The Cult - Sonic Temple was an amazing record, and very strong.
Fire Woman, Edie, Sweet Soul Sister were incredible songs that got a ton of airplay at a time when Studios were shifting from pop to grungier sounds, The cult combined the best of bar metal and a grungy guitar feel.
I think Automatic Blues was the weakest song on the album.
The Cult was a glimpse into what could have been, She Sells Sanctuary is still one of my favorite songs when I'm sitting at home alone and pull out my guitar, just to play the opening bars.
I know some people think I'm nuts with Lone Justice, but I still think they're one of the best bands I've ever followed even though they could never get commercial success, and they ended way to soon. But they were a unique mix of Rock and Country and Bluegrass and Maria McKee was just so fricken talented and creative and fun.
Shelter was such an amazing Album with the lead off songs being "I found love" and "Shelter"
If you look at the debut Album, it was a better album, and its starting line of songs was East of Eden, After the Flood, Ways to be wicked. The Album also contained Don't toss us away, working late, and Sweet Sweet Baby which were these great fun songs.
Probably the weakest song was Soap, Soup and Salvation which I still think was a great song.
Its funny because thanks to a couple of threads, I'm sure my reputation has been completely shattered.
When I was in highschool I had this carefully cultivated image. I was always the guy that listened to harder edged, guitar heavy, charge up and crash the wall music.
I was the Iron Maiden guy, the Black Sabbath guy, the Ozzy guy, i was the guy in High School that got solidly weirded out looks because I knew the Lyrics to songs by Venom, Dio was a god.
But I always had a hidden secret. I listened to everything and because of that had the weirdest most messed up nonsensical album collection ever.
Bruce Springsteen had a major part in my album collection, and not just born in the USA, Born to Run, Nebraska The River and more.
I loved and to this day I love powerful female singers. Heart was an obsession for me for a long time, even after they sold out in the 80's. Vixen, I was a huge fan.
Lone Justice loved them.
The Pretenders, I got a ton of grief about liking them.
I never left my metal roots, ACDC, Judas Priest, I respected them, when the Hair Metal Generation came around I jumped on the Bon Jovi and Poison and others.
Van Halen, even when Roth was fired and Sammy Hagar jumped on and gave them this new sound, I never faltered.
Stray Cats, amazing band.
Yeah, I'm a guitar crunching head banging 3 cords or death you're band better have two guitars and no keyboard, that was the image I had.
But I was also the guy that listened to Berlin, and the Smiths (man that was depressing), Thought Madonna was hideously talented, and loved the Bangles (Hazy Shades of Winter Yo).
Yeah, I'm weird.
Don't look at me like that .
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