Released on 26 June 1989 "Bad English" is the debut studio album by British/American rock band Bad English, the album was a massive success, due to its singles, especially the No. 1 smash hit "When i See You Smile", and the two top 40 hits "Price Of Love" & "Posession", the album spawned another three singles "Don't Walk Away", "Forget Me Not" & "Heaven Is A 4 Letter Word".
Bad English was a combination of several acts, three of the band members already played together in band called The Babys in the 1970s, then the keyboardist Jonathan Cain joined Journey and John Waite started a succesful solo-career, back in 1988 when Journey reached an indefinite hiatus and John Waite wanted to be in a band again, both parts decided to reunite, also they call Neal Schon from Journey and added the drummer Deen Castronovo, and Bad English was born, many people considered the band as a one hit wonder, actually is not like that, they released a bunch of singles still well-remembered until now, back in 1989 they were huge and massive with their singles and videos all over.
The album had full of enough hard driving rock and roll with power chords to please any AOR fan, the album opened with "Best Of What I Got", great opener, bluesy and bombastic with a rhythm section so intense, a hell of track that plays durint the closing credits of the 1989's film "Tango & Cash", next is "Heaven Is A 4 Letter Word", cool riff and guitar solo, with a pretty good sing.alone and chorus line, a pretty good song to jam it, "Possesion" a killer ballad, certainly this band knows how to do it and this is a finest example of it, cool song, melodies, chorus, arrangement, guitar solo and vocal, "Forget Me Not" another cool song with certain heavier sound, one of the album's highlights and absolutelly and 80's banger back then, a curious song based on the Anne Rice books, so the story goes about the vampire trilogies, alright now we have "When I See You Smile" the big single, a timeless power ballad with a Neal Schon great guitar solo with fine and lovely lyrics, now this is a timeless epic power ballad, "Tough Times Don't Last" a rock tune here with a fine intro, the band really rocks here, with chorus and melodies fantastic, a big guitar solo and a fina arragement of the verse, a fine quality track and one of the John Waite's best work here.
Now we go with "Ghost In Your Heart" great bass melodies and cool solo, an eerie sounding intro with a reverb-filled drum, cool song by the way, another cool tune "Price Of Love" you can clearly see and hear that Bad English is not a one hit wonder band, this track managed to reach No. 5 another killer ballad, a brilliant song, not the same way as "When I See You Smile", this sounds different, remember the video with Waite travelling on the top of a bus around the city, a cool great song with John And Neal killing the fades out, "Ready When You Are", now this is a a filler, not so bad it all but not enough powered as the coolest songs on the set, "Lay Down" was the B-side of "Heaven Is A 4 Letter Word", another filler despite it has a great solo, "The Restless Ones", a great hidden gem, the band really knows how the play here, a beautiful perfect song and one of John Waite's finest as a singer, "Rockin' Horse", had a cool riff, bass line and vocal, the band were on fire here, and finally "Don't Walk Away" a clean electric guitar to change some things here, a fantastic production and arragement, with a heavy vocal here.
The critics were fine, considered the best AOR album of the past six months back then, cool rock and roll power chords and great vocals here, a well-balanced, solid, melodic, hard rock with a band at their best with enough quality hooks, a fine way to end of an era, with some decen hard rock here.
Bad English Track List:
1. Best Of What I Got
2. Heaven Is A 4 Letter Word
3. Possesion
4. Forget Me Not
5. When I See You Smile
6. Tough Times Don't Last
7. Ghost In Your Heart
8. Price Of Love
9. Ready When You Are
10. Lay Down
11. The Restless Ones
12. Rockin' Horse
13. Don't Walk Away
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