Denim and Leather [Import]

Denim and Leather [Import]

Denim and Leather [Import]

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Product Description
Mid-priced 1996 reissue on EMI of the veteran British metal icon's fourth album, first released for the label in 1981. Nine tracks, including 'Princess Of The Night', 'Never Surrender', 'Play It Loud' and 'Fire In The Sky'.

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Denim and Leather
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Simple and Great
  • Good followup after "Strong Arm Of The Law"
  • One of their most solid efforts
  • Less then Mediocore,..boy that is bad
  • "Where were you in '79 when the dam began to burst?"
 Denim and Leather
Saxon
Manufacturer: Disky Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005RNQ
Release Date: 1998-06-30

Tracks:

  1. Princess Of The Night
  2. Never Surrender
  3. Out Of Control
  4. Rough And Ready
  5. Play It Loud
  6. And The Bands Played On
  7. Midnight Rider
  8. Fire In The Sky
  9. Denim And Leather

Album Description

Mid-priced 1996 reissue on EMI of the veteran British metal icon's fourth album, first released for the label in 1981. Nine tracks, including 'Princess Of The Night', 'Never Surrender', 'Play It Loud' and 'Fire In The Sky'.

Album Details

Reissue of the Famous Album at the Special Price.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Simple and Great.......2007-07-16

We picked this up in Spain in the eighties and loved it after first listen. There are no virtuoso musicians here, but they way they pull off the songs is superb. This is pure rock and it is as accessible as the music of AC/DC. My favorite track is Denim and Leather, but the rest of the cuts are also good.

If you are looking for some great solid hard rock, I highly recommend this album. A very underrated band.

4 out of 5 stars Good followup after "Strong Arm Of The Law".......2006-11-10


I'm partial to Saxon's third album "Strong Arm Of The Law". It has a pace and energy that highlighted the early part of this great band's career. A followup would be somewhat difficult, as it is any time a band creates a definitive work, but "Denim & Leather" isn't bad at all.
The opening track "Princess Of The Night" is a Saxon staple. No, it isn't about hookers. Rather, the "Princess" is a fond look back at a famed steam locomotive. Biff Byford has always been able to write crowd pleaser lyrics, like "Play It Loud", with its distinctive AC/DC riff and the title track, but he also excels in more cerebral topics that helped give Saxon a unique place in classic metal. For my money, any rock and roll song about trains is a winner.
The production could stand remastering, with more guitars up front, but since Saxon is not a world wide legend like Iron Maiden or Judas Priest, although they should be, such projects are probably too expensive.
Nonetheless, classic metal heads can't go wrong with this album. Get "Wheels Of Steel/Strong Arm of the Law" on the double CD, too, while you're at it.

4 out of 5 stars One of their most solid efforts.......2005-09-17

After two phenomenal albums in 1980, Saxon put out -Denim & Leather- in 1981 and countiued their streak of exellent albums.

A reviewer could be easily fooled here, there are a mixed bag of postive and negative postings on this NWOBHM classic but don't be decived by those. True, this isn't as good as say -Wheels of Steel-,-Stong Arm of the Law- or even -Power and Glory-, you have to consider the fact that this album was predominantly written on the road. This is still a very good Saxon CD though, i find it to be my personal favorite mainly because of the "heavy metal rules, screw everything else" atmosphere that exudes from it.

The production is pretty clear for a early 80's rock album, so it's got pretty good sound qaulity wise for a metal record. I find that even thought there are a couple fillers on this one, it's still pretty solid in material. "Princess of the Night", "Play It Loud", "And The Bands Played On", "Midnight Rider" and "Denim & Leather" are the best songs.

I really love the song "Denim & Leather", it is one of the greatest heavy metal songs ever written. It is a tribute to the fans basically, which i like because shows how these guys loved and appreciated their fans.

3 out of 5 stars Less then Mediocore,..boy that is bad .......2005-03-05

First off, I'm a big fan of these guys so i don't want to come off as anti-Saxon or anything like that...

