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List Price: $6.98 | | Label: Geffen Gold Line Sp.
Salesrank: 132664
Released: March 19, 1996 |
| Our Price: $1.80 |
| Used Price: $1.49 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Snakebite Track Listing:
1. Come On
2. Bloody Mary
3. Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City
4. Steal Away
5. Keep on Giving Me Love
6. Queen of Hearts
7. Only My Soul
8. Breakdown
Snakebite Reviews:
Kept us going during the hard times. 
2009-09-29 - I always remember an interview I read that David Coverdale did. Something about the music critics telling him that "his kind of music is dead and gone." When he got to the show and the line of people was down the street and around the bloke. One more time proving the so called music critics wrong. Thanks Dave for sticking with it bringing us such great guitar driven rock. We who still rocked during the Disco, Punk and New Wave years owe you much thanks. A great batch of music with a lot more to follow. Others have given great song reviews, so I will leave it at this.
Classic Whitesnake 
2008-10-21 - Every genuine Whitesnake fan needs this album, as early Whitesnake is just as important as later Whitesnake.
Once bitten... always addicted!
Great!
2007-06-25 - Ain't no love in the heart of the city......ain't no love in the heart of town, the first ep of the band Whitesnake, i love this cd, you can listen some songs of the fist 2 albums of Coverdale.
Underestimated classic
2007-01-23 - In reply to some earlier reviews, actually Snakebite DID come out (at least in Europe) in the late seventies/early eighties as a full album, exactly as it is presented here on CD. It contained the original four-song Snakebite EP plus four of the best songs from Coverdale's solo album Northwinds.
Snakebite is different from Whitesnake's other work, because it is mostly a mixture of Southern Rock and Deep Purple-style early Metal, while later Whitesnake is more blues rock/boogie influenced and even later Whitesnake is pop metal/hair metal oriented.
So this is really an unique effort. It is true that half of the tracks here you already get on Northwinds, and the other half you can get as bonus tracks on the Trouble CD. But if you are only going to buy one early Whitesnake album, you should definitely make it this one. As a collection, this is way better than Northwinds or Trouble, and it is a superb album in its own right, not just a loose amalgamation of songs.
The heart of this album is formed by three fantastic mid-tempo steamrollers of early metal ("Come On", "Keep On Giving Me Love", and "Steal Away") that gracefully avoid the hard rock cliches (because they weren't invented yet!), and three equally fantastic heartfelt ballads (the awesome power ballad "Queen of Hearts", and the classics "Only My Soul" and "Ain't No Love (In the Heart of the City)").
If they had added a few more songs of this high standard instead of the less convincing "Bloody Mary" and "Breakdown", then Snakebite would have been one of the all-time masterpieces of metal, on a par with, let's say, Sad Wings of Destiny (Judas Priest) or Iron Maiden's debut album. As it is now, I would say it's in the same league as classic-but-not-perfect early metal albums like Toys in the Attic (Aerosmith) or Virgin Killer (Scorpions). Don't get me wrong, that's extremely good company to be in, and it makes Snakebite just as good as Whitesnake's later top albums, Saints & Sinners and Slide it in. So this IS highly recommended indeed!
way too cool and really hip!!!
2006-03-11 - A really good CD by Whitesnake, and is really great as it was
one of their early works. Almost every song is good and you
wouldn't think that they played this stuff before they became
more well known in the late '80's. Still, this is a gem to have
in anyone's collection where a lot of groups in the late '70's
had started to emerge, and where most of the band members were
from Deep Purple and Trapeze. Give it A+++++.
