songs

Nikki Sixx - Life is beautiful ... watch the video ... same feelin' than if i die tomorrow
UDO - Tears of the clown, Vendetta, Borderline
Masterplan - Crimson rider, I am not afraid, Wounds, Back to my life
Megadeth - Washington is next
Scorpions - Humanity, We were born to fly, the future never dies, Love is war
Magnum - You'll never sleep, When we were younger, inside your head, Your lies
Saxon - If i was you
Paul Stanley - Live to win
Pride of Lions - Defying gravity, gone

LA Guns - Magdalaine, City of Angels, One more reason, One way ticket, It's over now, Over the edge
Manowar - Return of the warlord, Swords in the wind
UDO - 2 Faced women
Bob Catley - Dreams, the pain, Tender is the night, Scream, Wraigth of the rings
Blitzkrieg - blitzkrieg
Magnum - On a storytellers night, how far jerusalem, before first light ...

Ghost of a Rose

I love japanese records and more when they are a real bargain...

I love Ritchie as a guitar player, I have all Rainbow LPs and other several records, and with his new band teaming with nicest Candice voice you cant help but finding 3 or 4 songs really awesome in each record.

Way to Mandalay and record title are here the best ones, and also quite interesting is Joan Baez's Diamond and Rust.

9/10 nice to have

World service

I would have never paid attention to this one if it was not because Brian Tatler played in it... his name appears only as songwriter and I do not know how much he'd played. There is one song that's worth the record Red sun blue moon, the rest is not bad but is not good, so this one I would recommend only to DH fans as me...

Although you can enjoy the listening as well.



7/10 dh fans only

A time of changes

I really need to dig in carefully within these two. First time of changes was the record who make their print in NWOBHM.

Second record (phase I) is a nicest 2CD compilation.

Blitzkrieg is the name of the song, same of the band which represents typical HM NWOBHM feeling.

You can say the same with Holocaust's HM Mania, DH's Helpless, PM Cheated, Grim Reaper's See you in Hell, Witchfynde's Give 'em Hell, Angel Witch's Angel Witch ... songs with attitude ... and as long the attitude's in there, and as well songwriting skills you have these immortal ones (free radio of course :-) )

Still to make a proper listening...

8/10 great to have

loose worth songs II

return of the warlord from manowar' louder than hell. this song is just outstanding and it really means heavy metal, heavy and melodic, with great solos, great riffs and great songwriting.



swords in the wind again from manowar' warriors of the world. great ballad, invoking god of war odin. truly epic and very nice, with power.
now you can see that eric not only can sing, but he does really well, and composition is not a weak point in this song. vikings days are pictured in this one.


i'm not afraid from masterplan' aeronautics. i liked the record the first time i heard it. but after a second listening i got haunted, specially by 4 tracks, one of these is this one. i can't get enough of this one. haunting chorus and powerful lyrics. a monster.



astronomo from barilari selft titled record. this is a cover from rainbow's stargazer. lyrics in spanish. but it is a real good damned tribute, since rata blanca sounds like rainbow. cool.




tears of the dragons tears of the dragons from jr blackmore's between darkness and light. this is actually a great discovery. i really did not imagine he could sound as well as his father. he deserves recogntion for this record. a great one



nobody's fool from cinderella's night songs has been to this day the only song i liked from this record. again it is not a ballad but a mid tempo with energy and obsessive rythm. this is an old one, but i song i can get enough of. just this one. fortunately, cinderella has better records :)




no stranger to love from tony iommi 7th star record. great solo, great riffs from tony and majestic voice from glenn hughes. another song i can't get enough of. black sabbath talkin' about love? commercial? who cares, as long as the song rocks!




dreamer from ozzy's down to earth. strange, somehow i relate this record to rainbow's, but had nothing yo do. ozzy is not a singer that i love. few songs are able to impress me. this one is a mellow ballad which i find quite interesting





shot in the dark from ozzy's ultimate sin is the greatest song he has ever done, singing in the right key ... i mean, the version megadeth did of paranoid sounded a million times better. but this song is just hypnothic for me, it has more to do with the rythm than the melody, but anyway, the song is awesome. it was the first song that made me re-think my wrong concept of ozzy. :-)


julia (acoustic version) from axxis. somehow obsessed by this song, a peaceful acoustic very melodic. melancholic piano & acoustic ballad. very nice.






the last note of freedom is a song for david coverdale. the song was written, he went and sang. the song is great, the solos are brilliant, and david's voice just fits like a glove, a very nice discovering from the past thanks to internet.

