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EXTREME - EXTREME (Debut Album) 1989/1994

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EXTREME - EXTREME (Debut Album) circa 1989 initial release re-released in 1994 For listening and enjoyment purposes only! All rights belong to the artists. This is such a great recording and very rare and hard to find. I wanted to share this precious listening music with everyone. Extreme's debut album is sometimes uneven but always fun. Van Halen influences are prominent, which is ironic given singer Gary Cherone's post-Extreme career. This album, like all of Extreme's work, is notable for Nuno Bettancourt's guitar playing, but the songs aren't bad either, mostly examining childhood from a playful but oddly mature perspective. "Kid Ego," their first single, is here, as well as "Mutha (Don't Want to Go to School Today)," "Little Girls," "Big Boys Don't Cry," and the rock-out finale "Play with Me." There are a few ballads as well: "Watching, Waiting" is particularly poignant and surprisingly spiritual in content. This album showed Extreme's considerable potential, which peaked with their second album, Pornograffitti. Extreme is the first studio album of Boston funk-metal band Extreme, released on March 14, 1989. Being released on a major label, the album sold modestly well at around 300,000 units. It produced four singles: "Little Girls", "Kid Ego", "Mutha (Don't Wanna Go to School Today)" and the radio-only "Play with Me". It was not until their next album, Pornograffitti, that the band become well known. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_%28album%29 Track List: "Little Girls" – 3:47 "Wind Me Up" – 3:37 "Kid Ego" – 4:04 "Watching, Waiting" – 4:54 "Mutha (Don't Wanna Go to School Today)" – 4:52* "Teacher's Pet" – 3:02 "Big Boys Don't Cry" – 3:34 "Smoke Signals" – 4:14 "Flesh 'n' Blood" – 3:31 "Rock a Bye Bye" – 5:57 "Play with Me" – 3:29**