The Wild Life

Slaughter

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 21, 1992)
• Original Release Date: 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000006LWU
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #89,731 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Reach for the Sky

2. Out for Love

3. Wild Life

4. Days Gone By

5. Dance for Me Baby

6. Times They Change

7. Move to the Music

8. Real Love

9. Shake This Place

10. Streets of Broken Hearts

11. Hold On

12. Do Ya Know

13. Old Man

14. Days Gone By

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Under-rated and under-appreciated. Slaughter was great!!, January 13, 2006

By	Vader - See all my reviews

Slaughter's album, Stick it To Ya! was a huge success and the follow-up album, The Wild Life, was one of my favorite in albums in 90s. Slaughter had hit singles from this with Wild Life and Real LOve and the song "Days Gone By" is one of my favorites.

I miss Slaughter and I miss a number of bands from the 90s and I can't believe that I am the first person to review this under-rated and under-appreciated albums.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A definite improvement over Stick It To Ya, February 15, 2008

By	Justin Gaines "Corporate Rocker" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

With its hit singles, Slaughter's 1990 debut Stick It to Ya might have brought the band most of their fame and glory, but their 1992 follow-up the Wild Life was a much better overall album. All of the elements that made Stick It to Ya such an uneven album are present - the clichéd lyrics, cookie-cutter hair metal style, and Mark Slaughter's high pitched wail - but somehow the band manages to make things work this time around.

What works in the Wild Life's favor is that the album has a much more melodic feel to it. It's still full of your basic love songs and party anthems, but the songs are catchier and more consistent than they were on Stick It to Ya. There is less of what I'd consider filler on this album. Sure, a hair metal album with 14 tracks is bound to have a few duds (Dance for Me Baby and Shake this Place come to mind), but it's a lot more consistent than the previous album. The album is again dominated by Mark Slaughter's signature vocals, but he appears to have learned when to hold back that sonic wail.

As much as I still enjoy this album (and similar releases by Firehouse, Steelheart, and Nelson), it's not really surprising that it was blown away by Nirvana and the rest of the grunge scene. The grunge movement provided a necessary wake up call for mainstream music, even if it soon became every bit as repetitive as the hair metal scene had become. Besides, all the Nirvana albums in the world can't change the fact that for a time, millions of people were buying albums like this one, even if they won't admit to it now.

4.0 out of 5 stars The Wild Life: It's Rock `n' Roll Comfort Food, June 16, 2009

By	jamespen "gulleyj" (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This is such a fun album. It was created in a time of innocence - the early 1990's. Well, it was a time of innocence for me. I was only eleven when this came out; I was enrolled in a Christian school at the time, and rock 'n' roll was both new and slightly forbidden to me. I'd heard "Up All Night" and "Fly To The Angels" on the radio-I think they were unavoidable during those early years of the 1990's-but, it was the Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey soundtrack that made me a Slaughter fan for life. For an eleven year old, Bill and Ted were cool and rock `n' roll was definately cool. Slaughter had a song on the Bill and Ted soundtrack, so, a fortiori, Slaughter were cool.

After hearing "Shout It Out" on the Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey soundtrack, I started to notice Slaughter albums wherever CD's and cassettes were sold. The Wild Life was Slaughter's new album at the time, and the cover art for that one really struck a chord with me. That front cover of a longhaired adolescent boy holding an electric guitar and being whipped by an authority figure that looked like a lion tamer represented, to me, something strange, dark and mysterious. For some reason even at that innocent age, I identified with the intimations of young tortured genius that were on display on the front cover of the Wild Life.

I didn't buy the album at the time, though. Actually, it's probably better I didn't; the boyhood stirrings of my imagination were far more remarkable than the music of the Wild Life. Nevertheless, the Wild Life is a fun album. It'll lift your spirits. It'll make you feel good. It's rock `n' roll comfort food from "Days Gone Bye." They don't make `em like this anymore.