No parole from RNR

I guess this is another very underrated record ... :-(
One of the best voices of the heavy metal scene in the 80s. Ccolorful & powerful. Did I say I have the japanese record? :-)
But not only the voice from Graham Bonnet shines, but all together: composition, guitars (Yngwie Malmsteen) & arrangements: all the band
too young to die, too drunk to live , island in the sun, general hospital, jet to jet, starcarr lane (which I never understood what was for ...) the ballad suffer me, and the superb Hiroshima, mon amour, a song which expreses the no-more-wars feeling. Truly impressive.
The voice is heavy and it has a wide range as Rob Halford's, but i would say even more acute. Not as majestic as Ronnie James Dio, but great and powerful. In my opinion Graham Bonnet deserves to be in this elite of the greatest singers.
The guitar sounds as thunder but with feeling and melody. I've heard that this was the best work from Mr. Bonnet, well it may be true, since it is a fantastic work... I can only recommend it :-)

10/10 indispensable

Agent provocateur

I will fight tooth and nail, count on me i will not fail you ...
we can't be strangers, you mean too much to me ...

Rocks!. Yes, it was the foreigner factor ;-)
Often accused as Journey ... too many ballads...
Tooth and nail, that was yesterday, the famous I want to know what love is -I guess everybody knows, but me, I had to buy this record to know it :-S-, a love in vain, 2 different worlds ...
They knew how to rock, and to be softer, Foreigner deserves a place in the kingdom of heart breaker ballads, power ballads and medium tempos. They are the ones who can dispute Journey the highest place in AOR
Agent provocateur and 4 are the best records from this band, but in the others you still will find four or five great songs per record.
This one I got as a gift from my girlfriend (love & kisses), and it was a great surprise :-)

9/10 a must buy

Heaven and Hell

I did never like Black Sabbath. Until i knew that Ronnie James Dio played too. Then I bought this record, because a friend of mine told me: "you're gonna like it". "Sure?" I answered, "Not a doubt" he replied.
It only has 8 songs and there was no f**ckin' booklet, just the words:

The world is full of kings and queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
It's heaven and hell

Which later I recognized in the title track. The album is a monstruous achievement. 4 awesome outstanding songs:
heaven and hell, neon knights, children of the sea and die young, maybe my favourite, but it is hard to tell.
The other ones are good ones, but these four are known to every metal head proud to be.

The riffs came from Tony Iommi, but they seem to be out from hell, Ronnie James Dio's voice was majestic and powerful, and composition and lyrics just fit in.

10/10 brilliant.Timeless.

a tale that wasn't right

Here I stand all alone
Have my mind turned to stone
Have my heart filled up with ice
To avoid it's breakin' twice

Thank to you, my dear old friend
But you can't help, this is the end
Of a tale that wasn't right
I won't have no sleep tonight

In my heart, in my soul
I really hate to pay this toll
Should be strong, young and bold
But the only thing I feel is pain

It's alright, we'll stay friends
Trustin' in my confidence
And let's say it's just alright
You won't sleep alone tonight

With my heart, with my soul
Some guys cry you bought and sold
They've been strong, young and bold
And they say, play this song again

The Tower

This is a great record. And the japanese version that I have, makes more even happier since it has the bootleg extra cd, Live at the Gods. This is a nice way to make a record not great, but outstanding.
The first time I heard Bob singing in Storyteller's I saw a great singer. When I saw Once and future king, I saw in Gary a great composer.
Then, 2+2 makes a great record. Gary composes and plays, Bob sings. Though the record seems a solo work 'a la Rod Stewart', the band is behind, giving quality to the record. so Vinny Burns, Gary Hughes and Bob Catley are the artists who make worth your money for this release.
Dreams and Scream are my instant favourites, but all the songs should have honourable mention, since it is a very complete record. The addition of the bonus record, makes added value to my collection :-)

10/10 brilliant

Misplaced childhood

The first record they made gave 2 instant classics. but this one, the 3rd one, made them famous worldwide. Do you know how many baby girls were named Kayleigh due to one song of this record?? If this does not have the power of music, nothing has ...

