It’s been a long time since I did a catalog review and I’ve been playing a lot of Skid Row and Bach’s solo albums lately so felt like a good time.
Day/Album #1 of the Skid Row catalog. The debut album that changed my life the first time I heard it and was my most played album in 1989 by far. I can remember being in 8th grade and friends went to see the Bon Jovi “New Jersey” tour to only come home raving about the opening band. When I finally heard the lead single(Youth Gone Wild) in January of 89(on some radio station out of Mt. Carmel, Illinois on 89.1) I couldn’t believe how great it was. I didn’t have MTV so I didn’t know what the band looked like or sounded like but once I heard them I was hooked. When I think of albums that define an era of my life this is definitely one of them. From the epic “18 and Life”, anthemic “Youth Gone Wild”, to the power ballad “I Remember You” the band had three all time great songs when most bands at the time were lucky to have one good song. That’s not to take anything away from the rest of the songs such as “Piece of Me”, “Sweet Little Sister”, “Big Guns”, “Here I Am” and more. The band had the songs, the look, and arguably the greatest lead singer/frontman combination in the late 80s/early 90s. Living in the country with not much to do at the time this was one of maybe 5 cassettes I owned so I played it almost daily for months and months to the point that I know every lyric and every backing vocal. I rarely mention this album as one of my top 10 albums ever now but every time I listen to it, it takes me back to the time where it was everything to me.
Skid Row – Skid Row (1989)
