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What Goes Around Comes Around

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This is one of the better hard rock/glam metal cd's out there.Tuff never got the exposure like say poison,but musically was just as good.This cd rocks from start to finish.Tuff is one of my favorite groups and it sucks they never got the props they deserve.If you like good hard rock with a bad ass kick to it then this cd is a must have.Bottom line is Tuff Kick's Ass!!!!!!!!!Rock On!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tuff, another 80's hair band; alot like poison. they had some really kickazz songs on this album "what comes around,goes around"; i dont know about any of there other stuff but this one rocked in the 80's!!!

This is something I ordered for a friend in 2009 and after hearing it, I've been trying to get another one ever since. Finally got it for myself to enjoy and you should to, certainly not to disappoint the 80's metal fan.

Artist: Tuff
Album: What Goes Around Comes Around
Year: 1991
Rating: 4 Stars
Review: Despite very unoriginal looks, and a fairly familiar sound, Tuff's Debut album "What Goes Around Comes Around" is full of original songs. The opening song "Good Guys Wear Black" has a very strong sound, and is slightly unusaul for a band like Tuff. "Forever Yours", a Classic Pop Metal anthem is probably what gives Tuff their biggest similarity to Poison. "Forever Yours" is one of Tuff's best songs, and most Unoriginal Song. Throughout "What Goes Around Comes Around" there are three "Ballads". "I Hate Kissing You Goodbye" was Tuff's biggest hit, giving them a top ten video on MTV. "So Many Seasons", also gained Tuff some attention. Both are fairly good ballads. The best of the three ballads is "Wake Me Up" with a strong chorus, and lyricly, well written. "All New Generation" is a good song that basicly sums up rock n roll in 3 minutes. The Closing song, and my personal favorite on the album, "Ruck A Pit Bridge" is a hard rocking song that is both very 80's sounding but still a very original song. The Album "What Goes Around Comes Around",(Being done in Digital unlike earlier music), sounds excelent, and is a strong, original album all the way through. [August 17, 2010]
P.S. sorry Ruck A Pit Bridge is the opening song and Good Guys wear Black is the closing song, my bad. [...]

This album came a little late to the party. A decent album though. Best song is "Wake Me Up" (written by Poison's Bret Michaels). "So Many Seasons" is a song about Stevie losing his Father & Brother within a month of each of each other. Good Ballads on this one. I grew up w/ Stevie and he really wanted to put this album out for a long time. Just a little too late. A few years earlier, I think they would have had a hit. Also, check out Vain, great band from Lake Tahoe, Nv. (based in San Francisco)

The all new generation should have been an 80's anthem song. Too bad they never been popular enough. A lot like Poison, they're still around in 2004. They still rock n' roll. I got a few albums and also one solo from Stevie Rachelle (lead singer) and they're all good rock n' roll.

I really wanted to like this album. "American Hair Band" was funny, so I looked for Tuff. I thought, "Even if it's cheesy - hey, I love cheesy metal!"

But it's worse. It's boring. Even being unoriginal, it's a pale copy of the music it's imitating.

It's as though a label said "Hey, this hair metal thing is really taking off - we should get in on this and make money!" and proceeded to compile the obvious cliches of the genre without any of the heart or talent. Or the band itself said the same thing. In either case, the songs are generic with weak lyrics (for metal, even).

Writing a song about the history of rock and roll is not a good first step. Don't namecheck Skid Row, whose first album was two years prior to the *release* of this album. Seriously.

Stevie Rachelle's voice has two settings: Gravel and Plain. The plain setting is used for a range of four notes, and anything else is sung in Gravel voice. Neither setting is super good as holding a note, so the overall vocal is more like shouting. This hurts the ballads the most.

It's not all the band's fault, as the production is pretty bad - the guitar work, which is generally good, get buried in the mix along with everything else.

I don't have a personal vendetta against Tuff, and I really wanted to like this album, but it was very disappointing.

With more make up than Poison, Tuff gigged hard and almost made their mark. But for some reason they always seemed to just fall short of mark. This, their debut effort, was widely touted as destined for big things by a number of magazines at the time. And there was still a couple of years of the makeup grossout pop metal era left for them to have achieved those big things. But.. it ... just ... fizzled...out.

OK - band members were Stevie Rachelle, Jorge Desaint, Michael Lean and Todd Chase (yeah, right) and the racket they make on this slab is a generic pop metal/1991/hairspray heaven deal with many similarities to other acts of the time. Think Warrant with a slightly thougher sounding vocalist than Jani Lane. But Warrant wouldn't of done 'Spit Like This' - at least not until their third album.

Despite pop metal gross outs like "I Hate Kissing You Goodbye' which really should have you reaching for your sick bag and the attemps to get a life tunes like 'Wake Me Up' there is something to be salvaged from this album. Opener 'Ruck A Pit Bridge' snarls and sneers - it's [...] but at least tries - and track two 'The All New Generation' namechecks the gods of good time rock that these boys obviously worshipped. At least they are honest about their influences and aspirations. Other cool cuts include 'Spit Like This' and 'Good Guys Wear Black', the former again putting some anarchic sneer into the pop metal mix and the latter a bit of fun time humour. And Lonely Lucy is a cheeky rocker.

Overall this is mostly dross of the highest order, but pop metal and hair metal fans may dig some of it's tracks. And Stevie Rachelle gave good quote, so some people may of heard of him and get off on checking out some of his recorded product.