B-Side Ourselves

Skid Row | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Label: Atlantic
• ASIN: B000LWM6H2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #511,282 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun tunes and clever marketing - four stars for what it is., April 12, 2007

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Paul Lawrence "'EJL'" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: B-Side Ourselves (Audio CD)

In the shiny CD age Ep's are often just silly marketing tools. Slap a few outtakes together with a current single and pass it off as some sort of limited 'tour edition'. Well Skid Row say bollocks to that! Sort of.

With just five tunes on offer this covers EP doesn't get stale part way through like perhaps a full length would of. We get the band burning through Psycho Therapy for that all important punk cred, KISS to show that the Skids also love a big dumb good time like the rest of us and Delivering the Goods for metal cred. A Hendrix song also helps for a bit of early heritage link. So the band do try to cover all the bases and sort of is the serious reason for the band putting this out.

The fun reasons for this to be put out? Well why not? The infectious love these guys have for their musicaly heros is obvious and makes this curio something fans should pick up if possible - its ridiculously cheap after all. Sure you know it won't change your life but Skid Row never wanted it to. So grab this when you can - you know you want to cos we all need our guilty pleasures.

And no, I'm not gonna offer a serious critical viewpoint of their delivery of the tunes because that's not the point here....

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Skid Row - 'B-Sides Ourselves' (Atlantic) Five-track EP, November 30, 2004

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: B-Side Ourselves (Audio CD)

'B-Sides...' has just five songs and runs twenty minutes.I don't usually go for EP's,but I've always liked this one.It features Skid Row playing five of their personal favorite covers.The track that I enjoyed the most was Rush's "What You're Doing" from the Canadian trio's debut lp.When I saw Skid Row play live awhile back,I remember them performing The Ramone's "Psycho Therapy" with bassist Rachel Bolan on lead vocals.Something I didn't at all expect to see here,was with their cover of the Judas Priest tune "Delivering The Goods",that Rob Halford was trading off vocals with Sebastian Bach.The two remaining cuts are Kiss's "C'mon And Love Me" and Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing".Very nice,indeed.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Covers EP, September 2, 2006

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Justin Gaines (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: B-Side Ourselves (Audio CD)

I'm a sucker for a good cover song, and in 1992 Skid Row served up an EP full of them. Here's what you get:

1. Psycho Therapy (the Ramones) - Nothing's more fun than a Ramones cover. Bach & the boys take on this punk rock classic and seem to enjoy themselves in the process.

2. C'Mon and Love Me (KISS) - I'll give them credit for not picking an obvious KISS song, and they deliver a faithful cover version.

3. Delivering the Goods (Judas Priest) - This live track features a guest appearance by Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford. Bach ends the song proclaiming his love for Halford, which you have to find slightly ironic given Rob's (at the time) closet homosexuality and Bach's homophobic "AIDS kills f--s dead" t-shirt controversy. The song still rocks though, and is worth the price of the CD just to hear these two screamers perform together.

4. What You're Doing (Rush) - Again, I give them credit for picking a song that you wouldn't expect. This one comes from way back on Rush's debut album.

5. Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix) - It's not easy to cover a legend, but the band does a good job here both musically and vocally.

B-Sides Ourselves is a fun EP, and even though it's less than 19 minutes long, it's still worth the relatively low price to hear Skid Row pay tribute to some of their influences.