Whitesnake - Come an' Get It

Deleted in the U.S., this is the band's 1981 album for EMI, digitally remastered. Contains 10 tracks, including 'Come An' Get It', 'Hot Stuff' and 'Don't Break My Heart Again'. Album Description

Tawny Kitaen is Nowhere in Sight

You remember "Whitesnake" right? The guys that made such a huge splash in the hair metal world with their self-titled album featuring tunes like "Here I Go Again", "Is This Love" and "Still of the Night"? Few folks familiar with that album may know that "Whitesnake" had been putting out disks regularly for a decade by the time they discovered spandex and hairspray. "Come an' Get It" was their 5th album and their Deep Purple roots are still showing. "Come an' Get It" is full of great bluesy late 70's type rock tunes.
David Coverdale has a great voice for rock n' roll, and it's put to it's most effective use on "Come an' Get It". The title track is great, "Child of Babylon" and "Girl" show his range and power. He's got the type of seasoned smoky vocal that only a two-pack a day habit can bring with time. The guitar work by Micky Moody and Bernie Marsden (at times channeling the spirit of B.B. King) layer each song with a nice wall of sound. Neil Murray's bass lines crackle on most tunes, and are worth the price of the disk alone.
If you are a fan of "Whitesnake" for their hair metal album, pick up this disk and check out the band's early sound. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. April 24, 2008

Not a poor man's Foghat...

Couldn't help but notice that comment from another reviewer mentioning a "poor man's Foghat" and while he says it's "almost an insult" he still only gives this CD three stars. This is actually one of the top ten hard rock albums of ALL time. It isn't quite as good as the fantastic "Slide it In" album because Bernie Marsden will never be a Mel Galley or a John Sykes, but Mickey Moody is great on here and I think Moody even played on Slide It In if I'm not mistaken, before he parted ways with Coverdale over the more and more "mainstream" American direction Coverdale was going. Nevertheless, Coverdale himself has always said that this album was the best one among the pre shred guitar American releases that began with "Slide It In". Actually, I don't even thing "Slip of the Tongue" or the "1987" Whitesnake albums are as good as this. There's six songs on here that are among the all around best blues metal tracks ever written: "Lonely Days...", "Don't Break My Heart", "Would I Lie To You"?... (yes, you little tramp), "Girl" and "Come an' Get It". An excellent release. It was around this time that David Coverdale was really being publicly derated by UK media for being sexist! Ha ha! December 29, 2007

Fantastic Album - Whitesnake's Best

Forget the Whitesnake of the mid- to late-80's; this is Whitesnake at it's bluesy, gutsy best. I never found the "commercial" Whitesnake to be as appealing as this, mostly because this music hits me at a visceral level while the "hits" sounded manufactured. Bernie Marsden and Coverdale are both at their best, and there isn't a bad song on the album. Favorites for me are "Don't Break My Heart Again" and "Child Of Babylon". Great listening throughout. February 6, 2007

Come an' Get It!

The title says it all. Every song is a killer. This is
what great rock music is suppose to sound like. I think
it's one of Whitesnake's best of the early albums and
I highly recommend it. Come n' Get this! July 21, 2005

Up and down

"Come An' Get It" is not a bad record. It's just not particularly good.
It does have its moments - "Don't Break My Heart Again" is a great, catchy rocker, one of the band's best and most recognixable, "Would I Lie To You" gets a really good groove going, and the piano-driven barroom boogie of "Wine, Women And Song" is good fun. "Lonely Days, Lonely Days" is a solid mid-tempo rock song. And I can see why someone would want to listen to the acoustic ballad "Till The Day I Die" more than once.

But the rest is indistinctive...hard to fault, perhaps, but much harder to praise. "Hot Stuff" plods along like third-rate Deep Purple. "Child Of Babylon" tries to be epic and can't pull it off, and the remaining songs are simply mediocre, run-of-the mill rock songs without the hooks that made "Ready An' Willing" and "Saints & Sinners" such fun and enjoyable records.

Again, these aren't bad songs, they just lack that certain something. And it's a shame, too, because one of Whitesnake's very best songs is here ("Don't Break My Heart Again"), and a couple more songs of that calibre would have made this a great record.
Fans of the original Whitesnake lineup, before the hair metal days, will want a listen, but this often generic record is not the place to start if you're new to the band. There are a couple of gems here, but it's not one that I listen to from beginning to end. What I've done is I've ripped the best four or five songs from this one and the also somewhat inconsistent "Lovehunter" and made one CD with half a dozen top-notch songs on it (the legendary, unofficial "ComeHunter"-album...no, sorry. "LoveGetIt". Whatever.)

There is a reason why only a couple of songs from "Come An' Get It" ever popped up in Whitesnake's live sets. Compared to the Snake's best and most inspired albums, "Come An' Get It" struggles with an abiding sense of indifference.
Three very small stars. July 6, 2005

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