SEBASTIAN BACH WAS LEFT KICKING MUD AS SKID ROW KICKED SOME SERIOUS HEAVY METAL ARSE

The album which this song comes off has actually already featured on Lost Treasures around about a year ago, but the last time around, i reviewed the album as a whole and didn't single out a song and post a You Tube clip either. It is a totally full-on thrash metal influenced heavy rock album from a band which started out as a bunch of pop metal pin-up boys in the vein of BON JOVI and the completely overlooked WHITE LION. Teenage heavy metal protege Sebastian Bach changed his vocal approach completely for the second SKID ROW album SLAVE TO THE GRIND, following the band's much more commercial sounding and radio friendly debut in 1988. By 1991 when SLAVE hit the record shelves, Skid Row had gone from being a second generation Bon Jovi band to being very convincing practitioners of thrash metal laced street tough hard rock in the vein of Guns and Roses, only a lot meaner and a lot heavier than GNR. Of of my favourite songs off SLAVE is one which even most fans of Skid Row seemingly decided to overlook, the ferocious and shredding MUDKICKER. Despite the brutality of the rhythm section behind Bach which churns out a monumentally heavy guitar riff and the ultimate in deafening drumbeats, there is a strong dose of satire in the lyrics, which reaches an amusing level in the very last line of the song when Bach finally gives in to his instinct and lets fly with a tongue in cheek expletive. MUDKICKER is certainly in my heavy metal Top 10 of all time.