Mini-Listen #14
Published January 13, 2004
The Cage - Tygers of Pan Tang
This morning I was trying to figure out what to listen to on the way to work...when my eyes fell upon this Tygers of Pan Tang thing. It's one of my stepson's cds but hey, he was stupid enough to leave it at home (college kids tend to prefer mp3s over cds for the 'convenience' factor....don't get me started) so I swiped it!
Wow, which came first: Bon Jovi and Def Leppard...or Tygers of Pan Tang? I'm not familiar with the history of this group but they sure have that 80's sound. Their version of "Love Potion No. 9" is a giggler...but the rest is solid & fun to listen to.
(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)
Mark Saleski is a writer and music obsessive based out of the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. On his best day, he hopes to channel the ghosts of Lester Bangs and Jack Kerouac. He spends the hours of 9:32PM to 1:37AM carving out music reviews and essays for Jazz.com, Blogcritics.org and other publications.
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They were a bit later than Def Leppard, but not my much (I think there were only months between them)
I've got their first two albums on vinyl (CDs hadn't been invented back then) I thought the second album (with John Sykes, later of Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake, on lead guitar) wasn't bad, but the first one was crap. They went into a death spiral once Sykes left, because he was the only talented guy in the band.
AllMusicGuide shows them as forming in 1978 and their first album being released in 1980. So they were emerged into the public eye at the same time as Def Leppard and years before Bon Jovi (1984, the first album.)
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Tygers of Pan Tang was one of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands of the late 70s. Their first two album, Wild Cat and Spellbound, are quite good if you're into bands like Iron Maiden or Saxon. Alas, they soon ventured into glam territory. I beleive they released two albums after this, but I don't know anything about them.