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Subject: Essential Whitecross ... Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:25 pm
To me , their first 3 ones are basically perfect Hard'n'Heavy . Then "In the Kingdom" is O.K. , but the "Heavy Metal" side of things was gone . Then we have this c00l album called "High Gear" that I checked for the first time in 2007 , which I think reabsorbs a little of the "Heavy Metal" from their 80's classics .
This is "Essential Whitecross" to me , plus the re - recording of the first Album . And there's a recent live album as well which souds fantastic . But I'm not much a fan of their 90's "semi Grunge" albums ...
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Subject: Re: Essential Whitecross ... Sat Jun 12, 2021 12:07 am
Whitecross, Hammer & Nail and Triumphant Return are really good minus the drums on the 1 & 2.
In the Kingdom is all right.
High Gear is weak.
Unveiled is lame.
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Subject: Re: Essential Whitecross ... Sat Jun 12, 2021 2:58 am
I love what they did with 1987. That was really cool, and possibly better than their S/T.
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Subject: Re: Essential Whitecross ... Sat Jun 12, 2021 7:48 am
Imo they haven't aged well, the only one I listen to now is 1987.
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Subject: Re: Essential Whitecross ... Sat Jun 12, 2021 8:15 am
I still love those first five albums. I also like "Unveiled" but wish it could have been done with Rex. Barry Graul was just not a good fit. Scott would have done well to grab Bill Heller (Fighter) that he worked with on his solo song "One God, One Love".
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Subject: Re: Essential Whitecross ... Sat Jun 12, 2021 6:20 pm
My favorite is still the first one I heard "Hammer & Nail". I found a copy of it in my local public library, of all places.
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Subject: Re: Essential Whitecross ... Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:06 pm
Staybrite wrote:
My favorite is still the first one I heard "Hammer & Nail". I found a copy of it in my local public library, of all places.
Hammer and Nail is fantastic . These first 3 helped me in reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hard times , years and years ago . Not only the music is jawdropping , but the lyrics are as uplifting as they can be ...
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Subject: Re: Essential Whitecross ... Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:11 pm
2 times the band played here in Brazil , this was in 2014 . Everything was fine until they started playing "In the Kingdom" , the stupid translater decided he was the singer instead of Scott Wenzel (lol) .
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Subject: Re: Essential Whitecross ... Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:13 pm
This is really classic , old 1993 concert back in October that year , Rio de Janeiro .
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Subject: Re: Essential Whitecross ... Sun Jun 13, 2021 5:40 am
I love the first album, and really like the next four. After they split with Rex, I lost interest. I like 1987, but the lack of those big 80s drums ruined it for me. I loved the heavy reverb used so heavily in the 80s. It ruins songs from that era when they are re-recorded with normal drums. If I’d heard 1987 now for the very first time, I’d love it. But since I grew up listening to the first album in all it’s reverb glory, I just can’t get into 1987 much.
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