More 80's Hair Metal [Box set]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 3, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B0002IQJYQ
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,152 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Intro

2. L.O.V.E. Machine

3. Metal Health (Bang Your Head)

4. Down Boys

5. Round and Round

6. Prime Mover [Vicious Version]

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Breaking the Chains [Live]

2. In the Light [Live]

3. Sex Action [Live]

4. (You Still Can) Rock in America [Live]

5. Rock Candy [Live]

6. The More Things Change [Live]

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Love Ain't No Stranger

2. No One Like You

3. Home Sweet Home [Live]

4. Something to Believe In

5. Nobody's Fool

6. Lady

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Review

Oh yeah! The biggest sequel this side of The Two Towers is about to be unleashed, the follow-up to the ultra popular This Is 80s Hair Metal!

Even more aerosol-soaked performers from such legendary glam metal bands as Ratt, Def Leppard, Cinderella, Night Ranger, Great White, White Lion and more!

Includes the biggest hair metal tunres of the era such as Round And Round, Yankee Rose, Lay Your Hands On Me, Sweet Child O Mine and so many more!

The original This Is 80s Hair Metal has already soundscanned over 20,000 units in just 7 months!

You asked for it, so you got it! Due to the overwhelming popular demand of our original This Is '80s Hair Metal, Deadline Music is proud to introduce More '80s Hair Metal, a CD set so fun that it should be ILLEGAL (but it's not). It's all here: the BIG hair, the BIG guitars and the BIGGEST Hair Metal tunes of the era all in one 3 hour long boxset for your listening and nostalgic pleasure. Star-studded and packed with your faves, More '80s Hair Metal features never-before released original recordings from Stephen Pearcy of Ratt fame along with once-in-a-lifetime appearances from Vince Neil (Motley Crue), Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple), Joe Elliot and Phil Collen (Def Leppard), the entire cast from the band Warrant and way too many other superstars to list here. You know you want it, so you might as well give in to your inner desires and buy this now. Turn it on, turn it up and above all, LET YOUR HAIR DOWN! --Cleopatra Records

Product Description

DISC 1: Studio Fueled
1. Intro
2. L.O.V.E. Machine - W.A.S.P.
3. Metal Health (Bang Your Head) - Quiet Riot
4. Down Boys - Warrant
5. Round And Round - Stephen Pearcy (Ratt)
6. Prime Mover (Vicious Version) - Zodiak Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
7. Under My Wheels - Joe Elliot / Phill Collen (Def Leppard)
8. Paranoid - Vince Neil (Motley Crue)
9. Hey Baby - Taime Downe of Faster Pussycat, DJ Ashba & Randy Castillo
10. Back In The Saddle - Mark Slaughter with Rudy Sarzo & Frankie Banali
11. Yankee Rose - Enuff Z Nuff
12. Live Wire - Pretty Boy Floyd Vs. Tracii Guns Vs. Die Krupps
13. El Salvador - White Lion
14. Spinning Wheel - Love/Hate
15. When The Good Die Young - Dokken

DISC 2: Live & Dangerous
1. Breaking The Chains - Dokken
2. In The Light - Great White
3. Sex Action - LA Guns
4. You Can Still Rock In America - Night Ranger
5. Rock Candy - Lita Ford
6. The More Things Change - Cinderella
7. Someone Like You - Bang Tango
8. I.C.U. - Saigon Kick
9. Outlaw - Dangerous Toys
10. Old Man Wise - Union
11. Tush - Junkyard
12. 7 Minutes Of Heaven - Pretty Boy Floyd
13. Thank You - Great White

BONUS TRACK:
14. Everything In Between - The Numb Ones

DISC 3: The Power Ballads
1. Love Ain t No Stranger - Whitesnake
2. No One Like You - Scorpions
3. Home Sweet Home (Live) - Vince Neil
4. Something To Believe In - Bret Michaels
5. Nobody s Fool - Cinderella
6. Lady - London Quireboys
7. Wait - White Lion
8. Lay It Down - Mickey Ratt (featuring Stephen Pearcy)
9. Under One Condition - Winger
10. Mr. Crowley - Yngie Malmsteen & Ripper Owens
11. Sweet Child O Mine - Jizzy Pearl with Tracii Guns
12. The Prettiest Ones - Blackboard Jungle
13. Faithfully - Bullet Boys
14. Foolin - Steve Whiteman of Kix

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Superior sequel to 'This is 80's Hair Metal' box set., September 23, 2005

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William Matson (Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More 80's Hair Metal (Audio CD)

Note: The Amazon track listing here contains some errors, for example Blackboard Jungle does not do "Paranoid" (see below) and Tracii Guns does not do "Prime Mover" (Zodiac Mindwarp does). The song listings on this review (and the actual box set in stores) ARE accurate. Now on to the review:

'More 80's Hair Metal' is a follow-up to the successful three-cd box set, 'This is 80's Hair Metal.' For the uninitiated, you will need to be aware of a key point. This box set, you will notice, came out on Deadline Records. Deadline is a label that specializes in the following:

1. Rerecorded versions of hit songs by the original artists, these are marketed as 'greatest hits collections' (example: 'Greatest and Latest' by Warrant, represented here on cd 1).