This album is the weakest of the Saxon albums before they went pop after CRUSADER.The first Saxon song i ever heard was Denim&Leather and i loved it,made me a fan of Saxon in the first place.I could not find this album in the record store when i wanted a Saxon album so i picked up the lone import copy of WHEELS OF STEEL they had. After listening to WHEELS i finally got a copy of DENIM&LEATHER and i was greatly DISSAPOINTED by it. This album is not solid at all, most of the songs are forgettable and weak but ironically it has three of the best saxon songs on it which are "Princess of the Night" "Midnight Rider" and the title track,so it wasn't a complete loss i guess.Other then those hits, the rest of the songs on the album sound like weak b-sides and half done reject material. Songs like "Rough and Ready" "Out of Control" "Play it Loud" and "Never Surrender" sound like they were written by the local drunks at the irish pub. So there you have it, 3 exellent songs and 6 total crap songs, how do you really rate an album like that? I would not recommend this as a first album to get from saxon, it's just a limp,weak record. I would make WHEELS or STRONG ARM OF THE LAW the first ones to get if you want to start with a Saxon record, then after that their best album THE POWER AND THE GLORY and a little bit behind that CRUSADER, which are all stong albums with no weak songs.I think this album was so lacking in good material was because Saxon by this time was getting popular in the U.K. now and were constantly on the road with little down time to actually put real thought in the song writting process. You can tell by the lyrics in some of the songs that this album was rushed, there wasn't much going on in the songwritting department.Thank god they came back after this with the powerful POWER AND GLORY album.

5 out of 5 stars "Where were you in '79 when the dam began to burst?".......2005-01-04

Well, I was 5 in '79 but, later, when I first heard this 1981 release by Saxon, I understood why they hit it big and are still going strong (yet underrated). Saxon was part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal that was unleashed on the world in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Formed in 1977, Saxon--as is announced in the track "Denim and Leather"--burst on the scene in 1979 while on tour with Motorhead. Denim and Leather was their 4th album in just three years of putting out studio releases. It starts with "Princess of the Night," an interesting and charming track about an old, obsolete steam locomotive that brought fond memories to one young admirer: "She used to be an iron horse, 20 years ago." It sounds like early Iron Maiden (another of the Brit Metal New Wavers). Although this track and others on here resemble the style of Paul Di'Anno era-Maiden, vocalist Biff Byford sounds so much like Bruce Dickinson on this first track, it's scary! "Princess..." is my favorite song on this album followed by "Out of Control" with its catchy guitar hooks.

The rest of the album has a blue collar hard rock sound. Fans of early AC/DC and early '80s Judas Priest will like Saxon's rawness and aggression. The title track is an anthem to rock 'n roll that would fit nicely on any AC/DC album of that time. "Play It Loud" is another AC/DC-esque anthem. Saxon may have sounded blue collar, but they also paid attention to details. "Rough and Ready" has some nice vocal harmonizing. "Midnight Rider" is another favorite of mine. It reminds me of the catchy tracks off Judas Priest's Stained Class. There is nothing weak here; every track kicks! Recommended to fans of early 1980s metal during a time when metal was about to be accepted as cool by the record-buying public and well before pop metal bands began to swarm on the music world.
Denim and Leather
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Denim and Leather
    Saxon
    Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000CBO0YY
    Release Date: 2006-02-06

    Tracks:

    1. Princess Of The Night
    2. Never Surrender
    3. Out Of Control
    4. Rough And Ready
    5. Play It Loud

    Album Description

    Remastered Japanese pressing. EMI. 2006.
    Strong Arm of the Law/Denim and Leather
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      		Strong Arm of the Law/Denim and Leather
      Saxon
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B00027WN06
      Release Date: 2004-04-27

      Tracks:

