektra version was poor sound quality, it seems they didn't know how to convert analogue master onto CD format. Well, the original sound quality is not as good as that of recent days. So it's a bit doubtful whether it's worth buying extra copy of this album for remastering. But they added incredible rarities of those days. 5 tracks on the rest of this album are those tracks. Those were used to be available thru bootleg trading, but this time it's original release. So the sound quality is absolutely beyond what those used to be available. The last of them is live version of "Merry Go Round". According to the interview with Nikki, written on the booklet, they played only few times on the stage, so this one is absolutely rare. (1999/06/13)

1.Dr.Feelgood
2.Girls, Girls, Girls
3.Enslaved
4.Live Wire
5.Shout At The Devil
6.Wild Side
7.Home Sweet Home
8.Bitter Pill
9.Looks That Kill
10.Primal Scream
11.Kickstart My Heart

<<Live at Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, November 17.1998>>

Bootleg CD taken from radio show, so everytime Vince said "FUCK", it's edited, and DJ message is in the beginning of track.6. As you expected when you read this is the bootleg of radio show program, the sound quality of this disc is outstanding. The performance of the Crue was tight, there's no space for filler tracks. This is totally Crue greatest hits. Must item for all CRUE fans. (1999/04/24)

MR.BIG

©eastwest japan

1.Take Cover
2.Goin' Where The Rain Blows
3.Shoot The Moon
4.Just Take My Heart (live)
5.The Whole World's Gonna Know (live)

1st single from _Hey Man_ (4th album by them). The title track is so,so...... The 2nd track is weak to me, this ain't the song they should play, very pop ballad, totally crap. The 3rd track is old MR.BIG-ish song, but not as good as their previous hits. And live takes are good. But, I think, this stems from the fact first 3 tracks are boring, so that make some-not-bad-songs/takes nice. Just a trick of listening sequence. (1997/08/21)

MYSTERY

©Joystick Publishing/Long Island

1.Runaway
2.Burnin' Up
3.Call Of The Whale
4.Paradise
5.Stranger
6.You And I
7.No More Tears
8.Talk To Me
9.Smile
10.Time
11.Everything To Me
12.Liquid Darkness
13.Sarajevo

European bands' 2nd album, I guess they are from Belgium, but not for sure, well, why should I care about this kind of shitty band anyway. Well, the reason why I picked up this album (from bargain bin full of used CDs) is quit simple. This album is produced by Harry Hess and Pete Lesperance - the main men of Harem Scarem.
I got bunch of good reasons why I say they are crap. Here we go...

1.No one has a good musicianship to play music that someone willing to pay for.
2.Singer can't sing emotionally. He just sings harshly. It seems he thinks such kind of singing style is the only way to sing rock music. Hasn't he heard anything except NWOBHM records?
3.The band didn't have a message or somthing want to be expressed thru music.

Thus, this flatter is totally shit. The only good part on this album is keyboard play by Harry Hess. I tried to filterize all the shits by this band, and keep my ears on Harry's keyboard playing. That's the only thing I could. So I give 5 points for his and my patiences.
And here's a message for Harry and Pete.
"You should hear the music, before you accept producing albums of other bands. 'Cuz, the fact you produced this kind of shit, your names and fames will become tinted." (2000/01/08)