Bob's obscure hard rock and metal CD-R compilations!

Other forum members are always generous enough to share their CD-R mixes here, so I figured I'd do the same. Many seem to be focused on British Invasion or Soul etc., which is cool, but I never see any metal or hard rock ones and I know there's some fans of that music here on the forum. It is called - Have You Seen Me? - A Collection of One-Hit Wonders and Major Label Write-offs. I have been making this "series" for friends for a few years now and while I hadn't done one in a while, I recently cranked out volumes 5&6. It is dedicated to late 80s and early 90s hard rock and metal bands that had maybe one hit or should have at least had one hit, but didn't. Some are cheesier than others, but it is all in good fun. Many of these bands had some video play on Headbangers Ball or some regional airplay. I know I heard some of these tracks on WAAF in Boston back in the day. There is a series on Rhino, Youth Gone Wild. While I have a few of the same bands from there, I've made a conscious effort to pick different tracks than they did.

I have attached sample artwork below.

Disc 1
1 - Spread Eagle - Broken City
2 - The Scream (featuring John Corabi of Motley Crue/Union) - Outlaw
3 - Salty Dog - Come Along
4 - Johnny Crash - Hey Kid
5 - Rhinobucket - Beat To Death Like A Dog
6 - London Quireboys - 7 O'Clock
7 - Beau Nasty - Love To The Bone
8 - Mind Bomb - Do You Need Some?
9 - T-Ride - Backdoor Romeo
10 - Killer Dwarfs - Dirty Weapons
11 - The Lost - Mindblower
12 - Life Sex and Death - Telephone Call
13 - Bonham - Wait For You
14 - Roadhouse (featuring Pete Willis from Def Leppard) - Tower Of Love
15 - WWIII (featuring Jimmy Bain and Vinnie Appice of Dio) - Time For Terror

Disc 2
1 - Manitoba's Wild Kingdom - The Party Starts Now!!
2 - Little Caeser - Chain of Fools
3 - The Screaming Jets - C'Mon
4 - Cry Of Love (featuring Audley Freed of the Black Crowes) - Peace Pipe
5 - Babylon A.D. - Bang Go The Bells
6 - XYZ - Inside Out
7 - Thunder - Dirty Love
8 - Electric Boys - Lips and Hips
9 - Heaven's Edge - Skin To Skin
10 - Hardline (featuring Neil Schon of Journey) - Rhythm From A Red Car
11 - Southgang (featuring Butch Walker and the Marvelous 3) - Tainted Angel
12 - Electric Love Hogs - Tribal Monkey
13 - War Babies - Hang Me Up (co-written by Paul Stanley)
14 - White Trash - Apple Pie
15 - Blackeyed Susan (featuring Dean Davidson of Britny Fox) - None Of It Matters
16 - Tangier - On The Line
17 - Warlock - All We Are

Disc 3
1 - Eyes (feat. Jeff Scott Soto of Yngwie) - Callin' All Girls
2 - Jetboy - Feel The Shake
3 - Cold Sweat (feat. Marc Ferrari of Keel) - Cryin' Shame
4 - Saigon Kick - Hostile Youth
5 - Aldo Nova - Blood On The Brick (produced by Jon Bon Jovi)
6 - Kingdom Come - Do You Like It?
7 - Widowmaker (feat. Dee Snider) - The Widowmaker
8 - Lillian Axe - Show A Little Love
9 - Michael Monroe - Dead Jail or Rock N Roll (video feat. Axl Rose)
10 - Dan Reed Network - Make It Easy
11 - Riverdogs (feat. Vivian Campbell of Dio, Def Lep, Whitesnake) - Toy Soldier
12 - Roughouse - Love Or Lust
13 - Gorky Park - Bang
14 - Roxx Gang - Scratch My Back
15 - Steelheart - I'll Never Let You Go
16 - Guy Mann-Dude - Paint It Black
17 - Blonz - Last Call For Alcohol

Disc 4
1 - Wildside - Hang On Lucy
2 - Tyketto - Forever Young
3 - Tall Stories (feat. Steve Augeri from Journey) - Wild On The Run
4 - Wild Horses (feat. James Kottak and Rick Steier of Kingdom Come) - Cool Me Down
5 - Bonfire (co-written by Paul Stanley and Bruce Kulick) - Sword and Stone
6 - Dangerous Toys - Teas'n Pleas'n
7 - Dweezil Zappa (feat. Donny Osmond and bunch of guitarists) - Stayin' Alive
8 - Love/Hate - Black Out In The Red Room
9 - Blitzpeer - Sonic Glory
10 - Shotgun Messiah (feat. Tim Skold later of Marylin Manson) - Sexdrugsrocknroll
11 - Kings Of The Sun - Drop The Gun
12 - Saraya - Love Has Taken It's Toll
13 - Sea Hags - Doghouse
14 - The Poor (Angus and Malcom from AC/DC's nephew) - More Wine, Waiter Please
15 - Asphalt Ballet - Blood On The Highway
16 - Shark Island - Paris Calling
17 - Damn The Machine (feat. Chris Poland of Megadeth) - The Mission

