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Summary: Plese Read
Comment: Interesting. Hair metal gone....hard rock? Stryper, known well as a poppy glam metal band, reinvented themselves here, to the dismay of fans. They also changed their lyrics, to the shock of even more. In all honesty, though, actually listening to the album shows it to be their best musically (unless you're just a big pop-metal fan), and the lyrics are quite good at times. However, sometimes their just....sorry, rolling on the floor laughing here. SAY CHEE-EESE! Seriously though, there are some good songs here: Two Bodies, Caught In The Middle, All For One, Lady, and especially the cover of Shining Star by Earth Wind Fire, which is so bizarrely wonderful I have trouble explaining it. If you don't want to shell out the cash for the CD, just get those songs. If you want a hard copy, there's an older edition somewhere on the site with a blue cover (I've got that one) that might be a little less expensive.
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Summary: Stryper against the law
Comment: This cd needs more harmony like the album, In God We Trust. It's too boring for me.
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Summary: Stryper - Against the Law
Comment: "Against the Law" (1990) is the sixth album from Christian glam metal band Stryper, and their last until they reunited in 2005. Here, Stryper is trying to move away from their 1980s glam metal image: the spandex is gone, the music is harder and edgier, and the Christian elements are much less overt.
It doesn't quite work. The album is decent enough, but the songs don't have quite the same pizazz as those from previous releases. There's nothing horrible here, but not much here is particularly memorable. Highlights include "Two Time Woman" and a cover of Earth, Wind and Fire's "Shining Star".
On the whole, this is a decent, unspectacular album from a band that was very clearly on its way out.
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Summary: Stryper Right Here Right Now
Comment: This is Stryper right here right now, their only 90s album that sees them much heavier and in your face than their radio friendly 80s period. This is somwhere in between their glam rock early period and the more indulstrial sounds of reborn. I like Stryper's earlier stuff too it's very solid and radio friendly and Reborn is a cooler industrial strength version of Stryper. But here they are right here right now as a Pantera like rock band without the spandex and bleached hair, which was taken by some as an abandonment of their Christian beliefs. In reality, heavy metal music was still popular, but the spandex, makeup and bleached hair were passe as Stryper had virtually every 80s cliche in the book. In order to be taken seriously they had to abandon their Christian lyrics and make their music a lot heavier. I had heard of this album it had a cult following, that basically the band had broken up die to record company politics, they were no longer considered cool by the 90s breed of metal fans and moreso those who were still stuck in the 80s. Those who would give this CD less than 3 stars for supposed Christian abandonment in Stryper need to first realize that anything 80s wasn't cool in the 90s and most of the 90s was spent making fun of the 80s. And you wanted something right here right now and right here right now you want to be rich, so the spandex glam rock had to go. Record company politics plus the 90s influence. IMO this is their best album and Reborn sounds fresh even a couple years after its release.
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Summary: Rocking for (The?) Rock
Comment: At first I was very disappointed when I heard this album. It seemed that the only good songs (Lady, Shining Star, All for One) I had already heard. There was no clear message. This wouldn't have to be Stryper which made the lyrics. I would say that musically and lyrically this is near Def Leppard - I mean "Rock of Ages", "Pour Some Sugar on Me" etc. How could this be happen after four great albums? I really was diappointed. However, I decided to listen to this album again and again. And somewhere after 5 listenings the all seems to work. So what if there's not the word "Jesus" in every song? There's some great songs that will "rock the hell out of you". The title track, Two Time Woman, rock the People, Two Bodies (One Mind One Soul), Caught in the Middle are excellent songs. I'm sure that many Stryper fans will like it if they give it a chance. It's not a classic album but still an excellent album.
Stars: All for One, Lady
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