Badlands : Badlands

SING ME A 

SWEET SWEET SONG

TURN OUT THE LIGHTS

AND MY LOVE

WILL BURN ON

Badlands

 is the

debut

 studio album

 By

  Badlands 

This album features

 Ray Gillen 

and

 Eric Singer, 

who previously

 played together

 in Black Sabbath. 

This album 

also features

 guitarist

 Jake E. Lee 

and bassist

 Greg Chaisson. 

Singer later played

 on Chaisson's

 solo album

 It's About Time.

 The album had sold 

400,000 copies 

by 1990, 

according to 

Chaisson, 

in a

 Hit Parader 

interview

 from that year.

 It was also ranked

 No. 35

 in Rolling Stone's

 list of 

50 Greatest 

Hair Metal Albums 

of All Time.

The album features

 the song

 "Dreams in the Dark",

 which the group 

released as a 

single 

and

 music video.

Critical Reception

Kirk Blows,

 reviewer of 

British music newspaper 

Music Week, 

named LP as

"accomplished and worthy debut" 

and praised its diversity. 

Billboard called

 this record 

"a collection of 

well-crafted tunes 

that should jump out 

of the radio 

and sound great live."

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