LAST LISTENED TO mid december
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT no so big
RATING
Oops. I hit the publish post button and sat back. And then i gradually noticed the chorus from this running about inside my head. Hey, where'd that come from? Then i realised i have a morning song after all. What a relief. Obviously it just took my brain a while to come online this morning.
So, Wolfsbane. Top early '90s good time hard rock. They cropped up a few months back with a song from their first album, which you can find here. This track is from their second full album, which suffered from a degree not-as-good-second-album-itis. Of course, their first album was so very, very good, as well as the mini album that came between these two (titled All Hell's Breaking Loose Down At Little Kathy Wilson's Place) that an amount of drop-off in quality was inevitable. It also means that that album is only not very, very good. So it's quite good.
Black Lagoon is one of the faster tracks on the album and it's pretty good. It's got the pace, the apparent simplicity and the catchy chorus that is to be expected for Wolfsbane. The playing is more accomplished than it at first appears, which is a trick the Wolfsbane often pulled off. For a group of seeming hard drinking, hard playing, hard rocking, scruffy metallers, they actually were a very tight outfit, something that their image was somewhat at odds with. Other than that there is little to say, except that the Black Lagoon of the title may in fact be an a certain alcoholic beverage. Certainly that's the impression i'm getting. Could this be Wolfsbane's warning about the perils of drink? Not very likely, i'll admit.
I'm falling down…
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