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CD Title: Special Forces
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Category: AOR/ Southern Rock
Year: 1982
Label: A&M Records
Catalog Number: CD-3299
Personnel
Donnie Van Zant lead vocals
Don Barnes lead vocals, guitar
Jeff Carlisi guitar
Larry Junstrom bass
Jack Grondin drums
Steve Brookins drums
Tracks
| 1. | Caught Up In You | 4:37 |
| 2. | Back Door Stranger | 4:54 |
| 3. | Back On The Track | 4:41 |
| 4. | Chain Lightnin' | 5:01 |
| 5. | Rough-Housin' | 4:08 |
| 6. | You Keep Runnin' Away | 3:56 |
| 7. | Breakin' Loose | 3:32 |
| 8. | Take 'Em Out | 4:07 |
| 9. | Firestarter | 5:01 |
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| Total Running Time: | 39:57 |
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Existing comments about this CD
| From: James |
Date: April 14, 2003 at 22:19 |
| One of the best 38 Special albums. Great hit songs and good southern rock songs. A 10 to me. I just wish it had more than 9 songs on the cd.
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| From: Knuckles |
Date: May 24, 2004 at 9:48 |
| .38 special,man not many can have any bad words to say about em. Just love crankin that song CHAIN LIGHTNIN' up to where you feel the pounding in your heart.
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| From: Jez |
Date: September 7, 2004 at 11:32 |
| THE best .38 album period, and one i have been playing regularly for the past 20 odd years . The band really hit their stride with this one, cranking out hit singles all over the place. Ohh the glory days.
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| From: Chad |
Date: February 4, 2005 at 23:10 |
| Chin Lightening! What the hell! I guess a finger slip is present in the track listing to this one. CHAIN LIGHTENING is a stellar track. So is Caught up in You and Rough Housin'. Can't go wrong with this .38 Special album.
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| From: Remastered Reason |
Date: January 22, 2006 at 11:50 |
| It's a toss up between this one & the next, as to which is the best 38 Special album. This one seems to rock slightly harder with the concert favorite "Rough-Housin'" & album oriented "Chain Lightning". Still, the bands top FM staple is found here in "Caught Up In You".
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| From: Photochromic Steve |
Date: November 13, 2008 at 15:22 |
| It just goes to show how different peoples' tastes vary even when they like the same band. For me, "Caught up in you" and "You keep runnin' away" are really good tracks, but the rest disappoint. To most of the earlier reviewers this is their best album - for me it's a toss up between Tour de Force and Strength in Numbers as to their best, with this one well down the list.
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| From: Animal! |
Date: February 5, 2011 at 20:15 |
| this band just cooks. I prefer these guys to most all other southern rock bands
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| From: edwithmj |
Date: August 29, 2011 at 18:14 |
| This picks up where Wild-Eyed Southern Boys left off. Caught Up In You is one of their best ever songs while Back Door Stranger, Rough-Housin', Chain Lightnin' and Back On The Track make this a must for any southern rock/AOR fan.
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| From: 123charpenay |
Date: November 12, 2011 at 8:50 |
| the exact follow to wild eyed southern boys.38 special is on the good way ,the way of the success in the eighties.top class southern a o r.a must have.
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| From: 707STAR |
Date: November 17, 2011 at 15:59 |
| THEIR 2ND BEST ALBUM. PROBABLY THE BEST SOUTHERN ROCK OF ALL TIME. LYNYRD SKYNYRD WOULD HAVE BEEN DUE TO THEIR UNTIMELY TRAGIC PLANE CRASH. 38 SPECIAL PUT OUT A LOT OF MUSIC. CHAIN LIGHTNIN IS A MASTERPIECE SONG.
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| From: rick kerch vzla |
Date: May 10, 2012 at 22:29 |
A pre-warming to what was coming next..."Tour De Force"  ....this one has some good moments such as "Caught Up In You","Chain Lightnin'","Rough-Housin'"(rocks!),"You Keep Runnin'Away" & "Take'Em Out"....recommended...86/100
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| From: 123charpenay |
Date: January 21, 2014 at 14:12 |
| since thirty years,each time i listen this jewel ,i m under the charm.exceptionnal mix of aor and southern rock.the production is sensational, the sound is powerful and very clear.only killer songs.a must have.unfortunately no bonus track on the japan import.
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| From: hair metal again |
Date: January 14, 2020 at 15:55 |
| very good release for 38 SPECIAL that started to set things in their sound and what was about to happen later on!nice mix of southern music and that early 80 s AOR feel with songs like "caught up in you","chain lightnin" and "you keep running away"!good stuff ,just not great
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| From: Doghouse Reilly |
Date: July 2, 2024 at 15:58 |
| A cool disc for laid-back summertime cruising in that 1982 state of mind. 38 Special offer up nine tunes slanted toward the harder side of AOR, with muted southern-rock overtones lurking beneath the slick sheen (about the same level of southernness as a Tom Petty, say—it's there, but in the background). "Caught Up In You" and "You Keep Runnin' Away" are top-shelf melodic-rock singles, while the harder tracks, like "Back Door Stranger" and "Take 'Em Out" come close to proto-hair metal a la Night Ranger. The twang factor comes out more on "Back On The Track," "Breakin' Loose," "Firestarter" and especially "Roughhousin'," the latter of which tries to boogie a little too hard for its own good. "Chain Lightnin'" is the closest we get to a ballad, and it's nowhere near as schmaltzy as anything Journey or Foreigner would have done. Production is more '80's-sounding than the previous album, which makes sense, with more echo and a touch here and there of what sounds like synthesized drum sounds
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| From: Doghouse Reilly |
Date: July 2, 2024 at 16:10 |
| Some of the tunes motor along on palm-muted rhythms with a slap-back delay, but then, the rockabilly revival was in full swing (git it?) with the likes of the Stray Cats, so again, it fits with the times. I don't really know how much Donnie Van Zant contributed beyond his last name, and even Bruce Dickinson referred to him as a "mascot." (Iron Maiden were "special guests" on that summer's tour, beneath openers Rainbow.) I also don't know why they need two drummers—the Allman Brothers they are not. But this is still a good slice of tough but good-natured, blue-collar rock 'n' roll.
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