Rise

Hair Of The Dog (Rock) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2000)
• Original Release Date: April 4, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Spitfire
• ASIN: B00004SGNS
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #396,678 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rise

2. Five to Nine

3. Color Me Fire

4. You Are the One

5. Mokur Jahoobees

6. I Can't Fight You

7. Rescue Me

8. Bum Jenkins

9. Twice

10. The Almighty Strut

11. Sometimes Is Enough

12. Hammered

13. I

Editorial Reviews

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 3.5 stars - Just a good, solid, fun hard rock album, November 3, 2009

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

2000's Rise was the second album from American hard rockers Hair of the Dog. The band enjoyed a minor wave of popularity after their self-titled debut was released, and did some touring with the likes of Ratt and Skid Row. For Rise, the band worked with famed producer Michael Wagener (Dokken, Skid Row, just about every 80's rock band worth mentioning).

Rise found the band continuing to develop their brand of post-hair metal, post-grunge hard rock. It's a melodic, accessible, and fun hard rock album, and coming at a time when angst and gloom were still very much the order of the day, that's worth celebrating. Rise is in some ways a throwback to the days of L.A. Guns, Skid Row and Motley Crue (and before that KISS and Van Halen) without resorting to sheer imitation or relying on a glam appearance. It's modern rock for the children of the 80's, and it's a lot more fun than the average Creed or Staind album. Sometimes what you need are up-tempo rock songs about partying, rocking, and partying some more, and that's what Hair of the Dog delivers with Rise. They get extra credit for their closing KISS cover "I" (from Music from "The Elder" of all albums).

Unfortunately, the band didn't stick around long. They released one additional album in 2001 (Ignite) and hasn't been heard from since. It's a shame, because the musical climate these days seems a lot more receptive to this kind of hard rock.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Twice Is Nice, August 13, 2000

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"squirrel_bait" (West York, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rise (Audio CD)

Beware of The Dog!!! Those who have heard HOTD's 1st album already know and expect a Rockin' experience.

Slide in the CD and right away John's heavy chords leading into "Rise" kick you in the guts. The CD's title song rips out of the speakers and let's you know these boys are serious about assaulting your senses to the breaking point.

Need a little stress relief? Fire up "Five to Nine", this one is bound to become a party classic for years to come.

A nice catchy little ditty about men's favorite toys "Mokur Jahoobees", dares to praise the very breast of society, literally.

"You are the One" and "Rescue Me" were unexpected but maybe a sign that the band is maturing and expanding musically. A softer and more acoustic sound for HOTD but NOT mushy love songs.

A good way to think of this CD would be "If you got the beer, We got the tunes."

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard Rock, Wild Fun, July 12, 2006

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J. Miller "Mean Master" (Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rise (Audio CD)

My favorite is "Mokar Jahoobies"...it seems to denote what this band is pretty much all about, socially. Other than that, Hair of the Dog is a Eighties Rock esque Hair Metal type band that lays it on the line, tells it like they see it, and rocks it hard. What am I kidding? No eighties hair bands ever rocked this hard. This band also compares to modern successes such as Creed, Cowboy Mouth, Buckcherry, and Monster Magnet. Another good song on this disc is "Five to Nine", "Tell the boys to kiss my #&% it's party time." They sure know how to tell life like people want it to be, wild fun.

So some of you may have only heard the single "Rise" on the radio, posers. Anyway, they have more juice where that came from.