Whitesnake announce The Blues Album

A rather pointless rehash of on the whole bang average to poor material.

Crying in the rain is a great song... but not this version.

Heres the tracks... which do not deliver on the promise of the bands Blues rock tracks. They have many great songs but few on this list are either great or their best.

THE BLUES ALBUM
CD Track Listing:

“Steal Your Heart Away”
“Good To Be Bad”
“Give Me All Your Love”
“Take Me Back Again”
“Slow An’ Easy”
“Too Many Tears”
“Lay Down Your Love”
“The River Song”
“Whipping Boy Blues”
“If You Want Me”
“A Fool In Love”
“Woman Trouble Blues”
“Looking For Love”
“Crying In The Rain”

File under, buy the real mccoy from the earlier period or the 20th anniversary double cd which gives not bad of all their albums up to that point. This is just a bloody luxury.

Apparently Coverdale is saying he doesn't own the rights to anything pre 84 so there's nothing he can do about it.

Surely he can record what he likes
??

Quite interesting reading some of the fan comments ,cannot be many fanbases of decades long bands without some serious debates going on !

Well there were millions more buying the new Here I go again...
Must have been the replacing of the "hobo" by "drifter" which made it so much more delightful.

Are you hinting you prefer poodle perms to sliding on love trombones? 

It was a confusing time musically. Remember when the press tried to whip up thrash vs glam.

Based on some of the Bay Area rhetoric. ‘Posers must die’.
For most people are more complex than that.
In my teens I had a tape with Private Dancer on one side and Testament The Legacy on the other.

I did and do like some music from the hair metal era. Always loved a bit of Ratt. DLR I loved for years and years.

I do like some of the Whitesnake post Jon leaving. But the output is filled with albums that to me are a handful of tunes and lots of filler like Bad boys and Give me all your love.
In terms of albums they lost me when Vai jumped aboard. Just not for me.

Some music stands up well.

I used to listen to melodic rock a lot.
Especially White lion and Bad English.
Still go and see Quireboys, Dogs damour and the Quireboys.

Guns and LA guns albums still sound good.

The band from the era that I connect most with is Hanoi Rocks.

The music was fun and disposable, it was pop rock, rather than metal. Girls at the time loved it, I guess that was a major appeal to it.
It was dum fun, but we were having a good time and nothing gets better than that.

Times were simpler and fun like this one....

To be fair, the albums in between are very very good. Come and get it and Ready n Willing. And of course their live album from Hammersmith.

At one point they were almost Purple Mark 3.
The lure of the mighty dollar was too much for David. Looking at his wife and house, maybe he wasn’t wrong.
Jon Lord hadn’t put his name to many poor albums in his career.
I love his playing.
When he left to return to Purple, for me the game was pretty much up.

Saints and Sinners was great as well. The later albums I still bought (except for the Vai album that was really poor), but he never reached the dizzy heights of the Marsden and Moody period. My last two purchases were 2008's Good to be Bad and 2011's Forevemore. They're both good, but a bit too formulaic to my taste. Anyway the main attraction for me has always been David's voice, and that one has deteriorated badly. So it's curtains for this fan.