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Product Description
The premier household name in melodic hard rock returns with a vengeance! Whitesnake is back with "Good To Be Bad", their 10th studio album and first in over a decade. This brand new album features a slew of instant-classic Whitesnake songs that are destined to stand side by side with such favorites as "Here I Go Again", "Still Of The Night" and "Fool For Your Love." Led by world-renown vocalist extraordinaire David Coverdale, "Good To Be Bad" is truly classic Whitensake, displaying that rare combination of high class and kick ass that has made them what they are today... the absolute best!

Album Description
The brand-new Whitesnake album "Good To Be Bad", a masterpiece consisting of eleven songs & featuring all the important trademarks of the band, as well as a fresh breeze courtesy of Coverdale's fantastic voice & current line-up. Good To Be Bad is pure & unadulterated Whitesnake, a classy recording that really doesn't require a more detailed description. The new album sounds so unmistakably, typically Whitesnake says David Coverdale: "For me, the heart & soul of Whitesnake remains the same."

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4 out of 5 stars

I was prepared to be disappointed...what a blast of refreshing air...uh..make that sound!! April 23, 2008
29 out of 38 found this review helpful

Being a hardcore Deep Purple fan for 35+ years I knew who Whitesnake was WAY before mainstream America discovered them complements of shallow MTV posing. And by that statement you can tell I was a little disappointed in the hair metal poser direction Coverdale took the band after the late 70s - early 80s line-up broke up; when they changed from a pretty good blues-rock band to just another Led Zep/Sabbath clone band. While I'd never say it wasn't fun to listen to, I really got tired of his shallow posing vanity show and it got to the point where I simply couldn't watch him and preferred just to listen to the CDs instead!

And, after hearing the first track on "Good to be Bad" I was even more disappointed...heck, it's such a BLATANT rip-off of the Allman Bro's classic "Whipping Post", with a different chorus, it's nothing less than disgusting!! The verse phrasing, even the organ itself is such an exact copy I expected to hear David sing "sometimes I feel, sometimes I FEEL..." at any moment!! While I do think it's a catchy tune and definitely listenable I thought, wow...here he goes ripping other bands off again, not an original idea in his head!!

But, as the other tracks played I became more and more impressed and track #5, the title track, sunk its hook in me on the very first listen!! So now I have to say that I am impressed and heartily agree with my fellow reviewers...Coverdale and the boys have produced a heck of a come back album!! In fact I wouldn't hesitate to say it's one of the best comebacks I have ever heard!!! And I'm telling everyone I know about it too!

As mentioned above, track #5 "Good to be Bad" is nothing less than one of the GREATEST Whitesnake songs I have ever heard and "Best years" (the Whipping Post clone), "Call On Me", "Lay Down Your Love", "A Fool In Love" and "Got What You Need" are also already on my MP3 player!

Bottom line: if you are a Whitesnake fan, GET THIS! Get it immediately!! And if you like good rock in any form, even if you were never a snake fan, get it anyway!! And crank it up!!!

5 out of 5 stars

HEEEEERE'S A GREAT ALBUM FER YA..... April 22, 2008
23 out of 26 found this review helpful

This album is exactly what you would expect from Whitesnake. Great vocals, ripping/wailing guitars, pounding drums. There are eight rockers and three power ballads. All thriller and no fillers at all.
The album has a fresh energy to it that brings Whitesnake into 2008 with a kick.
I highly recommend this album to all who love to rock.
CRANK UP YOUR SOUND SYSTEM and enjoy......

