Reviews by Gator Available by Request

First Post June 03, 2026 04:55 PM

Pretty much what the title indicates. If you want my take on something post it here and I'll work my way through them over time. 
I want to be more involved again but I'm just kind of stuck in retreading things I already know, or things that have already been done to death. Give me them personal albums, be it stuff you love or stuff you hate, whatever you want my take on. Tell me what it means to you and such. 

June 03, 2026 05:13 PM

OK, Zach, I would love your take on my all-time favourite, an album that touches me very deeply and which resonates on a level I don't really experience with much else and that is Warning's "Watching From A Distance".

https://metal.academy/releases/1070



June 03, 2026 05:49 PM

I'm on it. In the meantime I wrote a comment on your WASP review you might check out.

June 03, 2026 07:42 PM


I'm on it. In the meantime I wrote a comment on your WASP review you might check out.

Quoted Gator

Thanks, Zach. Yeah, as I say in the review, I was also a big admirer of Dee Snider and Twisted Sister. I still have the Ruff Cutts 12" EP that I bought when it came out. Thanks to my first wife's sister again, I did see TS also and Dee Snider was even more impressive a frontman than Blackie. I don't think I had ever heard as much profanity at a live show either before or since!!

Another confession - I also have the first Faster Pussycat album which I bought because they used to play a few tracks off it at The Highwayman, the rock club I used to frequent in the 80s and I got quite into it.

My favourite glam metal track is actually "My Number" from UK band, Girl, which was a really popular number at the aforementioned rock club. I may still even have the original 7" single somewhere unless my first missus took it when we split up. Have you ever heard it, Zach?


June 03, 2026 07:44 PM


Warning-Watching from a Distance by Gator.

Quoted Gator

Nice review, man. I am glad you enjoyed it. Had you heard it before?


June 03, 2026 07:50 PM

I think I had heard songs from it on big Doom Metal lists, but never the full concept realized.

I'm currently working on a "dark, heavy, sleazy glam" Playlist. I'll check out that single and might put it on there.