Band:	Britny Fox
Album:	Boys In Heat
Style:	Glam metal, Hard rock
Release date:	October 1989

01. In Motion
02. Standing In The Shadows
03. Hair Of The Dog [Nazareth cover]
04. Livin' On A Dream
05. She's So Lonely
06. Dream On
07. Long Way From Home
08. Plenty Of Love
09. Stevie
10. Shine On
11. Angel In My Heart
12. Left Me Stray
13. Longroad

1989's Boys In Heat is the second album from Philly-based hair metallers Britny Fox. I was crazy about their self-titled debut album when I was a freshman in high school, but was underwhelmed by this one.

Boys In Heat is a solid enough album, but it's probably my least favorite of the band's first three releases. It has some good songs, but there is also a fair amount of filler. ''Standing in the Shadows'' and ''Angel in My Heart'' are pretty catchy singles reminiscent of ''Long Way To Love'', and ''Dream On'' is the rare ballad that manages to avoid sounding like Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". The cover of Nazareth's ''Hair Of The Dog'' was a nice touch, but given how much their sound relies on AC/DC you wonder why they didn't just cover "Back In Black" and get it over with. Aside from those four songs, the album starts to fall apart a bit. It maintains a steady rocking pace, but the songs start to blend together after a while.

This was the last Britny Fox album to feature Dean Davidson on vocals, which in retrospect seems like a good deal. The band's follow-up album Bite Down Hard had some much needed energy, and Davidson's new venture Blackeyed Susan was just as impressive.