Whitesnake - Snakebite
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Artist: WhitesnakeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-03-19
Music Label: Geffen Gold Line Sp.
Soundtracks:
- Come On
- Bloody Mary
- Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City
- Steal Away
- Keep on Giving Me Love
- Queen of Hearts
- Only My Soul
- Breakdown
Free Music Notes for Snakebite
Free Music Review: Underestimated classic
Hit: 5 Stars
In reply to some earlier reviews, actually Snakebite DID come out (at least in Europe) in the late seventies/early eighties as a full album, exactly as it is presented here on CD. It contained the original four-song Snakebite EP plus four of the best songs from Coverdale's solo album Northwinds.
Snakebite is different from Whitesnake's other work, because it is mostly a mixture of Southern Rock and Deep Purple-style early Metal, while later Whitesnake is more blues rock/boogie influenced and even later Whitesnake is pop metal/hair metal oriented.
So this is really an unique effort. It is true that half of the tracks here you already get on Northwinds, and the other half you can get as bonus tracks on the Trouble CD. But if you are only going to buy one early Whitesnake album, you should definitely make it this one. As a collection, this is way better than Northwinds or Trouble, and it is a superb album in its own right, not just a loose amalgamation of songs.
The heart of this album is formed by three fantastic mid-tempo steamrollers of early metal ("Come On", "Keep On Giving Me Love", and "Steal Away") that gracefully avoid the hard rock cliches (because they weren't invented yet!), and three equally fantastic heartfelt ballads (the awesome power ballad "Queen of Hearts", and the classics "Only My Soul" and "Ain't No Love (In the Heart of the City)").
If they had added a few more songs of this high standard instead of the less convincing "Bloody Mary" and "Breakdown", then Snakebite would have been one of the all-time masterpieces of metal, on a par with, let's say, Sad Wings of Destiny (Judas Priest) or Iron Maiden's debut album. As it is now, I would say it's in the same league as classic-but-not-perfect early metal albums like Toys in the Attic (Aerosmith) or Virgin Killer (Scorpions). Don't get me wrong, that's extremely good company to be in, and it makes Snakebite just as good as Whitesnake's later top albums, Saints & Sinners and Slide it in. So this IS highly recommended indeed!
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