This review refers to
1987 (CD version).
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.