Behind the Eight Ball

Thunderhead | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 16, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00000DTP0
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #516,361 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Behind the Eight Ball

2. Ready to Roll

3. Take It to the Highway

4. (You Don't Keep Me) Satisfied

5. The Fire's Burning

6. Let Go

7. Open All Night

8. Life in the City

9. Just Another Lover

10. Straight Shooter

11. Take Me to the Limit

12. Beyond the Universe

13. Take It to the Highway [Remix]

14. Alcohol

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic sounding riffomania, July 7, 2005

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Music Fanatic (Bettendorf, IA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Behind the Eight Ball (Audio CD)

This is a very good album of traditional riff rock, in the style of the NWOBHM (even though these guys are American, I think). It's a mixture of Accept-style heavy guitars, Y&T-style songwriting, and a vocalists that sounds kind of like a non-gay Paul Stanley. However you describe it, it rocks. Highly recommended, quality metal. Get it!

4.0 out of 5 stars Hard-hitting melodic rock, May 13, 2011

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Justin Gaines (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Behind the Eight Ball (Audio CD)

1989's Behind the Eight-Ball is the debut album from German rockers Thunderhead. Not quite Hollywood-style hair metal, and not as polished as their countrymen Bonfire, Thunderhead had a hard-hitting but still catchy and melodic, straightforward rock n' roll sound. Sort of like Y&T but with a raspier vocalist. Singer Ted Bullet actually sounds a lot like Demon frontman Dave Hill. It's not terribly original, but Behind the Eight-Ball is a very fun, very rockin' album that's sure to get your head nodding and your hand reaching to turn up the volume.

Thunderhead lasted long enough to release two more albums, but the alternative/grunge wave of the early `90s pretty much did them in. If you're a fan of straightforward, melodic rock n' roll, particularly the `80s variety, Thunderhead is a band that's well worth checking out, and Behind the Eight-Ball is the perfect place to start.