Damn Yankees

Artist: Damn Yankees
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 075992615945
EAN: 0075992615945
ASIN: B000002LL2

Release Date: 1990-02-21

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Tracks:

Coming of Age
Bad Reputation
Runaway
High Enough
Damn Yankees
Come Again
Mystified
Rock City
Tell Me How You Want It
Piledriver

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Customer Reviews:

Supergroup Of The Early 90's.......2007-01-08

Wow has it really been 16 years since this album came out? Damn Yankees was a "supergroup" project that put together Ted Nugent, Tommy Shaw (Styx), Jack Blades (Nightranger) and drummer Michael Cartellone for two albums of early 90's era heavy rock. The album spawned the huge hit ballad "High Enough" and it looked for a while as if this band were going to be really big. All 3 of the big name musicians pretty much get equal billing on this one with Shaw, Blades, and Nugent sharing lead vocal duties. Shaw sticks to rhythm guitar on this disc with Ted contributing most of the lead. This is not what I would call a great album, but there are some decent songs on it. "Runaway" is a good Tommy Shaw tune. The title track "Damn Yankees" is a fist pumping anthem, and Ted's finale "Piledriver" is pretty much what we have come to expect from the Motor City Madman. The rest of the songs on this disc are ok with rather juvenile lyrics and typical power rock instrumentation. Amazon has this CD listed used for .39 cents so if you have ever thought of checking it out you can get it cheap.

Good Stuff.......2006-09-27

Tommy Shaw, Jack Blades, and Ted Nugent join up here to form the supergroup Damn Yankees. And it is awesome. The raw talent talent showcased here is also a stickler too. Their other pursuits such as Shaw's Styx, Blades' Night Ranger, and Nugent's solo. These guys proved that the arena rock style will never die as long as we don't let it.

Yeah I'll pay this one - 3.5 stars.......2006-06-23

A super group, Tommy Shaw, Ted Nugent, Jack Blades and Michael Cartellone. And it's pretty much worked! Ted brings out the redneck balls in his compadres and his more gunshy bandmates temper the Terrible Ted Motormouth Show.

Critically panned at the time of the release and nobody took them seriously yet this isn't a bad release and deserved better. Sure, some of it sucks big time but the lead cut - Coming of Age - is a decent H/R tune and Runaway rides a cool groove. With both Ted + Tommy in the band there is some wailing guitar work and check out Piledriver, where all sense of restraint and mainstream aspirations are tossed out the window to produce the albums most metallic moment.

This idea never reached fruition - perhaps due to the stampede of releases at the time, possibly due to the scheduling of the main protagonists and the aforementioned lack of truck with the critics in the relevant media outlets. As for the music, it's fairly stock standard stuff but at least properly played and with some sense of fun. You could do a lot worse. Tommy Shaw and Nugent fans really should get their hands on this curio from their respective heroes.

VH1's "Supergroup", circa 1990.......2006-06-13

I am a fan of Ted Nugent's 70's output, but by the time 1990 rolled around, I had stopped listening. The same can be said of Styx and Night Ranger, both of which I listened to only casually. By the dawn of the 90's, this style of macho, slick hard rock with flashy intruments and laughable lyrics has become stale. I had moved on, and was not in the slightest interested in listening to this supergroup. A friend of mine bought it and used to play it ad nauseum in his car. I could not understand why anyone would listen to this slop in 1990, and I'd be more surprised if people were still listening to it now. Do yourself a favor... go boy some of Ted's earlier albums, and put this foul dog back on the shelf.

The Sum Is Definitely Better Than The Parts.......2006-05-04

Damn Yankees is the supergroup amalgamation of talented musicians from several high-flying groups of the `80s that find that in this case, the final product is better than it should have been. This self-titled debut from Ted Nugent, Tommy Shaw (guitarist and one of the front men from Styx), Jack Blades (bassist and one of the front men from Night Ranger) and drummer Michael Cartellone, a talented session guy who has toured with Frampton, John Fogerty, Freddie Mercury, Cher, Adrian Belew, Accept and most recently Lynyrd Skynyrd, has everything their previous bands could offer and then more. There was definitely a chemistry here that comes through in the recording.

This album has the melodic high-tempo rock characteristic of Night Ranger, blended with the frenetic guitar that only Uncle Ted can contribute, polished with the tasty vocals of Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades, and produced by Ted Templeman (Van Halen). The result is a gem that should satisfy any rock fan. The vocal duo of Blades/Shaw is stronger than anything Night Ranger did, and the writing seems custom made for the harmonies the two were tossing back and forth. Sprinkled into the mix is some classic Nugent in "Piledriver". Surprisingly, this album produced the first top-10 hit Nugent ever had as the power ballad "High Enough" swept the airwaves as the first single. "High Enough" and "Come Again" also saw moderate AOR success, while the rolicking "Rock City" howls the benefits of touring with a big-league rock band through the USA ("Lord have mercy I ain't never seen, nobody goin' down like this beauty queen").

While the second Damn Yankees album has its high points, this is definitely the better of the two.

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