Down for the Count

Down for the Count Artist: Y&T
Label: Mvp Japan
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 766483869526
EAN: 0766483869526
ASIN: B00000G5Y3


Release Date: 1999-11-30

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Listmania:

  1. Y&T Discography and more...
  2. True 80's Glam/Hair/Metal.It's party Time! Pt.4
  3. HAIR METAL/METAL PART 5
  4. My Music Collection - Part 33
  5. My Favorite Albums of 1985
  6. Best Heavy Metal Albums of the 1980s
  7. Best Big Hair Rock & Roll - Ranked

Tracks:

  1. In the Name of Rock
  2. All American Boy
  3. Anytime at All
  4. Anything for Money
  5. Face Like an Angel
  6. Summertime Girls [Studio Version]
  7. Looks Like Trouble
  8. Your Mama Don't Dance
  9. Don't Tell Me What to Wear
  10. Hands of Time

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  4. Ten
  5. Struck Down

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars weak entry.......2005-06-09

"Down for the Count" finds Dave Meniketti and the boys cashing in big-time on the then popular wave of big hair metal bands of the mid-to-late 1980s. YandT crafted a career of making hard-nosed rock and roll defying the trends of their era. When the public finally caught up to them they went and tried to become some kind of MTV band with makeup, neon colored clothing and lots and lots of the accessories that went along with the metal look. Oh yeah, their music started to suck too. Meniketti suddenly forgot how to write good songs and started phoning it in with stupid radio-friendly pop-metal with cliche hooks and over-the-top deliveries. "In the name of Rock" "All American Boy" "Anything for Money" "Summertime Girls" all smack of poor impersenations of David Lee Roth style tounge-in-cheek lyrics and heavily reverbed production. The band's cover of the Loggins-Messina classic "Your Mama Don't Dance" never even begins to capture the groove after the first 30 seconds of the intro. There's too much of everything bad here, too much stoopid off-the-cuff lyrical content in nearly all the songs vocals, too much silly content in the lyrics. To his credit Meniketti still delivers his patented melodic solos with ample intensity, but gone is the band's once uncanny ability to take a mundane hook and milk white hot intensity from it. Y and T never recovered from this bomb and its a shame because their first handful of releases are prime examples of what was actually good from the 80s metal genre. This, however, is junior-high fodder.

5 out of 5 stars one of the best.......2004-12-05

I have over 1,000 Cds of all kinds of music but I constantly play this Y&T chestnut. Trust me, I know what I'm reviewing.

5 out of 5 stars "Down for the Count"-Y&T.......2003-12-21

THIS ALBUM WAS ALSO GREAT, BOTH DOWN FOR THE COUNT & IN ROCK WE TRUST I HAD GROwing UP THROUGH MY HIGH SCHOOL YEARS, AND THEN THE TAPES WERE EITHER LOSSED OR BROKEN BY THEN AND COULD"NT FIND THEM ANYWHERE, SO IF YOU HAVE A COLLECTION OF THESE,THERE WORTH ALOT! HOLD ON TO EM'. Y&T.....rocks

3 out of 5 stars Average Y&T.......2003-03-14

"Down for count" from 1985 is not as good as their previous release "In rock we trust". In some way, the album features the typical Y&T approach but the material isn't as strong as it been on other albums, like the excellent "Black tiger". You could easily say that "Down for the count" is an average light metal album, not better or worse than any contemporary effort from bands like Bon Jovi. Outstanding tunes are the attractive melodic "All American boy", the light hearted pop influenced "Summertime girls", the groovy "Looks like trouble", and the rhythm `n' blues sounding "Your mama don't dance". This album is worth having but it's far from Y&T's finest.

5 out of 5 stars Great under-rated rock n roll band.......2002-04-23

I was cleaning out a lot of old audio tapes one weekend and listened to several as I was going along. One of my blank tapes had about 7 songs from this band, and I had realized even I had forgotten about them for several years. Needless to say, I was blown away and memories came back all over again. I purchased DOWN FOR THE COUNT (expensive CD compared to the album I once had) and and Y&T's ULTIMATE COLLECTION the next day. Great, strong-sounding All-American band!

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