Forty minutes of ballsy, sleaze wrapped in a cool cover. Cowboy swagger, G 'n' R struttin', at times predictable especially in the track titles - 'Teas'n Pleas'n', 'Outlaw', blah blah, but very much of its time. Some felt that DT were better than a vast majority of similar acts at the time but I don't really here that on here. At times it's a meatier Poison, the next a less ferocious G 'n' R, a few cuts sounding all too familiar, 'Scared' and 'Take Me Drunk' although deep within the saloon there are a few catchy tunes. Jason McMaster has a fair set of pipes, similarities with Axl Rose and the bubblegum riffs are pleasing on the ear. Too much competition at the time meant so many acts faded into obscurity, but DT hung in there and became even more credible on their third record, 'Pissed' after they were dropped by their big label. Fave cut is 'Feels Like A Hammer', proof that DT had something extra in the locker but playing cowboys...and...cowboys was just too suffocating for me at the time, and after Love/Hate this type of stuff gets tired too easy.Wednesday 26 January 2011
Dangerous Toys - Dangerous Toys (1989)
Forty minutes of ballsy, sleaze wrapped in a cool cover. Cowboy swagger, G 'n' R struttin', at times predictable especially in the track titles - 'Teas'n Pleas'n', 'Outlaw', blah blah, but very much of its time. Some felt that DT were better than a vast majority of similar acts at the time but I don't really here that on here. At times it's a meatier Poison, the next a less ferocious G 'n' R, a few cuts sounding all too familiar, 'Scared' and 'Take Me Drunk' although deep within the saloon there are a few catchy tunes. Jason McMaster has a fair set of pipes, similarities with Axl Rose and the bubblegum riffs are pleasing on the ear. Too much competition at the time meant so many acts faded into obscurity, but DT hung in there and became even more credible on their third record, 'Pissed' after they were dropped by their big label. Fave cut is 'Feels Like A Hammer', proof that DT had something extra in the locker but playing cowboys...and...cowboys was just too suffocating for me at the time, and after Love/Hate this type of stuff gets tired too easy.
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