2. Tribute albums featuring members of various 80's rock/metal bands doing the cover songs (i.e. 'Leppardmania-Tribute to Def Leppard' or 'A Rock Tribute to Guns N' Roses', both represented here on cd 3 or 'Bulletproof Fever-A Tribute to Ted Nugent', represented on cd 1).

3. Live albums (i.e. 'Lita Ford-Greatest Hits Live' or Cinderella's 'Live at the Key Club', both represented here on cd 2)

4. Solo releases by members of 80's rock groups (i.e. Kip Winger from Winger, Mike Tramp from White Lion, etc.), in some cases they do new songs and others, Deadline has them rerecord material from their original band. Sometimes, it is a live solo album in which the artist does hits from their original band. This sort of stuff is on this album, see the Vince Neil song. In the case of Kip Winger, it was an 'unplugged' solo release from the studio.

That's what this label does, all for 80's rock/metal acts.

The songs on this box set are pulled from various Deadline releases. The reason you do not see acts like Twisted Sister, Iron Maiden, Kiss, Britny Fox, AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Black Sabbath, etc. is that none of those artists ever recorded anything for Deadline, so there obviously is no material available from those bands to use. You can't fault the label for that.

As for the rerecordings, lots of artists have rerecorded their songs for small labels: The Rembrandts, Steppenwolf, Twisted Sister, Starship, Anthrax, lots of bands on this compilation, Blue Oyster Cult, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gene Watson, UFO, John Denver, etc. When a band rerecords the song, they are the ones (along with the new label) that end up making most of the money from it. The label who owns the original version of a song doesn't make all the profits like they normally would from most greatest hits collections. Small labels like this love having 'greatest hits' compilations of 'name artists' to sell, regardless of when the recordings were done. Artists, meanwhile, love keeping in practice (doing the song again) and also the payday they get, in addition to the prospect of sticking it to a label they are likely no longer on (the label they did the original version for).

Given the label's budget, the rerecordings sound fairly good. Yes, I like the originals better, too. However, the songs sound almost the same and you can tell it is the band credited (well, their current lineup). One thing people obviously need to understand about rerecorded songs is that they are almost always done live in the studio (with the whole band) in ONE take. There is no going in and adding parts later or stopping to start the song again. I'm sure if they worked at it for six months (like the original), the remakes would sound closer to the originals, in sound quality.

And what is wrong with having a cd of live material for the car? I didn't know live albums suddenly went out of vogue. As for the Great White cover versions of Led Zeppelin, those are pulled from a live tribute album to Led Zeppelin that was recorded in California by Great White in the mid 90's (title: 'Great Zeppelin'). Not a lot of people buying this even knew that release was out there. How else are they going to hear that stuff, short of paying a hefty import price or special ordering it?

Lastly, compilations featuring original versions of hit songs tend to mention this fact on the cd some place (usually the cover). These collections tend to come from bigger labels (Razor & Tie, Rhino, etc.) and usually are one or two cd sets (almost never three). And such compilations of the original recordings cost more. It takes more money to license studio versions from a big record company (if you can even get the rights) than it does to get rerecorded/live material from an indie label. That explains the budget price for rerecorded sets and higher prices for original recordings. If you want original recordings so bad, consider these points above.

It makes sense to look twice when you see these hits done by Mickey Ratt, Bret Michaels, Kip Winger and Vince Neil, instead of Ratt, Poison, Winger and Motley Crue (such is the case on this cd). If a cd/box set release does not actively promote "original recordings by the original artists" (it makes financial sense to mention it, if they are), then you will want to take a closer look.

