Black 'N Blue - Black 'N Blue (1984) (Japan Edition 1994)
Posted: 20 Nov 2025, 11:27
Black 'N Blue - Black 'N Blue (1984) (Japan Edition 1994)
Year : 1984 (Japan Edition 1994)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , Glam Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 99 mb
Bio:
Black 'N Blue are 80’s hard rockers who released four successful and critically acclaimed albums through Geffen Records including their self-titled debut (1984), “Without Love” (1985), “Nasty Nasty” (1986), and “In Heat” (1987), with the latter two albums produced by the legendary Gene Simmons of KISS. The band, which featured Jaime St. James (vocals), Tommy Thayer (lead guitar), Jef Woop Warner (guitar), Patrick Young (bass), and Pete Holmes (drums), started in Portland, OR as a group of friends that came together to make their mark on 80’s hard rock. The band eventually relocated to Los Angeles and was signed to Geffen Records.Black ‘N Blue would go on to sell over a million albums throughout their tenure in the 80’s. The band scored a hit single in “Hold On To 18” (which was featured on the group’s first release), a track that is widely known as a hard rock classic and still has airplay on stations across the country. In addition....•Over 1 million albums sold worldwide •3 MTV Videos •3 Top 100 Billboard Hits •4 Top 200 Billboard Albums •One of Hit Parader’s Top New Artists of the Year 1984 •Toured with Aerosmith, Kiss, Night Ranger, Dio, Whitesnake, Queensryche, Lita Ford & more! •4 Radio singles.After the band's breakup in 1989 many of the former band members took on different projects.In 1997, all five Original Members of Black 'N Blue reunited to perform a one-night live performance on Halloween night. This gig ended up being a sold-out show, and it was recorded and released as a live album, entitled One Night Only: Live. The show was a one-time affair, and no further touring followed.In 2001, following the release of a Greatest Hits compilation (The Ultimate Collection), the band released the album The Demos Remastered: Anthology 1 under the label Crazy Planet. This album contained demos of some of Black 'N Blue's most popular hits, including 5 unreleased tracks and a live version of the song "Autoblast". Meanwhile, in the ensuing interim period, the band released Rarities, an album which included remakes of a few of their hits, but mostly consisted of many unreleased demos, including some that were not included on the Demos Remastered: Anthology 1 release.In early 2003, vocalist Jaime St. James reformed Black ‘N Blue. Along with St. James, original members Warner and Young began recording a new album titled Hell Yeah (this time without Thayer, who was performing lead guitar duties for Kiss at the time) Shawn Sonnenschein was the new lead guitarist to be featured on the album in Thayer's place. The album was initially scheduled to be released in September 2003, but the release date was pushed back on several occasions. In 2004, Jaime St. James became the new front man and lead singer for Warrant and later left Warrant in 2008.In the summer of 2008, Black 'N Blue formally reunited to play at Rocklahoma and also back into the studio to finish the “Hell Yeah!” release. Their latest release is described as “classic” Black ‘N Blue as heard on the group’s original recordings.Skullfest October 2013 show marked the debut of new guitarist Brandon Cook, who replaced Jeff "Woop" Warner.
Album:
Black 'N Blue is the debut studio album by American glam metal band Black 'n Blue, released in 1984.The album includes the band's only song to chart as a single, Hold On to 18. In 2015, the album was ranked 28th at Rolling Stone's "50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time".The track "Chains Around Heaven" had previously appeared on both the second and third pressings of the compilation album Metal Massacre (1982).The album starts off with two anthems in “The Strong Will Rock” and “School Of Hard Knocks”. As I said, the band quickly establishes itself in terms of rocking out but neither song really got me overly excited. The majority of the songs on the album were written by singer Jaime St. James and Tommy Thayer (guitarist Jeff Warner, bassist Patrick Young and drummer Pete Holmes received a single co-writing credit each) so any issues I have with the overall quality of the individual tracks would be laid at their feet.It was the song “Autoblast” that first got my attention. It come out firing fast and furious and really caught my ear. The band followed that one up with “Hold On To 18”, which has the distinction of being the only song that enjoyed any success as a single. When I heard it, it was instantly memorable but I couldn’t tell you where I’ve heard it before because I never owned this album in the past. Still, it is a pretty good and it was the song that started to turn my opinion around regarding the album as a whole.The song “Wicked Bitch” closed out the first side of the cassette and it was a very hard rocking number.Side two of the album opened with a cover of the Sweet song “Action”. It was also the first of four songs in a row where the shouted choruses (featuring the song title, of course) really worked better for me than on side one.The album really had nothing in the way of soft balladry with Black ‘N Blue instead focusing their energy crafting volume driven rockers. I wasn’t crazy about “I’m The King” or the closing song “Chains Around Heaven” but “Show Me The Night” and “One For The Money” were pretty good.Look, Black ‘N Blue is always going to be best known for being the band from which both St. James and Thayer went on to bigger and better bands/things. That’s just immutable truth. But while this is definitely a look at the band in their musical infancy, it does have some pretty special moments threaded throughout the album. It won’t be remembered as a great album, but for those music fans who like the idea of listening to a band’s entire discography as a means of doing musical genealogy, it gives you a raw and somewhat unrefined look at where the band started out from.The album was produced by Dieter Dierks who is probably best known for his longtime association with the Scorpions and for his work with Accept as well.