Disc 5 (dedicated to Supergroups and Solo Projects)
1 - Hear N Aid - Stars (this is the ULTIMATE metal supergroup!!!)
2 - HSAS (Sammy Hagar and Neil Schon) - Top Of The Rock
3 - Contraband (members of LA Guns, Vixen and Michael Schenker)- All The Way To Memphis
4 - Bruce Dickinson - Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter
5 - Gilby Clarke - Tijuana Jail
6 - Slash's Snakepit - Beggars & Hangers-On
7 - Duff McKagan - Believe In Me
8 - Izzy Stradlin and the JuJu Hounds - Train Tracks
9 - Edward Van Halen - Donut City
10 - Gary Hoey - Hocus Pocus
11 - Vince Neil - You're Invited and Your Friend Can't Come (Encino Man
version With Damn Yankees)
12 - War & Peace (Jeff Pilson of Dokken and members of Enuff Z Nuff, Warlock and Fight) - Heaven Is Waiting
13 - Don Dokken - Mirror, Mirror
14 - George Lynch (w/Glenn Hughes) - Not Necessary Evil
15 - John Norum - Let Me Love You
16 - Blue Murder (John Sykes, Carmine Appice and Tony Franklin) - Jelly Roll
17 - Project: Driver (Tony MacAlpine, Tommy Aldridge and Rudy Sarzo) - Unknown Survivor

Disc 6
1 - Shy England - Give It All You Got
2 - Zodiac Mindwarp - Prime Mover
3 - Flesh (2 brothers of members of Extreme) - Dancehard
4 - Kik Tracee - Don't Need Rules
5 - Stone Fury (featuring Lenny Wolf later of Kingdom Come) - Break Down The Wall
6 - Keel - Somebody's Waiting
7 - Roxy Blue - Rob the Cradle
8 - Nitro - Long Way From Home
9 - Junkyard - Simple Man
10 - Sweet F.A. - Rhythm Of Action
11 - The Four Horsemen - Rockin' Is Ma' Business
12 - Beggars & Thieves - Heaven and Hell
13 - McQueen Street - Money
14 - Blue Tears - Crush
15 - The Almighty - Crucify
16 - Skew Siskin - If The Walls Could Talk
17 - Dirty White Boy (featuring Earl Slick and David Glen Eisley of Giuffria) - Lazy Crazy
18 - Electric Angels - The Drinking Song

 

Great comp Bob. Some really deep cuts on there.
Here a few to consider for new comps-
A couple of Japanese Heavy Metal bands:
Loudness- Crazy Nights
EZO- Flashback Heart Attack

An ealy 90's H Ball staple:
Cycle Sluts From Hell- Wish You Were a Beer

 

Wow, I haven't heard that song in a long time. They used to play it a lot on a new hard rock station in NJ when I was in high school.

 

I think I might have picked up an EZO LP a while back. I'll have to double check. I may have some Loudness too. That Cycle Sluts track is a good song. I think the guitarist from Overkill played on it. I don't think I have that on CD. I may have it on cassette somewhere. Most of these cuts are from CD, with the occasional vinyl rip thrown in when needed. I find most of these CDs and LPs from like $1 or $2, so they are worth it for one song.

 

That has to be WDHA or WRAT.

 

Great stuff!!!

While I don't remember all the names, a couple tunes stand out as favorites. Little Caesar with Chain Of Fools & Don Dokken's Mirror Mirror. During my last days in pop radio, before Whitney/New Kids and so on drove me to country radio, I scheduled those two tunes in for night play. Really broke up the silliness that the rest of the music selection offered. Great feeling to be cruising town (yeah, still did that back then) and catch the other cars cranking their stereos when these came on. So sorry to hear that Little Caesar's Frank Starr passed away after an accident. Again, great stuff!

Best

 

I haven't heard a lot of that stuff. That was a fun read. Thanks! I actually picked up that cd by The Poor on ebay last year, sealed for around 5 bucks.