3 out of 5 stars

Average new album from Whitesnake. April 23, 2008
14 out of 32 found this review helpful

I hate to be the party pooper with all the glowing reviews here already, especially since Whitesnake is one of my favorite bands, but I have to say this an average album from Whiteskake. The guitar riffs are great, and David Coverdale sounds pretty good. However there is just some kind of soul lacking, which makes it just pretty good, and not some of their best work. The songs are not the epitome of the bluesy rock sound of the Ready and Willing era, and lack the bluesy sound mixed with the glam metal sound of the mid 80's as well. If the album was as good as everyone is raving, it would be selling as big as their 1987 album. I don't see that happening with this album. Certainly not a disappointment, but it's certainly not going to replace Ready and Willing as one of my favorite bluesy rock albums. Please David, if there is one more album in you within the next 5 years, get back Mickey Moody and see if you can recreate that magic. THAT was Whitesnake's best work and best line up. At the same time, this effort is certainly respectable.
Sam Chandra
Chicagoland

5 out of 5 stars

The ageless Coverdale and Whitesnake show they can still rock April 25, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful

THE BAND: David Coverdale (vocals), Doug Aldrich (guitars), Reb Beach (guitars), Uriah Duffy (bass), Tim Drury (keyboards), Chris Frazier (drums & percussion).

THE DISCS: (2008) Disc 1: 11 tracks clocking in at approximately 59 minutes. Disc 2: 7 live tracks clocking in at approximately 42 minutes (recorded songs taken from the DVD "Live: In The Still Of The Night" from 2006). Also on Disc-2 is a 4 minute video "Ready To Rock". Included with the discs is an 18-page booklet containing song titles/credits, song lyrics, one band photo, and thank you's. Recorded at Casa DALA (Los Angeles) and Snakebyte Studios (Lake Tahoe, CA). All songs written by Coverdale/Aldrich. Label - SPV / Steamhammer.

COMMENTS: I approached this album with hesitation upon release. I had to know if Coverdale and Company could still push it to the limit. Or, if they'd gone limp and flooded this disc with sappy power ballads geared toward their female audience and perhaps the dentist's office. With that being said - I was pleasantly surprised by this album. 8 songs rock hard. 3 songs soft. As an old school rocker who grew up in the 70's, I'd like this album a tad bit more if it had only one or two ballads. Coverdale, plain and simply, sounds old on these sentimental songs (57 years old in fact). The softer songs include "All I Want All I Need" (for some reason I keep picturing creepy old Herbert from "Family Guy" singing this), "Summer Rain" (the worst song on the disc - pure Vermont sap), and "Til The End Of Time" (a bluesy and folksy album closer - even though the album doesn't close on a hard rocking power chord... this is a beautiful acoustic song and Coverdale makes it work). The rockers are glorious - and there are a lot of them. Highlights include the opener "Best Years" (featuring ultra crunchy rhythm guitars with a blistering solo - listening to this first track caught my attention and I really felt this song kicked the album off nicely); "Call On Me" (my favorite song on the album... heavy and full of attitude... showcasing Aldrich and Beach's mastery of the axe); the title track (great song - reminiscent of the "Slip Of The Tongue" era); and "A Fool In Love" (bluesy... simply an infectious groove... my 2nd favorite song here). The only thing that perhaps grows tiresome is Coverdale crooning about the weather bringing changes, and that ready-and-willing / surrender-to-me / do-it-all-for-love self serving rock and roll attitude. But wait, this is David Coverdale - and he's done that for the past 3 decades... so surely this comes as no surprise. Disc-2 is a treat - the sound production is crisp and the live songs rock. For me, the highlights from Disc-2 are the opener "Burn/Stormbringer" (anyone hear Iron Maiden's "Wrathchild" rhythm section when the band goes into "Stormbringer"?), and "Take Me With You" where Aldrich and Beach really let loose on guitar. Whitesnake fans from the 80's might compare "Good To Be Bad" with their well-known albums "Slide It In" (1984) and/or their self titled (1987) release... and I'll agree - it's probably not as good as these two quintessential albums. In the end, "Good To Be Bad" isn't a classic at this point... though, in time it very well could be. A great comeback - and in my opinion, Coverdale still has it (4.5 stars).

3 out of 5 stars

I am gradually warming up to this CD April 27, 2008
11 out of 22 found this review helpful

I cannot honestly say that this CD is in the same league as Slip of the Tongue, Whitesnake, and Slide It In. So if you are expecting something similar to the past magic and production, you will be disappointed. I am not saying don't buy it, but I am saying that it may take some time for the new style to grown on ya.

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