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In the late
80’s
sleaze rock/hair metal musical movement became very popular. Many bands were tying to take advantage of the labels that were looking with a lot of anxiety to find the new
“leaders”
of this genre. That fact was as bad as it was good, cause although many newcomers bands were born, in the other hand, numerous copycat acts followed the path of great bands like Poison, Hanoi Rocks (they started
the whole thing - although they were coming from Finland), Ratt, and Bon Jovi, and finally they caused repletion in this genre sooner than it was expected.
Then in 1989 a band, which was formed in New
York’s
Queens, presented its first self-titled album. That band was called Danger Danger. This album contains eleven songs, which are full of melodies, energy, power, sensitivity, and the most important of all, inspiration! Even though that album was at least incredible the band
didn’t managed to make a big break in the crowd. I believe that this injustice, even it is very late, must finally be over. Danger Danger is a band that had released tremendous albums like
“Danger Danger”,
“Screw It” and
“Dawn” and they have never taken what they truly deserve! If they were more bands like Danger Danger in this genre, then it would never had touched bottom!
If you like melodic hard rock/metal music and you are looking for
“old” diamonds, which may still are behind the lights, then you should (or shall I say must?) check out immediately Danger Danger. Be sure that every album that we present here in Hall Of Fame really deserves not only your money but the most important of all your precious time and for sure all the albums that are in this section are at least classics. May not be very popular (we
didn’t want to present very known albums like Iron
Maiden’s
“Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son”, cause we all know that albums like that are truly classics.) but here we are trying
“to bring back to life” albums that under other circumstances such as better promotion, they could have become legendary! One of these albums is totally
“Danger Danger”.
I
“challenge” you to listen to songs like the unique,
eternal hard rock hymn
“Under
The Gun”, the playful
“Naughty Naughty”, the melodic
“Fells Like Love”, the sensitive
“One Step From Paradise”, the rocker
“Rock America”, the catchy
“Bang Bang”, and finally the rest songs of this incredible album and you will surely understand that you have lost a lot of things not to have listened to
“Danger Danger”! In this point I must say that the singer of the band Ted Poley is one of my favorites singers and also I should give many congratulations to Bruno Ravel (bass), Steve West (drums), that together they have composed this magnificent album! You will surely have a good time listening to Danger Danger!
by
Thanos Aggelakis | 