Kayleigh, lavender are amongst the best songs in the record, but the whole record is really brilliant: pseudo silk kimono (I would like to know where the hell they got these titles, but Script for a jester's tear is some), heart of Lothian ...
This record (again 2cd -live + demo bonus included) put Marillion into map.
9/10 brilliant

Brave

Another one that I can't remember ... but for one song, that maybe, maybe is the best song Marillion ever made, and made a bunch of good damn ones.
This song is The great escape. This song really justifies an average record ... few songs can make it ...

Just when I thought I’d seen the last of you
You come here scratchin’ at my door
Your pain and anger’s in the howling dark
Of every corridor I walk

So tell me more about the love that you rejected
Tell me more about the trust you disrespected
I still don’t know, why did you hurt the very one
Why did you hurt the very one that you should have protected?

Again I have the 2cd edition, though I really have not remember listening to the second one ... I think it is cool ..

7/10 nice to have

Holidays in Eden

This is not a record I use to listen now... but there are at least 2 really great songs:
Splintering heart, is just incredible, and can't stand why it did not make the best of.
No one can, is the soft ballad every girl dream of ... so accused of syrupy and so on ... don't care ... I like it too.
Waiting to happen, cover my eyes ...

Another great thing of this record is that it is a 2cd record with b-sides & live cool collection.

7/10 nice to have

Pure

8 songs only, just a new version of fly (I prefer the original) which are acoustic remake versions.
The songs are great: Sucker for a pretty face, and I really like both versions, bigger man, kisses stain, promise her the moon, big love ...

It is a kind of ep, since it is too short, but it is really good what is inside, maybe it should have been cheaper, but I did not care buying it, so I am happy.

Nice record, nice booklet too. Also has a video for fly.

But I guess, if this has come as a bonus record from one of his records, it would have been superb.

8/10 nice to have

I'm goin' sane

Though I love Eric Martin, I have only few favourites from this one, so I bought it because it was really cheap. It has a punk touch that makes me not liking the record as I would have wanted to.
My disease is the best song of the record, heavy, with the don't care attitude, complaining of everything. Great.
Then the ballad, bigger man, it is incredible, really nice, and everyday, the same but just a bit low in comparison with the first one.
These are the songs that I like most, but only a moment, untouchable, spaceman,goin' sane... are not bad, just not as great.

But another song I really love, it made only the japanese version: fly.

7/10 nice to have

Hey man

Hey man was a bit deception. I expected something better. And there are already 4 songs really good, but after Bump ahead, which each time I hear it I like it more (and I am searching the japanese version)... I wanted something better
Trapped in toyland is just ok for me. The party begins with take cover, a darkened song, whose video, in black and white is really great. Goin' where the wind blows is a great acoustic song too. If that's what it takes is a great mid tempo also. And then my favourite, dancin' right into the flame, an absolute precious and original romantic love song. Simply beautiful.
The rest of songs are just average, really but the songs mentioned are really great, but, I expected a better record (did i say it already?) ... sometimes is better to low expectations ;-)
The line up was great, and above all, I love Eric's voice.

The lyrics are in. Great videos from the songs.

7/10 nice to have

Smokin Valves

This compilation is somewhat similar to Trespass. 2cd, plenty of good music.
Nearly all Nightcomers record is in there, the debut record and the one which game them fame, basically by the anthem Heavy metal mania. This song is just awesome. Nightcomers, death or glory, smokin valves ... good songs but not as intense as hm mania.

