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 This album is a demonstration that we're still alive and not over the hill.... April 27, 2008
J. Zohn (Vero Beach FL)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I listened to this album the first time tears came to my eyes. I have heard so many hard rock bands attempting to produce something as powerful and intense as they had during their prime like Def Leppard, Queensryche, AC/DC and Robert Plant that I had pretty much given up hope on ever hearing a hard rock album that had the same quality as what was available during the 70s and 80s. Even the music that Whitesnake or should I say David Coverdale has put out since 1987 was average compared to his best albums. I wasn't ever expecting anything great from him again because of an interview in the 90s where he explained that he used to come home so exhausted from trying to put those intense rips in each song for each member of the group and that he is much happier producing softer and more melodic music. All this meant to me is that we won't be hearing any more phenomenal music from David Coverdale. I WAS WRONG!!! This album is as powerful, intense and phenomenal as anything he has put out in the 70s or 80s. Every time I listen to it I feel like thanking him and everyone in this group for creating something I never thought I would hear ever again. He hasn't lost his voice like Robert Plant and Brian Johnson. He has as much fluidity in his voice as he ever has. He has the best throat in hard rock with no rivals. His voice is as husky as ever and he doesn't miss a beat.
If you miss hard rock and wish someone would produce a high quality hard rock album.....THIS IS IT :)
Whitesnake's 2nd Best Album April 27, 2008
Psych O (Texas)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
1987 was an amazing year for commercial hard rock. Guns n' Roses, Def Leppard, and Whitesnake each released a masterpiece during that year. Unfortunately, it was very difficult for those bands to produce follow-up material with matching quality. Whitesnake's latest record, GOOD TO BE BAD, probably would have sold millions of copies had it been released in the 1980s. The only Whitesnake album that is arguably better than GOOD TO BE BAD is their 1987 self-titled masterpiece. GOOD TO BE BAD sounds exactly like other Whitesnake albums from the 1980s. It more than compensates for its lack of originality with extremely high quality. This is an amazing album that doesn't disappoint. Every fan of 1980s Whitesnake will love it. I couldn't stop listening to it.
 Decent but unexceptional May 12, 2008
Gene Kodadek (Alexandria, MN)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
After reading all the glowing reviews I was prepared to be blown away by this album but in fact am feeling a bit underwhelmed. It has it's good points, but it's not the masterpiece I was led to expect.
First the good... this album rocks. Hard. If you want a good kick in the pants first thing in the morning you could do a lot worse than this. The production is decent, although it suffers from the overcompression that's endemic to modern recording. Coverdale's band of hired guns displays superb musicmanship, and as for the man himself... I won't say he sounds as good as he did twenty years ago, but his pipes are still in pretty good shape for all that.
The other side of the coin... the songs are decent. Not much more than that, just decent. They're competently crafted, but they consistently fail to be very memorable or interesting. Anyone who's comparing this to the snake of old has got to be kidding themselves; there isn't a single track on here that I would directly compare musically to the likes of Crying In The Rain, Still Of The Night, or Till The Day I Die. As far as the lyrics are concerned... well, Mr. Coverdale needs to get divorced, start drinking again, and have sex with some random groupies or something. This "happy man deeply in love" crap does not become him at all. He mostly just comes off sounding sappy and a bit retarded.
Overall this is a respectable effort, but in no way is it a second coming. After a decade of silence I expected something downright spectacular.
 "Good to Be Bad" certainly must think that it is May 13, 2008
W. C. White (layton, ut USA)
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Though not a staunch Whitesnake fan, I do like lots of their older stuff and had hoped for at least a few songs that were keepers. I mean, really, when you've had a decade to put pencil to paper you'd think some well written tunes would be on the way. But such is not the case here. All the tracks are just bland, generic R&R that must not have taken long at all to write and crank out at the studio. Not a single keeper in the bunch. This album ranks about the same as the Coverdale-Page attempt (which was really not that good). The claim that this album would spawn classics like "Here I go again" is just laughable. It just doesn't seem that DC put much effort into the whole thing and just went through the motions. "Good To Be Bad" might make for some background noise while you're doing whatever mindless task, but it's not the album you'll want to whip out those expensive Grados for and really listen to.
Whitesnake is back and badder than ever!!!! April 22, 2008
Cross Bee (Carriere, MS United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've only written two other reviews. one was for a very terrible album by another band. The second was for a phenomenal album by another band also.
This time I get to offer a five star rating for a band and an album that deserves it.
Whitesnake....
A revitalized David Coverdale and crew: Doug, Reb, Timothy, Uriah, and Chris!! We'll miss you Tommy.
Good To Be Bad is the perfect album for Mr. Coverdale and his band mates. Every song is a winner.
These guys ROCK!!!!
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