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Saxon - Denim and Leather Audio CD

A fair review of the Saxon "Denim and Leather" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Saxon reviews here, or go back to the Saxon tabs.

Saxon Band: Saxon
Title: Denim and Leather
Rating:
Release Date: 1998-06-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Princess of the Night 2: Never Surrender 3: Out of Control 4: Rough and Ready 5: Play It Loud 6: And the Bands Played On 7: Midnight Rider 8: Fire in the Sky 9: Denim and Leather

Old school British Metal
I was into Metal back in the 80s and these guys always flew under the radar. I have re-discovered SAXON in my late 30s. 10 songs are all solid, just wish the cd was longer and offered a re-mastered version. Great taste of Saxon and a good starting album.


Simple and Great
There are no virtuoso musicians here, but they way they pull off the songs is superb. We picked this up in Spain in the eighties and loved it after first listen. This is pure rock and it is as accessible as the music of AC/DC. My favorite track is Denim and Leather, but the rest of the cuts are also good.

If you are looking for some great solid hard rock, I highly recommend this album. A very underrated band.


Good followup after "Strong Arm Of The Law"
It has a pace and energy that highlighted the early part of this great band's career.
I'm partial to Saxon's third album "Strong Arm Of The Law". A followup would be somewhat difficult, as it is any time a band creates a definitive work, but "Denim & Leather" isn't bad at all.
The opening track "Princess Of The Night" is a Saxon staple. No, it isn't about hookers. Rather, the "Princess" is a fond look back at a famed steam locomotive. Biff Byford has always been able to write crowd pleaser lyrics, like "Play It Loud", with its distinctive AC/DC riff and the title track, but he also excels in more cerebral topics that helped give Saxon a unique place in classic metal. For my money, any rock and roll song about trains is a winner.
The production could stand remastering, with more guitars up front, but since Saxon is not a world wide legend like Iron Maiden or Judas Priest, although they should be, such projects are probably too expensive.
Nonetheless, classic metal heads can't go wrong with this album. Get "Wheels Of Steel/Strong Arm of the Law" on the double CD, too, while you're at it.


One of their most solid efforts


A reviewer could be easily fooled here, there are a mixed bag of postive and negative postings on this NWOBHM classic but don't be decived by those. After two phenomenal albums in 1980, Saxon put out -Denim & Leather- in 1981 and countiued their streak of exellent albums. True, this isn't as good as say -Wheels of Steel-,-Stong Arm of the Law- or even -Power and Glory-, you have to consider the fact that this album was predominantly written on the road. This is still a very good Saxon CD though, i find it to be my personal favorite mainly because of the "heavy metal rules, screw everything else" atmosphere that exudes from it.

The production is pretty clear for a early 80's rock album, so it's got pretty good sound qaulity wise for a metal record. I find that even thought there are a couple fillers on this one, it's still pretty solid in material. "Princess of the Night", "Play It Loud", "And The Bands Played On", "Midnight Rider" and "Denim & Leather" are the best songs.

I really love the song "Denim & Leather", it is one of the greatest heavy metal songs ever written. It is a tribute to the fans basically, which i like because shows how these guys loved and appreciated their fans. .


Less then Mediocore,..boy that is bad
First off, I'm a big fan of these guys so i don't want to come off as anti-Saxon or anything like that. .

This album is the weakest of the Saxon albums before they went pop after CRUSADER. The first Saxon song i ever heard was Denim&Leather and i loved it,made me a fan of Saxon in the first place. I could not find this album in the record store when i wanted a Saxon album so i picked up the lone import copy of WHEELS OF STEEL they had. After listening to WHEELS i finally got a copy of DENIM&LEATHER and i was greatly DISSAPOINTED by it. This album is not solid at all, most of the songs are forgettable and weak but ironically it has three of the best saxon songs on it which are "Princess of the Night" "Midnight Rider" and the title track,so it wasn't a complete loss i guess. Other then those hits, the rest of the songs on the album sound like weak b-sides and half done reject material. Songs like "Rough and Ready" "Out of Control" "Play it Loud" and "Never Surrender" sound like they were written by the local drunks at the irish pub. So there you have it, 3 exellent songs and 6 total crap songs, how do you really rate an album like that? I would not recommend this as a first album to get from saxon, it's just a limp,weak record. I would make WHEELS or STRONG ARM OF THE LAW the first ones to get if you want to start with a Saxon record, then after that their best album THE POWER AND THE GLORY and a little bit behind that CRUSADER, which are all stong albums with no weak songs. I think this album was so lacking in good material was because Saxon by this time was getting popular in the U. K. now and were constantly on the road with little down time to actually put real thought in the song writting process. You can tell by the lyrics in some of the songs that this album was rushed, there wasn't much going on in the songwritting department. Thank god they came back after this with the powerful POWER AND GLORY album. .


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