Extreme

[lfhlaw]

I thought i'd start an Extreme topic, since the only other one I found was a poll about them re-uniting...which well
duh they have and they got a new album coming out.

Saudades of Rock.

Now I've heard the 2 songs on their site, and they seem decent, but still concerned whether this album is gonna
be like...the album

waiting for the punchline or.. more pornograffitti, though that one is gonna be hard to top.

[Irwin M Fletcher]

I thought i'd start an Extreme topic, since the only other one I found was a poll about them re-uniting...which well
duh they have and they got a new album coming out.

Saudades of Rock.

Now I've heard the 2 songs on their site, and they seem decent, but still concerned whether this album is gonna
be like...the album

waiting for the punchline or.. more pornograffitti, though that one is gonna be hard to top.

i just got the new extreme cd and i love it! i would say its similar to WFTP in parts but overall its really good. some great rocking songs and a few slower ones, 1 of which is piano led rather than guitar led. nuno is still an awesum player and gary can still sing with the best of them. IMO he was always better than people like joe elliott or vince neil anyway, but i urge anyone to get the new album. cant wait to see them in nov

[Irwin M Fletcher]

I thought i'd start an Extreme topic, since the only other one I found was a poll about them re-uniting...which well
duh they have and they got a new album coming out.

Saudades of Rock.

Now I've heard the 2 songs on their site, and they seem decent, but still concerned whether this album is gonna
be like...the album

waiting for the punchline or.. more pornograffitti, though that one is gonna be hard to top.

i just got the new extreme cd and i love it! i would say its similar to WFTP in parts but overall its really good. some great rocking songs and a few slower ones, 1 of which is piano led rather than guitar led. nuno is still an awesum player and gary can still sing with the best of them. IMO he was always better than people like joe elliott or vince neil anyway, but i urge anyone to get the new album. cant wait to see them in nov

[mrsromek]

I also have this CD, and I am not all that impressed with it. I was never a huge, huge Extreme fan to begin with, but I was interested in what they would come up with so many years later. I commend them for making new material, and not just doing a tour like many of their counterparts, but I don't know what it is...the tempo of the songs, or Cherone's screaming? I'm not sure.

[Irwin M Fletcher]

I also have this CD, and I am not all that impressed with it. I was never a huge, huge Extreme fan to begin with, but I was interested in what they would come up with so many years later. I commend them for making new material, and not just doing a tour like many of their counterparts, but I don't know what it is...the tempo of the songs, or Cherone's screaming? I'm not sure.

i always respect other people opinions on rock, at least u weren't rude about it, lol. i was a huge extreme fan back in the day when i was a kid, and ive always loved gary cherone but i think they would have got stick no matter what their new cd sounded like. if it was like there early stuff they would get accused of being out of date and if its more modern then they get accused of trying to change to suit the 'ever changing times'. personally ive listened to it about 30 times since last week,lol. but i understand each to their own my friend

[YngwieSchenkersteen]

I also have this CD, and I am not all that impressed with it. I was never a huge, huge Extreme fan to begin with, but I was interested in what they would come up with so many years later. I commend them for making new material, and not just doing a tour like many of their counterparts, but I don't know what it is...the tempo of the songs, or Cherone's screaming? I'm not sure.

i always respect other people opinions on rock, at least u weren't rude about it, lol. i was a huge extreme fan back in the day when i was a kid, and ive always loved gary cherone but i think they would have got stick no matter what their new cd sounded like. if it was like there early stuff they would get accused of being out of date and if its more modern then they get accused of trying to change to suit the 'ever changing times'. personally ive listened to it about 30 times since last week,lol. but i understand each to their own my friend

Was a pretty big fan of them as well in the early nineties. As a college kid living on campus between 1990 and 1992, Extreme was one of those bands that was just immensely popular. Everyone seemed to have their self-titled debut album, and Extreme II Pornograffiti which came out in 1990. "More Than Words" and "Hole Hearted" were the songs everyone knew Extreme for, kind of like everyone knew Mr. Big for the ballad "To Be With You", and everyone knew Firehouse for "Love of a Lifetime" and "Don't Treat Me Bad". The cool thing was that females knew and loved these ballads, but the albums on which one found these ballads were packed with hard-rocking, guitar shredding tunes.

I still have Extreme's debut album and Extreme II Pornograffiti. These are some of my preferred albums, up there with Mr. Big's 1991 album "Lean Into It". I especially like the tune "Do You Wanna Play" and some of the guitar solos from the debut album. Nuno introduces one tune with what I think is a Turkish march, and another with a very melodic, expressive solo.