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1986-1992 Greatest Hits

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The bluesy hard rock band Great White have been around for over 20 years. They got some attention in the late 80's with their cover of Ian Hunter's "Twice Shy" and (unfortunately) recently with the tragic fire at their show in RI. Of their many compilations, this is easily the best. I'd rather have studio versions of "House Of Broken Love" and "Desert Moon" and the blues mix of "Face The Day" is too long, but those are minor complaints. It's missing some good songs ("Lady Red Light", "Afterglow", "Can't Shake It", "Rollin' Stoned") but what's here sounds great. The MTV Unplugged version of Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is good to have (GW cover Zeppelin better than any other band I've heard), as is the B-side "Wasted Rock Ranger". A good overview of a great band.

A melodic, refreshing memory of the 80s. Wonder why GW never made it to the top. Their influences are richly drawn from Zeppelin, esp. in the vocals but, that does not stop us from admiring their strength and grip on rock n roll. They knew how to "Rock Me"!

These guys are terrific!I love the heavy blues sound.They are just as fantastic live!Rock me is one of my favorite songs of all time.I could listen to them play all day and night!Sometimes I do!Even their love songs have an edge,not sappy like some groups.All in all they have been severly under-rated.

What can I say? This album rocks! I`ve been into glam a long time, and there is no Poison, Warrant or Cinderella which can stand against these guys. Great White, despite being put in the `glam-metal catalog` just because they were a succesful 80s hard rock band, but, in spite of this, their songs are very rolling stones and Aerosmith influenced, while all the glam-metal bands just tried to be a crossover between Kiss and Motley Crue. Their music shows an incredible solidity, and songs like Rock Me, Once Bitten, Stick It, House Of Broken Love and Desert Moon go directly in a rock`n roll anthology, anfd Wasted Rock Ranger takes ...of all their contemporary groups with the chorus `when we reach n.1 we`ll all overdose for fun and go and visit Jimi and his friends`.
You may not like this as much as I do, but if you don`t like it you obviously don`t understand anything of rock`n roll.