It's a hard rocking weekend. Slaughter & Badlands were some of the music that were in cassette tape form when I used to own them. I'm slowly re-acquiring those albums in CD format now not entirely for nostalgia's sake but I enjoy listening to this kind of music before things took a turn when grunge kicked in.
Mass Slaughter - The best of Slaughter
Mark Slaughter & co. played some of the best hard rocking music in the late 80s. Also, his signature high pitched vocals was unmistakable. More importantly, the late Time Kelly had some good guitar-playing up his sleeves, nothing flashy most of the time but good stuff to punctuate the music. The following is from the soundtrack of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey & surprisingly, his trademark vocals were a little restrained but this is a good taster of what hard rock was about back then
Badlands - Badlands
This is the debut release by the band way back in 1989 which I still look up to. Besides Jake E. Lee, the rest of the lineup here are indeed formidable names in this music genre: Eric Singer, Greg Chaisson, Ray Gillen. Dreams in the Dark showcases Jake E. Lee's Charvel with those unmistakable reverse slanted single coils & Eric Singer on drums - that's pure energy, right there.
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