I still think Blackout In The Red Room is one of the best hard rock albums ever.

Your next comp needs a tune from Trouble's "Manic Frustration". That's another lost classic.

What is that EVH tune Donut City? Is it any good?

 

Might have THE worst line in a song......

something along the lines of
"sweet little baby, she's my hot dog bun" !
I kid you not!

 

from the Fast Times AT Ridgemount High soundtrack ? I think?

 

Hilarious. They seem mostly to be American 'Hair metal' and 'Power metal' bands.
You've slighted the Euro-trash metal!!!

I'm not sure if 'Black metal' and 'Death metal' are considered obscure enough, but some of the sub-genres certainly are.

- Industrial Suicide Medicine Doom Metal
- Pure Hellish Mesopotamian Metal
- Ambient Funeral Doom Metal
- Melodic Spacemetal
- Troll Metal
- Pagan Metal
- Viking Metal
- Nuclear Metal

 

I never got into black metal or speed metal. Metal is supposed to be fun for the most part and those generes of metal are not fun. Most of it is metal w/ Cookie Monster singing IMHO.

 

All I see is a furry blue guy doing the devil horns with his hands!!!

 

What, no Faster Pussycat? Or is that too shticky?

You know I just bought that Junyard CD. That's some pretty sleazy stuff!

 

I can see a CD jacket designed to look like a faux Hit Parader or Circus magazine cover.

 

Too POPULAR!!! I really dig for these titles. I have a friend who has helped me fill in a couple gaps. He has literally every metal record ever released I think.

 

Theatrical Misanthropy isn't fun?
You're generally correct but there are many exceptions to be found with enough exploration. My avatar is 'Beyond The Veil' by Tristania which is of a metal genre refered to as 'Beauty & the Beast' or 'B&B' and it's a masterpiece of the genre. Violins, keyboards, chorals, beautiful soaring female vocals and duets between those female vocals and the harsh male vocals, hence the genre name. Wonderfully creative and highly musical by any standard. The last release by Dimmu Borgir had the Polish symphony orchestra on board. Aggressive it certainly was but creative and varied as well. The use of violin in the earlier work of somber 'Doom Metal' pioneers My Dying Bride was inspired and integral to the music.

BTW I personally prefer raspy to growly vocals unless we're talking about 'Dark Progressive Metal' wunderkins Opeth, a genre unto themselves.

 

Bob-
What about House Of Lords- Can't Find My Way Home - the Blind Faith cover

 

That's going to be on Vol. 7! I just got a copy of it from a friend to put on it.

 

Were they that popular? Hm.

Well, I really like the idea. A lot of these bands are familiar to me but I haven't heard many of them.

 

I remember buying Junkyard's debut back when I was in high school, when did this come out '88 or so? Anyhow, I loved it. What a great album, a slight bluesy feel and generally unlike other "hair metal" of the day. Did they ever put out a second album? It seemed they feel off the face of the earth, and back in the pre-internet days if it wasn't on MTV or featured in Circus or Hit Parader magazines you couldn't get any news on bands/releases, etc. Well, at least a high school kid couldn't. Anyhow, Junkyard's debut was one of my favorite albums of the late 80's.

Brett

 

Faster Pussycat got heavy airplay on MTV on the Headbangers Ball, especially with their video "House Of Pain". They were a band that never made it big like other band of the era, although they were just as good as most of them, and in my opinion much better than bands like Poison, Warrant, that made it much bigger. I don't think Faster Pussycat even made it to headline status as a touring band outside of the club scene on the west coast, as late as 1990 they were opening for Motley Crue.

Brett

 

You should throw on a Desparado track on one of the comps. That band featured Adrian Smith & Dee Snider. The album was due on Elektra but teh band got dropped before it came out. It finall came out in the mid-90's.

Also, ASAP- Silver & Gold. Adrian's first post-Maiden project. That got some play on Headbanger's Ball.
I sold off a lot of C list metal stuff a few years ago. Sometimes I regret it.

 

Holy Cow!
You guys aren't kidding. My face is a little red.
I honestly thought you were doing a Spinal Tap type list of the lower levels of Van Halen/Twisted Sister bubble gum metal.

Apology to metalbob for accidentally crapping in his thread.
Hey I never question others' taste no matter what the music or band.
I know my metal sounds like pure vicious crap to uninitiated folks.
It's all about individual taste right.

Rock On metalbob!

 

great collections. You may want to hunt down DOUCETTE'S "Mama let him play". It's from the seventies & sounds like early Van Halen. ERA released the album for about 2 months back in the early 90's.