      1. Heavy Metal Thunder
      2. To Hell and Back Again
      3. Strong Arm of the Law
      4. Taking Your Chances
      5. 20,000 Feet
      6. Hungry Years
      7. Sixth Form Girls
      8. Dallas 1pm
      9. Motorcycle Man [Live][*]
      10. 747 (Strangers in the Night) [Live][*]

      Tracks:

      1. Strong Arm of the Law
      2. Never Surrender
      3. Out of Control
      4. Rough and Ready
      5. Play It Loud
      6. And the Bands Played On
      7. Midnight Rider
      8. Fire in the Sky
      9. Denim and Leather
      10. Rough and Ready [Live][*]
      11. Wheels of Steel [Live][*]

      Album Description

      2004 reissue combines 'Strong Arm of the Law' (1980) & 'Denim & Leather'(1981). 'Strong Arm of the Law' includes two bonus tracks, 'Motorcycle Man' (Live) & '747 (Strangers In The Night)'. 'Denim & Leather' also includes two bonus tracks, 'See The Light Shining' (Live) & 'Wheels Of Steel' (Live). Two discs housed together in a digipak. Axe Killer.
      Denim and Leather
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • Simple and Great
      • Good followup after "Strong Arm Of The Law"
      • One of their most solid efforts
      • Less then Mediocore,..boy that is bad
      • "Where were you in '79 when the dam began to burst?"
      		 Denim and Leather
      Saxon
      Manufacturer: Emi-Capitol Special Products
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000002TIQ
      Release Date: 1992-06-19

      Album Description

      Reissue of this Metal classic by the hard working 'n' Hard Rockin' British band, considered to be one of their best albums. Nine tracks including 'Never Surrender', 'Rough and Ready' and more. EMI.2006.

      Album Details

      Reissue of the Famous Album at the Special Price.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Simple and Great.......2007-07-16

      We picked this up in Spain in the eighties and loved it after first listen. There are no virtuoso musicians here, but they way they pull off the songs is superb. This is pure rock and it is as accessible as the music of AC/DC. My favorite track is Denim and Leather, but the rest of the cuts are also good.

      If you are looking for some great solid hard rock, I highly recommend this album. A very underrated band.

      4 out of 5 stars Good followup after "Strong Arm Of The Law".......2006-11-10


      I'm partial to Saxon's third album "Strong Arm Of The Law". It has a pace and energy that highlighted the early part of this great band's career. A followup would be somewhat difficult, as it is any time a band creates a definitive work, but "Denim & Leather" isn't bad at all.
      The opening track "Princess Of The Night" is a Saxon staple. No, it isn't about hookers. Rather, the "Princess" is a fond look back at a famed steam locomotive. Biff Byford has always been able to write crowd pleaser lyrics, like "Play It Loud", with its distinctive AC/DC riff and the title track, but he also excels in more cerebral topics that helped give Saxon a unique place in classic metal. For my money, any rock and roll song about trains is a winner.
      The production could stand remastering, with more guitars up front, but since Saxon is not a world wide legend like Iron Maiden or Judas Priest, although they should be, such projects are probably too expensive.
      Nonetheless, classic metal heads can't go wrong with this album. Get "Wheels Of Steel/Strong Arm of the Law" on the double CD, too, while you're at it.

      4 out of 5 stars One of their most solid efforts.......2005-09-17

      After two phenomenal albums in 1980, Saxon put out -Denim & Leather- in 1981 and countiued their streak of exellent albums.

      A reviewer could be easily fooled here, there are a mixed bag of postive and negative postings on this NWOBHM classic but don't be decived by those. True, this isn't as good as say -Wheels of Steel-,-Stong Arm of the Law- or even -Power and Glory-, you have to consider the fact that this album was predominantly written on the road. This is still a very good Saxon CD though, i find it to be my personal favorite mainly because of the "heavy metal rules, screw everything else" atmosphere that exudes from it.

