WOW

WOW Artist: Wendy O. Williams
Label: Powerage
Category: Music


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


UPC: 803341123328
EAN: 0803341123328
ASIN: B00008OX5I


Release Date: 2003-03-04

WOW


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Tracks:

  1. I Love Sex (And Rock and Roll)
  2. It's My Life
  3. Priestess
  4. Thief in the Night
  5. Opus in Cm7
  6. Ready to Rock
  7. Bump 'N' Grind
  8. Legends Never Die
  9. Ain't None of Your Business

Album Description

2003 reissue of the late Plasmatics' front-person's 1984 album. Produced by Gene Simmons, it features 'special appearances' from Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley & Eric Carr. Pressed onto a picture disc. 9 tracks. Powerage.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars It does'nt get much better than this!!.......2003-08-07

What a pleasant surprise to see this great album finally re-released, unfortunate that it had to be after Wendy O Williams tragic demise (R.I.P). Wendy set a new standard for female rock theatrics in a concert setting, but how does her album stand up several years after its release.
The album is classic eighties rock, great drums and guitar solos coupled with gutsy vocals and groin level lyrics. The collaboration with several KISS members on this album proves a successful experiment. The songs are catchy, the production above average and the playing is great.
The album kicks off with I Love Sex and Rock and Roll, which kind of sounds like a MUCH heavier Joan Jett with a mega catchy chorus. The next song It's My Life penned by KISS' dynamic duo of Stanley and Simmons is better still, this is a first class anthem and could have been in my opinion that band's Rock and Roll All Nite for the eighties had they kept it for themselves. Thief In the Night is another wonderful heavy song with a great sense of menace. Quite similar to the version that wound up on KISS' Crazy Nights album in 1987. Opus in Cm7 is a welcome breather from the other rocking tracks, a type of psuedo-ballad with piano backing, particularly beautiful vocals on this. Now for the really great stuff Paul Stanley contributes awesome guitar work on Ready To Rock, the rhythm guitar on this stellar cut reeks of power and confidence. Ace contributes an out of this world guitar solo on Bump and Grind recalling his best work on his 1978 solo album. Aspiring guitar heroes will be knocked out by this track. The legendary Eric Carr gives a performance worthy of the Creatures Of The Night album on Legends Never Die, simply thunderous!! The last track co-penned by Simmons, Carr and Vinnie Vincent was surprisingly weaker: Ain't None Of Your Business is not very catchy or as infectious as the other tunes but an average rocker nonetheless.

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