★★★★★
BulletBoys' second album could have been great. After their self-titled 1988debut went gold, their potential as a commercial and also imaginativehard-rock band was clear ? they've got the cocky front man, thepowerful rhythm section, and the guitarist who occasionally bows downto Eddie Van Halen, but usually rises above that influence and fliesinto glorious heights of psycho riffing...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Someone who hasn't spent time in southern California might not fully appreciate the title Behind the Orange Curtain. Back in the '70s and '80s -- when there was still a Soviet Union and the communist governments of Eastern Europe were referred to as "behind the Iron Curtain" -- folks in Los Angeles County jokingly referred to Orange County (their neighbor to the south) as "the Orange Curtain...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Their blip on the hair metal radar may have been brief, but the Bulletboys did manage to score a few MTV hits back in the late '80s. And while it's debatable whether or not they warrant a "best-of," the Bulletboys got compiled in 2006 regardless -- with the release of Smooth Up in Ya: The Best of the Bulletboys...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
This eponymous debut brought the L.A. group from the Hollywood club strip to the world's hard rock spotlight, often with mixed results. Nonetheless, it's a decadently wonderful excursion into the eye of the hair metal hurricane, with the singles "Smooth Up in Ya," and the magnificently awkward cover of the O'Jays soul classic "For the Love of Money." And while the group released several albums afterwards, none of them truly captured the band's fire and spirit as this one did.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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