Album Review: Winger, "Pull"

Winger have toughened up. Pull sports a harder, crunchier riffing edge than its predecessor In The Heart Of The Young which spawned the AOR sob of Miles Away. They've taken their notes and produced an album that reflects the infestation of angst-ridden rock n' roll. Pull infuses this attitude into the Winger psyche while retaining a strong core around which is built a diverse mantle of songs interjecting more up-front harsher material such as Junkyard Dog (Tears On Stone) with trad Winger anthems ala Spell I'm Under and The Lucky One, whilst the acoustically tinged Blind Revolution Mad, Who's The One and the pulsating Down Incognito give another slant to their newfound groove. Grade A

Mark Crampton/ Riff Raff/ July 1993

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!