Struck Down [Import]

Y&T | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Mondo
• ASIN: B000008MJ5
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,596 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Struck Down

2. Pleasure In My Heart

3. Road

4. Masty Sadie

5. Dreams Of Egypt

6. Tried To Show You

7. Im Lost

8. Stargazer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Hard Rock With Blazing Lead Guitar, September 25, 2002

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mbfthrasher (Renton, Washington United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Struck Down (Audio CD)

This is a fantastic hard rock CD. Everyone plays their instruments extremely well. The drumming is great! And Dave in my opinion never got his due as a lead guitarist - there is blazing lead guitar on this, as good as most any in the 70's. If you like 70's (or any) guitar driven hard rock, you cannot go wrong with this - it rocks HARD. And Dave sings great also, he's as good a guitar player/singer as Mark Farner or Frank Marino were. This is a closet classic hard rock offering, I promise.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dave Meniketti was the stuff, March 8, 2007

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Kimball B. Hardisty "BradBama" (Birmingham,AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Struck Down (Audio CD)

I've had several Y&T albums in my day. After meeting Dave Meniketti back in 1976 at Leo's Music in Berkely where he was wailing on a flying V, I asked the name of his band and immediately bought the Cd when I returned to Fresno. I have been a fan ever since.
"Dreams of Egypt" is my all time favorite Y& T tuen and I can't wait to get this in the mail. The album wa slost years ago.
"Road" is also cool because it features Cherie Currie from The Runaways on vocals as well.
There is a lot of use of phasing which was a big trick back then. I hjad a Dirty Tricks album where they did the same thign. It does date it a little but this is my favorite Y&T album.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's good old rock!, March 4, 2002

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L. B. Ivarsson (Rock City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Struck Down (Audio CD)

Y&T may not be the flavour of the month! Their earlier stuff reminds of a time when music was more than a beautiful face and a sexy video for the MTV audience... On this album there are really great songs that have been kinda lost in time.

The album starts off with the title track which is representative for the whole record although it's far from the album's highlights. The second tune "Pleasure in my heart" (probably one of their best song ever) begins with a riff that comes close to Van Halen's "Little dreamer", and shows that Y&T have the ability to write melodic tunes without ending up in the "power-rock-anthem-style". Then comes "Road" (kind of Blackfoot-like) with a clear rock 'n' roll approach. The verse is great but when the refrain comes along I think the guys should have been a little less into sound effects. Track number four is "Nasty Sadie", a typical rock song from the seventies that has connections to Kiss as well as to Whitesnake. "Dreams of Egypt" is a song you easily can imagine Ronnie James Dio singing, since it has the vocal structure typical for Dio. Next up is "Tried to show you" (one of the albums best songs) which has both the drive and the melody that is so rare today. "I'm lost" is one of the faster tracks with great vocal arrangement. The album closes with "Stargazer", a song that is slightly different from the rest. Sometimes it makes me think of Bowie's earlier stuff.

If you like rock from the seventies I don't think you'll be disappointed, and these guys can really play and sing. I wouldn't be surprised if you wanna be a drummer after listen to the way Haze handles the drums. Just don't let the album cover fool you - it's not "saturday night fever"!!