The Best Of Warrant

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This album is a good overall snapshot of Warrant at their best in the late 80s- early 90s. A good example of how fun rock music was back then.

Lindo compilado,falta un buen tema,pero vale la pena

Warrant took the poser pop-metal schtick to its logical conclusion in many ways (well OK, there was Nitro) and this collection does its best to present their collected masterworks (ahem). Kicking off with the self-referential Down Boys the collection then jumps into 32 Pennies. Apparently a hit, whatever, nothing much to see here…. But then the collection dips into the inevitable power ballad which made their name for them in the US. Heaven is a real soft rock sugarfest and hey, by putting into the third track slot they even stayed true to form as no hair-metal CD album could be released without a ballad as track 3. All up, even with the teasing, it’s a nice enough variation on a theme. After that we get a couple more fun rockers from the debut and then another ballad, this one more yawn inducing but it rides a nice melody. As we enter the middle of the disc we hit THAT song. The throw away hit that made them oodles of cash, a worldwide hit and….. killed any critical acclaim they may have ever accrued. Still….better to be rich and a source of amusement than poor with integrity. Especially in the hairspray era! Again, despite the teasing this is a mountainous slice of good time stupidity. Sure, you can’t have the windows down on your car when playing it but as a guilty pleasure… and come one boys, you know you have the video clip playing in your head while listening to this… There are more goodies however, Thin Disguise actually have some intellectual heft as does Uncle Toms Cabin. Other posters here have questioned the inclusion of an acoustic version I Saw Red. Understandable, it would have been better as some sort of bonus track and they should have included the ‘real’ version as well. But then, the song was lame and only pushed into the charts because whatever song Warrant put out after Cherry Pie was going to sell stacks. Sorry. This track is followed up by the fallen angel balled construct of Bed of Roses. Not bad, just a bummer it follows an unloved acoustic version of I Saw Red. The album closes out with a brace of tunes from their Dog Eat Dog album where the band found itself caught in the headlights of grunge and slapped on more tattoos and tried to do a more full bodied guitar sound version of themselves. It wasn’t pretty but they are good to flesh out the story of this band. Unnecessary is the bands cover of Queen number We Will Rock You. A couple of decades later I still recall sitting around with a couple of buddies and someone put this on. Don’t think we made it to the end, it induces dry retching and is truly an abomination. Talk about a negative way to end an otherwise well constructed disc. Liner notes by Gerri Miller – inspired choice as she was the driving force behind Metal Edge magazine which was probably the biggest print advocate of this type of music – complete the package. And it’s a pretty good package. Warrant never had much truck with the critics even within their own sphere of operations but this is about as good as you could make them look. Some big hits, some ballads strategically places to space things out and some fun time rockers. Definitely a good disc for the car stereo.

Bought this as a gift for my son who said he loved it and plays it all the time. Excellent value, excellent delivery, excellent seller, will buy from them again.

This compilation spans the 3 studio albums from the Columbia years - DRFSR, Cherry Pie and Dog Eat Dog. While there are no remix, demo or live tracks to be found, there are 2 b-side tracks and 1 soundtrack addition sprinkled within 16 tracks that have been beautifully remastered. Regarding the tracks there are 6 from DRFSR, 7 from Cherry Pie which include the 2 b-side tracks, 2 from Dog Eat Dog and 1 soundtrack song from the Cuba Gooding, Jr. movie Gladiator in chronological order. Personally I would have preferred a more even distribution of songs from each album represented and while the acoustic b-side version of I Saw Red is included, I would have preferred the studio version with whole band included instead, which is just a personal preference. The booklet has a band photo, a small narrative about the band and a track listing including which album each was released. Nothing too fancy or out of the norm for most compilation albums. Although I have some minor flaws with the amount of tracks represented from each album and lack of demo or live tracks this is still a five star release with great mastering and the inclusion of 3 tracks not available on any studio album.

Love the 80’s Hair Bands, love Warrant. Some of there best tunes.

Good

Buen recopilatorio de un grupo que nunca me hizo mucha gracia , pero al menos tengo un buen recopilatorio

item arrived on time, I loved Warrant back in the day, and this has many good tunes I can to enjoy

Tres bon CD .

Ich habe diese "Best of Warrant" just erworben und bin begeistert. Der Sommer bricht an, die Autofenster werden runtergekurbelt und feinste Musik vom Sunset-Strip, LA, dringt aus den Boxen der Anlage. Die Investition in diese CD war jeden Cent wert. Kurz zum Hintergrund: Warrant sind eine dieser Hair-Metal-Bands aus den 80er-Jahren, die von der Grunge-Welle in die Kanalisation gespült wurden. Von heute auf morgen war es vorbei mit Glam, Haarspray, guter Laune und "easy living". Warrant erwischte es nach gerade einmal 2 Alben ("Dirty Rotten..." und "Cherry Pie"). Danach versuchten auch sie sich an molltönenden Grungeriffs, was ihnen aber kein (Ex-)Fan mehr abnahm. Heute (2009) erleben wir eine 80er-Retrowelle mit Bands wie den Killers oder Mando Diao und ich bin davon überzeugt, dass auch Hair-Metal bald wieder oben mitspielen wird. Man genieße mit dieser CD also einen nostradamischen Vorgeschmack auf die Poser-Renaissance und lasse sich zu genialen Uptempo-Nummern wie "Down Boys" und "Cherry Pie" oder tollen Balladen wie "Heaven" und "I saw red" den Wind um die Nase wehen. Viel Spaß bei dieser tollen Hardrock-Scheibe, deren einziges Manko es ist, dass man nach 16 Songs noch immer nicht genug hat.

Se eravate fan di una musica che adesso non c'è più questo è il best per voi! Riscoprirete tutta spensieratezza degli anni 80 spazzati via dal grunge. Belle canzoni, alcune proprio gran canzoni, tecnica strumentale che per la musica di adesso è solo un ricordo,grandi parti vocali e composizioni musicale interessanti calcolando che questi musicisti avevano tutti poco più di trent'anni se non meno. In più potrete ascoltare il grande joey allen uno dei più interessanti e underrated chitarristi rock degli anni 80. Buon ascolto!