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Pride | 
 enlarge | Artist: White Lion
Label: Rhino Flashback
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 9829
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 81768
UPC: 081227992002
EAN: 0081227992002
ASIN: B001AUKUUO
Release Date: July 15, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Hungry | | • | Lonely Nights | | • | Don't Give Up | | • | Sweet Little Loving | | • | Lady of the Valley | | • | Wait | | • | All You Need Is Rock N Roll | | • | Tell Me | | • | All Join Our Hands | | • | When the Children Cry |
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 4.5 for a good 80's original May 23, 2008
This is the sophomore release by White Lion in 1987 and came on the heals of success by Poison, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi and Van Halen. Catchy riffs and great lyrics, good vocals and melodic work help to make this a rather enjoyable work even against today's rock music. Vitto's guitar is stunning!
This contains their major break-throughs and top 10 hit (Wait and When the Children Cry). The latter is adorned as one of the best power ballads ever written. In addition, Lady of the Valley and Tell Me are awesome releases as well. Only a couple tracks otherwise werent top notch and thus the 4.5 rating instead of 5. Lady of the Valley is best in its studio form and needs to be heard here before hearing the various live versions.
If anyone enjoys guitar music, this is a must own. If you enjoy 80 metal music, this is a must own. If you are a White Lion fan, you can not do without. Nothing they wrote before and after compares well to this album except maybe Little Fighter and the cover of Radar Love.
white lion April 15, 2008
White Lion is a great band and I am glad they are releasing a new album. The songs Wait and When the Children Cry from this album are the greatest.
White Lion Snarls and Rips and Roars into MTV Top 40 Land January 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Whether moving from fourth-tier Grand Slamm Productions (where the band undoubtedly did their own --and great -- things) to first-tier Atlantic (where the band was undoubtedly under pressure to break into the Top 40), White Lion's second cd is something of a departure from the true metal ways that got them heard in the first place. The lyrics became strangely adolescent in places, like in "Hungry" where Mike Tramp croons, "Take me to the top tonight . . . tease me like I'm your little child . . . When your love is mine, I'll be feeling fine." Hmmm. "Don't Give Up" is okay, but is just a little too pop for my tastes, and we don't get much more in the lyrics than "Don't give up, don't give up, don't . . ." Well, you get the idea.. Competing now with newer bands like Def Leppard, Black N Blue, Bon Jovi and metal masters that were trying to merge MTV Top 40 with their hard rock origins (bands like KISS and Aerosmith), White Lion truly gave them a reason to pause when "Wait" and "When the Children Cry" practically took over control of MTV air time. They nearly scored triple-threat hat-trick with "Tell Me," but it didn't quite get there. If you like the older version of WL, you've still got "Hungry," "Lady of the Valley," and "All Join Our Hands." And "Sweet Little Loving" is a great song for metal purists in spite of itself. And Vito Bratta never quits doing what he does best: astonishing you with what he can get out of wood, metal strings, and electric circuitry which is, of course, ultimately frightening electricity. But the move here was to a much more pop-oriented sound. And I have to admit that although it was crazy-popular, "When the Children Cry" is a serious-minded, touching song that transcends all genres. And thank goodness we're left with that, because Michael Wagener's production (which basically just gets the job done) and the low points of this cd (like the puke-atrocious, hearty-party-let's-get-drunk song, "All You Need Is Rock N Roll -- which ironically turns out great live) need something to lift it up. All in all, this is a pretty good cd that helped to usher in the 80s hair metal scene and will have you remembering huge hits you thought you'd forgotten. If you're listening to it for the first time, you've unfortunately got to be more Hannah Montana than hard rock to make it stick.
White Lion's Major-Label Debut Is Great November 3, 2007
PRIDE, White Lion's major-label debut, is a great CD. Unlike most 80s metal bands, whose songs were utter nonsense, this band had an intelligence that belied their hairdos. Many of lead singer Mike Tramp's lyrics called for people to be more tolerant of each other, as well as to rise above their circumstances. The fact that Tramp opposes Indonesia's trumped-up 2005 drug-smuggling conviction of a young Australian tourist makes this CD an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience.
 "Wait" is a VERY guilty pleasure--rest of album sucks May 2, 2007
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
The guitar solo in White Lion's "Wait" is a LIMP-WRISTED DINOSAUR. It's a blast of subconscious femininity spewed to the surface by its steel-eyed, steel-toed creator, Italian Long Islander Vito Bratta. Its sweep-picked dips and launches are as fluid as milk on moisturized spine tissue, its bendy hammer-ons as eerily scraped clean of excess noise as a Svenson silencer. It makes the man who was undoubtedly Bratta's greatest influence, Eddie Van Halen, sound like the sloppiest spank maven of all time. Even the opening finger-tapping on "Hot For Teacher" has traces of misplaced pick-induced grit and grime. This solo is more sterilized than a Norwegian maternal ward. It's a major-key lite-toned crystal clear hang-gliding ascent towards hair metal heaven, where all the glammy apostles freely accept the most feminine aspects of their genre, without resorting to horrifically homophobic cover-up a la Sebastian Bach of Skid Row (not even Axl Rose had the gall to don an "AIDS Kills F**s Dead" shirt on live TV). Bratta's solo inadverdently begs all metaldom to embrace the tender and shun the hedonistic.
And why not? After all, the song is one of the most disgustingly sincere metal ballads of all time, with lyrics like "Wait, wait, I never had a chance to love you." Released in 1988, the same year an onslaught of more well-received (yet no more substantive) glam ballads such as "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" and "Don't Know What You Got 'Till It's Gone" hit international airwaves, "Wait" bears a positivity, an angelic wholesomeness, that places it in a slightly different league than its ilk. This song isn't lamenting an affair or love gone bad; its narrator is merely asking his love interest to be a little more patient, and you know from all the triumphant chanting that she'll concede.
White Lion played "gee whiz" metal. They were guilty of all the same glam posturing as their peers; guitarists playing back-to-back, scarf on the mic stand, three members sharing a mic, a singer more splashy than Joan Jett and Uma Thurman's potential love child. What set them apart from the others was their purity, their love of monogamy and harmony. After all, their second single was an ode to those heart-wrenching moments "When The Children Cry." Sex and booze are noticeably missing from their videos. And Bratta's solo, all white-furred lynx preening and cream acrobatics, is a paean all its own, the patron saint of altruistic heavy metal.
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