The mid-'90s were exceptionally unkind to practitioners of
sleaze rock
, and with song titles like
"Loser"
and
"Hard Luck Champion,"
it's possible to assume that
Dangerous Toys
were feeling the big
rock
backlash while recording
Pissed
. The unambitious 1994 release is sturdy collection of gutter anthems similar to those the band whistled all the way to the bank during their 1989 heyday. What a difference five years can make. The post-
Nevermind
alt-rock
world was not about to cut headbangers like
any slack, and
was given no consideration, driving the Texas group deeper underground. Stuffed with bad-boy posturing and power balladry, this disc has all the hooks needed to go platinum many times over -- in 1984. A decade later,
blues
-based, commercial-
outfits like
had expended all their media capitol, leaving the whiskey-chugging, hair-flingin' outfits desperately tossing records like
into the wind. ~ Vincent Jeffries