Tell Me, What's the Best Song on the 2000 Razor & Tie Compilation "Monster Madness"?

Gosh.

Well, at the least White Lion's "Wait" has one of the coolest guitar solos of all time. The song is like a hair metal Cheap Trick, and not just because the singer looks like Robin Zander.

Voted for Epic, since that's the only one I'd listen to on purpose these days.

I had so many good connections to these songs when I was in elementary and middle school.

In My Dreams by Dokken: My First Metal Song (not to be confused with I'll See You In My Dreams" by Giant, which I'd never heard of before).

Dr. Feelgood: The first album I ever anticipated. Even worried about when an early interview suggested they might title it "Sex, Sex, and Rock 'n' Roll." I grew a rat tail, but did not deal drugs.

Skid Row, Slaughter, Firehouse, Warrant: all the guys the girls at my lunch table in 7th grade loved instead of me. But where's Trixter, Razor & Tie? What happened to Trixter?

Kiss Me Deadly: probably the actual best song on here, but realistically I'm only going to listen to it when it comes on at whatever chain restaurant I'm taking my family to. When it does, it will make my BBQ bacon burger taste so much sweeter.

Epic seems a bit of an outlier on this comp.

i voted for Slaughter. because i like that song.

yeah "epic" doesn't fit at all, way too good to be on this comp

epic is definitely goofy enough to be on here.

Voted "I Wanna Rock." Because I do!

Speaking of "goofy", odds are that I Wanna Rock will have the most lasting legacy of all these, due to its inclusion in the Spongebob Squarepants Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlnDf3e3PQ0

Kiss Me Deadly

"Kiss Me Deadly" very narrowly over "Epic".

Gotta say, there is enough to enjoy on here that I'm almost as curious to see the poll results for worst song.

I'm not turning off Unskinny Bop if it comes on the radio, so that's my vote.

Unskinny Bop is a glorious entry in the hallowed halls of rock 'n' roll nonsense. Tip of the fedora to C.C. Deville.

listening to my epically long hard rock metal playlist based upon playlists from 103.5 The Blaze in Chicago, and the first song that came up on random was Overnight Sensation by Firehouse, which is NOT BAD. The rest of their songs are mostly somewhat bad.

i think the best ones here are In My Dreams and Wait. Epic, I Remember You, Kiss Me Deadly -- all excellent. Hole Hearted is good but doesn't seem to quite fit. I like Silent Lucidity.

Silent Lucidity reminds me of Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by the Crash Test Dummies. Odd wintertime ballads that you wouldn't admit to your friends that you liked, but were secretly comforting.

This is Compact Disc Rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xUQ6dw

Why don't drummers suspend their cymbals from heavy chains anymore?

S. Bach’s diva like vocalizin’ at the climax of I’ll Remember You is pretty Mariah (Nazareth division). It is impressive and I do recall seeing a cover band in a bar from a converted Ponderosa restaurant completely break and blow clams when they tried to get up to that high note.

Oh yeah, S. Bach’s Amoeba What’s in My Bag is worth a vie. You can tell he is a record store nerd, it was an entertaining one.

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Monster Madness? Was this an offshoot of Monster Ballads?

Hole Hearted

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epic, but i have a soft spot for silent luciditÿ

It was all a bad dream spinning

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I worked for Razor & Tie in the mid 90s, first as an intern and then as a reissue producer. the company began by selling licensed compilations of 70s hits on late night tv, and then licensed reissues like Graham Parker and David Johanssen from the likes of Columbia or Polygram at a retail level; that's what I worked on, and I considered what I did to be in competition with Ryko and Rhino…my piece de resistance was a Joe Meek comp that could have been marketed like Esquivel but which didn't sell at all, and then after I left the job, I wrote the notes for the first Scott Walker collection to ever be released in the U.S.; Marshall Crenshaw compiled that comp, and it too did not sell.

The two owners of R&T —Springsteen, singer-songwriter and heartland rock-oriented lawyers— ultimately didn't have any patience to commit to hipster projects like the above. the tv comps brought in by far the most income. One day in '97, when I was visiting the offices after leaving, I told the guys that a TV comp of hair metal would be the biggest success they ever had. and a year later, Monsters of Rock was a huge huge huge success.

But a few months after my suggestion, my interview with Scott Walker appeared in Time out NY, where I had gone to work after the label. The interview did not mention It's Raining Today: the Scott Walker story, the comp I wrote the notes for. I probly should have mentioned it, but this omission so angered one of the owners that he removed the credit thanking me for the idea for Monsters of Rock. R&T produced many many more hair metal comps in the next several years.

10 years later, the success of Kidz Bop dwarfed that of any other R&T project by massive margins.

treated badly:

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