Take This!

Take This! Artist: Mick Ralphs
Label: Griffin Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 054421035622
EAN: 0054421035622
ASIN: B000001LH2


Release Date: 1995-06-06

Take This!


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Tracks:

  1. All It Takes
  2. Hey Baby
  3. Take This
  4. Give You My Love
  5. Fast Travelling Man
  6. On The Run
  7. Last Chance Saloon
  8. Rock Fever
  9. When The Revolution Comes
  10. Another Lonely Day

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Mediocre.......2001-12-07

I was hoping to find those same haunting Bad Company melodies and fat guitar sounds from the 70's. In addition the song writing is mediore. I thought this album would fit in well with the rest of my Bad Company but that is not the case. None the less I had to get it just to say I heard it for myself. I will give a few more listens to see if it grows on me but right now I am not too impressed!! Sorry Mick!!! I still think your great!

2 out of 5 stars There's a reason Mick wasn't the frontman..........1998-09-07

Mick Ralphs has written a number of classic rock anthems for both his first band Mott the Hopple and, later, for Bad Company. Each of those bands, however, had strong front men singing lead and contributing songs. There's a reason for that--for all of Ralphs talents as a songwriter(as author or co-author of "Can't get enough", "Feel like makin' love", "Rock 'n' roll queen" and others) he isn't a capable front man.

His first solo album TAKE THIS was first released in 1984(during that year he also played as David Gilmour's rhythm guitar player on the ABOUT FACE tour)and reissued a couple of years ago. Sadly, the songs don't stand in the same company as the classics he penned for both Mott and Badco. Although Ralphs occasional lead vocals(in his characteristic high voice) on Mott albums were welcome, here Ralphs sings in a deeper range that doesn't suit him and, frankly, he doesn't pull it off.

The second issue are the songs themselves. None of the songs on this album can compare to the classics he has written in the past and, in fact, they share more in common with the faceless corporate rock that later would become a hallmark of Bad Company after lead singer Paul Rodgers departure.

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  1. Janet Vodka ~ Janet Vodka
  2. The Radio One Sessions ~ Elastica
  3. Too Sweet to Die ~ Frantic Flintstones
  4. Live, Vol. 3: Live Styles of the Suck and Shameless ~ The Meteors
  5. Live at the Gallery Club, Manchester, 1982 ~ The Chameleons UK
  6. Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People ~ Gasp
  7. Gamma4 ~ Gamma4
  8. Fusion for Miles: Bitchin Brew ~ Various Artists
  9. Late Night Final ~ Richard Hawley
  10. UnAmerican ~ UnAmerican

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John Colianni & Company ~ John Colianni

Hear in the Now ~ Ed Hamilton

Emerald City ~ Richie Beirach with John Abercrombie

Fun with Fats ~ Fats Waller

20 Secretos de Amor ~ Quique Villanueva

Panpipe Music & Folksongs... ~ Damian Luca

Coleção ~ Cassiano

Arrangiamenti P.F.M. V.2 ~ Fabrizio De Andre

Do Jeito Que Deu ~ Porca Veia

Evening in Ireland ~ Louis Browne