Mjöllnir
I'll be kinder with this one, as I feel they put in a real big effort. They go a bit nuts with the CD format and stuff too many tracks on, but with 5 or 6 very solid hard rock tunes it acquits itself smoothly. It's easy to look back at now and enjoy it with a modern sense of nostalgia but this probably sank like a rock on its initial release in 1992. Instead of putting on a tougher attitude and cranking the heaviness up as Skid Row and Kiss tried on early 90s albums to postpone extinction, Danger Danger stuck to their guns with the same overblown pop choruses and relaxed catchy rhythms. It's still wildly generic, and its dated qualities are off-putting but this time it seems to work in their favour. The sheer fun of tracks like "Slipped Her the Big One", "Everybody Wants Some" and "Don't Blame It on Love" (the equivalent shining pop diamond to the first albums Bang Bang) make me want to revisit the album a few more times. They simply have the ingredients and a touch of variety that the first album lacked, while retaining the standard format: raunchy hard rockers melding with big sounding ballads but peppered with some small interludes and different tempos.
I find it drags considerably towards the end, with some of the tracks feeling like they were made out of leftover parts from when they were trying to come up with the earlier songs. Topped off with an electronic "experiment" at the end that makes me want to listen to Guns n' Roses "My World" off Illusion II instead(!) means this is hardly a well rounded album. They were enjoying it and Andy Timmons is of course, real good on his instrument but still, it's bitty and I never did get into too many albums like this anyway.