Head and shoulders easily the best rock album of the 1980s. Whitesnake produced an absolute masterpiece in 1987 and its still one of the best selection of tracks put together 20 years later. David Coverdale at his very powerful best, riffs and unbelievable guitar solos to match - it is simply an iconic selection of music. Anyone with any interest in real music in the 21st Century should listen to this and marvel at its quality - almost completely unsurpassed in my view. Crying In the Rain, Give Me All Your Love Tonight, Still of The Night - they're all here and they're all top drawer. Want to hear the benchmark that all rock bands should be aspiring to? Look no further....

As its front cover seems to suggest, 'Whitesnake 1987' is a monument of metal and rock. Still of the Night, with its power chords and unrelenting guitar riff, provides Whitesnake with their best opening track ever. Bad Boys and Children of the Night are not too far behind. Crying in the Rain is a blistering, cyclonic guitar and vocal workout, whilst the massive power-ballad Is This Love allows the band to show their lighter side. Only Here I Go Again, with its US radio-friendly over-production seems slightly out of place, but as the song that cracked America wide open for him and his band, I'm sure that David Coverdale can live with that. The leaner but heavier-sounding line-up of Coverdale, John Sykes, Neil Murray and Ainsley Dunbar may have existed for just this album, but together they produced a monster! Buy this if you want to hear Whitesnake at their heaviest and best.

21 years on and this is still a great album.fans of the old bluesy whitesnake hated this album with its lavish,over the top production and widdly,widdly guitars but its a cracking rock album.john sykes was the perfect find and a guitar hero if ever there was one.aynsley dunbars drumming is some of the best rock drumming i had heard for a long time (considering he was a jazz drummer,thats a real compliment) and the whole album really sounds as good today as it did then.pity they had to spoil the next album by getting steve vai in.