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Mr. Big - Wild World

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Mr. Big – Wild World

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Mr. Big - Bump Ahead

Hair metal, as a genre, has not quite aged as well as other genres from the 1980s and 1990s. There aren’t a lot of hair metal bands that have aged well, either, or that I’d be wanting to listen to all these years later. There are a few, however, and one of them is Mr. Big. I’ve talked about them pretty recently, actually, mainly their 1989 self-titled debut album, but I’ve been wanting to get more into their stuff. They had one hell of a combo with vocalist Eric Martin and guitarist / songwriter Paul Gilbert, at least until the latter left in the early 90s to come back again in the 2010s. I love their sophomore album, 1991’s Lean Into It, but I found a copy of the follow-up, 1993’s Bump Ahead, at Half Price Books the other day. They’re one of those bands that I want to collect a lot from, because I love a lot of what I’ve heard from them, especially their first two albums.

I was curious to hear their later stuff, especially following their one big hit from Lean Into It, and Bump Ahead is the album that came a couple of years after that. How do you follow up an album like that? Well, you essentially “mature” and remove the hair metal from your sound to become a hard-rock / heavy metal band. While this album still kind of works, I don’t know if I’d say that was a great thing. Make no mistake, Bump Ahead is a good album, but it’s the dreaded follow-up to the big hit. They could have tried to replicate it, but they instead move into a different direction. It’s admittedly smart with hair-metal being dead by that point, but even so, they made that sound work so well.

This album is cool, but it’s just a generic hard-rock album with some cool solos and riffs. Both Eric Martin and Paul Gilbert are really good, and there are some solid hooks and solos throughout, but it doesn’t quite hold a candle to anything from their first two albums. At 45 minutes, the album is a bit too long, but it has some really good moments, especially their cover of Cat Stevens’ “Wild World.” I wouldn’t say anything here is bad, but it’s not as good as their last two albums. There are some solos, as well as some big hooks, but they don’t soar to the same heights that those songs do. It’s fun, but at the time, I keep thinking that I’d rather just listen to their first two albums. I may come back to this album every once in awhile, especially if I want some good hard-rock, but it’s an album that’s pretty good, but not quite great.

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