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 Brilliant vocals, brilliant guitars April 11, 2008
edwithmj (UK)
I was atttracted to this album after listening to "Here I Go Again" and bought this album a few weeks later. Initially I just listened to that one song but I gave the other songs a go and I realized why Whitesnake are one of the more popular hard rock bands from the 1980s. "Is This Love?", "Straight For The Heart" and "Don't Turn Away" are all excellent tracks. David Coverdale has a powerful voice that puts many of today's Indie bands to shame and John Sykes is great guitarist and every solo is pleasurable to listen to. "Here I Go Again" is still my favourite track however and Adrian Vandenberg's guest solo on that track is one of the best I've heard. Vandenberg would later appear as a proper member of Whitesnake later on.
Over all, a top notch album.
One of the best! September 11, 2007
Natalie Shoard (essex, england)
There is not a single bad song on this album and has some of the best ever whitesnake songs on it!
If you are a fan this is a MUST have album!!!
Superb commercial hard rock, it doesn't get much better than this April 25, 2007
Adamski (UK)
Brilliant songs, outrageously good guitar from John Sykes and superb rawwwwkkkk production make this without doubt one of THE best rock records of all time. Sure it's commercial but then great songs do appeal to masses of people. Buy it, love it.
BOO HOO Hair Metal! March 24, 2006
Ed (North Yorkshire)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Oh no its comercial, big deal the songwriting just happens to be amazing. David Coverdale sings his heart out(and he's from yorkshire, yeah!) John Sykes is fanatastic (and he was in Lizzy). This is a fanatastic rock album, if you want underground music this ain't it but this is still one of the best albums ive ever heard.
Hair Rock! August 25, 2005
Justin Lumb (Bristol, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ok, they must be the most unfashionable band in the world- the album is called 1987 after all. But this is drama rock at its best. It's still a bit silly lyrically, but compared to others in the genre it's well above par. What really impresses me is the guitarist John Sykes, he's got the definitive hard rock guitar sound on this album- the riffs are tight and heavy but their also musically powerful (which makes a change), his solos are fantastic too; long sustain, really wide vibrato and manic speed in all the right places. Coverdale pulls off astonishing vocal moments, in fact 'Still of the night' captures it all. Go, play, be unfashionable! this is high craft
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