In the wave of hair metal that was coming out, one of the harder ones was Winger, which strongly benefited from guitarist Reb Beach's crunching guitar and with all band members accompanying bassist Kip Winger in the chorus and pre-chorus segments. His vocal register is high like David Coverdale, and there are times when he emulates Robert Plant's banshee-like yelps. Other times, imagine if Jon Bon Jovi had the bestial intensity of Gene Simmons. He sounds like that when he's belting'em out. "Madalaine" was their first single and is just the latest in a long line of women over whom a warning sign should be placed: "Beware the girl/beware the pain." Pretty intense guitars and power vocals here, as there are in many of the other songs. Their use of actual strings on the melodic soft portions of "Hungry" must count for something where others were using synths. The rest of the song is straight up slow metal. The hard-rocking and hook-catchy "Seventeen" was the second single I heard from them. I will have to say KISS had that beat with "Christine Sixteen" via the age of the girl, but the forbidden love aspect is hinted with "Daddy says she's too young/but she's old enough for me." Love that fiery guitar solo towards the end. With its keyboards and lighter electric guitar, "Without The Night" could've been a good power ballad single, just as good as "Headed For A Heartbreak." Their take on "Purple Haze" is definitely heavier than the original, and while there is some aping of Hendrix's guitar, probably Dweezil Zappa's left-side solo, it's still an exercise in bombastic hard metal. "Time To Surrender" with a chugging guitar riff, is an all-out "no mas" against a woman he's had enough of. I wonder about the poker analogies that always come out in these situations: "I won't play your game and I won't play your fool" and "Best be makin' your move/play your last hand" "Poison Angel" is very high energy metal and guitar theatrics. That is followed by "Hangin On", with some Eddie Van Halen-style guitar. Come to think of it, David Lee Roth could've made something of this, 1984-era. Power keyboards are prominent in the light rocker "Headed For A Heartbreak", and which probably helped it hit the Top 40. "Higher And Higher" is another power rocker and is about one of those kind of women. What kind? "Primal scream, she's got the body of sin/should be a law against such an invention", which usually means she's bad news, and she is. Harder than Poison or Whitesnake, more on the Def Leppard end of the spectrum, but nothing surpassing early Ozzy or KISS's Animalize. Their heavy sound is what carries this sound, thanks to Reb Beach's guitar and Kip Winger's vocals.