great white: classic or dud?

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for luptune (in cinderella thread).

classic: the cover art to twice shy

dud: the music on the record

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they had some horrid power ballad hit before 'once bitten, twice shy' didn't they? maybe there should just be an all encompassing subject like 'hair metal bands of the 80s-search and destroy then we can all revel in praise for bands like king kobra, vandenberg and fastway.

― keith, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you on some 80's hair metal kick, sundar? Its kind of disturbing.

― bnw, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So, when will Kixx and Mr. Big get their Classic or Dud threads?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Great White = fat and ugly as sin. In hair-metal, that just doesn't work. Boring reverence for da blooze - they're the Humble Pie of the 80s.

― tarden, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

True story: My first real date, ever, was back when I was 14 and a friend set me up with her boyfriend's friend.

He was 16 and slightly creepy and we really didn't have much to talk about. So what did he bring up to try and impress me? "I have everything Great White ever recorded! Lots of people like them now because of Twice Shy, but I'm a true fan who has been there from the beginning!" I think I was more scared and disgusted than impressed.

So that was my roundabout way of pronouncing: DUD.

― Nicole, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*I'm* surprised to see Great White mentioned before Kix, if only for the Chuck Eddy fan club that hangs out here.

― Kerry Keane, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chuck Eddy fan club: we like how he writes and thinks, not the music he writes about and thinks about.

Except White Lion, obviously...

― mark s, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Although funnily enough I was humming "Don't Close Your Eyes" just now, so clearly it's time for a Kix thread. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kix is where even the biggest Chuck Eddy admirer just throws his hands up and gives up. I even bought a 2nd Kix record to make really sure that they were as useless as they sounded on the first one I got. If you've heard "Don't Close Your Eyes" and hated it, trust your instincts. Has anyone here tried Teena Marie ?

― Patrick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What little I ever heard of Teena Marie on the radio I enjoyed. I don't know about that album he ranks so high, but I have to say I was always curious.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't say I've ever head Teena Marie -- I've heard one Kix song on Beavis and Butthead and thought it was pretty cool...

― Nicole, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Teena Marie did "Lover Girl", didn't she? "I just want to rock your world!"

― Dan Perry, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In that case, I have heard her. I do like "Lover Girl".

― Nicole, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, "Lovergirl" = excellent. That Emerald City album that Chuck rates so highly in Stairway To Hell baffles me, though. It just sounds like ridiculously overproduced dance-pop, with few hooks, and nothing recognizable as metal. It doesn't even have much personality. Her 1981 album It Must Be Magic (with "Square Biz") is better though - but still not too great. Jimmy Castor, however = party-time !

― Patrick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yahoo! Lady T! They call her Vanilla Child! Also excellent: "Behind the Groove". Never heard the record in Chuck Eddy's Top Ten, either. Doesn't sound too appealing from Patrick's description, though. More believable than Eddy's rave, though.

― Arthur, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if i was talking about the human league or duran duran, would people be questioning the nostalgia-fest for 80s synthpop haircut bands?

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Duran Duran and the Human League were among the biggest artists in their genre, whereas within the world of hair-metal, Great White were kinda run-of-the-mill, not especially distinctive one-hit wonders. Maybe a more accurate analogy here would be Haircut 100 and Kajagoogoo - and I *do* think people here would make fun of those if they were the subject of a C or D thread.

― Patrick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Great shite it's Great White. Jack Russell has excellent Plant-like voice; Mark Kendall excellent Albert-King-as-hard-rock lead guitar style (exceptional sustain, refer "HiWay Nights" solo; and wah pedal DEMON, refer "Congo Square," "I Want You"). Great White took the blues rock aspect of Zep's sound and decided to be JUST that, except poppier and hookier. With mixed results, mostly pretty good = classic. "Rollin' Stoned" was BEST SINGLE OF 1999, no shit, anyone hear it? Search: "Desert Moon" (dude!!), "Maybe Someday," "Get On Home," "Wooden Jesus," "Loveless Age," mid-section of "Love is a Lie," intro to "Move It," solo in "Lady Red Light," even "Heart the Hunter" (now THAT's a song title).

― AP, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh fine, whatever, sure, not like i wasn't making fun of them worse than anyone else here in the fucking question box itself. luptune asked for it, he got it.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Dud -- and not just in light of recent events.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 March 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

In the "OBTS" video he raises one finger, then two, corresponding w/ the chorus. Dud dud dud dud dud + stupid

― dave q, Friday, 21 March 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty-one years pass...

https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/great-white-jack-russell-dead-1235754482/

Light a candle

― pplains, Friday, 16 August 2024 03:04 (one year ago)

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