      The production is pretty clear for a early 80's rock album, so it's got pretty good sound qaulity wise for a metal record. I find that even thought there are a couple fillers on this one, it's still pretty solid in material. "Princess of the Night", "Play It Loud", "And The Bands Played On", "Midnight Rider" and "Denim & Leather" are the best songs.

      I really love the song "Denim & Leather", it is one of the greatest heavy metal songs ever written. It is a tribute to the fans basically, which i like because shows how these guys loved and appreciated their fans.

      3 out of 5 stars Less then Mediocore,..boy that is bad .......2005-03-05

      First off, I'm a big fan of these guys so i don't want to come off as anti-Saxon or anything like that...

      This album is the weakest of the Saxon albums before they went pop after CRUSADER.The first Saxon song i ever heard was Denim&Leather and i loved it,made me a fan of Saxon in the first place.I could not find this album in the record store when i wanted a Saxon album so i picked up the lone import copy of WHEELS OF STEEL they had. After listening to WHEELS i finally got a copy of DENIM&LEATHER and i was greatly DISSAPOINTED by it. This album is not solid at all, most of the songs are forgettable and weak but ironically it has three of the best saxon songs on it which are "Princess of the Night" "Midnight Rider" and the title track,so it wasn't a complete loss i guess.Other then those hits, the rest of the songs on the album sound like weak b-sides and half done reject material. Songs like "Rough and Ready" "Out of Control" "Play it Loud" and "Never Surrender" sound like they were written by the local drunks at the irish pub. So there you have it, 3 exellent songs and 6 total crap songs, how do you really rate an album like that? I would not recommend this as a first album to get from saxon, it's just a limp,weak record. I would make WHEELS or STRONG ARM OF THE LAW the first ones to get if you want to start with a Saxon record, then after that their best album THE POWER AND THE GLORY and a little bit behind that CRUSADER, which are all stong albums with no weak songs.I think this album was so lacking in good material was because Saxon by this time was getting popular in the U.K. now and were constantly on the road with little down time to actually put real thought in the song writting process. You can tell by the lyrics in some of the songs that this album was rushed, there wasn't much going on in the songwritting department.Thank god they came back after this with the powerful POWER AND GLORY album.

      5 out of 5 stars "Where were you in '79 when the dam began to burst?".......2005-01-04

      Well, I was 5 in '79 but, later, when I first heard this 1981 release by Saxon, I understood why they hit it big and are still going strong (yet underrated). Saxon was part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal that was unleashed on the world in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Formed in 1977, Saxon--as is announced in the track "Denim and Leather"--burst on the scene in 1979 while on tour with Motorhead. Denim and Leather was their 4th album in just three years of putting out studio releases. It starts with "Princess of the Night," an interesting and charming track about an old, obsolete steam locomotive that brought fond memories to one young admirer: "She used to be an iron horse, 20 years ago." It sounds like early Iron Maiden (another of the Brit Metal New Wavers). Although this track and others on here resemble the style of Paul Di'Anno era-Maiden, vocalist Biff Byford sounds so much like Bruce Dickinson on this first track, it's scary! "Princess..." is my favorite song on this album followed by "Out of Control" with its catchy guitar hooks.

      The rest of the album has a blue collar hard rock sound. Fans of early AC/DC and early '80s Judas Priest will like Saxon's rawness and aggression. The title track is an anthem to rock 'n roll that would fit nicely on any AC/DC album of that time. "Play It Loud" is another AC/DC-esque anthem. Saxon may have sounded blue collar, but they also paid attention to details. "Rough and Ready" has some nice vocal harmonizing. "Midnight Rider" is another favorite of mine. It reminds me of the catchy tracks off Judas Priest's Stained Class. There is nothing weak here; every track kicks! Recommended to fans of early 1980s metal during a time when metal was about to be accepted as cool by the record-buying public and well before pop metal bands began to swarm on the music world.
      Strong Arm of the Law/Denim and Leather
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • SAXON AT THEIR ZENITH
      • The Pinnacle of British Heavy Metal
      		 Strong Arm of the Law/Denim and Leather
      Saxon
      Manufacturer: Axe Killer
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B00004U4EE
      Release Date: 2000-11-21

