13 Best Hidden Tracks On Hard Rock Albums

12. Buckcherry - "Open My Eyes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK90o0rRK3Y This is the closest thing to an 80s power ballad that Buckcherry ever produced, as cheesy as Motley Crue's "Home Sweet Home" but with all the heart (and grandiosity) of "Tiny Dancer." In album chalk full of sleazy lyrics and excessive guitar wankery, Buckcherry completely drops the facade of sex, drugs, and juvenile 'tudes in the final act to express some unabashedly earnest emotions the only way they know how: with a corny ode to the most basic facets of love. Is it a little cheap, tacking something this dopily sweet onto the end of an album that actually contains a song unironically called "Porno Star"? Yep. But that somehow doesn't take away any of its charm.
 
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