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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Best Years | |||
| 2. Can You Hear The Wind Blow | |||
| 3. Call On Me | |||
| 4. All I Want All I Need | |||
| 5. Good To Be Bad | |||
| 6. All For Love | |||
| 7. Summer Rain | |||
| 8. Lay Down Your Love | |||
| 9. A Fool In Love | |||
| 10. Got What You Need | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Summer Rain (acoustic version) | |||
| 2. All I Want All I Need (radio edit) | |||
| 3. Take Me With You | |||
| 4. Ready To Rock ((enhanced video) | |||
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Album Description
21st April 2008 will see the arrival of the brand-new Whitesnake album Good To Be Bad, a masterpiece consisting of eleven songs and featuring all the important trademarks of the band, as well as a fresh breeze courtesy of Coverdale's fantastic voice and current line-up. Good To Be Bad is pure and unadulterated Whitesnake, a classy recording that really doesn't require a more detailed description.
Fans have waited almost eleven years for the release of a new studio album.
From the Artist
The new album sounds so unmistakably, typically Whitesnake says David Coverdale: "For me, the heart and soul of Whitesnake remains the same."
It's no surprise that Good To Be Bad has turned into more than a terrific album, but is without doubt one of the best releases in this band's long history. "For me, it has all the elements, all the ingredients that I enjoy about Whitesnake", says Coverdale. "It's a very solid, muscular, melodic rock record with a couple of fine ballads, so there's a little tenderness when the moment calls for it, and of course the ballads help balance out the chest beaters! I find it a very complete piece of work, actually. It covers a lot of musical ground, a positive chapter in the Book of Whitesnake."
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
As has been said in other reviews, this is much more of a grower than the late 80s Whitesnake albums that most people are familiar with, but it has real heart and soul and couldn't be from any other band...or singer. And that voice is still as intact and thoroughly amazing as ever. If anything, it gets better as the years pass by. Coverdale has always surrounded himself with the very best musicians and this album is no different. In Doug Aldrich, he has found the same magic he briefly had with John Sykes, and Reb Beach manages to bring the flashiness of Vai without the cheesyness that ruined Slip Of The Tongue. This album is more about the heavy riffs than anything previously and needs to be turned up VERY loud to best appreciated, trust me. The opening of "Can You Hear The Wind Blow" and "Got What You Need" are simply crushing and put most modern metal bands to shame. Think "Still Of The Night" and "Bad Boys" and you're not a million miles away. The ballads aren't forgotten about either but there's no "Is This Love" substitute on here. "All I Want All I Need" and "Summer Rain" remind me far more of Coverdale's superb and underrated "Into The Light" solo album with "Til The End Of Time" and "A Fool In Love" being much more reminiscent of the equally brilliant Coverdale/Page project, the former also being the emotional pinnacle of the album and will leave you realising just why Whitesnake fans remain so loyal to DC despite some questionable decisions 20 years ago! As for the blues rock of old. Well, it's in there. Despite the heavy nature of the playing, this album probably owes more to the classic Whitesnake than it does the commercial years. It's just that everything has been overhauled and brought bang up to date. If this is the last Whitesnake album then DC is leaving everyone with an album to be proud of. But once you sample it's joys, you'll want to join me in praying for more of this!!! It's just a shame you can only award 5 stars...this deserves more!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The wait has been far too long but with as tight a unit as coverdale has gathered in such a long time this record will not fail to please any snake followers. I've been a snake fan all my life and after being disappointed seeing them at Edinburgh Playhouse in the late eighties I thought they were majestic at the Carling Academy in Glasgow in 2006. With Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach hammering out the strings you just know you are in for a treat and Chris Frazier is a more than able replacement for Tommy Aldridge. The thing I like about this album is the fact that it doesn't pretend to be something it's not! This is a no holds barred, balls to the wind, unashamed Melodic hard rock album that MUST BE PLAYED LOUD AND PROUD!! Welcome back to your best guys - Keep Rockin'
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I have played this album a dozen or so times now and it really is an absolute cracker. Many "veteran" rock bands these days sound tired and uninspired when it comes to releasing new material. This recording is the complete opposite- WS sound fresh & hungry. A wonderful album!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3 classic tracks
To be fair to David Coverdale, every album he released contained 2 / 3 classics.
This offering has 3 for his archives :
a) 'Can you hear the wind blow ? Read more
This offering has 3 for his archives :
a) 'Can you hear the wind blow ? Read more
Published 9 months ago by I. H. Roblin
A Return to the Good Old Days
I gave up on Whitesnake in the early/mid eighties when Coverdale went all MTV/big hair and even Sykes & Vandenberg couldn't convince me to give them another try. Read more
Published 13 months ago by F. J. Farrell
A good solid piece of Snake rock
David Coverdale really delivers on this fine swaggering rock record, packed full of anthemic choruses and crunching riffs that also come across well live on stage. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Neil Kernohan
some good,some bad and a few average
This album appears to sharply divide opinion,its either blindly defended ignoring any hint of perspective or brutally derided,im going to fall in the middle. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mr Blackwell
For god's sake...
...the riff at the beginning of Call On Me is reason enough to buy this album.
End of.
End of.
Published on 13 April 2010 by Viper
DC Delivers the Goods
David Coverdale and friends certainly produced the goods in what is likely to be Whitesnake's last studio album. Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2009 by J. Dinsey
It rocks!
I already reviewed this at the American Amazon, but thought I'd chip in after seeing some of the one star reviews. Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2009 by Matthew Schwarz
Whitesnakes/Coverdales best work since the 1987 album!!!
Yes a whole 21 years ago and just like the 1987 album Good To Be Bad is a really great traditional rock album. Read more
Published on 27 May 2009 by Dragonlord
Emerging from the Shadow of the Blues
It's strange to see how split opinions are on this album but I'm sure David Coverdale would rather elicit strong views either way than just have everyone say "Yes, it's okay I... Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2008 by E. Van Genderen
Absolute corker.
Having read a few of the reviews about the album I thought I'd add my bit. This album is one of the best I have bought in a long time - it hasn't left my CD player for several... Read more
Published on 26 Aug 2008 by W. Becker
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