This:
https://youtu.be/MPdhpZxoMHE?is=_Htxjku46XfJ_guW
Is indeed beautiful….
Right?
Truthfully? Not one of DC’s stronger compositions:
- The double-tracked lead vocals sound like bad Schlager and the jaunty melody is banal.
- The Zeppelin’esque strings in the bridge don’t fit at all.
- The chorus sounds stuck on and is again banal.
- The drums are terrible and sound like the drummer really didn’t know what to play.
- The whole song sounds terribly contrived, unorganic and labored, not a natural love song at all when DC was actually quite good at those, but here nothing seems riight.
Sorry! This is more like it though Adrian Vandenberg cannot for the life of him really strum an acoustic guitar in an organic fashion, he overthinks his playing:
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Well Uwe, thank you very much 
I, however, like it very much!
But of course I cannot come with a better analysis than you.
I think Uwe ist right about this song though i like David’s voice…like on the whole Restless Heart album, that was one of the few DC albums my wife liked a lot
I loved DC’s voice when it was still intact and he has written more than a handful of good songs, but this one wasn’t one of his greatest moments. Restless Heart was an album that could not really make up its mind what it wanted to be, but had its moments. I much preferred Into the Light and wished he had continued on that path rather than resurrect the WS circus.
It doesn’t surprise me that your wife liked it:
Restless Hear was Whitesnake’s swan song, a solid, successful bridge between their first and second eras, and far more interesting and mature than Slip of the Tongue.
David was at a point in his career where he was disgusted by what he had done in previous years, and he sought, in some way, to do something more genuine.
I just recently relistened to Into the Light, yes, also a fine album…but it is the circumstamce that makes an album, i remember that it didn’t catch me that much
I agree, the lowpoint for me was a gig of WS around the early naughties were David had his vocals backed by the band…i remember we left after half of the show
By the 2000s, it was already the “David + heavy metal snake” era,
in my opinion, the absolute low point and an unfathomable phase of his career,
especially coming after Restless Heart and Starkers in Tokyo, where it seemed like there was a sort of return to his roots.
Restless Heart was the first Whitesnake album I’d bought since 1983. Into to the Light showed DC had a career beyond 'Snake. Sadly Record Labels and Promotors had other ideas.
The only time I saw DC or 'Snake live was on the RH tour and I thought it was a very good show. We even got bits of Mistreated and Soldier of Fortune.
Gentlemen, This:
https://youtu.be/CD-E-LDc384?is=pzWgAHJ9HEMv597D
I have been waken up to this, this morgen!
What do you think?
I think it’s Metallica.
Wasn’t your hubby the Metallica fan in the family? What happened?
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He is indeed Uwe, and I am not….
I just wanted to know your opinions
Listened to Metallica quite a lot when my son was in his teens, been to a show once with him and laughed my ass off when the front row Kids started running in circles…was that called moshpit dance?
I only saw Metallica once, on that tour shortly after Cliff Burton had tragically died with Jason Newsted. My memory is that Jason, fresh in the band, had huge issues keeping time with Metallica’s then aural onslaught and speed barrages music. If you’re gonna play that ultrafast stuff, you better be hellishly precise - like John McCoy was with GILLAN - and Jason struggled. He was all over the place and combined with the Little Dane’s cluttered drumming it sounded in places like someone had kicked over a t(h)rash can. 
Of course he grew much better over time.
For lack of a better word Metallica are a bit too corporate for me, I guess they are the new Led Zeppelin in that way, to really like them. But I respect their persistence and longevity plus the gift to have taken a niche music like thrash metal into the mainstream. They are what Bon Jovi is to AOR or Depeche Mode to electronic pop, they outlasted all their peers in public popularity. No mean feat.
Their music neither aggravates nor excites me. It’s a bit clumsy and hamfisted, but I understand they want it that way. I don’t find it very memorable, but in fairness I spend too little time with it. I buy Metallica albums like I buy U2 albums, out of curiosity what they are doing now. After a few spins any new release by them gets filed and I never listen to it again.
If someone gave me a ticket for free, I’d go see them out of keen anthropological interest.
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Thank you Uwe 
I appreciate your comment!
The comparison to Bon Jovi or Depeche Mode is apt.
I actually consider Metallica to be much more structured and polished than other thrash metal bands, and they helped create a specific type of compositional structure within thrash that became the genre’s ABCs.
I respect the longevity of Metallica, yet the compositions are mostly to heavy for my taste…and Hetfield’s voice lacks…timbre, expression, he doesn’t get me hooked
He’s a very limited singer alright, always that same bellow. About as flexible as Chad Kroeger.
But they have their committed fans.
Hetfield’s voice matured during the Load/Reload era, and on Garage Inc. he delivers performances marked by great interpretative depth.
Listen to tracks like “Turn the Page,” “Astronomy,” and “Whiskey in the Jar,” where—in my opinion—Metallica manage to create covers that are better than the originals (yes, even better than BoC’s!), and Hetfield proves he has a great voice for delivering intense, emotionally charged performances.
When Metallica play “just” hard rock, they do it damn well!