As much as I love their previous release (
Self-Titled), it's
Bad Animals that absolutely f*cking rocks. In spite of being produced by one of my least favorite producers in the business, this album excels in large part because of
Ann Wilson's howling voice and
Howard Leese's stellar guitar work. You won't find a better album to showcase
Ann's incredible vocals here. It's spine-tingling awesome that still has the hair on my arms standing up. Sheesh. How the hell does she hits notes like that. Throw a dart and hit a song and you will get her at her best. Check out
I Want You So Bad,
Wait For The Answer and
Bad Animals to get some prime examples of her vocal prowess. But the corker is of course
Alone. My God, it's one of my all time favorite tracks and it has the single greatest note she or anyone has ever hit. You know it. Go to 2:05 of the song off the album.
Another reason why this song is one of the
Greatest Songs of All Time is the arrangement of the song that sends you to peaks and valley's while you listen to it.
Howard's solo is just icing on the cake. All the songs pretty much follow this simple recipe of great arrangements, bombastic vocals, kick ass guitar solo's. As much as I love these songs, I think that opening up the album with
Who Will You Run To was absolutely the perfect song do it with. Loooooooove it. Not to be out done though is
Nancy Wilson who once again gets a song to shine on with
There's The Girl. Although I do think that
These Dreams is still her best song, I still dig this one.
RSVP was and is a great song to close out the album.
Fave Songs: All of 'em. But my Top 5 are
Who Will You Run To, Alone, I Want You So Bad, Wait For The Answer and
Bad Animals.
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