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If you liked Axe Attack 1, and, by and large we did, then the second helping, despite its idiotic cover, didn’t disappoint either, showcasing a crowd-pleasing smorgasbord of metal favourites you would only occasionally see on Top Of The Pops and rarely hear on the radio, such as Motorhead ( Ace of Spades), the Scorps ( The Zoo), Maiden ( Murders in the Rue Morgue) a fresh-from-UFO Michael Schenker and a pre-Maiden Bruce Dickinson on Samson’s Earth Mother.
Diamond Head - In The Heat Of The NightĪ year after slaughtering us with the first Axe Attack, 1981 saw the release of Axe Attack II and a cover that featured not one, but two, men in denim and tight vests, hitting each other with generic Fender Stratocasters. Flip it over and look at the track listing - Maiden, Diamond Head, Meatloaf’s finest four minutes, Derek and the Dominoes, Journey and a heavily-edited version of Skynyrd’s Free Bird which clocked in, somehow, at around three minutes but was responsible for driving a whole new generation of young rock fans to the record shops in search of the band’s debut album, where they would discover Free Bird wasn’t a natty three minute singalong - it was a nine minute rock anthem, with one of the finest guitar work outs in the history of rock music. Sometimes, the record company would design covers that just looked heavy, like this one, which appeared as if it was made from blocks of molten lead.Īnd as bad as that sounds, the record itself wasn’t. No shirtless, hirsute chaps in leather waistcoats, swinging guitars at inanimate objects as a bolt of lightning lit up the night sky. Sometimes, although this happened rarely, there were no semi-naked ladies draped on the cover of the latest heavy metal compilation album.
Whitesnake - Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City. “Just call me Percy Edwards,” he joked with the crowd, hilariously, at one point, as he tried - and failed - to cajole the watching hordes to whistle along. This performance featured Graham Bonnet performing a bemusing whistling routine. Rocks Off by Def Leppard wasn’t really live but featured some badly-dubbed cheering, and it was nice to see Cozy Powell’s swan song with Rainbow, a live version of All Night Long recorded at the 1980 Monsters of Rock jamboree at Donington. And even though I played it loud enough for my dad to bang on my bedroom door and shout repeatedly to “turn that bloody rubbish down” it never once made me cry tears of real blood.īut, still, seeing as this was 1981 and a whole new audience of rock fans had missed out on Deep Purple, the inclusion of their Made in Japan version of Smoke on the Water was a welcome touch. 
Let’s state at the outset, this was not true.
This album was apparently so ‘live’ and so ‘heavy’ that listening to it at full volume reduced the listener to weeping tears of real blood.
Frank Marino And Mahogony Rush - You Got Living. Of course it was called Axe Attack, and of course it featured a bare-chested man (tick), possibly in make-up or with blood on his face (either one is acceptable, clearly) with a guitar (yep) which he is wielding like an axe (naturally) - a not-so-clever concoction of hackneyed rock cliches aimed specifically at persuading your average 14-year-old aspiring metal fan to part with his hard-earned paper round money for this slab of vinyl (ie., me, I had this - and I played it to death).Īnd even though it’s easy to mock - look at it, for fuck’s sake - look also at the track-listing: AC/DC, Maiden, Whitesnake, Rainbow, Sabbath, Motorhead and a UFO song which I know for sure persuaded one buyer to go out and purchase Phenomenon, which lead on to Strangers in The Night and a love affair that endures 30 years later. We’ve delved deep into the annals of 80s rock (i.e., our own embarrassing record collections) to find the 10 best/cheesiest/most memorable compilation albums from that era. And, ergo, perhaps you weren’t quite as cool as you thought. The chances are you that if you’re reading this, you owned at least one of these. It doesn’t matter how cool you thought you were in the 1980s.
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