Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 80s and 90s. A genuine working class rock mag, written and edited by "the lads" in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, it was just too R n’R for its own good, falling behind more trainspotterly publications like Q, Kerrang, and Mojo. This website is an archive and kind of shrine to the writing of its greatest "hacks," most of whom have faded in embarrassing middle age, with at least one of them having a Smule account.
After the success of To Be With You it would be easy for Mr. Big to follow a formula. With Bump Ahead any comparisons must rest on the precipice they walk between mainstream commerciality and loud heavy metal indifference, a formula of sorts. While rampant rockers a la Colorado Bulldog and Price You Gotta Pay are more in key with their musical roots. It's ballads like Promise Her The Moon, Nothing But Love, and Wild World that'll, after repeated plays, have you humming. Mr. Big may have a somewhat 'corporate' sheen but with Bump Ahead they have another hit on their hands.
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