Track Listing

1. Hard Times
2. Lucy
3. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
4. Girl Crazy
5. City
6. Come in from the Rain
7. Red Hot and Ready
8. She's Gone
9. Let It Out
10. Ten Lovers
11. Goin' off the Deep End
12. Surrender

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15229 in Music
• Released on: 1997-06-01
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Japanese only SHM paper sleeve pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players.

Customer Reviews

4 1/2 Stars - Good, Often Great, Melodic Metal
TEN followed up Y&T's near breakout album CONTAGIOUS with a commercial THUD! But, WAIT! THIS IS A VERY GOOD ALBUM! What happened? Most likely Geffen lost faith in the band's ability to sell, so TEN was shipped out with little fanfare or promotion. That's a shame, because this album is one of the strongest of their career, and had a potential hit in "Ten Lovers" (if they had released it in edited form as a single). "Hard Times" is the last of the Y&T signature songs ("25 Hours A Day," "Forever," "Mean Streak," etc.) and lyrically seems to concede that they had their shot, but just couldn't hit the target. The album is filled with gems; "City," "Goin' Off The Deep End," "Surrender," "She's Gone," etc, but it also has a few songs that have a more generic feel to them. Still, TEN is a Very strong album, and stands as one of Y&T's finest moments. They followed up TEN with a "farewell" tour and subsequent live album (YESTERDAY AND TODAY LIVE - a GREAT live album!), and years later with a "reunion" resulting in two strong albums, MUSICALLY INCORRECT and ENDANGERED SPECIES. But in 1990 the loyal Y&T fans were ecstatic about TEN, an album stylistaclly somewhere between MEAN STREAK and CONTAGIOUS. -(if you like this one, check out Tesla's GREAT RADIO CONTROVERSY and BUST A NUT CD's, and RATT's self-titled 1999 CD.)

It's still Y&T, and it still rocks!
I realize that Y&T appropriately titled 10th album - 1990's Ten - is not considered one of the band's best releases. Along with their 1986 album Contagious, Ten tends to be dismissed as part of Y&T's hair metal phase, and that's unfortunate given just how good the album really is.

Ten may have some hair metal trappings (beyond the band's look, there is an unmistakable hair metal production), but it's still pretty close to Y&T's classic melodic rock sound. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is one of my absolute favorite Y&T songs, and Hard Times, City, Come in From the Rain, She's Gone and Ten Lovers are vintage Y&T rockers. There are some filler tracks, but they're more than offset by the album's better songs.

It's not a perfect album by any means, but it's still a good Y&T album and one that shouldn't be dismissed lightly.

PS - I'd love to have a remastered version of this album (and Contagious too, while we're at it) to go along with the other great reissues the band has released lately.

Contains Some Good Songs
I find this to be a pretty good album. It's about on the same level as the previous album Contagious. Quite a few songs are on this album: the best being "Hard Times," "Let it Out," and "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark." Not bad.