Nugent (Reis)

Ted Nugent | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 3, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Eagle Records
• ASIN: B001OFM2Y2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,227 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Originally released in 1982 on the Atlantic label, "Nugent" was Ted's eighth studio album. It was his first album for Atlantic and gave him a chance to regroup after an extended period of constant touring and recording. The Nuge revamped his band's line-up, bringing back some old friends, and was rewarded with an album that hit the Top 50 on the US Billboard charts.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth another listen, April 12, 2000

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Richard P. Mayhew (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nugent (Audio CD)

While many Ted fans think he fell off the earth after 1981's Intensities In 10 Cities, that is not true. This album contains many songs that would have easily been at home on some of his earlier albums. the cuts Fightin' Words, Tailgunner, We're Gonna Rock, Habitual Offender and Don't Push me all contain the tough guy Ted formula that made him a star in the first place. Tailgunner is equal to Stranglehold and Smokescreen for it's power. Four songs mention guns, classic Nuge. The song Bound And Gagged is a patriotic song about the Iranian hostage crisis. This album boasts Derek St. Holmes at singer, and he sounds good. Teds guitar work is fast and crisp. This album gets a bad rap because it marks a point where Ted for whatever reason tried to change the direction of his career. Many of the albums after this were a joke, but this one is solid. In recent years Ted has released the excellent albums Spirit of Wild and 1979 Live At Hammersmith, but on the whole new Ted albums are becoming more rare than Bigfoot sightings, don't overlook this unfairly maligned album

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Tailgunner's Comin' ... Gonna Getcha Tonight! Look out! Look out! Bwahahahahaha!!! :o), July 31, 2007

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Lord Hasenpfeffer (Red Pill, Rabbit Hole) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nugent (Audio CD)

I received "Nugent" as part of my initial shipment of LPs in December 1982 when I was only 16 and had decided to join Columbia House Record & Tape Club. I remember being only marginally satisfied with it at that time. Now jump nearly 25 years. Without a working turntable for at least the past 15 years, I've not played this album in ages but I've just acquired the reissued CD and have decided to give it another chance. The passing of time has not changed my opinion of it one bit. I always LOVED playing "Tailgunner" in my bedroom as loudly as possible when I could. Call it "Son Of Stranglehold" as Ted was clearly trying to Do It Again with that one - and he did - although at 7:03 I wish it would run for at least another 3 minutes. His solos soar and wail in "Tailgunner" with awesome distortion and grit not heard anywhere else on this album. It's just too damn bad all of the other songs were made to sound so clean and restrained by comparison. The only reason I bought this CD when I did is because I remembered how much "Tailgunner" entertains. When I heard "Ebony" again, I swear, visions of Mike Reno standing on a stack of whiskey barrels popped into my head. So so sad! This album doesn't suck but neither is it a classic. Sorry Ted. P.S. It was also sad to see that the reissued CD doesn't claim to be made from raw backstage nookie hide (or whatever) like the original LP does. Damn digital discs! They just don't make 'em like they used to! LOL

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A couple of true grit Nuge songs, January 24, 2005

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tfn (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nugent (Audio CD)

There are at least a couple of songs on this album that have serious balls like the songs we have grown up to know and love from terrible Ted. "Good and Ready" and "Fightin' Words". "Good and Ready" is the best song on the record, make sure you play it as loud as humanly possible.