Fastway-Bad Bad Girls

So I just picked this one up a few days ago and am now just giving it a spin. I must admit that I hesitated getting this one because I heard it sucked and was way too poppy. Although it is poppy it far from sucks, it'sone of the few poppy discs from an otherwise heavy band that I can listen to. Standout tracks include, "Miles Away" & "She Won't Rock". The track "Cutloose" reminds me of Thin Lizzy's "Heart Attack", especially the intro.

akeldama wrote:

So I just picked this one up a few days ago and am now just giving it a spin. I must admit that I hesitated getting this one because I heard it sucked and was way too poppy. Although it is poppy it far from sucks, it'sone of the few poppy discs from an otherwise heavy band that I can listen to. Standout tracks include, "Miles Away" & "She Won't Rock". The track "Cutloose" reminds me of Thin Lizzy's "Heart Attack", especially the intro.

I avoided the CD because of the cheese ball album cover, who is in the line up besides Fast Eddie Clarke?

manny, it's Fast Eddie and Lea Hart. I think they used session guys for the other parts.

I think it's an average album, nothing to write home about.

manny wrote:

akeldama wrote:

So I just picked this one up a few days ago and am now just giving it a spin. I must admit that I hesitated getting this one because I heard it sucked and was way too poppy. Although it is poppy it far from sucks, it'sone of the few poppy discs from an otherwise heavy band that I can listen to. Standout tracks include, "Miles Away" & "She Won't Rock". The track "Cutloose" reminds me of Thin Lizzy's "Heart Attack", especially the intro.

I avoided the CD because of the cheese ball album cover, who is in the line up besides Fast Eddie Clarke?

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Now that's an interesting story, there's at least ten special guests but the alleged main line-up is Clarke, Lea Hart-Vox & Kim McAuliffe & Chris Bonacci of Girlschool.

This is the only Fastway album I didn't like, it was way too "poppy" for me.

I really like the Self Titled one and the Trick Or Treat soundtrack.

Cool stuff, I got to see them on their tour for the Self Titled album back in the day, great show.

All Fired Up......................

Its an ok album, considering it followed "On Target", which I happen to think is their worst, but even with being a slight improvement over the last album its still pretty mediocre and poppy, though it is nice to finally hear some guitar again. I think the problem with both this and "On Target" is the label wanted a pop sound from them, and Lea Hart (and Chris O'Shaughnessy) seem to have taken creative control, songwriting wise here. Personally, I think Eddie mightve just done this to end his contract and then split because he was frustrated.

As for musicians, Spec's right, Lea Hart and Fast Eddie are the only two offical members on this, with about 10 session musicians being used along with Kim McAuliffe and Chris Bonacci of Girlschool, but its rumoured they played a bigger part in it than just session players, which, to me makes it even MORE disappointing, because something done with Fast Eddie AND Girlschool should've kicked some serious ass.

DeathCult wrote:

Its an ok album, considering it followed "On Target", which I happen to think is their worst, but even with being a slight improvement over the last album its still pretty mediocre and poppy, though it is nice to finally hear some guitar again. I think the problem with both this and "On Target" is the label wanted a pop sound from them, and Lea Hart (and Chris O'Shaughnessy) seem to have taken creative control, songwriting wise here. Personally, I think Eddie mightve just done this to end his contract and then split because he was frustrated.

As for musicians, Spec's right, Lea Hart and Fast Eddie are the only two offical members on this, with about 10 session musicians being used along with Kim McAuliffe and Chris Bonacci of Girlschool, but its rumoured they played a bigger part in it than just session players, which, to me makes it even MORE disappointing, because something done with Fast Eddie AND Girlschool should've kicked some serious ass.

I'll bet your right about this being a contract fulfillment album. I also agree that it should have kicked some serious ass, it had the potential. But at the time this came out so many bands were being driven by the corporations rather than the band's members and they were all catering to the TV/radio friendly MTV crowd and so many once heavy bands lightened up and totally wussed out for the cash.