Line-Up:
Jaime St. James – lead and backing vocals
Tommy Thayer – lead guitar, backing vocals
Jeff "Woop" Warner – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Patrick Young – bass, backing vocals
Pete Holmes – drums
Production:
Recorded At – Dierks Studios
Mastered At – Artisan Sound Recorders
Mastered At – Sheffield Lab Matrix
Mixed At – Dierks Studios
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – The David Geffen Company
Copyright © – The David Geffen Company
Produced For – Breeze Music
Art Direction, Design – Vigon Seireeni
Coordinator [Production] – Elaine Black, Roz Schrank
Engineer – Gerd Rautenbach
Illustration – Stan Watts
Liner Notes – 伊藤政則*
Liner Notes [対訳] – 武内 邦愛
Management – "Garo" Gary Tashjian
Management [Contact] – Peter Logan
Mastered By [Originally] – Greg Fulginiti
Other [Stylist] – Dieter Dierks
Photography By – Neil Zlozower, Ross Halfin
Producer – Dieter Dierks
Tracklist:
01. The Strong Will Rock (4:06)
02. School Of Hard Knocks (3:58)
03. Autoblast (3:53)
04. Hold On To 18 (4:13)
05. Wicked Bitch (4:18)
06. Action (Sweet cover) (3:36)
07. Show Me The Night (4:02)
08. One For The Money (4:19)
09. I'm The King (3:42)
10. Chains Around Heaven (4:01)
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/
Year : 1984 (Japan Edition 1994)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , Glam Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 99 mb
Bio:
Black 'N Blue are 80’s hard rockers who released four successful and critically acclaimed albums through Geffen Records including their self-titled debut (1984), “Without Love” (1985), “Nasty Nasty” (1986), and “In Heat” (1987), with the latter two albums produced by the legendary Gene Simmons of KISS. The band, which featured Jaime St. James (vocals), Tommy Thayer (lead guitar), Jef Woop Warner (guitar), Patrick Young (bass), and Pete Holmes (drums), started in Portland, OR as a group of friends that came together to make their mark on 80’s hard rock. The band eventually relocated to Los Angeles and was signed to Geffen Records.Black ‘N Blue would go on to sell over a million albums throughout their tenure in the 80’s. The band scored a hit single in “Hold On To 18” (which was featured on the group’s first release), a track that is widely known as a hard rock classic and still has airplay on stations across the country. In addition....•Over 1 million albums sold worldwide •3 MTV Videos •3 Top 100 Billboard Hits •4 Top 200 Billboard Albums •One of Hit Parader’s Top New Artists of the Year 1984 •Toured with Aerosmith, Kiss, Night Ranger, Dio, Whitesnake, Queensryche, Lita Ford & more! •4 Radio singles.After the band's breakup in 1989 many of the former band members took on different projects.In 1997, all five Original Members of Black 'N Blue reunited to perform a one-night live performance on Halloween night. This gig ended up being a sold-out show, and it was recorded and released as a live album, entitled One Night Only: Live. The show was a one-time affair, and no further touring followed.In 2001, following the release of a Greatest Hits compilation (The Ultimate Collection), the band released the album The Demos Remastered: Anthology 1 under the label Crazy Planet. This album contained demos of some of Black 'N Blue's most popular hits, including 5 unreleased tracks and a live version of the song "Autoblast". Meanwhile, in the ensuing interim period, the band released Rarities, an album which included remakes of a few of their hits, but mostly consisted of many unreleased demos, including some that were not included on the Demos Remastered: Anthology 1 release.In early 2003, vocalist Jaime St. James reformed Black ‘N Blue. Along with St. James, original members Warner and Young began recording a new album titled Hell Yeah (this time without Thayer, who was performing lead guitar duties for Kiss at the time) Shawn Sonnenschein was the new lead guitarist to be featured on the album in Thayer's place. The album was initially scheduled to be released in September 2003, but the release date was pushed back on several occasions. In 2004, Jaime St. James became the new front man and lead singer for Warrant and later left Warrant in 2008.In the summer of 2008, Black 'N Blue formally reunited to play at Rocklahoma and also back into the studio to finish the “Hell Yeah!” release. Their latest release is described as “classic” Black ‘N Blue as heard on the group’s original recordings.Skullfest October 2013 show marked the debut of new guitarist Brandon Cook, who replaced Jeff "Woop" Warner.
