Producers: Martin Birch
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AllMusic · 3.5 / 5 · · 2026-07-25 09:00:43
MiskamNiretet · 3.5 / 5 · · 2026-04-04 14:55:02
Прощание с британским периодом Белой Змеи
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Domain · 3.5 / 5 · · 2025-09-04 10:51:37
Ozzy Osbourne · 3.5 / 5 · · 2025-07-13 19:31:56
Семён Михайлович · 4.0 / 5 · · 2025-01-03 17:50:49
Лоскот · 4.0 / 5 · · 2024-12-04 20:59:01
Елена · 5.0 / 5 · · 2024-10-19 23:02:06
Елена · 5.0 / 5 · · 2024-10-19 23:02:00
Елена · 5.0 / 5 · · 2024-10-19 23:01:54
Валентин · 3.5 / 5 · · 2024-10-16 15:24:11
Настя · 3.5 / 5 · · 2024-10-10 21:32:41
Voldermort · 3.5 / 5 · · 2024-08-11 11:39:43
MiskamNiretet · 3.5 / 5 · · 2024-01-03 20:50:56
EveryDisc · 3.5 / 5 · · 2021-08-13 09:50:42
The final Goodbye to the times and sound of Stormbringer / Burn.
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EveryDisc · 3.5 / 5 · · 2017-11-24 13:10:27
By the year 80, David Coverdale had fully developed the signature sound of early Whitesnake and took in company to Lord one more shining fragment of Deep Purple in the form of Paice. In the company of the luxurious bassist Neil Murray and the not most brilliant, but high-quality and complementary guitarists Moody and Marsden, he began to rise to the tops of the hit-parades. Saints & Sinners — this is the last stronghold of the classic DP sound. Further, David set off to record platinum albums with the help of Americanization and eightieth-ization of the sound, which in the end resulted in the multi-platinum album of the 1987th. The first side of Saints & sinners consists of concise rockers, reminding of Stormbringer, which is not surprising taking into account the production by Martin Birch, who wrote that very album of the 1974th (+ other discs by DP, Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Iron Maiden), up to Crying in the Rain and Here I Go Again, with which the second side begins. Let us not forget that Whitesnake 1987 was not even in the plans yet, so these are hits precisely from the album of the 82th. Let the "five years later" versions hit the spot, if they hadn't existed, these two compositions in their original blues-rock sound would hardly have been lost in musical space and time. The second side is filled with more filler and simple things for the masses, although Dancing girls is stadium-like and quite cheerful, and in Saints & sinners the riffs are again straight from the 74th. The album hit the Top-10 of Britain, and it was the complete lack of response from the American public that pushed David to radically change the sound. Here I go again, however, became Whitesnake's main hit, rising to the first place on Billboard, but this was again five years later. On Saints & sinners, it, by the way, became the only single that hit the British top, even if it was at the 34th place. Still, I prefer the period of 84-89, the most commercial and hairy, but if you are an adherent of the DP family sound, then this album cannot be missed in any way.
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