Lita Ford-Dangerous Curves
My respect for her as an artist is huge. In the testosterone filled world of 80's hair metal, she stood out there as the dominant female artist. Hopefully, she gained the respect of everyone not because she was a female, but because she was outstanding. Her guitar work was great, her songs were great, her refusal to be dismissed as just a "female performer" in a male dominated industry was great-in other words, she deserves her title as legendary.
This is my favorite album of hers, because I love the songs "Shot of Poison" and "Playin' with Fire". Both are certainly hair band anthems and are correctly viewed as one of the final great hair band songs before grunge took over. This entire album is like that really. It was 1991 and music was about to change. So the final hair band albums from the very early 90's are like your favorite boxer winning one last fight before he starts to be realize his career his basically over. Not saying that about Lita Ford-she would go on to several other albums-but her hair band era was completed with this album.
It's worth a total download, but the two songs I mentioned are clearly the best.
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