Description
Us pressing with printed innersleeve
An electrifying stew of hard rock, biker rock, Southern rock, and keyboard rock (we’re talking 1983 after all), Nemesis may easily be Axe’s defining statement: The band wants nothing more than air wave domination and to come into your town to help you party down. Ripped opener ‘Heat in the Street’ bears a similar title to ‘Rock N Roll Party in the Streets’, Axe’s biggest-ever hit from their previous offering, ‘Offering’, yet despite the obvious leitmotif, nothing can touch this red-hot, hard luck, fugitive tale which takes every right turn while crashing and burning in a league with the immortal Motorhead; Axe is always geared for the radio, though, throwing in keys and vocoder for a walloping slab of two-ton American rock. ‘Eagle Flies Alone’ soars skyward as endearingly as fellow knuckle-head Sammy Hagar’s ‘Eagles Fly’, only Axe kicks it out four years earlier. Axe also beats the Crue to bat with the lascivious ‘Girls Girls Girls’ (backing vocals by the Mountain Jack Sluggettes). ‘Foolin Your Mama Again’ sneaks around a melodic outlaw chorus, and the hard-working Edgar Winter boogie, ‘Keep Playing That Rock ‘n’ Roll’ is still another great, innocuous burner. The boys prove to be utterly fearless and amiable, forcing keys on guitars while swerving through a blissful riot of cliched lyrics. ‘Masquerade’ almost ends the album on a slow ride (replete with a cell-phone ring?) before the drop-dead pounder ‘Midnight’ fires things up again. Contrary to the intimidating cover art, Nemesis remains naughty but slick, heavy but friendly; nothing more than well-done, blue collar fun. During the tour for this album, with Motley Crue, Michael Osborne and Bobby Barth had a car accident that took Osborne’s life and injured Barth badly. The band split up and reunited first in the early 90’s.
Track list:
1. Heat In The Night
2. Young Hearts
3. All Through The Night
4. I Think You’ll Remember Tonight
5. Shes Had The Power
6. Girls, Girls, Girls
7. Eagle Flies Alone
8. Keep Playing That Rock N Roll-Edgar Winter cover
9. Foolin Your Mama Again
10. Let the Music Come Back
11. Masquerade