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UFO - Ain't Misbehavin' Audio CD

A fair review of the UFO "Ain't Misbehavin'" 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 UFO reviews here, or go back to the UFO tabs.

UFO Band: UFO
Title: Ain't Misbehavin'
Rating:
Release Date: 2001-06-12
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Between a Rock and A Hard Place 2: Another Saturday Night 3: At War With the World 4: Hunger in the Night 5: East Money 6: Rock Boyz, Rock 7: Lonely Cities (Of the Heart)

three Stars is Generous
This is OK if you like AOR with "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" being the best track on offer. You can forgive the early album experiments prior to Phenomenon but this and the Misdemeanor album are in my opinion poor and not identifiable as true UFO sounding albums. For a trademark UFO album Schenker on guitar is a bonus but you must have the song writing combo and performance crunching backbone of Phil Mogg and Pete Way. Thank goodness these two got back together to create the trademark sound again on "High Stakes" and the other later UFO and Mogg/Way albums which are all significantly better. Three stars is generous for these seven tracks which are a little bit but not much better than the last efforts on "Misdemeanor". Save these 'till last if your collecting the back catalogue.
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Ain't Misbehavin'
You can find a very differents UFO but not a bad bad. this is a very 80's album with a very 80's pruduction, but have really good songs, like "Between A Rock And A Hard Place". .


Another UFO classic
Their last album, as great as it
was, was their least successful in many years, and the rock
landscape was far less hospitable to the band than ever before. In '88 UFO had a lot to prove.
So Mogg, Simpson, Gray and Atomic Tommy shrugged and got down
to business with this mini-album. This cd is a scorcher. UFO
hadn't rocked this hard in years, and the performances are
every bit as amazing as anything the band would ever do.
Sadly, "Ain't Misbehavin" was even less popular than
"Misdemeanor", selling to the hardcore fans and not even being
noticed by anyone else. It proved to be the final release
from this lineup, as when the next UFO slab finally
appeared four years later Mogg had again reorganised the band.
UFO never put out substandard work, and "Ain't Misbehavin" can
proudly stand alongside the rest of their amazing catalog.


An easy review to write knowing that better stuff is coming
) This is the kind of '80's metal that might grow on you if given time, but I doubt you'd pack it for a road trip. While "Ain't Misbehavin'" isn't on par with any of UFO's more shining works like "Light's Out", "Obsession", or even "Mechanix", it's nowhere near as bad as "Misdemeanor", (which was so bad that it should have been called "Felony". At least the band isn't doing the Eric Carmen thing with their hair anymore.


Their Hair Band Phase
If you hold your nose and close your eyes, you'll get past the obilgatory sexpot strut and frenzied shredding to find that this stuff ain't half bad if only because Mogg always surrounds himself with guys who know how to produce solid hooks and a satisfying crunch. These seven tracks find perennial frontman Phil Mogg wandering in the wilderness of late 80's hair metal with the same group (minus Paul Raymond) who cranked out the Whitesnake-ish "Misdeameanor" album a few years after the Mogg-Way-Chapman-Parker-Raymond lineup gave up the ghost and Phil had to start again from scratch. Far from the best UFO, but hardly the worst. If you got some disposable dough you don't know what to do with, there are more reprehensible ways to squander it.


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