Audio Cassette review:
Warrant - Dog Eat Dog

Warrant - Dog Eat Dog

Band: Warrant Title: Dog Eat Dog Rating: Release Date: 25 August, 1992 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Machine Gun 2: Whole in My Wall 3: April 2031 4: Andy Warhol Was Right 5: Bonfire 6: Bitter Pill 7: Hollywood (So Far, So Good) 8: All My Bridges Are Burning 9: Quicksand 10: Let It Rain 11: Inside Out 12: Sad Theresa

Customer Reviews Highly Recommended After the combined success of 'DRFSR' and 'Cherry Pie' Warrant decided to change things up a bit. I do believe this is the best Warrant album hands down. They saw the writing on the wall that the music atmosphere was changing. 'Dog Eat Dog' was the result. The only reason this album did not get the support or recognition it deserved was because the bands name was Warrant plain and simple. This is one of the best albums of '92. Tracks like 'Machine Gun', 'Hole In My Wall', 'Bonfire', and 'Inside Out' pack a very powerful punch with heavy drums and excellent guitar work. The ballads: 'The Bitter Pill', 'Sad Theresa', and 'Let It Rain' don't sound like previous Warrant ballads and do not take away from the strength of this album and are good songs on their own. Any of them could have been great radio singles. Then you have songs like 'April 2031', 'Andy Warhol Was Right', and 'All My Bridges Are Burning'. When I first heard the album these songs stuck out because they didn't sound like any other Warrant songs. There is no weak material on this album. If you like hard rock/metal buy this album. . . . Pop metal gets a heart transplant - a very low three stars Warrant worked their backsides off trying to make this album wok and tunes such as The Hole In My Wall, April 2031 and The Bitter Pill - well try to listen to a sample and you'll hear that the band are at least providing some variety. What happens when your female fans graduate from that first flush of youth, turn 21 and won't buy your albums anymore? You try to get a bigger male audience! So what do you do? Extra tatts: check Ditch the curly perms: check More songs about stuff OTHER than love: check And it just about worked. A tougher stance overall and apparently named after the bands view of the music business in general. The problems for this release are: difficulty in taking them seriously, the touch of desperation and the band not really being able to pull off the direction change fully musically. But some of the riffs are good and Mr Lane can truly sing which he didn't get much credit for at the time. Not an album that grabbed me and demanded more time in my stereo but fans will lap up the more ambitious effort this album represented. Warrant's finest moment!!!!!!!!!! Kind of like what Skid Row did with Slave To The Grind, on Dog Eat Dog Warrant got a heavier/grittier sound, very mature and solid. This album unfortunately got lost in the grunge shuffle that plagued the early to mid 90's, effectively killing off so many good bands and shadowing great albums like this one. Stand out songs are "Machine Gun", "The Hole In My Wall" which is a voyeur type sex song, the full out rockers "Bonfire" & "Inside Out", and of course you have the ballads "The Bitter Pill", "Let It Rain" & "Sad Theresa". But my favorite track is the song "April 2031". The bleak future that Jani Lane portrays with this song's lyrics is so haunting it's downright creepy, especially with the growing global warming we're starting to see. I just love the dark mood the song forces you into. If you are at all a Warrant fan then you need to pick this up. It rocks harder, you could kinda compare the album to the way "Uncle Tom's Cabin" totally ripped on the "Cherry Pie" album in comparison to the rest of the songs on that album. This was Warrant's answer to the Seattle movement, it's just unfortunate the statement wasn't heard!. . You can see a complete list of all Warrant discography, or go back to the Warrant tabs