Billy Idol is an eighties pop and rock icon that nowadays gets overlooked a bit too often, including by the likes of myself. I do have the Greatest Hits album, and I listen to it every now and then, but not often. Listening to it again for the first time in a while, I decided to see what he had going in his discography. And I certainly wasn't disappointed when I chose Rebel Yell, perhaps his most acclaimed album ever. There's some hit singles on here, and all good ones too - "Rebel Yell" is here, obviously, but so is "Eyes Without a Face", "Flesh for Fantasy" and "Catch My Fall." What didn't make the airwaves isn't too shabby, either, and in couple cases, quite good actually. "Blue Highway" and "(Do Not) Stand in the Shadows" I'm loving, and "Daytime Drama" and "The Dead Next Door" are quite listenable, but not enough to get you up and dancing like "Blue Highway" will. "Crank Call" is alright, I suppose, but it's certainly enough to help get me through a start-to-finish playthrough. Yeah, this album is as good as I suspected. A-
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