Wild America

Tora Tora | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 28, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B000002GJX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,051 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wild America

2. Amnesia

3. Dead Man's Hand

4. As Time Goes By

5. Lay Your Money Down

6. Shattered

7. Dirty Secrets

8. Faith Healer

9. Cold Fever

10. Nowhere to Go But Down

11. City of Kings

12. Wild America [Radio Eq Mix][*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tora Tora Just Plain Rocks, July 11, 2003

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Harold Herndon (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wild America (Audio CD)

I got Tora Tora's first CD, Surprise Attack when I saw the video, "Walkin' Shoes" after I saw the video on MTV. I was blown away by the blues sound they had. I thought finally a rock band that says they play blues rather than just call it rock. I thought the band had disappeared. Then I found out that they actually made another CD, Wild America! I looked for it everywhere and finally found it. It was just as innovative as the first album and had some better songs. I especially like Amnesia, City of Kings, Cold Fever and Wild America. Wild America is one of the greatest patriotic songs of all time. City of Kings is a nice pounding song. The guitars in Cold Fever are great. Amnesia reminds me of their first album as most of it was bitching about women. If the lead singer didn't have such bad luck with women we may not have had this great album.:) Buy this and you won't be disappointed.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid hard rock album, March 14, 2008

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

I wasn't terribly impressed with Tora Tora's debut album Surprise Attack, but it was good enough to get me to try out their 1992 follow-up Wild America. I'm still not the band's biggest fan, but they definitely took a big step forward with this album.

The band's own mix of melodic hard rock with a Memphis kick is still intact on Wild America, but the album as a whole seems more polished and mature. They sound like a Southern fried Tesla this time around, and that's high praise from me. The title track is far and away the best song on the album. It's a powerhouse rock anthem that's guaranteed to get you pumped up. The ballad As Time Goes By is another highlight. It almost sounds like something accidentally left off Tesla's Psychotic Supper album.

Overall, Wild America comes across as a smarter, but no less fun, version of Surprise Attack. Fans of late 80's and early (pre-grunge) 90's hard rock should find this album well worth checking out.

PS - There's a recorded - but unreleased - third Tora Tora album out there somewhere. The recordings from those sessions sold recently on ebay. Hopefully the album will get a proper CD release someday.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great rocker!!, March 16, 2001

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marc chaves (marlboro, ma usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wild America (Audio CD)

One of the best cd's of it's day. Better then than their debut[surprise attack] it's to bad they only had two albums. Their best songs "lay your your money down","dirty secrets"and of course the reason i bought this cd "amnesia". Great from start to finish.