Released: 2006
One of these days I'll get around to reviewing the first Brides of Destruction album Here Come the Brides, which came as a complete surprise to me. This combination of punk rock attitude and spitfire sleaze rock was over too soon but left other 80s stars making comebacks lying bleeding in its wake and remains one of the few albums I have in its entirety on my iPod. Afterwards, Nikki Sixx went back to the circus that is Motley Crue and while he left the Brides a bunch of songs they really weren’t able to recover. I asked a friend what this was like and was told it was a disappointment, but I didn't know how much of a disappointment that would be until I managed to get a copy.
Runaway Brides misfires to about the same degree Here Come the Brides went off. The songwriting isn’t quite there, the production is slicker and more commercial, thereby taking away the street-level edge the band had before, and both Tracii Guns and London LeGrande seem far more restrained. LeGrande’s vocal dexterity and Guns’ blazing lead guitar were part of what made the debut album cook, but here it sounds like someone told them they should stop having such a great time. LeGrande actually sounds terrible on this, leaving me to wonder whether his performance on the first album was some kind of lucky fluke. There are five more songs here than on the debut, which gives it the running time of a complete album but as none of them are actually memorable it hardly seems worth the effort. Even the ones Nikki co-wrote are simply forgettable.
Tracii Guns has always managed to just miss the boat when it comes to real success and with Runaway Brides it he did it again. BoD pretty much came to a halt after this, which was a real shame, because the first album was awesome.
- Aunt Biente
- Lords of the Mind
- Deadman's Ruin
- Criminal
- This Time Around
- White Trash
- Brothers
- Never Say Never
- Blown Away
- Porcelain Queen
- White Horse
- Tunnel of Love
- Dimes in Heaven
Rating: 25%
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