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Winger
Released 2001

Seventeen
04:12
4,124 plays

Miles Away
04:15
2,914 plays

Can't Get Enuff
04:24
2,801 plays

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- 1
- On the Inside (New Recording)
- 04:24
- 1,289 plays

- 2
- Blind Revolution Mad
- 05:26
- 1,431 plays

- 3
- Down Incognito
- 03:48
- 2,676 plays

- 4
- Spell I'm Under
- 03:56
- 1,394 plays

- 5
- Who's the One
- 05:46
- 1,419 plays

- 6
- Junkyard Dog (Tears on Stone)
- 06:55
- 1,047 plays

- 7
- Hell to Pay [Outtake]
- 03:24
- 1,094 plays

- 8
- Can't Get Enuff
- 04:24
- 2,801 plays

- 9
- Under One Condition
- 04:30
- 1,125 plays

- 10
- Easy Come Easy Go
- 04:06
- 2,489 plays

- 11
- Rainbow in the Rose
- 05:34
- 1,221 plays

- 12
- Miles Away
- 04:15
- 2,914 plays

- 13
- Seventeen
- 04:12
- 4,124 plays

- 14
- Madalaine
- 03:47
- 2,110 plays

- 15
- Hungry
- 04:01
- 1,554 plays

- 16
- Headed for a Heartbreak
- 05:15
- 2,641 plays

album review

Winger wasn't the worst of the poppy hair metal bands of the late '80s/early '90s, but they were the brunt of more jokes than any of their peers. Perhaps that was because Mike Judge seized the opportunity to use them as a visual and verbal punchline throughout the run of Beavis & Butt-Head, but it's more likely because of the group's fondness for a bombastic melodic hook and of Kip Winger's model good looks and dazzling Colgate smile (well, there's also the matter of lyrics like "I'm only seventeen/I'll give you love like you've never seen," which are just ripe for lampooning). Such an atmosphere led to a never-ending series of prods and jabs, making easy Winger jokes very hard to resist (witness the above, if you need proof), but the fact of the matter is, they weren't that bad; they were even pretty good, as Rhino's exhaustive 16-track collection, The Very Best of Winger, proves. They weren't necessarily the best of the bunch, and they never transcended the genre, but they did have some good hooks, a good guitarist in Reb Beach, nice chemistry within the band, and a knack for a power ballad, which resulted in three classics of the genre -- the cheerfully sleazy jailbait paean "Seventeen," "Madalaine," and "Headed for a Heartbreak," one of the best power ballads of its time. Unfortunately, the reverse chronological sequencing of this collection makes you dig to hear these attributes (it opens with the new track "On the Inside," written around the time of Pull, and works its way backward like it was the pop-metal equivalent of Memento). Even with this nasty fault, it's does contain Winger at their best, complete with good liner notes from Dave Ling and an introduction from Kip Winger, and it does demonstrate that the jokes, no matter how much fun they are to make, are not entirely warranted. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide