The recording quality of this CD is great. It's how every metal/hard rock CD should sound. The guitars aren't all muddy and washed out. They're loud, but clear, and you can still hear the vocals and everything else over them. Sounds GREAT cranked up. Extreme's best album without a doubt.


Stunningly accomplished.   January 29, 2000
Karl John Krumrey IV (Detroit area, Mi)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

In every era of music, there's those bands that just have talent coming out their orifices, yet somehow slip through the cracks of the mainstream audience. Extreme is this era's underrated wonder. Sadly they are categorized by their two mainstream hits (from this album) 'More than Words' and 'Hole Hearted'. While they're both great songs, lord, there's so much more to this band.

From the power-chord kickoff of Decadent Dance, the listener knows that their proverbial a**es are about to be kicked for an hour. Aside from the occasional ballad, this album rocks out without a shred of filler. Cherone finally settles into a comfortable Freddie Mercury-ish vocal style that suits him and the music perfectly. Nuno's guitar playing is kicked into high octane from their debut album, it's more well-timed, restrained, yet way out of the league of 95% of the musical population. The rhythm section is at their best on this recording, as well.

This album's only shortcoming is that it loses it's momentum towards the end. Suzi (Wants her all day What?) seems to be a filler song, and 'When I First Kissed You', while certainly loungey, loose, and different, won't appeal to everyone. It picks up again with Nuno's blistering 'Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee' guitar interlude, and the final three songs are more masterpeices.

Pornograffiti is the album to start with when looking into this sadly overlooked group. Their best was yet to come, though.


How about a fun album for a change?   May 21, 2001
Bill Allison (Southwest Missouri, United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I was really late, discovering these guys. Sure I had heard "more than words" and "hole hearted" but I always just kinda blew them off. In 1994, the heyday of grunge and doom-rock, A musician friend of mine turned me on to Extreme. It seems that most guitar players listen to these guys because of Nuno Bettencourt's guitar playing. It's pretty amazing. To me these guys came across like a breath of fresh air. This album is full of suprises. The guitar playing is some of the best I have EVER heard and Gary Cherone's vocals are solid. My only problem is actually keeping a copy. They always get "borrowed" by my friends. After seven years, this album has never gotten old. One thing that seperates Extreme from the rest of the bands to come from their era (Poison, Whitesnake, Kix, SLaughter) aside from talent, is their song-writing skills. They sang about more than just driving fast cars and getting laid. Their debut album was good, but this is way better.

It's still nice, in a world full of Godsmacks and Slipknots, to be able to throw something like this in the player from time to time. Great album.


blew me away   March 27, 2003
Eduardo N. Carrillo (San Antonio, TX USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Toward the late '80s I was getting very disillusioned with all this glam rock. Everyone sounded the same. Then Extreme came along. I bought this cd for More Than Words, but was extremely surprised by what I heard. Normally, it takes a while for a cd to grow on me; to hear the music; to look more closely at the lyrics. Not so with Pornograffitti! Immediately with the opening song, Decadence Dance, and all throughout I was totally blown away by how original and exciting this band was. Nuno is a guitar wizard, guitar god, guitar genius and every other superlative you can think of. Their vocal harmonies are amazing , Gary's lyrics are very creative and poetic at times, and Nuno's guitar work and solos are breath-taking. This is just an amazing cd on all levels. It revived my interest in music and continues to be my all time favorite work by Nuno Bettencourt. I would recommend this to any and every rock fan.


MORE THAN "more than words"..THIS ALBUM ROCKS!   May 20, 2005
Eddie Lancekick (Pacific Northwest)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

Perhaps their best, most solid album. I gave the original 5 stars as well. However this thing has 13 unforgettable songs on it. When bands like Firehouse and Slaughter were adding some filler to thier released, these guys seemed to make sure they had a true rocker or solid "balad". The songwriting is excellent and covers everything from people and politics to loves lost and found.

Nuno Bettencourt is supreme on guitars and if you have not checked out his work, you should. Often referred to as the "Eddie Van Halen" of the 90's, Nuno's tracks include a solo called "flight of the bumblebee" that was originally a violin piece. It opens up into the garbled computer voice saying "NO WOMAN ALLOWED" and then the band breaks into "He man woman hater", a great rocking song that is one of their best. Ballads are on here to but are more of a classical or even blues perspective than the typical sappy 80's ballad that saturated the rock world in the late 80's and early 90's.

Guitar, Piano, Cherones singing..I love this album and never get tired of listening to it. A VERY SOLID SOPHOMORE EFFORT!


1. Decadence Dance
2. Li'l Jack Horny
3. When I'm President
4. Get the Funk Out
5. More Than Words
6. Honey (In God We Trust)
7. It ('s a Monster)
8. Pornograffitti
9. When I First Kissed You
10. Suzie (Wants Her All Day What?)
11. He-Man Woman Hater
12. Song for Love
13. Hole Hearted