It includes another hit they make them famous, the small hours, which was covered by metallica, so years after, they covered Metallica's Master of puppets. :-)

Once they changed the name to Hologram -for one record-, maintaining the same kind of logo.
total are 26 songs, with a great booklet too. Indispensable for NWOBHM fans. So underrated ...

8/10 great to have. NWOBHM indispensable

one of these days

one of these days is a great compilation from different recordings from one band which despite not being lucky, had a great potential.

one of these days and stormchild are songs in which can be appreciated the words i just have said.. This 2cd compilation has several recordings from the songs, for example it has 3 different versions from one of these days, and b-sides, and different recordings. you can not complain when a 2cd record has 33 songs, from different recordings, and a 12-pages booklet with photos and interesting facts :-)

the booklet explains a bit the story so it is ok. if lyrics would have also been there i could not have asked for more
visionary is another favourite from mine.

8/10 great to have, for nwobhm fans

eternal infinity

eternal infinity was the solo record from tony o'hora which was done besides the immortal forever in time.
it could have been nearly as huge as this one, since this record is great but it lacks speed. yes, i do like mid tempos, but some times the songs need to be slow, sometimes they need to be fast ... in this one unfortunately i missed speed. the speed which is on over the edge, the best song of the record.
other good songs are hurts like hell, remember my name, never meant to make you cry, voices, end of an era ...

the songwriting is excellent, the tempo is not so right ... :-(

also i miss the japanese cover, which i find it very nice, ala rnr over from kiss. why do they change it for europe/u.s.? ... i find it st***d

8/10 it could have been great-er

waking up the neighbours

2 songs make the disk for me:
thought i'd died and gone to heaven and there will never be another tonight.
for these 2 songs this record is worth having. they have some kind of magic which got me haunted since the beginning, so i did not mind buying

again, as reckless , it is no so cool, but it has great songs. everything i do, do i have to say the words, can't stop this thing we started
not bad depend on me, vanishing all i want is you
mutt lange hand is clearly shown, good stuff signal.

bryan is a good singer and a better compositor, always surrounded by good musicians so the result is at least 2 or 3 great songs per record. hard rock, rnr, whatever, good music :-)

8/10 great to have

reckless

i admit today i would not buy this record ... and not because it does not have cool good songs, but because it does not look so cool in my collection. :-S ... anyway, i do not mean i don't mind in having it -as i have commented about other big hits, mainly- ... and I LIKE IT
run to you, heavem and summer of 69 are great tracks. yes, great tracks.
run to you has a curious lyrics since it talks about infidelity .. not sure in the video if it is for a woman or a guitar :-D

I know her love is true
But it's so damn easy makin' love to you

heaven, though, is the opposite, your long romantic love from ever and ever; summer is to rock
it's only love is a duet with TT ...
so the record is ok, i would say it is still something in between hard rock and just rnr. no big problem there

8/10 nice to have

skid row

skid row's first opus was one of the first cds i bought. after liking slave to the grind, i was told i would like that one. so i trusted ...
skid row has 3 absolutely great songs: 18 and life, i remember you and the main anthem: youth gone wild
the first one is a powerballad, the second is a less powerballad and the last one is a damn f**ckin' heavy memorable anthem.
you gotta love it :)
i like also sweet little sister and big guns. piece of me and midnight tornado are not bad either...
the rest is forgettable.
it is much more simplistic -compared to the 2nd opus-, but composition is good and vocals are fantastic. they could have been a great group since they had talent and manners, but sadly they separated ...

8/10 nice to have

Heaven and Earth

A friend of mine told me he liked the cover art. What about the music?
this is a project from Stuart Smith. What is a project? It is, usually, the concept of a guitar player and some singers contribute in several songs.
Most notable singer is Joe Lynn Turner, who does specially well in Shadow of Tyburn tree, and the title record, heaven & earth...
Richie Sambora makes a great intervention in another great song, with feelin', Deep Purple cover, When a blind man cries, also singing. Richie has a really nice voice who always has lived at Jon's shadow ... at least he knows to play greatly guitar.
The rest are just average songs, but there are quite a lot of well known rock musicians, so I would say this is worth your money ...

