★★★★★
Sound: FireHouse's debut album has to be one of my favorite debut albums ever. FireHouse shows their talent with several great songs with a new, signature sound which would later help them rise to fame. As with many bands, the lead singer is pretty much who defines the band. In this case, C.J. Snare IS FireHouse. His vocals are very unique, and helps bring a great new name to 80's Hard Rock music...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
This group took first prize in the1991 Bon Jovi for a Day Sweepstakes (Power Ballad Category) with thehit single "Love of a Lifetime." Firehouse'sdelivered-in-time-for-lucrative-summer-touring follow-up to itsplatinum debut, Hold Your Fire, finds lead vocalist C.J. Snare and associates alreadyreduced to formulaic retreads of their formulaic retreads...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Metal has evolved at such a drastic pace that this assiduously inoffensive prefab seems almost folkloric, a weird anachronism in which the great tradition of Jon Bon Jovi and Mark Slaughter--manly tenor, moderate tempos, technically unassailable riffs--is preserved for the dwindling faithful. They "Reach for the Sky," they "Hold That Dream," they "Rock You Tonight," and because their "Mama Didn't Raise No Fool," they describe the inevitable bone job as "Sleeping With You." Now isn't that sweet?
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Track Listing: Cyklone Song; Slow Glow; Nothng Too Eccentric; Sing Song; Bright Lights, Clean Flights; Inner Place, Outer Space; What I Say. Personnel: John Lindblom, guitar; Fredrik Ljungkvist, tenor sax, clarinet; Magnus Broo, trumpet; Johan Berthling, bass; Kjell Nordeson, drums. Style: Modern Jazz More house afire than firehouse, this Swedish quintet plays with passion and precision...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
From the bellowing war cry of "ROCK!" shortly followed by the eunuch-induced falsetto that commences "Overnight Sensation", you can tell that you are dealing with the top-notch, class-act rock 'n' roll band that can only be the mighty Firehouse. Over the course of some six records (beginning with 1991's Aqua Net classic, Firehouse), the flames of fury have rose hot and hard to the point where the band is beloved in such foreign lands as Malaysia and Japan...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Firehouse's self-titled debut was a slick, polished collection of pop-metal. While louder numbers like "Don't Treat Me Bad" sounded good on the radio, the true strength of the record was the group's knack for power ballads like the Top 10 hit "Love of a Lifetime." Firehouse had trouble coming up with a consistent set of high-quality material throughout their debut, but when they landed on a power ballad, they never sounded less than fine.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
If the year was 1986, then 02 by power rock band Firehouse may have had a chance. But even by the genre's standards, this 2000 release is less than par -- most of the tracks lack the signifying quality and color to give a song an identity, rendering the set uninteresting. Such bands as Poison, Quiet Riot, and Enuff Z'Nuff come to mind when listening to 02; whammied guitars, big bass, fat kick drums, fret-busy solos, and signature '80s whiny singing abound...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Arriving in the fall of 1999, Category 5 -- Firehouse's appropriately titled fifth effort -- follows its unplugged predecessor Good Acoustics by three years. During that time, the unplugged phenomenon died down, and a pop-metal revival was beginning to bubble up, thanks in large part to VH1's embrace of hair metal bands for their Behind the Music series. Firehouse wasn't fortunate enough to be spotlighted on Behind the Music, but they were fortunate to deliver a new album during the revival...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Firehouse strip away most of their harder edges on their third album, the aptly titled Firehouse 3. Some of the songs still rock out, yet they are punctuated by the distorted guitars, not driven by them. Still, the group's strong point is their knack for power ballads. While none their ballads stray from the late-'80s formula, the group does them well -- good enough to make the record a moderate hit, nearly five years after the style went out of fashion.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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