This Broke Up Skid Row 

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It all boils down to for no amount of money does anyone from Skid Row wish to subject themselves to Sebastian 🤷🏻‍♀️

great review ... in my opoinion, the entire Subhuman Race is a fuckin masterpiece !! the best of skid row !!

Subhuman Race is a underrated album imo. I feels like it could have been a sequel to Slave To The Grind. Sebastians vocals sound very powerful with screams that would make your ears bleed.

Great review man, very enjoyable. I like this album a lot, the agression and hard riffs, love Eileen, Firesign, Frozen, etc.

C.C. DeVille is an amazing guitarist. If people took Poison seriously he'd be recognized as one of the greatest lead guitarist of the 80s , 90s and into the present day.

Thx for a swell review and history of this grossly overlooked album. I love it. Their debut came out my first year of high school, so I was there to soak up the gooey rock goodness of that era at the best possible age. Skid Row definitely rose above their peers.

This music is so important it’s unreal

Pretty much summed it up. They are all still alive so nothing holding them back. Baz’s voice is not as strong obviously but would still be the best thing for all of them.

I had the cd, but I don’t remember listening to the end of any of the songs on that record.

This was not a shock to me. LOVE THIS ALBUM and STILL LISTEN TO THIS TODAY!!

This album is massively underrated. These guys were getting heavier, and after touring with Pantera etc... That shit rubbed off. People unfairly lumped this album in with shit like Native Tongue. All those hair bands frantically grasping at straws to stay relevant after Nirvana... But I still truly believe 2 of "those" albums were authentic and fucking amazing. 1. Subhuman Race 2. Corabi Crüe Both are forgotten gems. The Crüe record was absolutely their best album. Gritty, bluesy as fuck, heavy... It has a maturity they were not capable of with Vince Neil. Coincidentally... Both were produced by Bob Rock. They were chasing Black Album vibes... Not Nevermind. It bums me out that Skid Row members talk shit about Subhuman Race. It's riiiight up there with Slave To The Grind.

I thought Subhuman Race was their best album!!

This was a GREAT breakdown. Most people that do these analytical-style videos just prattle off their personal opinions for 15 minutes. But you came at this with genuine respect and impartial knowledge of the genre. VERY well done! (Subscribed) 👍

"Rachel Bolan says the record absolutely sucks, have you even listened to Revolutions Per Minute?" Made me LOL so hard! SR is their best album, tuning down all the tracks to D apart from My Enemy, Into Another and Subhuman Race makes it sound even heavier! Was simply released at the wrong time.

I always considered Skid Row a bunch of street punks that oddly featured a super talented singer and could play some kick ass metal!🤘🍻

I was a big Skid Row fan, up until b side ourselves... and then they just disappeared. I didn't realized a new album was out, nobody talked about it, I never saw a video or heard a song from that album on the radio. It took a few years for me to see it at a record store and by then it was a risky move to spend $16 on a cd you knew nothing about. Next thing I know they split and nobody cared anyway.

If that version of 18 AND LIFE with CP Thorpe was the best they got since Bas.... Sebastian carried a harmony through 18 AND LIFE.

if snake and rachel didnt own their publishing they would be begging sebastian to come back.

Scooped Mids: It was Snake's answering machine that Sebastian left a nasty message on, not Rachel's. Not trying to be anal but just accurate. Love this clip though... Awesome job!

Slave to the grind is a classic

It should never be called Hair Metal

Funnily enough, I just got a club copy of 40 Seasons on cassette. And Forever is the reason why I got it.

Love your channel bro! Keep it up man, dudes like us care

I don't consider sUBHUMAN rACE a grunge style album, as much as it was just a continuation of their effort to be heavier. Bob Rock was a the wrong choice for production, but they also probably felt that he was producing albums like the Black album from Metallica, which led to superstardom.

Subhuman is a good album took me years to like it,but I do like a little a ain't enough album too after 20 years of buying it too.

Very cool video man skid row is very underrated

Eileen was inspired by Stevie Nicks Rhiannon in a odd way the ghost singer

I saw the tour where Pantera opened! I like Skid Row but they got demolished 😳 Hey I see your copy of Twisted by Design in the background that’s a good record!!!

Came cross this video wanted check it out. I liked Skid Row

The metalhead in me recognizes the metalhead in you. Not a huge Subhuman Race fan, but I do dig My Enemy and Eileen. Slave to the Grind is where its at for me.

14:30 to be quite honest, Sebastian can't either nowadays. He still sounds ok on record, but he is terrible live. It pains me to say that, but it's true. Saw him live in 2015 and it pretty much sucked. Not only he is not able to do the high screams anymore, for some reason he decided to go for a fucking weird nasal voice that I just can't understand.....

The Frameshift album with Bach is really good too.

They should have named themselves after Sebastian "We Suck and We Know It".

But Sebastian was right. When did you see Paul lip-syncing?