Most of the people looking at this will already have (or have seen) the first box set in this series: 'This is 80's Hair Metal.' It seems Deadline Records took heed on some of the criticism from that first effort and made a few changes here. This is what you will find to be different:

Some original recordings were used this time, see the songs by WASP, Whitesnake and the Scorpions. It seems there was enough of a budget to license a few cuts from a major label, not a bad job for a small label like Deadline. There are also some bigger names here than on the previous set. Vince Neil (Motley Crue), Enuff Z'Nuff and Joe Elliot (Def Leppard), who were absent from the first set, are featured here. The biggest names on the first box were Paul Di'Anno (ex-Iron Maiden), Ronnie James Dio and Michael Monroe (Hanoi Rocks), none of whom are featured this time.

Here are my thoughts on the box set. This is a detailed rundown for each disc.

CD 1:
A pointless (and cheesy) intro opens this collection. WASP follows with the original recording of one of their big hits. Quiet Riot and Warrant are next with hit songs, rerecorded in the studio. Stephen Pearcy (ex-Ratt) checks in with an alternate version of one of Ratt's hits, done with a different lineup of musicians. Zodiac Mindwarp is up next, with an alternate version of one of their "classic" songs. Joe Elliot contributes lead vocals on an Alice Cooper cover song (taken from a tribute album).

Vince Neil and George Lynch (ex-Dokken) follow up with a smoking version of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" (again, from a tribute album). Taime Downe (Faster Pussycat) leads a Ted Nugent cover and Mark Slaughter handles lead vocals on an Aerosmith classic, both taken from tribute albums. Another tribute album cut is featured with Enuff Z'Nuff's "Yankee Rose." Pretty Boy Floyd's vocalist, Steve Summers, checks in with a Motley Crue cover. The box set credits Pretty Boy Floyd as a band, but only Steve Summers is actually on this cover. Mike Tramp, the lead singer of White Lion, is next with a rerecorded version of a White Lion concert staple. Again, the whole White Lion band gets credit, but this is Mike Tramp and his solo band. No other White Lion originals were involved.

Love/Hate also contributes a rerecorded version of one of their old songs. To close the cd, Dokken is highlighted by a track ("When the good die young"), which was only available previously as a bonus track from the Japanese import of their reunion album, 'Dysfunctional.' The album intro and the Enuff Z'Nuff cover song (shrill vocals) could have been left off and nobody would have missed them. The rest of this material has legs, though. The Pearcy and Dokken cuts are not easy for the average music fan to obtain.

CD2:
This disc is a collection of live music, up until the last track. Dokken turns in a classic, performed live. Great White does a live cover song (Zeppelin). LA Guns performs one of their classics, but the track (#3) actually ends with the introduction of Night Ranger's song, which makes things weird if you are listening to a single track or playing this on the radio. It seems this slipped through the editing process. You'll hardly miss a beat if this is continually being played in a car, but it was an oversight, nonetheless. Lita Ford covers Montrose, in concert. Cinderella, Bang Tango, Saigon Kick and Dangerous Toys all turn in live versions of some old favorites. A more recent band, Union, checks in with a live version of the first single from their 1998 debut.

Junkyard tears through a live version of a ZZ Top hit song. Pretty Boy Floyd is next with a little-heard cut, done live. Great White ends this little "concert" with another Led Zeppelin cover. The disc, itself, wraps up with a bonus track. This is in the form of a debut single by a band (The Numb Ones) signed to Deadline Records. The plan seems to be piggy backing them onto this cd with established artists, as the opinion seems to be that people who purchase the box set may want to check them out. Purely a promotional tool, but the single is fairly lively and the band is worth a look. Overall, the Saigon Kick, Dangerous Toys and Junkyard cuts fail to measure up, more so from a sound quality standpoint than anything else. The rest of the live cuts do sound good, production-wise.

CD3:
This is a mix of live and studio versions of power ballads. Most come from rerecorded greatest hits collections, live albums or tribute albums. Whitesnake and Scorpions start off with original versions of their hit songs (licensed from the original record label). Vince Neil turns in a live, spirited rendition of a Motley Crue classic. Bret... Read more ›

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointment, June 25, 2010

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First off, for me the second CD didn't even play at all for me but somehow I didn't seem to mind that much as this is an awful CD with the exception of a couple of good tracks. It consists mostly of former hair metal bands covering other hair metal bands songs. Additionally, some of these cover bands I never heard of. I agree with the reviewer above. This box set is pretty much good for only one thing: a coaster set.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Yeah...I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree., March 16, 2006

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Ignusbane (League City, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More 80's Hair Metal (Audio CD)

Admittedly, I don't scour the surface of the Earth for hard to find B, C, and D-class tracks to add to my metal collection. If you do, you may agree with the novelist who wrote the first review on this set. As for me, this is one of those items that you just have to admit to yourself was a mistake and file it with sanitation engineering. Luckily, I got mine on clearance.