whitesnake - "here i go again"

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all i see is a desire on Coverdale/Page to school the youngsters of the 80's on traffic safety. originally they were going to do a whole series of albums with different road signs on them for this purpose. no sinister implications there!

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

a desire on coverdale/page's part, i mean.

or perhaps just plain old desire on their...parts. ewwww.

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

coverdale's whispery breakdown leading into the guitar solo on 'still of the night' is a moment without peer in the world of overproduced '87 pop metal (excepting def leppard--maybe).

― botero, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard he's a decent fellow, Coverdale

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

TS: "Here I Go Again" vs "Armageddon It"

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to go with here i go again, but if you threw up photograph or pour some sugar on me, i might have a tough time

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

here i go again is better than armageddon it!

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I was trying to match up the bombast; maybe "Pour Some Sugar On Me" is more appropriate...?

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

(I'd also pick "Here I Go Again" over "Armageddon It".)

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

my favorite def lep song of that era is "animal," though i realize this is a minority opinion

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

"Animal" IS AWESOME

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

the sense of dread mixed w/his cockiness, the inevitability, the sense he has no control, his destiny is fixed whether he likes it or not, his rasp, the gigantic shift in mood between verse and chorus yanking you forward like the opposite of a sunny teen movie that suddenly turns into a horror film halfway through// vs. "are you gettin it (i'm a gettin it)"

"here i go again" x100000000000000000000

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Deeply deeply AWESOME

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

tracer i love you

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

not as much as i love david coverdale but close

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm getting ready
I'm in the mood to fool around
It's time for action
Now the boys are back in town
So turn up the music
Make it loud and proud
Let's see reaction
Let the spotlite hit the crowd
Don't hide what you feel inside
Don't let anybody stand in your way
Just let the music take you higher
Now are you ready to rock
Children of the Night
Are you ready to roll
Children of the night
You got the fire
I feel your fire in my soul
You got the fever
Cos you were born to rock an' roll
Don't run for cover
I'm gonna show you what I've learned
Just come a little closer
Come on an' get your fingers burn
Don't hide what you feel inside
Don't let anybody stand in your way
Just let the music take you higher
Now are you ready to rock
Are you ready to roll
Are you ready to rock
Now are you ready to rock
Children of the Night
Are you ready to roll
Children of the night
I'm getting ready
I'm in the mood to fool around
It's time for action
Cos now the boys are back in town
Don't hide what you feel inside
Don't let anybody stand in your way
Just let the music take you higher
Now are you ready to rock
Children of the Night
Are you ready to roll
Children of the night

― botero, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

i admit that 'here i go again', while lacking some of the glistening urban malaise of 'still of the night', is indeed a compelling study in the delusional destructiveness of a self-imposed solitary existence.

― botero, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

there's a feeling in this song that he is CHOSEN - which is both a gift and a burden - yet that chosenness comes from little more than his own will; it's like anti-Calvinism ca. 1710

xposts i love you too you freak!

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

for def lep, i wouldn't really put anything on hysteria up against "here i go again"...different beasts...(btw AWESOME post tracer).

i was a little metal kid and i knew instinctively that def lep had left me behind on hysteria. i liked it, or tried to, but they'd evolved into something else, a sorta po-mo pop guitar band. which is probably what ILMers love so much about it, but it felt like a betrayel to me when i was like 13 or whatever. you can do a lot in metal, but you can't be NOT metal....i even liked Turbo by priest at the time, so i wasn't a luddite....even as glossy as it was, "here i go again" felt good to me....it was metal-dramatic even though it wasn't that hard....i guess a better comparison for leppard to "here i go again" would be "bringin' on the heartache" or something like that.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Actually the one song on Hysteria that I think is completely unfuckwithable is "Hysteria". that song is one of the greatest things ever recorded.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Alone" by Heart, "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi better than any of this nonsense.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

wtf

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Every time I hear this song I regret that I went with a Volkswagen instead of a Mustang. Like real tears regret.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

This is ~~probably~~ hopefully the only power ballad video I've ever masturbated to.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I was kidding!

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry!

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

TS: "Here I Go Again" vs "Here You Come Again"

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

...on your rug.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

"hysteria" sounds like it was madefor a john hughes movie (in a good way of course)

this has a number of good tunes:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000JCO1.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― artdamages, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

whitesnake contribution: "is this love"

― artdamages, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

but this thread isn't about ballads i suppose.

― artdamages, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

You Hysteria people are beyond help.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

hysteria rules, not just because of the one armed drummer either

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Livin' On A Prayer" and "Alone" both also rule!

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

its not perfect. a little over-long really. i like pyromania better i think.

― artdamages, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)

― artdamages, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

(hahahahaha I have been tempted to buy that Monster Ballads album multiple times)

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

every bad boy has a soft side

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

i think a whole generation knows mostly about hair metal sole from those ads

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

i really love "alone" by heart.

there's something spooky about that song....the way the melody goes on the "sometiiimes it chiiiiillls me to the bone" part really gets me. hidden goth.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

solely

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

1. Heaven - Warrant
2. Something To Believe In - Poison
3. High Enough - Damn Yankees
4. Almost Paradise - Mike Reno/Anne Wilson
5. Is This Love - Whitesnake
6. To Be With You - Mr. Big
7. Carrie - Europe
8. Don't Know What You Got Til It's Gone - Cinderella
9. More Than Words - Extreme
10. Headed For A Heartbreak - Winger
11. When I Look Into Your Eyes - Firehouse
12. Wind Of Change - Scorpions
13. I'll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes) - Steelheart
14. When I See You Smile - Bad English
15. Don't Close Your Eyes - Kix
16. When I'm With You - Sheriff

Worth it for 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 11!

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: "Alone" is really the pinnacle of nu-Heart; it's the only thing they put out in the late 80s that stands up to their late 70s/early 80s awesomeness.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

that mr. big song suxxx....more than words is good but was probably to blame for robbing the powerballad of its power....campfire singalong b.s. mostly after that. people got afraid to scale the heights

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

so glad i started this

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ha M@tt, Mr. Big is the #1 reason why I've been able to resist the siren call of this album!

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

i saw them open for Rush. billy sheehan played bass with a powerdrill!

i love him on the first DLR full length though...i never heard steeler his first band or i think he was in alcatrazz too, but that's more guitar mag type shit which is off topic.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

just to be the one to beeeeee with yooooooou

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

death to false power ballads

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, Monster Ballads. Ratio of dudes-I-originally-thought-were-chicks vs dudes-that-were-obviously-dudes is like 10:1 on that.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

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