EXTREME - PORNOGRAFFITI poll (pollograffiti)

OMG YES

I think this might just be "When I'm President" for the really stupid rap

I REMEMBER IT WELL
I WAS JUST ABOUT THREE
MY DADDY SAID SON
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE?

the second half is, uhh, definitely not as good

"Lil Jack Horny" was definitely wannabe Crue but it worked, wasn't quite skeezy enough but it works.

god I can't believe how many times I played this cassette lol.

sorry saw my Queensryche poll pop up and was inspired to start this one.

in retrospect this album basically does a lot of what Aerosmith was attempting during their second peak era of the late '80s to early '90s, except for the most part more successfully imo. and there's a lot of Sunset Strip in the sound as well as bands like Sweet and other glam groups. It's also immaculately played and produced and a blast throughout.

More Than Words sounds like some type of When the Children Cry-type pap at first pass but it's a lot better.

yeah it's a ton of fun. I even got my kid brother into this album. we'd sing most of it on the way to work at Steak 'n Shake.

Nuno's work on the album is pretty fantastic, and Cherone sounds good here, though I preferred his vocals on III Sides to Every Story (actually also a good album ,featuring "Rest in Peace")

xpost some kid at music camp brought his acoustic guitar and used to play that in an attempt to pick up women

it worked.

they did kinda do the Van Halen thing with the big harmonized choruses shadowing the lead vocal. even though I wouldn't compare teh two bands or anything. kinda surprised he didn't do as well vocally in Van Halen, but I suspect he didn't really know what he was in for there.

decadence dance is really a ballroom blitz for the pop metal era.

I can hear that, definitely

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III Side to Every Story is one i never heard, that rolled around right after my music taste kinda shifted via Achtung Baby/Out of Time/Nevermind/Ten/etc...while i never completely abandoned this type of music, at least the albums i already owned, it mostly went to the back burner and all those huge classic pop metal albums had these disappointing followups that i ignored. well except Adrenalize, everyone bought that one and their childhood died.

get the funk out

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i remember one thing that kinda threw me when i bought this album at age 15 was that for all its imagery, which makes you imagine it'll be this really explicit and profanity-laced GNR type thing, it's iirc 100% clean. some innuendos here and there but nothing particularly lascivious.

"Hole in My Heart" for the tight acoustic strumming and b/c it's not overplayed, nor was it ever.

xpost lol, omar otm

I should break this thing back out. I think I got it for my...14th birthday? That seems right. Pretty sure I also received a copy of Jesus Jones's Doubt that day. Listened to this a bazillion times back then but it was right on the cusp of the early-'90s alternanation so it got sidelined fairly quickly. I'm sure I still remember at least half of it by heart.

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throughout this album it's also as if they're going for a bit of a Living Colour thing, and they don't sound 100% dissimilar to them.

Yeah esp the guitars

Suzy Wants Her All Day WHAT

Nuno has been Rihanna''s guitarist for the past few tours, right?

I remember seeing the "Get the Funk Out" (lol) video on Headbanger's Ball and thinking how unusual it was, at the time, for a hard rock band whose drummer had short hair.

Holy shit is this video totally, exactly ... whatever year this was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqP76XWHQI0

Gary Cherone even looking like Dick Tracy in the beginning.

Trying to listen to this album now and wow, is Decadence Dance long or what?

This was once my favourite album. I was 14. Still holds up. Same case for III Sides, but that one can get pretty syrupy at times. I'm such a big Nuno fan that by now (43 years old) I own two of his signature guitars (Washburn N4's). I'm not sure if he still plays with Rihanna, but there are some great youtube ideas out there with him playing shreddy solo's live with her band. Since I know way too much about this band, I can also tell those few interested that they supposedly have a new album coming out next year.

ideas = videos

Voted for Suzi.

lol I was super into this album when it came out. Hole Hearted is a legit good single, although I am tempted to vote for Get the Funk Out

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lol i thought i voted When I'm President. maybe I didn't. or maybe I didn't vote.

who tf voted "More Than Words"

they still sound pretty good, and pull the harmonies off well live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9KCu2PXwSc

new single from upcoming album, their first in 15 years.

this is....really bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ_AOIbj8AA

ugh...so my PROS and CONS

PRO

-Nuno's guitar solo

CON

-Cherone sounds terrible, and is auto-tuned to hell - his voice may be shot
-production is so sterile and generic
-basically Extreme trying to sound like Danny Wimmer Festival rock
-song is terribly written