Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich

Primary Artist
Warrant
Album Title
Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
Release Date
1989 
Time
33:31 
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Other bands were bigger, other bands were better, but no other group embodied the spirit of late-'80s hair metal as much as Warrant. They were slick and tuneful, cheerfully shallow and gussied up to look prettier than they actually are. It was the era in a nutshell -- proud to be all surface and no depth. That aesthetic is what drives their debut, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, an album where they shake and shimmy like rock stars because that's what they desperately want to be. To achieve that, they distilled the sounds of L.A. Read More