Extreme's music was never easy to classify, since it rarely confined itself to heavy metal, hard rock, or pop. The Massachusetts-based band formed in 1985; guitarist Nuno Bettencourt had already played in a local band with bassist Pat Badger, while singer Gary Cherone fronted his own group with drummer Paul Geary. The two bands eventually merged, and Cherone and Bettencourt formed a songwriting partnership that would soon place Extreme atop the Billboard charts, if only for a short period…
III Sides to Every Story was an overambitious project and an often times pretentious album, I think Extreme succeeds here anyway. This album is just as strong and adventurous as Pornograffitti. Extreme successfully mixes hard rock and heavy metal with funk, pop and prog. Extreme has always had progressive tendencies in their music, even though most do not consider Extreme to be progressive. Prog is about musical innovation, not technical masturbation. And Extreme was certainly innovative. Hell, even those of you who have been misled into thinking that progressive bands need be technical, try and find a guitarist more technical than Bettencourt.
Extreme II: Pornograffitti is a 2CD, expanded edition of the million selling album with 'More Than Words' & 'Get The Funk Out' and a bonus disc of rare mixes and B-Sides, all re-mastered from the original tapes. It also includes an enhanced booklet with a new sleeve note by Metal Hammers Malcolm Dome, who has spoken to the band about the recording and the making of this album…
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