8/10 great to have

grandes canciones

i can't remember exactly why i bought this record, ... i hadn't heard mujer amante yet but i knew it sounded like rainbow, and i had heard astronomo, being barilari's spanish version of stargazer, so i had to try out.
it is not a record i use to listen to but it is a great compilation, that is for sure.
a great double cd, lyrics in, and nice booklet.
and the music also, it sound like rainbow. it has excellent songs, amongst them: the famous mujer amante, noche sin sueño -nice instrumental-, el sueño de la gitana, por que es tan dificil amar, the story of la leyenda del hada y el mago, really really great, capricho arabe ...
also, as a bonus it has 4 videos in the second cd. well, this is really nice. a nice surprise.

i love buying cds, but without knowing that they will be soo good. highly recommended for all rainbow fans. though i prefer the music in english, rata blanca are able to sing really well

10/10 brilliant compilation.

nine lives

the last record i bought from aerosmith. not a brilliant one... well i guess i exige always most to the well known bands.
i like very much: falling in love, taste of india, and yes, i like the -bonus- ballad i do not want to miss a thing... yes, so comercial... ok, but i like it.
the ballad hole in my soul is a great one, also, but i prefer the old ones as what it takes, cryin' or crazy ... special mention to angel

so this is a strange record. ia m supposed to like more songs from this super band, but ... i really do not dig in into most of the second part of the record. shame

7/10 just nice to have

destination anywhere

second solo record for jon bon jovi. a peaceful one, with, maybe, a soul smile ...
curiously, the track that i love most is the heaviest one, or i think so. it is carried full of emotion, anger and resignation at the same time. it is the track that puts this record in the map, and maybe help his personal ghosts. August 7th, 4:15 came unfortunately from a tragedy, and i guess jon put his soul into it. great song, sad loss. maybe it reminds me to praying mantis naked, another great song from a sad loss.
the other song i dig in is midnight in chelsea. it is nice, peaceful.
the rest of the record still has to be discovered ... time to time

7/10 very nice to have

Mr Moonlight

When I first heard it, I saw it was no more classic Foreigner ... :-(
but ... there were pretty damn good songs: White lie, rain, under the gun, hand on my heart, and overall the one which haunts me most: running the risk, where Lou sings his heart off, a passioned song with feelin'...
So it is true, no more classic songs, but a Foreigner record can not be bad. The team Lou-Mick was a powerful one, and sadly will not be in the next studio record, which might exit out by middle year ...

8/10 very nice to have

The very best and Beyond ... Foreigner

A great compilation with 3 new songs, 2 of them outstanding: With heaven on our side and prisoner of love. Lyrics included, but just for the new songs
This is a great way of making a greatest hits.
Nearly all of their hits are here:

Cold as ice, feels like the first time,
hot blooded, double vision,
head games, rev on the red line,
urgent -please see that saxo solo! amazing-,
waiting for a girl like you, that was yesterday, I want to know what love is...

Just missing: Long long way from home, starrider... but you can not ask for more in one CD only. I would not have minded to be a 2cd compilation.

Composition teamed Jones/Gramm is perfect, Lou's voice is also full of feeling and power.

Did I say I love Foreigner... without a doubt with Journey, the kings of aor, heart- breaking/ breathing ballads who also rock with power.

10/10 brilliant

The day i went mad

This actually deceived me. It is long since I do not listen to it.
Only liked the title track, which is a poor.
Not classic rockers, not classic ballads... a record to forget, in my humble opinion, and I have nearly all of his.
But truth be told, this one I do not like it.
Even that most of the record is written by (his wife?... not sure about this, I would have to check...), and I know some of the songs written by Jo, I like them, but the ones in this record, unfortunately not...

5/10 just for gb gans

Let the wild run free

This one as the other one.
Best ones: let the wild run free, Jimi Hendrix's the wind cries mary and In a perfect world.
Of course, a f**king booklet with nothing in it, no lyrics, no photos, just the credits.
None of the songs composed by Graham Bonnet (why?), and 4 or 5 songs i can not stand for, but somehow, the ones mentioned save the record.

I guess it is also rare and hard to find ....

7/10 nice to have