      Tracks:

      1. Heavy Metal Thunder
      2. To Hell and Back Again
      3. Strong Arm of the Law
      4. Taking Your Chances
      5. 20,000 Feet
      6. Hungry Years
      7. Sixth Form Girls
      8. Dallas 1pm
      9. Motorcycle Man [Live][*]
      10. 747 (Strangers in the Night) [Live][*]

      Tracks:

      1. Strong Arm of the Law
      2. Never Surrender
      3. Out of Control
      4. Rough and Ready
      5. Play It Loud
      6. And the Bands Played On
      7. Midnight Rider
      8. Fire in the Sky
      9. Denim and Leather
      10. Rough and Ready [Live][*]
      11. Wheels of Steel [Live][*]

      Album Description

      Digitally remastered reissue of two classic albums from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal act, 'Strong Arm of the Law' (1980) with two live bonus tracks each, 'Motorcycle Man' & '747 (Strangers In The Night)', and 'Denim & Leather' (1981) with 'See The Light Shining' and 'Wheels Of Steel' as bonus tracks. This 2 CD collection is housed in a beautiful 24 page 5' x 5' booklet complete with color pictures, lyrics and liner notes, a must have for collector's of the Brittish Metal scene. 2000 release.

      Album Details

      Two Remastered Picture CDs with a Luxurious 24 Page Black and Silver Booklet with Biography, Lyrics and Exclusive Photos. Plus Four Live Bonus Tracks.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars SAXON AT THEIR ZENITH.......2001-09-21

      Both albuns featured here aare masterpieces of early British hevay metal. Band line-up: Peter (Biff) Byford - vocals; Paul Quinn - guitar; Graham OLiver - guitar; Steve Dawson - b; Pete Gill - drums.

      5 out of 5 stars The Pinnacle of British Heavy Metal.......2001-07-30

      this is very basic heavy metal, but the songs are great. if u liek more complex metal i suggest late 90s saxon. this is early 80s hard rock/metal. its raw and it is the sort of thing that if u heard live would make u headbang so much!!
      Denim and Leather
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • Simple and Great
      • Good followup after "Strong Arm Of The Law"
      • One of their most solid efforts
      • Less then Mediocore,..boy that is bad
      • "Where were you in '79 when the dam began to burst?"
      		 Denim and Leather
      Saxon
      Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000026FX6
      Release Date: 2006-12-19

      Tracks:

      1. Princess Of The Night
      2. Never Surrender
      3. Out Of Control
      4. Rough And Ready
      5. Play It Loud
      6. And The Bands Played On
      7. Midnight Rider
      8. Fire In The Sky
      9. Denim And Leather

      Album Description

      Reissue of this Metal classic by the hard working 'n' Hard Rockin' British band, considered to be one of their best albums. Nine tracks including 'Never Surrender', 'Rough and Ready' and more. EMI.2006.

      Album Details

      Saxon's Album "Denim and Leather" was Released During their 1981 Back-to-back Tours of Britain, Europe and the Us and Retained the High Standard Set by the Previous Two Albums.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Simple and Great.......2007-07-16

      We picked this up in Spain in the eighties and loved it after first listen. There are no virtuoso musicians here, but they way they pull off the songs is superb. This is pure rock and it is as accessible as the music of AC/DC. My favorite track is Denim and Leather, but the rest of the cuts are also good.

      If you are looking for some great solid hard rock, I highly recommend this album. A very underrated band.

