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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Geffen Records
Salesrank: 8210
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $5.00 |
| Used Price: $1.42 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Whitesnake Track Listing:
1. Crying in the Rain
2. Bad Boys
3. Still of the Night
4. Here I Go Again
5. Give Me All Your Love
6. Is This Love
7. Children of the Night
8. Straight for the Heart
9. Don't Turn Away
Editorial Review:
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2008.
Description of Whitesnake:
When Whitesnake broke into the spotlight with Slide It In (1984), a battalion of cynical critics predicted the band's success couldn't last, but Coverdale and company silenced all the naysayers with 1987's self-titled album, which rocketed to No. 2 on the Billboard album chart. The record was driven by the pumping rocker "Here I Go Again" and the tender power ballad "Is This Love," but the band's mainstream appeal might have had as much to do with their unabashedly sexual videos as with their bubblegum metal. The clips, which seemed to splash across MTV every 20 minutes, starred Coverdale's girlfriend and B-movie actress Tawny Kitaen, and highlighted her busty, scantily clad body in various provocative poses. Volume and T&A--a metalhead's wet dream. --Jon Wiederhorn
Whitesnake Reviews:
Great! 
2009-09-13 - Drove me straight back to the end of the eighty's and early nineties. I love it.
This Is Not Whitesnake! 
2009-04-18 - This album is the most blatant example of "selling out" that could ever be presented for your consideration.
I can understand wanting to make money, but I wish that David Coverdale had been more like Ayn Rand's character Howard Roarke! The recognition that his original style deserved would have come in time - I'm certain of that, considering the revival of blues and blues rock that occurred in the 90's.
Please try not to hold this music against Coverdale and the many talented musicians he worked with prior to it.
Check out the Slide It In album and anything earlier (such as Love Hunter, Snakebite, etc.).
80s nostalgia that should remain buried 
2009-03-26 - Whitesnake were always an anomaly amongst rock(?) bands. Most of the original WS were from 70s classic rock and heavy blues bands, and their early albums reflected this, but then the 80s hit and metal became trendy and fashionable, and WS reformed themselves to be the ultimate hair metal band. The band became a farce, with the only constant being David Coverdale, who then still had one of the best rock voices around, and a rotating band of musicians, all of whom were good, but combined made WS possibly the ugliest (and the oldest) hair metal bands around, which did nothing for their popularity.
This is an OK album at the start of their downfall. If you really like mediocre 80s hair metal ballads this is for you, if you like blues-rock music pick their earlier albums.
Pretty Decent Hair/Pop Metal 
2009-02-11 - One thing I can say about Dave Coverdale, he sure attracts some great backing musicians. If you start with his first album, you will find his career punctuated with a who's who roster of rock elite. This shows in the music. It is well done, very slick, and totally catchy.
I saw him in Spain in the 80's and he had Steve Vai and Adrian Vandenberg with him. They put on a great show despite Vandenberg flubbing a keyboard line on one of the songs. At least that flub gave them a human touch that is a bit missing on some of this album. It is good, in fact, great in a lot of ways, but I just wish it wasn't so slick.
One thing I noticed is that there are two versions of Here I Go Again. The one on this vinyl album is a bit heavier and simpler than the more orchestrated version usually heard on the radio. I'm not sure why they tampered with it, but probably to make it an even bigger hit would be my guess.
This is heavy pop/hair metal. That standard hair metal snare drum sound is prominent, as well as their hair styles (though there is no photo of the band on my vinyl copy). This album in particular is a hit factory and you can hear many of the cuts on classic rock radio. This is another band I can tolerate over and over again, though it does get a little old, but not enough that I slam the off button on the radio.
One thing I can't resist mentioning, is that they were pretty big in Spain in the 80's. There was this old man at a bar near our house and when he saw my daughter with a Whitesnake T-shirt on, he said, "Veetuh-snawkuh." To this day, I call them veetuh- snawkuh.
A couple of years ago, I saw Whitesnake here in Las Vegas at Mandalay bay. Of course, Coverdale was the only original member, but his band of hired hands, as usual, rocked. He still has it.
I would've liked to see him get a little more down and dirty with the sound on Whitesnake, but still, this album rocks. Recommended.
WOW.....
2008-10-05 - How bad is this. During the late 80s the whole big hair thing and ballad thing was the new and everyone loved it. Whitesnake compared too great bands of that era(metallica or guns n roses), is nothing compared too them. Sure they wrote Here I Go Again but all that is is just another power ballad that was so over used that era. Every single song Whitesnake pretty much has ever writtien is a freaking ballad i mean sure one or two songs but the whole album? come on. Way too much synth and ballads too be called a metal album. It just doesent work Here i Go Again isnt even that good and Is THis Love is the worse song of all time. Dont buy horrible band horrible album would give zero starts. By far not the greatest album of all time in fact its one of the worse
