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Title: song choices belie cd's title
Review: Triumph's Lay it on the Line and Donnie Iris' Ah! Leah! both qualify as screamers, but unless the people who compiled this collection meant "screamingly funny," I don't understand why they titled it thusly. Nevertheless, I'll buy it because where else am I gonna find those two songs without buying entire Triumph and Donnie Iris albums? Not that I'm averse to having Tommie Tutone or Billy Squier's The Stroke, the latter of which does somewhat qualify as a screamer. But most of the 18 songs in this collection are better described as snoozers. A better choice from Foreigner would have been Head Games, which is actually a 2fer (screamer, screamingly funny). A better choice from April Wine would have been Roller, which is a screamer and also probably their best song. A final point: I can't imagine how Krokus' Screaming in the Night didn't make it onto this collection, and if it had I'd be much happier with it.
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