      4 out of 5 stars Good followup after "Strong Arm Of The Law".......2006-11-10


      I'm partial to Saxon's third album "Strong Arm Of The Law". It has a pace and energy that highlighted the early part of this great band's career. A followup would be somewhat difficult, as it is any time a band creates a definitive work, but "Denim & Leather" isn't bad at all.
      The opening track "Princess Of The Night" is a Saxon staple. No, it isn't about hookers. Rather, the "Princess" is a fond look back at a famed steam locomotive. Biff Byford has always been able to write crowd pleaser lyrics, like "Play It Loud", with its distinctive AC/DC riff and the title track, but he also excels in more cerebral topics that helped give Saxon a unique place in classic metal. For my money, any rock and roll song about trains is a winner.
      The production could stand remastering, with more guitars up front, but since Saxon is not a world wide legend like Iron Maiden or Judas Priest, although they should be, such projects are probably too expensive.
      Nonetheless, classic metal heads can't go wrong with this album. Get "Wheels Of Steel/Strong Arm of the Law" on the double CD, too, while you're at it.

      4 out of 5 stars One of their most solid efforts.......2005-09-17

      After two phenomenal albums in 1980, Saxon put out -Denim & Leather- in 1981 and countiued their streak of exellent albums.

      A reviewer could be easily fooled here, there are a mixed bag of postive and negative postings on this NWOBHM classic but don't be decived by those. True, this isn't as good as say -Wheels of Steel-,-Stong Arm of the Law- or even -Power and Glory-, you have to consider the fact that this album was predominantly written on the road. This is still a very good Saxon CD though, i find it to be my personal favorite mainly because of the "heavy metal rules, screw everything else" atmosphere that exudes from it.

      The production is pretty clear for a early 80's rock album, so it's got pretty good sound qaulity wise for a metal record. I find that even thought there are a couple fillers on this one, it's still pretty solid in material. "Princess of the Night", "Play It Loud", "And The Bands Played On", "Midnight Rider" and "Denim & Leather" are the best songs.

      I really love the song "Denim & Leather", it is one of the greatest heavy metal songs ever written. It is a tribute to the fans basically, which i like because shows how these guys loved and appreciated their fans.

      3 out of 5 stars Less then Mediocore,..boy that is bad .......2005-03-05

      First off, I'm a big fan of these guys so i don't want to come off as anti-Saxon or anything like that...

      This album is the weakest of the Saxon albums before they went pop after CRUSADER.The first Saxon song i ever heard was Denim&Leather and i loved it,made me a fan of Saxon in the first place.I could not find this album in the record store when i wanted a Saxon album so i picked up the lone import copy of WHEELS OF STEEL they had. After listening to WHEELS i finally got a copy of DENIM&LEATHER and i was greatly DISSAPOINTED by it. This album is not solid at all, most of the songs are forgettable and weak but ironically it has three of the best saxon songs on it which are "Princess of the Night" "Midnight Rider" and the title track,so it wasn't a complete loss i guess.Other then those hits, the rest of the songs on the album sound like weak b-sides and half done reject material. Songs like "Rough and Ready" "Out of Control" "Play it Loud" and "Never Surrender" sound like they were written by the local drunks at the irish pub. So there you have it, 3 exellent songs and 6 total crap songs, how do you really rate an album like that? I would not recommend this as a first album to get from saxon, it's just a limp,weak record. I would make WHEELS or STRONG ARM OF THE LAW the first ones to get if you want to start with a Saxon record, then after that their best album THE POWER AND THE GLORY and a little bit behind that CRUSADER, which are all stong albums with no weak songs.I think this album was so lacking in good material was because Saxon by this time was getting popular in the U.K. now and were constantly on the road with little down time to actually put real thought in the song writting process. You can tell by the lyrics in some of the songs that this album was rushed, there wasn't much going on in the songwritting department.Thank god they came back after this with the powerful POWER AND GLORY album.

