NOTES :
With This I Made It A
"DELUXE"
The First CD
Is The Same
Just Changed
The Art Work
The Second CD Is
Bonus Tracks From
The Reissue And
The Bonus Tracks
From The Box Set
With Some Live Tracks
Thrown In !!
Big Game
is the
third
studio album
by the
American
Glam Metal band
It was released on
June 5, 1989,
by Atlantic Records,
The album contains
The MTV hits,
"Little Fighter",
"Radar Love"
and
"Cry for Freedom".
This album has a
lighter sound
than previous albums.
Overview
In the first half of 1989,
still riding high on the
multi platinum
success of
Pride,
White Lion
re-entered the studio
following the completion
of their
Pride tour
to record the next album,
a decision the group
later came to regret
due to the effects
of fatigue from
the heavy touring.
A musically eclectic
follow-up to
Pride,
the album featured
the single
"Little Fighter",
in Memory of
The Rainbow Warrior,
a Greenpeace boat
which was
intentionally sabotaged
and sunk by
the French Secret Service
while docked in an
Auckland harbour,
New Zealand in 1985
and served as
the inspiration for
the Steven Seagal film
On Deadly Ground.
In 1989,
a fundraising
double album
was released entitled
"Greenpeace Rainbow Warriors".
A cover of
Golden Earring's
"Radar Love"
was released as
the second single,
followed by
"Cry for Freedom"
a political song
about apartheid in
South Africa
and was one
of many songs
from the band
that addressed
social or political issues
such as uprising
to oppression.
"Goin' Home Tonight"
was also released
as a single.
All of the singles
featured music videos
and the album
quickly went gold,
peaking at #19
on the
US album charts
and charting
very well
around the world.
Following the
album's release
the band continued
touring with
Ozzy Osbourne
in US,
and later in
the fall of 1989
they had their own
headline tour in Europe.
Mike Tramp
has later told in interviews
that he thinks
the album was
"half-finished".
He and guitarist
Vito Bratta
wrote the album
over two weeks
in a Palm Springs
hotel room
and soon recorded
the album quickly.
It was a decision
they have regretted,
but they were inexperienced
and felt pressure
from the record company
at that point.
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