This is one of those late '80s swaggering, sleaze-tinged albums that dated quickly but which I've come to appreciate more today as I reflect back on it. This would have probably benefitted from being released two years previous where tracks such as 'Hammer Swings Down' and opener 'Bang Go the Bell's may have been appreciated more. There's still a sharpness in that guitar tone and it's not the sort of album clogged up with sentimental fluff; in spite of some dodgy track titles (such as the opener) it's still a reasonably hard rockin' 'hair metal' album with familiar gang chants and it's a record made all the more popular by the mini-anthem 'Kid Goes Wild' which featured on the soundtrack to 'Robocop 2' I believe.
7/10
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