Friday 8 January 2010

Various Artists [Rocks Off]

I love compilation albums, trouble is that there's so many rubbish one's out there, this is a superb collection of Hard Rock songs, this disc can introduce you to some other worthy Bands you don't know too well.

Whoever chose the tracklisting for this Album did a great job, loads of the tracks have that riff that gets you high, even the tracks i wasn't keen on initially, are now growing on me, the Aerosmith and Urge Overkill tracks for instance, a great booklet front cover too.

This time around i was impressed with tracks 1, 6 & 8-10, the Manic Street Preachers track Faster is my favourite song on the Album, and The Holy Bible is a monster of an Album it comes from too, however i was really drawn to From Out Of Nowhere by Faith No More, the guitar riff at the start is so addictive, fills me with enthusiasm for life, i like the opening words sung by Mike Patton,

'Tossed into my mind, stirring the calm
You splash me with beauty, and pull me down'

this has inspired me to check out their Albums, i'll probably get The Real Thing on Ebay now, check out From Out Of Nowhere on YouTube.