Classic Rock Bottom

It's time for the fourth album in the series that has absolutely nothing to do with the other series, even though it came close. Blame it on the red and yellow. 

I need to make it 100% clear that this has nothing to do with the artist that does not exist even though you may have heard of him and might have an album or two by him in your collection. The name of the band is Reckless, so if you have an album titled "Reckless" from a non-existent Canadian, that album DOES NOT EXIST. Hope that clears things up a bit. 

No Frills is the debut album from Reckless released in 1987. This would be their only album until a followup was released in 2015 (?) with a different lineup other than original bassist Gary Kriss. What's also of note is vocalist Chris Cintron who auditioned for Dream Theater before James LaBrie landed the spot. 

There's no info an allmusic.com about Reckless which means there might be some, uh, "collusion" going on with the word "reckless", but at least their albums are listed. However, there is a fantastic write-up on the band by Lionsheart on Decibel Geek which you can access by clicking......here.

My thoughts? I'm quite digging this and my awesome track has something to do with a fight or something in a railroad alley which is totally cool. Okay, I really have no idea what a railroad alley is, but if there is one somewhere and there's something going on, I'm quite sure it would be spectacular.

No Frills

1. Nitty Gritty
2. Wild In The Streets
3. Deadly Game
4. Voices In The Night
5. Crazy Over You
6. Breakin' Up
7. Nite After Nite
8. Railroad Alley
9. Eye For An Eye
10. Holdin' On

Availability: It's about $3 but as an add-on item on Amazon, or you can get it for around $5 without having to add-on stuff you really don't want or need.

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Finally. A band that chooses to call itself after the title of a smash hit Bryan Adams album. Good for them.

Never heard of this band or any of the songs, but this is a great album from start to finish. If the title was No Fillers, I would have No Objections.

Especially liked the solo on 'Night After Night', the groove on 'Breakin' Up' and 'Wild In The Street' has an overall appeal.

Valentino Rec. put out some great albums. Nice to see this one reissued on CD. Someone should reissue Tarzen's self titled album on CD, as well.

Who is this Bryan Adams that you speak of?

Sorry man, that's on a Need To Know basis and frankly, it's above your rank.

There are only two people (and a single goat) on the world who don't know anything about him. You're one of them, but please don't feel excluded. Look at this, like you're special.

Special??!! COOL!!!!!!

There you go. That's the right attitude.

First…  Props to Jon for finding these albums.  No one else would be able to do this, its like he has an insider’s view…

 

Second…The artist who shall remain unnamed on this post is still a favorite of mine even though Jon and Allmusic have a beef with him.

 

Third…  A challenge for Jon.  My brother’s friends vinyl collection was impressive and contained many lost forgotten albums, one of which is vivid in my mind.  I believe it was the one and only release of band named “Hellfield”.  It was a black album before black albums were cool.  Can you find it?

 

Fifth…  This Reckless album has had some moments, Among the good ones…

  • I like some of the riffs

among the bad ones are…

  • Singer is a Dokken wanna be, but he’s not good at all
  • In fact, the band sounds like they wanna be Dokken
  • Songs that spell, ugh!
  • There’s nothing new on here, its full of clichés
  • There’s no Cherry song here…

You talking about this one?

I believe so...

It's only vinyl, has never been released on CD. 

I immediately noticed how awful the mix was.  It sounded like the singers head was buried beneath about 7 pillows. Then I noticed that it was my ear buds.  I forgot I had been having issues with my ear phone jack on the computer for a while. Once I wiggled, pulled and pushed a bit, I got it working right.  Suddenly, the mix was normal.  

Nitty Gritty was underwhelming for an album opener, while Wild In The Streets is quite cheesy.  Deadly Game is better. It's the obligatory power ballad.  It's not cheesy, though it's not killer either.  Voices In The Night could be a Dokken song. Scott's correct, vocalist is not as good as DD.  Crazy Over You sounds even more like Dokken.  This could definitely be a Dokken song that they wisely decided to never release.

The thing is, it just keeps going in a very straight line.  It never veers left or right of center.  I can certainly see why this band never took off at that time.  They had an average singer at best, and the riffs were straight out of the hair band dictionary.  I'm not saying the music they made was bad, I'm just saying it doesn't interest me.  But as usual, I appreciate the ability to check this stuff out.  Luckily, Jon has a few more closets full of albums that most of us have never heard.  He's a machine.

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