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EXTREME
1989 - Extreme.
1990 - EXTREME II: Pornograffitti.
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March 14, 1989 - 2024: 35 years of: Extreme.

Another squad with another shredder.

Boston brought us the immortal AEROSMITH and this time, at the tail-end of hardrock's domination, we are greeted with full-face firepower. Adrenalized hardrock featuring new game-changer on guitar: Nuno Bettencourt.

Ultra-crunch splices speakers apart, as "Little Girls" walks-in, an harmonica supported hard-hitter. The riff-o-rama continues with "Wind Me Up" and the school-boy fantasy of "Teacher's Pet". Unashamed kink backed with Marshall stacks. The metalized mid-paced "Kid Ego" adds diesel to the fire while the cool-single for "Mutha (Don't Want To Go To School Today)" did receive regular MTV-rotation.

The boogieness of "Smoke Signals" is reminiscent of a certain "Ice Cream Man" and on the other-side of the hall, the louder than Hell marathon "Play With Me" opens-up with Mozart's "Turkish March" intro-bar and explodes into a full kick-ass brawl.

Slick hooks, cutting-edge production and arenarock background-vocals, the QUEEN and DEF LEP factor is strong here. The matching acrobatic leads are a blatant used to perfection VAN HALEN trick.

Get the funk out: incorporating numerology to their records, their next offering in line shall include some of the last hardrock anthems of this generation: the high-gain 1990's EXTREME II: Pornograffitti CD.

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Kid Ego = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWgQCJemN_s
Little Girls = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP6G0iokpgk
Mutha (Don't Want To Go To School Today) = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UchTs_gLi5M
Extreme = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZDF4RO8Y-E&list=OLAK5uy_n3Edcj6XkbMthPu3GoW8BACBTzTI-nBkg
Live in Kawasaki in 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0_YQGOSxqo
some girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGsEVSziI1o

August 7, 1990 - 2025: 35 years of: EXTREME II: Pornograffitti.

Not bad, for some pasty-faced white boys !

Boston's bold bandit bohemian bad-asses are back for another bombastic bare-bones brawl. After 1989's well received explosive self-titled debut-LP, the boys were now locked in for the gold.

One of the last shredder's band to kick major grade-A asses. Not glam, but a solid hardrock-band with top-quality musicians and memorable-melodies to match ...this is EXTREME.

Kick ass with the immediate hit "Decadence Dance", driven by a dirty lick and Gary Cherone's high-stretch vocals, it's all fun 'n games from this point on. Shades of metal are present on the heavy "Li'l Jack Horny" and the take-no-prisoner "Money (In God We Trust)" while the riff-o-rama title-track reaches very high on the Richter Scale. Sex left, sex right, sex on the TV, sex on the telephone, "Pornograffiti" is a snapshot of what was out there in 1990, now 35 years later, we are so desensitized.

Nuno the born virtuoso exhibits his finger's flexibility and elite guitar-knowledge on his rock-version of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's epic composition "Flight Of The Bumblebee" and brings us home with more crunch-rock on the sing-along "He-Man Woman Hater".

Full acoustic ballads were not the norm in the rocknroll halls, but did find a warm niche in the 1988-89-90 era, with mega-hits like "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" and "Patience". Now "More Than Words" becomes the one-hit-killer that closes the book on the decade. Close your eyes, let yourself go and remember that less is more.

And now, one of the grooviest hardrock cut of this era is right here, right now, like it or "Get The Funk Out". During the mid 80s, censorship in America was under full 360° attack and to make a statement, EXTREME pushed just a little bit more. Shout it out loud and listen carefully, I'm pretty sure the F-word is on the final mix would you agree ?

Recorded by studio-genius Michael Wagener for A&M Records, Pornograffiti CD is one of the last shelf-topper of this generation. High-gain guitars, rumbling low-end bass, headroom-filled drums and arena-rock sing-along vocals ...this win-win package has it all. Sex sells and Pornograffiti did sell: RIAA-certified 2x Platinum and we also all have to admit that the kinky portmanteau word "Pornograffitti" is one clever trick.

If you don't like what you see here, get the fu_k out !

EXTREME along SLAUGHTER, RATT, FIREHOUSE and the reborn STRYPER are the glorious Class Of 1990 ...the last wave of loud-fun hardrock bands, before the party abruptly ended in Autumn '91. The band's third installment shall push the boundaries of rock, in the three-chapter trek of 1992's III Sides To Every Story CD.

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Decadence Dance = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoKJpcROgJk
More Than Words = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIiLvg58SY
Get The Funk Out = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqP76XWHQI0
Hole Hearted = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-h4A7bF8wQ
Pornograffiti = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gLtgFXGDE&list=PLFAcddgaFN8yt-9aj_POLAThDA0q8BDoO
MTV interview in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpCzTS5Mbno
Live in NYC in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OhCuccLdHg
Nuno guitar-clinic in Texas in 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nitRM-e7mo
Pornograffiti Live 25 = full DVD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMva40jEuxA&list=PLZbHXlvhNWte1FQc82XoTdmqcfmFOCvSC
some guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inFCw9Gd7Ws

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