Tora Tora Wild America CD United Kingdom

Wild America Music

Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Contemporary Blues, Hard Rock
Label	Lemon Recordings
Orig Year	1992
All Time Sales Rank	87459
CD Universe Part number	6922739
Catalog number	75
Discs	1
Release Date	Oct 25, 2005
Studio/Live	Studio
Additional Info	United Kingdom

Tora Tora Wild America Songs

	1.	Wild America
	2.	Amnesia
	3.	Dead Mans Hand
	4.	As Time Goes By
	5.	Lay Your Money Down
	6.	Shattered
	7.	Dirt Secrets
	8.	Faith Healer
	9.	Cold Fever
	10.	Nowhere to Go But Down
	11.	City of Kings
	12.	Wild America (Remix) (Bonus Track)

Wild America Music Review

Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars) 5 stars

5 stars Criminally Overlooked
Tora Tora were such a great band, and one of the most overlooked and underrated of the time. Their '89 debut, Surprise Attack, spwaned a couple of minor MTV hits in "Walkin' Shoes" and "Guilty." That album is pretty good, and used to still be available new, but doesn't seem to be anymore. Wild America is their second album, a full three years later, and is even better. It's a more mature record, for one thing (the band members were all around 18 or 19 when Surprise Attack came out), and there's more diversity in the songs. Plus, Anthony Corder's isn't as thin and whiny as it could be on the debut. The band Tora Tora most reminds me of on Wild America would have to be Tesla, although not as all-around creative. Songs range from the zeppelin-esque "Nowhere to Go But Down," the Van Halen-style boogie of "Cold Fever," to the piano-laced southern-rock stomp of "Dead Man's Hand." Keith Douglas was an extremely talented guitarist as well. Great, great album.
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