Danger Danger - The Return Of The Great Gildersleeves | ||
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Album Cover: ![[Image]](../../cd_images/DDgild.gif)
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Label: MTM Music Producer: Danger Danger Year: 2000 UK Distribution: Cargo Records Total Playing Time: 51:59 m:s Review date: 17/03/2000 |
| Web site: www.dangerdanger.com ,
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| Rating: 82% | ||
| Verdict: Derivative, but enjoyable. | ||
| It took me a long time to get around to buying DD's debut. The mindless lyrics of "Naughty Naughty" put me off. Anyway I finally gave in and despite the fact that it sails close to being 'mindless cock rock', it is an album I like. By this this time DD had already jumped aboard the grunge bandwagon and that didn't inspire me to pay much attention to them. Andrew over at melodicrock.com has already reviewed this new album and given it a whopping 100% which I'm sure will have raised DD's profile in the minds of many AOR/MR surfers.
Like COT, DD have released an album in 2000 and are looking to move their sound forward. Whereas COT opted for the dance/rap angle, DD have opted to include a few grungy elements to signal to music fans that they aren't a bunch of AOR dinosaurs rehashing past glories in the hope of making a few easy dollars. Opener "Grind" is a big melodic rocker that immediately grabs your attention. Despite a change of singer & a grunge album, "When She's Good, She's Good" shows that the cock rock mindset isn't too far away. "Six Million Dollar Man" starts with a sample from the old TV series of the same name, before coming bang up to date with DD sounding not unlike Believe/VOR era Harem Scarem. The tempo changes completely for "She's Gone" which sounds very like Foreigner's "Girl On The Moon", especially at the start. There is plenty of variety on here as illustrated by the next track, "Dead Drunk & Wasted", which has a Motley Crue/Poison feel. Next up Pull era Winger gets the DD treatment on "Dead Dog". "I Do" is a hook laden slice of uptempo rock that will please existing DD fans. More variety, this time in the form of the lightweight summery semi-acoustic "My Secret", which gives the album a new dimension and is a good alternative to the expected sugary power ballad. It starts like Thin Lizzy before becoming Starz - that's "Cherry Cherry". It's party rock that sounds very familiar, even on the first listen. There is a GnR sneer to "Get In The Ring", which I think is one of the weaker tracks due to the shouted chorus being repeated too often. The album finishes in flurry of uptempo, heavy, even punk-ish, activity with "Walk It Like You Talk It". DD manage to make this album modern sounding whilst keeping a sense of melody. I found it fairly easy to pick out definite comparisons for quite a few of the tracks. The result is that the album doesn't come across as having a coherent DD sound throughout. That's not really a problem, or a criticism, it just makes the album seem not very original sounding. However, let's not go there, if you're like me you won't have heard that many truly original sounding AOR album recently. | ||
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