BlakJak – You Say You Love Me 1993


Category: AOR
Year: 1993
Label: RDR Promotions

Tracks
1. You Say You Love Me
2. Shake It Down
3. Strike Out
4. The Darkness
5. Takin a Trip
6. Lean Machine
7. Running Out of Time
8. Guess
9. Listen to My Love Beat
10. Someone Special
11. Bop Hop
12. Leave Me Be

Blakjak vocals, producer
James Linden Burton drums
Timothy Johns guitar
Dave Murphy keyboard
Neil Numminen bass
John Pagnotta saxophone

Chris Herriges – Come What May 1990


Majestic Records indie release from Chris Herriges, entitled, “Come What May”. Chris Herriges is a tremendous AOR Artist that hails from Minnesota. Huge, bombastic keyboards and layered vocals make this one of the essential releases in the AOR/Melodic Rock genre. Herriges has a similar style to Rick Mathews, Keven Jordan and John Farnham. A few of the tracks remind of Stan Bush. Killer harmonies on all nine songs – no fillers.

1. Come What May
2. Its Not Too Late
3. Sweet, True Companion
4. Look My Way
5. Break Me Out
6. In Your Time
7. All Too Much
8. Higher

MICHAEL PATTO – Time To Be Right (1991)


MICHAEL PATTO is a British musician, songwriter and producer. Born of Mike Patto Snr. who was a highly respected Rock musician (Spooky Tooth, Patto, Timebox, Boxer), Michael started out on bass but switched to piano in his late teens and soon began to write his own songs.

01. So Much For The Lovin’
02. Calling
03. Few Good Moments
04. Hold On
05. Paradise Has Gone
06. (I’ve Got) Love Enough For Two
07. Time To Be Right
08. The Very Thought Of You
09. What Can I Do
10. Don

David Diggs – Westcoastal 1999


Country: UK
Genre: WeastCoast
Year: 1999

01 – Lonely Weekend (Russell Ferrante, Curiale, Ricky Lawson & Bobby Caldwell)
02 – Framed By Love (David Diggs)
03 – Easier Said Than Dance (Tom Saviano & Jeanne Alexander)
04 – Fallen Angel (Billy Batstone)
05 – Backbone (David Diggs & Pat Boone)
06 – Don’t Look Back (Tom Saviano)
07 – Jamie (Billy Batstone)
08 – Say Goodbye (Mary Ella Meek-Cummings)
09 – Light The Light (Bob Wilson)
10 – Love Won’t Always

SAME SAME – Ready To Go (1991)


Via one song at Youtube I was tipped off by this album a while back, and here you’ll get the full album reviewed. SAME SAME was a 2-piece consisting of (or centred around) siblings GERTY SEDLMAYR (lead vocals) and OTTO SEDLMAYR (keys, production) from Austria. Any fan of soft AOR will be eager to hear this gem, since it is among the best “new/unknown” albums I’ve come across over the past few years. There are even some westcoast vibes in a few songs.

The mix of soft AOR and some westcoast vibes are clear in “Why did you quit”. There is also the very soft and dreaml

DAN HILL – Partial Surrender (1981)


Canadian singer-songwriter DAN HILL is not a stranger to this blog. Today, here’s a request by a reader for one of Hill’s hardest to find albums, “Partial Surrender”, from 1981.

01 – I’m Just A Man
02 – All I Want Is You
03 – Don’t Give Up On Love
04 – Somewhere In The Distance
05 – Just A Piece Of Your Heart
06 – Pray That It’s Love
07 – Pandora’s Song
08 – Something’s Wrong
09 – Fumiko
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L.A. Guns – Golden Bullets (2003) Lossless

Artist: L.A. Guns  Title Of Album: Golden Bullets  Year Of Release: 2003  Genre: Hard Rock  Country: USA  Format: WAVPack (image+.cue, scans)   Size: 616 Mb

 

Tracklist:

01. Slap In The Face (03:55)
02. Sex Action (03:55)
03. Ritual (03:54)
04. Electric Gypsy (03:48)
05. Ballad Of Jayne (05:17)
06. Nothing Better To Do (Live) (02:37)
07. Over The Edge (Live) (06:17)
08. One More Reason (Live) (04:01)
09. Time (04:48)
10. Long Time Dead (Live) (03:50)
11. Never Enough (04:10)