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Rock Candy Records [Release date: 07.10.22]
Somebody lost the “best before 1989” label when Danger Danger were recording Screw It (1991), the follow up to their gold album debut.
The sexist album cover; the impossible to misinterpret, double entendre song titles, like ‘Yeah, You Want It’, ‘Slipped Her The Big One’, ‘Horny S.O.B.’ might have just about got by at the height of MTV, but sexual attitudes were changing.
And it could have been so different.
Lyrically questionable perhaps, but big hitters, ‘Monkey Business’, ‘Beat The Bullet’, and ‘Don’t Blame It On Love’ all mined a rich seam of glammy, bandana wearing melodic rock, given a neat studio shine by producer Erwin (Scorpions/Bon Jovi/ Van Halen) Musper.
But they were out of time … even a couple of years earlier these songs would have propelled Screw It into the Billboard charts, no… er, danger.
Even the well intentioned, benevolent sexism of ‘Get Your Shit Together’ that might have got a free pass some years before sounds off.
And yet . . . ‘I Still think Of You’ and ‘Find Your Way Back Home’ are top of the range formula ballads, ticking all the chest beating boxes, echoing the successes of bands like Poison and Cinderella.
But those days were gone.
The remastering is as good as we’ve come to expect from Rock Candy. Their Tech Team take some criticism at times, but they always come through with a cleaner, sharper sound. ***
Review by Brian McGowan
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