This comp nails it. Unlike Now That’s What I Call Shitty Music: Volume Four Billion, How We Rock compiles 19 hotshots and whatnots both trendy and “classic.”
L.A.-style rock, in all its glammy, swaggering glory. Production is less monster cock rock than it used to be, but pre-funded ’80s hair “metal” was often thin.
Recorded at the Brixton Academy on the band’s 25th anniversary, this DVD preserves the evening’s entire 23-song set, complete with oodles of special guests.
Expanding Senses censors much of the progressive Swedish death complication of Insanity for a blazing, super-high-fidelity attack of post-Bay Area thrash.
Before black depression poet extraordinaire Dax Riggs sobbed so eloquently for Agents of Oblivion or Dead Boy and the Elephantmen, he screamed for Acid Bath.