Tuff - What Comes Around Goes Around - 1991 USA Original Atlantic Vinyl LP

	£		101
	$		134

TUFF -‘WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND’
1991 Atlantic Records / Ttanium First Pressing : Germany Vinyl : VG+ Sleeve : VG+
As seen in recent documentary "Nothin' But A Good Time", Steve Rachelle whilst fairly accused of being a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy still had a great band who put together a superb debut album that is start to finish textbook Sunset Strip glam metal released just in time for the two G's (Garth Brookes and Grunge) to send pretty much any band with even the most tenuous ties to the spandex-clad 80's hard rock brigade off to the unemployment line. Luckily we got albums like this before the labels bottled it entirely!  As can be seen from Rachelle's Hair Metal/SStrip website Metal Sludge, the band were under no illusions and had a good sense of humour about themselves and what they were doing.
This is a German first pressing in fantastic shape. The vinyl and sleeve are both really clean and barely betray they are pushing 35 years old!.
Keep an eye on some of my other auctions as I will be listing some more off-the-beaten-path 80's hard rock, glam, pop-metal and AOR vinyl. Low start bid so you may get to grab yourself a bargain.
SIDE ONE
Ruck A Pit Bridge 3:44 The All New Generation 3:38 I Hate Kissing You Good-Bye 4:19 Lonely Lucy 3:04 Ain't Worth A Dime 3:07
SDE TWO
So Many Seasons 4:12 Forever Yours 3:04 Wake Me Up 4:17 Spit Like This 3:37 Good Guys Wear Black 4:17
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Limelight Magazine -TUFF – WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND REVIEW
https://limelightmagazine.com/2022/02/24/cassettechronicles191tuff/
In the more than three decades since the release of the Tuff debut album What Comes Around Goes Around, I have somehow managed to avoid ever hearing anything from the album. For me, Tuff is another one of those 80’s glam heyday bands that just fell through the cracks for me (and it would appear, many others). I’d heard of them before but never got around to checking out their music. It wasn’t until their parody song “American Hair Band” that I ever heard the band at all. Funny how I love the one song from the band that isn’t quite meant to be taken seriously. But with thirty years plus gone by, I figure now is a pretty good time to check out the album to see what I thought of it. My first impression was that the band started off Side One of the album sounding exactly like you would expect a band to sound like circa 1991. Singer Stevie Rachelle, guitarist Jorge DeSaint, bassist Todd Chase and drummer Michael Lean certainly had the chops to craft the music of the day. But while I loved the rocking uptempo style of the songs “Ruck A Pit Bridge” and “The All New Generation”, I found they were relatively uninteresting to me lyrically. And I really didn’t like the outro of “Ruck A Pit Bridge” where the band cut out the rock and went with a more funky riven sound that just didn’t work for me. When an album starts off that way, you might find yourself in for a drag of a listen but surprisingly enough, the band really started firing on all cylinders with the power ballad “I Hate Kissing You Good-Bye”. While a lot of ballads from the era don’t age well, it seems Tuff did a better job of crafting a ballad that doesn’t turn your stomach years later. There’s a thumping groove threaded throughout the rocker “Lonely Lucy” that gives the song a bit of an extra kick in the pants musically. And though the side closing “Ain’t Worth A Dime” starts off a bit slow, it grows into a solid rocker and you can really hear the scornful inflection in Rachelle’s vocal delivery. The second side of What Comes Around Goes Around is strong from start to finish. The main lyrical passages of “So Many Seasons” tread a more mid-tempo ground in terms of pacing but the chorus and the song’s outro feature much more of a rocking edge to the sound. The title “Forever Yours” definitely sounds like a ballad. And the lyrics would be the kind you find in a ballad, but the song’s musical soundtrack is actually more of a rocker throughout and had the right combination of melodic hooks that further endears the song to me. Surprisingly enough, I thought of this one as one of the album’s highlights. But we do get a true power ballad on Side Two in the form of “Wake Me Up”. It’s a great sounding track that finds the band outdoing themselves in terms of performance. However, they can’t get the full credit for this song as the liner notes list Poison’s Bret Michaels as the sole writer of the track. Bret wrote a hell of song and Tuff did it up right as yet again, I have to say that I really enjoyed the song. The album closes out in rousing fashion with the blazing rocker “Spit Like This” and the heavily anthemic sounding (at least for the song’s shout out chorus) “Good Guys Wear Black”. Okay, so once again I have completely missed the boat on a great sounding album from the good ol’ days when metal ruled the world. It’s annoying to discover “new” music so long after it came out because it means I could’ve had a lot more time to appreciate it. But appreciate it I do now that I’ve finally heard the album. What Comes Around Goes Around has at long last come full circle for me, and it is just a really fun enjoyable slice of rock and roll that gets to the heart of the kind of music I loved from back in the day right through to this very day!