Ultraphobic

Ultraphobic

Track Listings

1. Undertow

2. Followed

3. Family Picnic

4. Sum of One

5. Chameleon

6. Crawlspace

7. Live Inside of You

8. High

9. Ride #2

10. Ultraphobic

11. Stronger Now

Tracks:

Undertow
Followed
Family Picnic
Sum of One
Chameleon
Crawl Space
Live Inside of You
High
Ride #2
Ultraphobic
Stronger Now

Customer Reviews:

Blurghhhhh.......2006-07-18

I guess i'm one of the Warrant fans who liked the first three albums. After hearing this and Belly To Belly i'm glad they realised they where a hard rock band and no one succeed's in trying to change there musical direction.

The song's on this are far from memorable or classic Warrant tunes. There are songs by Warrant you can hear on the radio or something and say, "hey, that's Warrant!" but this album is, "Who the hell are they, I dont want to know, change it"

If you're a grundge/alternative fan interested in your sad depressing songs of depression and suicide then this album will probably be to your liking, but if you're like me and enjoy the fun song's that showed Warrants real talent, then skip this album and Ultraphobic. You may or may not like Greatest and Latest and Under The Influence, but I'm damn glad the band realised they where hard rock and not this s###.

However on a postive note, not all the songs on this album I hated. I do think "Stronger Now" was classic Warrant writing, but I dont think I will ever like anything else on the album.

Surprisingly Solid!.......2006-04-28

That's right, Warrant! Jani Lane knew it was time to grow up and start making more personal and tighter music and they did just that. They experiment with grunge and also retain their pop metal sound. The first three tracks are a prime example of them crossing over into grunge. Family Picnic, one of the album's finest cuts is their best heavier song they have ever done. Stronger now is easily my favorite here, a delicately and perfectly played acoustic guitars. Jani Lane's voice is also improving with each and every album. You can definitely hear the range on Family Picnic and Sum of One. There are a couple of just OK, but I can listen to every song. Ultraphobic found the median between grunge and pop metal and it is their only truly solid record. Good Job Jani Lane!

An overlooked masterpiece.......2005-07-04

This album is incredible--that's the bottom line. Unfortunately, by the time this disc came out, bands like Warrant were no longer cool. MTV wouldn't dare play a Warrant video, rock radio forgot about them as well, and most casual fans fell by the wayside.

This album was a real departure for Warrant. The cheesy, sing-along ballads and anthemic, everybody-shout-the-chorus tunes were gone (so were the awful, matching white leather outfits, by the way). In fact, the drummer and guitarist were gone, too. But in their place were better players, with much stronger material to work with.

Warrant is realy just one guy: lead singer/songwriter Jani Lane. He's one of the few vocalists of his era that could really sing, and this record is Lane at his finest. Just check out the album closer "Stronger Now" (it's an acoustic ballad with some amazing harmonies). But there are some monstrous songs on here, too. Check out "Undertow" or "Family Picnic." There's not one bad song on here.

If you expect the same glam-metal material of the first 3 albums, this one will surprise you. If you go in with an open mind, this disc will not disappoint.

Warrant - 'Ultraphobic' (CMC International) 2 1/2 stars.......2005-05-02

Better than their 'Live 1886-97' disc(see my review),'Ultraphobia' was their fourth release.Seriously,Warrant never will match the success of their first two CD's.This disc,anyway seems to be a bit bluesy and even a pinch heavier than their three prior offerings.Tunes that may take one by surprise are "Crawl Space","Undertow","Family Pinic" and maybe "Stronger Now".If you liked Warrant's first two lp's,you should get something from this CD.Give it a listen.

A weird departure for Warrant, but a pretty good one...............2005-04-05

Warrant's fourth album, "Ultraphobic"(1995) is a weird departure for Warrant, but it is also a pretty good one.

Around 1992-1993, Warrant found themselves in trouble. While their third record, "Dog Eat Dog" (1992) had gotten them another gold record and had made the charts, sometime after it was released, Warrant's popularity faded out. When it came time for this record, original Warrant guitarist Joey Allen and drummer Steven Sweet had left the band, and Allen found himself replaced by guitarist Rick Steier while Sweet found himself replaced by drummer James Kottak. So, after Warrant had experimented with some grunge material on "Dog Eat Dog", "Ultraphobic" found them becoming a full time grunge band.

Like I already said, this album was a bit of a weird departure for Warrant, but it was also a pretty good one. I would have preferred to see the Down Boys stick with their original roots-but times, people, and music change, and Warrant was just trying to stay up to date with grunge rock, the new kind of popular music that had killed the popularity of all hair bands, with only a few exceptions. The opening track for this album is "Undertow", which lets listeners know that this album will not be anything like D.R.F.S.R. or Cherry Pie, "Family Picnic" is deep and dark, "Sum of One" is the one song on this album that comes the closest to sounding like the original Warrant, while "Stronger Now" is a bit of a country song. I won't give a rundown of every song, but I will also add that "Crawl Space" and "Live Inside Of You" are both grunge rock meets science fiction. Those are good and weird songs,but neither are the weirdest songs that Warrant has ever recorded. That honor goes to "April 2031", a song that appeared on "Dog Eat Dog" about the world ending in-you guessed it, April 2031.

I've always had a lot of respect for Jani Lane as a singer and a songwriter. Lane is my favorite songwriter of the hair band era, and some of his songs tend to tell stories. A great example of just that is track five, "Chameleon". Like another reviewer mentioned a page back, Lane was getting a divorce when this album was being made, and I think that Jani did a good job at releasing the part of him that was sad and the part of him that was mad through some of the songs on here, even though Lane claims that he wrote none of these songs off of his real life experience with his divorce. In the meantime, Rick Steir amd James Kottak are not as good performers as Steven Sweet and Joey Allen are, but they did a good job filling the positions they had to fill.

Give this album a listen. Like I said, I would have preferred to see Warrant stick with their original roots, but they were just in a tough position, and even though they were abandoning songs like "Cherry Pie" and "Heaven" to become a grunge band, they were not trying to be Pearl Jam or Nirvana. And for a band like Warrant, that is a good thing. I know that Warrant has sometimes been referred to as "posers" and sometimes even "sexists", but people like to hear themselves speak, and even though Warrant has not been popular in a long time, they have been referred to as one of the most succesful bands of their era. Just don't ever refer to them as a pop metal band. Ever.

I look forward for the release of their new album that is due out this summer.