      5 out of 5 stars "Where were you in '79 when the dam began to burst?".......2005-01-04

      Well, I was 5 in '79 but, later, when I first heard this 1981 release by Saxon, I understood why they hit it big and are still going strong (yet underrated). Saxon was part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal that was unleashed on the world in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Formed in 1977, Saxon--as is announced in the track "Denim and Leather"--burst on the scene in 1979 while on tour with Motorhead. Denim and Leather was their 4th album in just three years of putting out studio releases. It starts with "Princess of the Night," an interesting and charming track about an old, obsolete steam locomotive that brought fond memories to one young admirer: "She used to be an iron horse, 20 years ago." It sounds like early Iron Maiden (another of the Brit Metal New Wavers). Although this track and others on here resemble the style of Paul Di'Anno era-Maiden, vocalist Biff Byford sounds so much like Bruce Dickinson on this first track, it's scary! "Princess..." is my favorite song on this album followed by "Out of Control" with its catchy guitar hooks.

      The rest of the album has a blue collar hard rock sound. Fans of early AC/DC and early '80s Judas Priest will like Saxon's rawness and aggression. The title track is an anthem to rock 'n roll that would fit nicely on any AC/DC album of that time. "Play It Loud" is another AC/DC-esque anthem. Saxon may have sounded blue collar, but they also paid attention to details. "Rough and Ready" has some nice vocal harmonizing. "Midnight Rider" is another favorite of mine. It reminds me of the catchy tracks off Judas Priest's Stained Class. There is nothing weak here; every track kicks! Recommended to fans of early 1980s metal during a time when metal was about to be accepted as cool by the record-buying public and well before pop metal bands began to swarm on the music world.
      Strong Arm of Law/Denim & Leather
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        		Strong Arm of Law/Denim & Leather
        Saxon
        Manufacturer: Msi Music Corp
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        British MetalBritish Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
        GeneralGeneral | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
        ASIN: B0000DEOPS
        Release Date: 2002-08-29
        Strong Arm of the Law/Denim and Leather
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          		Strong Arm of the Law/Denim and Leather
          Saxon
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          British MetalBritish Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
          GeneralGeneral | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
          Hard Rock & MetalHard Rock & Metal | Imports | Stores | Music
          ASIN: B0001LYEIW
          Release Date: 2004-04-27

          Tracks:

          1. Heavy Metal Thunder
          2. To Hell and Back Again
          3. Strong Arm of the Law
          4. Taking Your Chances
          5. 20,000 Feet
          6. Hungry Years
          7. Sixth Form Girls
          8. Dallas 1pm
          9. Motorcycle Man [Live][*]
          10. 747 (Strangers in the Night) [Live][*]

          Tracks:

          1. Strong Arm of the Law
          2. Never Surrender
          3. Out of Control
          4. Rough and Ready
          5. Play It Loud
          6. And the Bands Played On
          7. Midnight Rider
          8. Fire in the Sky
          9. Denim and Leather
          10. Rough and Ready [Live][*]
          11. Wheels of Steel [Live][*]

          Album Description

          Digitally remastered reissue of two classic albums from theNew Wave of British Heavy Metal act, 'Strong Arm of the Law' (1980) with two live bonus tracks each, 'Motorcycle Man' &'747 (Strangers In The Night)', and 'Denim & Leather' (1981) with 'See The Light Shining' and 'Wheels Of Steel' as bonus tracks. This 2 CD collection is housed in a beautiful 24page 5' x 5' booklet complete with color pictures, lyrics and liner notes, a must have for collector's of the Brittish Metal scene. 2000 release.
          Denim & Leather
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            		Denim & Leather

            Manufacturer: Msi Music Corp
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

            GeneralGeneral | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
            ASIN: B0000DEPJV
            Release Date: 2002-08-29
            Denim and Leather
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              		Denim and Leather
              Saxon
              Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD
              ASIN: B0000DEMMG
              Release Date: 1999-10-25

              Music Review:

              1. Don't Tread
              2. Draconian Times
              3. Early Years [Import]
              4. Enemies of Reality [Enhanced] [Import]
              5. Entangled in Chaos: Live [Live]
              6. Figure Number Five
              7. Flesh Is the Law [Import]
              8. Fool Circle [Original recording remastered] [Import]
              9. Force of Habit
              10. Fourth Dimension

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