Atomic Playboys

Atomic Playboys

Track Listings

1. Atomic Playboys

2. Power of Suggestion

3. Action

4. Desperate Heart

5. Soul on Ice

6. Crackdown

7. Pet the Hot Kitty

8. Evening Eye

9. Woman of 1,000 Years

10. Run Across Desert Sands [Instrumental]

11. Slipping into Fiction

Tracks:

Atomic Playboys
Power of Suggestion
Action
Desperate Heart
Soul on Ice
Crackdown
Pet the Hot Kitty
Evening Eye
Woman of 1,000 Years
Run Across Desert Sands [Instrumental]
Slipping into Fiction

Album Description

1989 album for the Billy Idol guitarist that's deleted domestically. 11 tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Beau Hill sucked the life out of Steve Stevens.......2007-03-15

Revisiting this album after listening to "Black Light Syndrome", "Situation Dangerous", and the single he did with Billy Idol for the movie "Speed", this album is almost a Flintstonian execution of a metal spoof album. With lyrics like "an SDI like a gun at his hip when he meets you" on the title track, you are not sure if this album is aiming towards a joke in Spinal Tap/Bad News territory or if the album is just going into the really awful album realm from where no comedy can be derived. The playing is top notch, the song writing varies from one or 2 good songs, to the bad, to the absolutely insipid. Beau Hill also produced Winger; it sounds like either he encouraged Steve and boys to go over the top in terms of camping it up or instead lead them off the cliff.

"It's a downtown meltdown".......2007-01-01

Steve Stevens followed up his incredible performance on "Whiplash Smile" with "Atomic Playboys". I thought he sounded good with Billy Idol but "Whiplash Smile" was the last album Stevens did with Idol. Admittedly, I do like "Whiplash Smile" better, but then again Billy Idol is one of the premiere rock vocalists. My favorites on this CD are "Atomic Playboys", "Desperate Heart", "Crackdown" and "Run Across Desert Sands". You're going to hear the wild guitar style that you became accustomed to when he was with Idol. I believe I first found this on vinyl in the early 90's. "Run Across Desert Sands", really does sound great if you're on a trip and drive through the desert.

Between 3 and 4 stars. Good but not Atomic.......2006-06-23

Mr Stevens, side man to Billy Idol + guitar hero of the 2nd degree unleashes his Atomic Playboys for some serious party rock action.

Good points: The shredding of Mr Stevens himself, Straight rockers like the title track/lead cut, changes of pace like Power of Suggestion with it's female backing vocals and only one instrumental. Production by Beaut Hill and Stevens himself and the whole thing fronted by cover art by HR Giger.

Bad bits: Not many - but questions marks over the whole thing cos while it's fairly good in it's own right it's questionable as to how necessary for your collection it is. It does seem very calculated at times and how many debuts in '89 could get Beau Hill + Ted Templeman involved and get HR Giger cover artwork? No chaps, there was some serious corporate bendover going on here.

But over all better than a lot of the hard rock that came out in '89 and better played and thought out and also blessed with mostly straight forward songs with limited guitar hero shredding that could of taken over too much.

A good album but not essential

Atomic!.......2005-10-27

Atomic! Nothing less! Atomic guitar playing is what Steve Stevens delivers here, in each track of the album, but not only this. He is and was an excellent song writer and performer in the hard rock category and he proved it here at his best. There are here some songs which needs to be considered some of the best examples of the hairmetal genre and nevertheless, exceptional examples of good songwriting overall. These are in my opinion. "Atomic Playboys", the opener, a catchy killer hard rock anthem which you will listen to again and again without never be tired of. "Power of suggestion" a strange r'n'blues type of thing, with horn parts which will have you beg for more. "Desperate heart" one of the definitive power ballads of the era. Absolutly fantastic! "Slipping into fiction" an incredible riff song that each time I can't do nothing but listen to it ten times before being tired of it (for the day). But each track from this album deserves to be discovered because each one is really a gem. Perry McCarty, the very good lead singer here, previously has been the singer in a band called Warrior for the album "Fighting for the earth" wich you may also like a lot. It was a more classic metal oriented and a little less glamourous album than this work from Stevens but still very good. You may find a very good Steve Stevens in Billy Idol albums but more than anywhere else in Vince Neil's album "Exposed". In the end I want to point out the exceptional guitar sounds Stevens choose here. Absolutly perfect, hard, focused, direct, heavy, clean distorted sounds. Steve is really an atomic guitar player! An album that you absolutly should have! (It has also an excellent H.R. Giger cover ... one of the fews the maestro realized together with an album for Blondie, another for ELP, one for Danzig maybe and another one for another metal band I don't remember the name .. sorry)

A collection-item for Baywatch-fans !.......2004-10-22

Also for Baywatch-fans this CD from Steve Stevens is a worth recommendation to their collection. The CD contains the song "Power of suggestion" that was used for the Baywatch-episode "The cretin of the shallows"(1989 / season 1). While hearing this song, you'll remember Eddie seeing Gina everywhere he walks.

If you are interested in songs that featured on Baywatch, you can buy here on Amazon.com the Book: "Baywatch - Rescued from Prime Time". This book contains all credits from songs/artists (like Steve Stevens), that you can buy here on Amazon.com

I have added 4 stars, because the soundquality of this CD could have been recorder louder.