Album:
Black 'N Blue is the debut studio album by American glam metal band Black 'n Blue, released in 1984.The album includes the band's only song to chart as a single, Hold On to 18. In 2015, the album was ranked 28th at Rolling Stone's "50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time".The track "Chains Around Heaven" had previously appeared on both the second and third pressings of the compilation album Metal Massacre (1982).The album starts off with two anthems in “The Strong Will Rock” and “School Of Hard Knocks”. As I said, the band quickly establishes itself in terms of rocking out but neither song really got me overly excited. The majority of the songs on the album were written by singer Jaime St. James and Tommy Thayer (guitarist Jeff Warner, bassist Patrick Young and drummer Pete Holmes received a single co-writing credit each) so any issues I have with the overall quality of the individual tracks would be laid at their feet.It was the song “Autoblast” that first got my attention. It come out firing fast and furious and really caught my ear. The band followed that one up with “Hold On To 18”, which has the distinction of being the only song that enjoyed any success as a single. When I heard it, it was instantly memorable but I couldn’t tell you where I’ve heard it before because I never owned this album in the past. Still, it is a pretty good and it was the song that started to turn my opinion around regarding the album as a whole.The song “Wicked Bitch” closed out the first side of the cassette and it was a very hard rocking number.Side two of the album opened with a cover of the Sweet song “Action”. It was also the first of four songs in a row where the shouted choruses (featuring the song title, of course) really worked better for me than on side one.The album really had nothing in the way of soft balladry with Black ‘N Blue instead focusing their energy crafting volume driven rockers. I wasn’t crazy about “I’m The King” or the closing song “Chains Around Heaven” but “Show Me The Night” and “One For The Money” were pretty good.Look, Black ‘N Blue is always going to be best known for being the band from which both St. James and Thayer went on to bigger and better bands/things. That’s just immutable truth. But while this is definitely a look at the band in their musical infancy, it does have some pretty special moments threaded throughout the album. It won’t be remembered as a great album, but for those music fans who like the idea of listening to a band’s entire discography as a means of doing musical genealogy, it gives you a raw and somewhat unrefined look at where the band started out from.The album was produced by Dieter Dierks who is probably best known for his longtime association with the Scorpions and for his work with Accept as well.
Line-Up:
Jaime St. James – lead and backing vocals
Tommy Thayer – lead guitar, backing vocals
Jeff "Woop" Warner – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Patrick Young – bass, backing vocals
Pete Holmes – drums
Production:
Recorded At – Dierks Studios
Mastered At – Artisan Sound Recorders
Mastered At – Sheffield Lab Matrix
Mixed At – Dierks Studios
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – The David Geffen Company
Copyright © – The David Geffen Company
Produced For – Breeze Music
Art Direction, Design – Vigon Seireeni
Coordinator [Production] – Elaine Black, Roz Schrank
Engineer – Gerd Rautenbach
Illustration – Stan Watts
Liner Notes – 伊藤政則*
Liner Notes [対訳] – 武内 邦愛
Management – "Garo" Gary Tashjian
Management [Contact] – Peter Logan
Mastered By [Originally] – Greg Fulginiti
Other [Stylist] – Dieter Dierks
Photography By – Neil Zlozower, Ross Halfin
Producer – Dieter Dierks
Tracklist:
01. The Strong Will Rock (4:06)
02. School Of Hard Knocks (3:58)
03. Autoblast (3:53)
04. Hold On To 18 (4:13)
05. Wicked Bitch (4:18)
06. Action (Sweet cover) (3:36)
07. Show Me The Night (4:02)
08. One For The Money (4:19)
09. I'm The King (3:42)
10. Chains Around Heaven (4:01)
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/