Damn Yankees - Damn Yankees
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Artist: Damn YankeesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-02-22
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Coming Of Age
- Bad Reputation
- Runaway
- High Enough
- Damn Yankees
- Come Again
- Mystified
- Rock City
- Tell Me How You Want It
- Piledriver
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Free Music Review: Melodic rock supergroup
Hit: 4 Stars
One of the last highly successful melodic rock groups of the 1990's, Damn Yankees was a supergroup featuring guitarist/vocalist Tommy Shaw (Styx), bassist/vocalist Jack Blades (Night Ranger), drummer Michael Cartelloni (Tommy Shaw's band) and guitarist/deer annihilator Ted Nugent.
Musically, Damn Yankees was quite similar to Bad English, another high profile supergroup (featuring John Waite and members of Journey) of that era. It was the logical progression of each band member's earlier 80's AOR work into the hair metal era. The result was a very slick, polished, melodic hard rock sound that was appealing to hard rock fans and pure gold to mainstream radio and MTV. The band's major hit was the massively poplar power ballad High Enough, which was actually a pretty rockin' song, especially compared to Bad English's sappy When I See You Smile. The rest of the album was upbeat, melodic, and a good blend of Styx's arena rock, Night Ranger's melodies, and gonzo lead guitar by Nugent, who really cut loose with the closing track Piledriver.
Perhaps the best thing about Damn Yankees is that it brought Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades together. Each was a respected songwriter, but together they made a brilliant songwriting team, not just for Damn Yankees but for other artists as well.
If you're a fan of 80's rock, hair metal, or any of the band member's earlier work, the two Damn Yankees albums (this one and 1992's Don't Tread) are must-have melodic rock albums. They're about as perfect an example of the pre-grunge, early 90's hard rock sound as it gets.
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