Contraband

Artist: Contraband
Label: Mca
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 008811024727
EAN: 0008811024727
ASIN: B000008EJ1

Release Date: 1991-04-30

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Tracks:

All the Way from Memphis
Kiss by Kiss
Intimate Outrage
Bad for Each Other
Loud Guitars, Fast Cars and Wild, Wild Livin'
Good Rockin' Tonight
If This Is Love
Stand
Tonight You're Mine
Hang on to Yourself

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Customer Reviews:

dodgy.......2006-08-20

This album did nothing for me, a big disappointment from my favorite axeman Tracii Guns, and his mates. Sounds like a bad '80's disco. 2 stars is being generous.

Not that original, but still a fun album.......2006-07-06

It seems like this band and album should have been more successful at the time. Supergroups like Damn Yankees and Bad English were selling tons of albums, so why not Contraband? It's not due to a shortage of talent. With Michael Schenker and Tracii Guns on guitar, they were already ahead of the game. Vixen's Share Pederson and Ratt's Bobby Blotzer provided the rhythm section. Shark Island vocalist was a relative unknown, but wasn't any less talented.

The band's 1991 self-titled debut album is not that far removed from the typical hard rock/hair metal of the day, but it was still pretty good. The musicianship was high quality, and Black's vocals injected plenty of swagger. Perhaps the problem was that Contraband leaned closer to barroom rock than the slicker AOR practiced by Bad English and Damn Yankees. Overall the album is quite enjoyable, if not totally original. It's quality hard rock from start to finish, including a couple of fun covers of Mott the Hoople (All the Way from Memphis) and David Bowie (Hang on to Yourself).

Whatever the reason, Contraband never seemed to catch on, and broke up not long after releasing this album.

Contrary to belief.......2005-03-27

the sum of the parts isn't always as good as the parts by themselves. On paper this looks like a great band from the heyday of hair bands. You know most of the band: Michael Schenker [guitars-MSG], Bobby Blotzer [drums-Ratt], Tracii Guns [guitars-LA Guns], Share Pedersen [bass-Vixen], and Richard Black [vocals]. Originally released in 1991 this CD caught my eye because of the line-up, but failed to meet my expectations. The songs are well crafted, but there is little left to the imagination. Some of the songs are excellent covers [All the Way From Memphis-Mott the Hoople & Hang on to Yourself-David Bowie], while a few are originals like "Bad for Each Other" and "If this is Love". You see the members and you expect more than you get. This doesn't have the hard edge you'd expect from the bands the members are from, but the sounds are okay. If you can find this as an afordable CD its an interesting piece in a music collection. I wonder if different producers could have helped or if this was just a way to draw attention to Richard Black. An interesting, but seemingly mundane release.

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