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Originally Posted by Trollheart
**** you all: Jess Cox was THE man for the Tygers! I still love "Wild cat" above all other Tygers albums and "Suzie smiled" is an underrated classic! Aw yeah!
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That's why we all love you, as you're guaranteed to like a band's weaker albums
But I'll admit "Suzie Smiled" is a good song with a pretty killer riff.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I've known about the band for years and years and I've listened to a few songs, but I never actually listened to an album until a couple weeks ago, which was Wild Cat. I see it as being like a 2nd rate version of Iron Maiden's first two albums. When they were at their best they could compete with that band, but in general they just didn't have the songwriting chops. The best songs on that album all seemed to be rerecorded version of "Euthanasia", which is a fantastic song, but I can definitely see why US left them off the list last year.
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Yer "Euthanasia" was a great song and sure they seemed to use this song as the basis for the Spellbound album and as I said they were pretty one dimensional as a band anyway.
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Jess Cox was definitely the superior vocalist though. He may not have been as good a singer, but he was better at impersonating Paul DiAnno than the other guy was at impersonating Bruce Dickinson.
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Jess Cox was the gruffer vocalist but I prefer John Deverill overall. Also I wonder how much you think he would've been impersonating Bruce Dickinson anyway, as at the time of Spellbound Bruce Dickinson still wasn't with Iron Maiden (or if he was they hadn't recorded anything) and was still with Samson who were hardly famous, meaning that Bruce Dickinson hadn't yet reached the reverence level he would soon reach. Personally I think John Deverill was more into impersonating Dio and Robert Plant.