Lost Classic #2

Back with another lost classic from the past.  Something you may know a bit, or are totally unfamilar with...

This one comes from the streets of San Fran in the year 1989...Vain - No Respect.

This one was definitely under the radar for a lot of us. This album gets lumped in what alot of people call "Hair Metal"...sigh...I hate that term.  As I've said in the past...if you were there, at that time, the music that came from that period was Heavy Metal.  Slayer was Metal, and so was this. No, they sound totally different, but it was all part of a bigger scene.  That term came out waaayyy after the fact, and has always pissed me off...rant over.

Back to Vain.  This was their debut, it came probably a few years late, but is a great piece of sleazed up hard rockin' Metal. Think classic Crue doing Guns n' Roses, and you get the picture.  Lots of guitars, great vocals, and a sound you just won't hear today unless it's by some new band that is dreaming they came from the 80's and not 2012.

OK, so maybe there is alot of hair here------>, but the sound that comes from your speakers is straight up 1989 California Metal.  No Respect is quite an achievement for a debut record.  At this point they had graced the cover of a couple of music rags, as well as opened for the mighty G n'R.

The album opens with the gritty Secrets, a nice raw start to the record.  Follow that up with Who's Watching You and single, Beat The Bullet, and you have a killer album filled with attitude and streetwise chops. Deeper tracks like Down For The 3rd Time and Laws Against Love show they should have stood right alongside Skid Row, Tesla and G n'R in terms of sales and support. A super underrated classic from the late 80's that actually signified everything that was right with hard rock at the time.  While many of their peers faded into obscurity with sub par releases, Vain released a excellent album that they can always be proud of.  Here's a clip from the record for my fellow old schoolers.