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Autograph is the textbook example of my musical worst enemy: L.A. hair metal. More specifically, a talentless rock band that jumped on the bandwagon of groups like Van Halen, with their diluted and unbearably cheesy distortion of classic British heavy metal into a form more suited to the disco-loving American public. A band that was catapulted to success instantly merely for sounding exactly the same as these ludicrous rock blasphemers, and saw its popularity slowly decline throughout the rest of the decade before calling it quits and leaving the music behind once it was no longer a profitable venture, a couple of years before Nirvana and other grunge bands made nineties ...  Read the complete review