Skid Row was my favorite band back in the day and I have all of their original albums on vinyl but when Sabastian blow out his voice on Slave and then turned around and made a record with more screaming with Subhuman Race I think that really damaged his voice for good on never reaching those high note again. Did you know that Rob( drummer) voted against getting rid of Sabastian he knew that the band would never be the same if they did(and he was right) He seen the writing on the wall! Sabastian was 18 when he joined the band 21 when Slave hit number# 1 and 25 or 26 when he made Subhuman Race. How many of you were doing questionable things at that age? Whether Rachel wants to admit it or not Sabastian voice and beautiful face were what made that band(woman point of view)Bon Jovi took all the money they made from their first album that was Snake and Rachel fault that the rest of the band got screwed over Jon took advantage of them and didn't give them a kiss for F$%KING them!!! I don't ever think they will do a reissue of Subhuman Race since both Sabastian and Rachel hate that album.

I was. Big skid row fan. 17 when the 1st album came out. Disappointed as hell when sub came out. You did a great review !

Skid row without Sebastian forget it Guns & roses without axel rose forget about it AC/DC without Brian Johnson no thanks Godsmack without sully Erna (I probably die inside) (godsmack is my favorite band of all time) Alice In Chains without layne (now that’s insane) Nirvana without Kurt (no fucking chance in hell) Black Sabbath without OZZY (fuck that)

Forever is a really good song!!!

Their debut was demoed, and unsigned as a result. He came on and they became stars. I almost always side with the guys that write. But in this case, the 'showman', 'star', whatever, is what brought them to the bigtime. His solo records are much closer to classic SR than any of their bullshit. But theyre content to play bowling alleys. In the day of the vinyl resurgence, the didnt do shit with the anniversary of the debut. Pathetic. It's a shame, cuz they're one of the few 'hair' bands that had the stuff to transcend away from that if they could get their shit straight.

I still think Subhuman Race is better than any of Sebastian's solo albums.

Subhuman race is an ok album. I prefer the first 2, but it's still solid and more consistent than the first album. Though I like the best songs on the debut album more than the best songs on this one. Not sure what they were thinking after this one, but the new album is decent.

Sebastian’s solo career songs don’t hold a candle to the previous songs he sang with Skid Row? Have you even heard American MetalHead?

Eileen was WAY before it's time. I have to disagree with you on this being the first release of the album. My favorite track, because it's so out there, 1995 was NOT ready for this. I played this album on repeat (in 1997) when I was in the navy and everyone I had contact with when this was playing, they were baffled, and thought it was just either too old or too weird. I actually thought this track was just haunting and beautiful. I actually named one of my cats Eileen in tribute to this song. Still one of my favorite songs ever.....Love Just another Gen X girl.

What I liked when skid row released the 40 seasons was they remixed sone sings from subhuman race and honestly compared to the original mix you can hear everything that was lost it’s just a shame they didn’t and won’t remix the whole subhuman race album I’d love to hear what it would sound like but on the other hand there’s definatly a 90s nostalgia when you listen to the original mix but it seems like it’s an album kind of frozen in time it’s neither going back or going foward in any way just frozen in that time period at least that’s what I think

Bach can't sing his way out of a wet paper bag these days.

First, many of the bands you mention in a negative light were and remain amazing players. I would put Reb Beach's guitar work (Winger) then and now up against every guitarist in the thrash genre or any of the forgettable crap that makes up "rock radio" such as it is anymore today. While even I admit I change the station when "Seventeen" comes on, Reb was a great player and Kip was an amazing musician. Bang Tango also was a funky sounding band and really had something a little different than the typical band of its ilk. Skid Row did have more balls than some of these acts. Rachel was, at heart, a punk rocker and Sebastian a screaming metal head. The mixture made the sound.

#CCDeville Is a Super killer guitarist

This album is better than st anger. Snare drums . all I got to say

IMO Baz in his prime was the greatest rock singer of all time...better even than Plant

Dude, taking the piss out of Poison isn't the way to go. While today you have the luxury of looking back and judging them, when Skid Row's first album came out, they were considered in the same genre. This is why it's so hard for people who didn't live through this era to understand. Skid Row would be nothing is a band like Poison wasn't popular. And that's the truth. Nobody fucking cared about Monkey Business, mainstream wise. Because it was no longer like the mainstream taste.

I lost interest in Skid Row after the second album, just like many bands of that time the fire burned out quickly after a couple of albums.

Just exactly WHERE is metal today brother?

Did you mention B Side?

I'm pausing to say WHOA: Bon Jovi was comprised of actual, dyed-in-the-wool, real, card-carrying musicians. Those cats would've been playing the clubs regardless of whether they made the bigtime. In other words, blue collar musicians. Also consider that Richie Sambora was to be signed to Swan Song records before he chose the band path, so you have Jimmy Page to argue with on that player. Not at all in the same room with Poison. Okay, continuing...

Could we get a top 10 iron maiden songs?

the Man who voice that parts the see is not real . Some of those male singers that can go high have female ghost singers ..if your interested in the real story I was one of them a ghost singer

I love Skid Row and the album, but considering Subhuman Race was was Produced by Bob Rock and Engineered Randy Staub (Metallica’s Black Album), you’d think it would’ve been more successful. I guess you’re only as good as the songwriting, rapport and reputation of the band. 🤔🤘

Another comment, Check out Angel Down. THIS is a Great album. Pretty much liked the whole album. After that, it seemed to me it's the same ol same ol stuff. Not impressed. But seriously check out Angel Down.

Not going to lie I loved poison when they first came out but they do suck now just like motley crue

How old are you???

Skidmark sucks! That's why, they went bellyup!

Skid row never make a grunge Album. Did you know how grunge sound? Really?

bowie better