- believe it or not, a dozen or so was a good sized collection around that time). One of those CDs was the Billy Idol debut. Billy Idol became a huge selling artist in the 80s with the 1st 3 albums, but I would say somewhat underrated from a guitarcentric point of view as we considered Billy Idol more pop/punk party music - not to be taken too seriously particularly by us serious prog/metal heads. Fast forward to now and I regularly listen to Rebel Yell for overall enjoyment and from a guitar content point of view as I think Steve Stevens is one of the more underrated guitarists who began in the 80s - I think he kind of flies under the radar a bit with Billy Idol though I also think Billy Idol is an awesome meld of British style punk vocalist and North American heavy guitar though Steve definitely has his own unique style. And they still seriously rock. To my ear Rebel Yell and the debut still stand up as fresh/awesome sounding records full of underrated gems. Here's a couple:
I remember seeing a CD player for the first time in 1980, at a place called Kelly’s Stereo. It cost $1,500 CDN.
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She still looks amazing!!Everyone was in love with Susanna!
I'm always a bit on the fence about the remastered tracks just because of the nostalgia thing, but in many cases they are indeed better. I really enjoy the 2007 remastered Ratt:
