10 Great Songs On Otherwise Terrible Albums

There's only a handful of MTV starlets who can claim to have survived the '90s. Aside from being reshaped by the grunge revolution, the sounds of acts like Duran Duran and Cyndi Lauper were looking more and more passe once artists like Pearl Jam started to grace the charts. Even though Billy Idol should have fallen on his face, Shock to the System proved to be at least the start of something interesting.

Going in a more synthetic direction on Cyberpunk, this song is much like what you'd come to expect from an Idol single, having that same punk meets rock and roll energy that he was known for on stuff like Rebel Yell. Once you had the album in your hands though, this was probably the closest thing to a true Billy Idol song as you could muster, with the rest of the record being centered around a pseudo industrial sound that sounds like if Nine Inch Nails were trying to parody themselves.

Aside from some of the more dated tracks like his cover of Heroin, Shock to the System still feels like it could stand along side the other Idol classics, having the same some of drive that most fans have come to expect after all these years. While every artist is free to experiment, in this case, Billy Idol may have been better suited to sticking to what he knew like this.