Tuff
What Comes Around Goes Around

“What Comes Around Goes Around” is the first album by Tuff, where they more or less managed to maintain a definitive line-up for at least 4 years, with Stevie Rachelle on vocals in place of the original Jim Gillette, with whom, referring to albums, they never achieved anything concrete.

We can say that the discography of this group consists of practically only two albums, the first being the one I am about to review, from 1991, the second one is from 1995, “Religious Fix,” which is nothing more than their album from the previous year, “Fist First” with the addition of 3 new tracks. The story of these poor Tuff, I must admit, is truly unfortunate, both because throughout their “career” they did nothing but change band members, and especially because of the years they found themselves playing: the Glam Years were inexorably coming to an end and a new movement was beginning to take its place in the music scene: Grunge, a rampant phenomenon that leaves no room for anything else, especially for these 4 guys trying to bring back something that was overexposed in the '80s and now distant.
However, despite the bad luck, this album is not something to completely discard and when I need something that doesn't weigh too heavily on my brain, I listen to it because I like Stevie Rachelle's voice and because it is a genre that is not very demanding, very catchy, and musical, which I would call pop, if not for the singer and the distortions, and indeed, for this very reason, it is often referred to as Pop-Metal.

As for the album “What Comes Around Goes Around,” there aren't many notes to make, as there is nothing more to say about the music genre in question. Perhaps the only thing worth mentioning is the ballad at number 3 (incidentally, I've noticed many artists place the slow song at the third track of the album), titled “I Hate Kissin’ You Good-bye” for which there is also a video available, which brought the band some notoriety when it aired on MTV…
As the title suggests, the song is not exactly sweet and tear-jerking, and the vocal interpretation is fantastic, as the slow rhythm is paired with an angry and melancholic voice…