In Brief

** 1/2 Tattoo Rodeo, “Rode Hard--Put Away Wet,” Atlantic. Had the members of Bon Jovi lived through a little more down ‘n’ dirty carousing before they went into the studio to record “Slippery When Wet,” it might have sounded something like this. A thin blues base and some unashamedly raunchy lyrics help the debut album by these Los Angeles bad boys stand out from the ever-swelling hard-rock crowd.

Albums are rated on a scale of one asterisk (poor) to five (a classic).