Steelheart

Steelheart | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 10, 1990)
• Original Release Date: July 10, 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000002O6S
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,907 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 10-JUL-1990

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Steelheart Knows How to Rock, May 6, 2000

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J. Wright "Rok Owt" (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Steelheart (Audio CD)

Their debut self-titled album, Steelheart, is one of my favorites. The ballad, I'll Never Let You Go, got them some air time on MTV and and number of "Best of the 80's Metal/Big Hair Bands." The rest of album is really pretty damn good. Love Ain't Easy, Like Never Before, Gimme Gimme and Down 'n' Dirty really rock. Can't Stop Me Lovin' You, Sheila and She's Gone are more ballad-type tunes and Everybody Loves Eileen is fun-filled rock 'n' roll. If you like White Lion, Firehouse or Slaughter, you should defintely like Steelheart.

Lead singer Mike Matijevic can really hit the high notes and belt out the songs. He's a more edgy version of White Lion's lead singer Mike Tramp. This first album is Steelheart's best and if you can find their second release "Tangled in Reins" it is worth buying, too.

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Man, this guy has pipes!, November 10, 2004

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Ghost of Metal Past (Circle Pines, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Steelheart (Audio CD)

I tend to like the thrash side of heavy metal but I appreciate genuine talent in any type of rock band. This guy has to be one of the best vocalists I have ever heard. I was in the army when this came out, so I wasn't really able to follow the rock scene. I heard a clip and listened to it on Napster, that voice in unreal. If you like this guy, check out TNT (Knights of the Thunder or Tell No Tales). Their singer is Tony Harnell and he is in the same league as this Steelheart guy. MTV puts the deep six on guys like this him and Tony, but morons like Chester Bennington and Fred Durst sell millions - there is no justice in the world.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars, December 22, 2005

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LINDA LARSON - See all my reviews

This review is from: Steelheart (Audio CD)

this was one of the bands that should have received the airplay -at the time of its release- that all of its related artists were,or had been, receiving . it was all so sudden....radio staions everywhere switched to that mess known as "grunge". Music would never again have style or intelligence or triumph or voice, or magnificence, or all of the above, it seemed. what was it with grunge , anyway....why couldn't that generation come up with anything different and yet ...good ? there are a few talented names/artists from that era, but most of that grunge time seemed like some kind of corporate joke on both the twenty somethings getting the record deals ( -probably made them think they had some kind of contribution to make to music-) as well as the radio audience deprieved now of music as we had always known it to be in this country, despite genre or time : intelligently inspired, assembled , and performed. that this album by steelheart kicked its foot through the door just as someone or something seemed to be closing out all of the good stuff in sound was perhaps all i could have hoped for at that time, though - as the stench coming from all of that grunge quickly dominated - no, the better word is "permeated" -the airwaves.