Hard Rock Sleaze Glam AOR HEAVY
Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Disc (release) country: EU
Publication year: 2023
Publisher (label): Lion’s Pride Music
Country of the performer (group): Denmark
1. Destination Unknown (3:59)
2. A Place Where Anything Can Happen (3:37)
3. Broken (06:24)
4. Rise Again (05:01)
5. High Roller (3:56)
6. Run Away (03:50)
7 Lesson Learned (4:14)
8 Comfort Or Freedom (04:04)
9. Finally Breathing (3:41)
10. Long Ago (04:33)
Genre: Melodic Rock / AOR
Disc (release) country: EU
Year of publication: 2018 (1995)
Publisher (label): Minotauro
Country of performer (group): Germany
Tracklist:
1. A Question Of Time (4:51)
2. Victim On The Run (3:47)
3. It’s My Way Of Lovin’ You (3:53)
4. Birds Of A Feather (3:45)
5. Stand By Me (3:28)
6. Rose In The Garden (3:54)
7. Go Girl (4:28)
8. No More (4:21)
9. I Ask You Now (4:23
Genre: Melodic Rock / AOR
Disc (release) country: UK
Publication year: 2023
Publisher (label): Escape Music
Country of the performer (group): UK
Tracklist:
1. Dead Men Walking (4:01)
2. Not Today (3:52)
3. Digging That Hole (4:12)
4. Call Of The Wild (4:01)
5. My Frankenstein (3:39)
6 Atlantic Highway (04:11)
7. Dancing Eyes (4:07)
8. Waiting For You (4:18)
9. Sleeping Dogs (4:08)
10. Rock Road (3:24)
11. Ironstone (4:16)
Genre: Hard Rock / AOR
Disk (release) country: Japan
Publication year: 2023
Publisher (label): Avalon
Country of artist (group): US
Tracklist:
1. Lady Of The Valley (6:48)
2. Little Fighter (4:30)
3. Broken Heart (04:13)
4. Love Don’t Come Easy (3:39)
5. Hungry (04:21)
6. Cry For Freedom (4:29)
7. Going Home Tonight (4:38)
8. Wait (04:17)
9. All The Fallen Men (4:38)
10. Living On The Edge (4:43)
11. Tell Me (4:43)
12. When The Children Cry (5:06)
13. Cry For Freedom (Alternative Version) (4:25)
Genre: Hard Rock
Disc (release) country: UK
Publication year: 2022
Publisher (label): Not On Label
Country of the performer (group): UK
Tracklist:
1. One Way Ticket (03:41)
2. Hit Me Again (3:34)
3. Chaos Is Calling (3:21)
4. Back For More (3:56)
5. Imagine What We Could’ve Been (02:58)
6 Mississippi Swinging (3:26)
7. Hell Fire And Holy Water (4:00)
8. Downfall (3:52)
9. Never Going To Stay (3:21)
10. Dead Man Walking (3:47)
One of the most representative albums from the classy female fronted AOR / Melodic Rock golden era has been remastered by Rock Candy Records “No Bed Of Roses“, by IF ONLY, featuring superb vocalist Tina Egan. The reissue includes 5 bonus tracks where also the great Jackie Bodimead appears delivering her tremendous vocal pipes.
Formed in 1988 and driven by guitarist and talented songwriter Greg Hart (ex Moritz, and who later went on to form Cats In Space), the band was fronted by singer Jackie Bodimead who had built up a solid reputation as a member of both Girlschool and Rock Goddess, two of the most successful and well known of the all female British hard rock bands.
Jackie’s voice lent the mater
When The Yardbirds croaked, up burst a BOX OF FROGS… this band was formed by three members of The Yardbirds – Chris Dreja, Paul Samwell-Smith, and Jim McCarty – but since there names are not Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page or Jeff Beck, most would not recognize their names on the same plaque as those other three mega-famous guitarists in The Yardbirds.
On June 23, 1983, as part of London’s historic Marquee Club’s 25th Anniversary celebrations, three original Yardbirds musicians found themselves together on stage again. This same venue had been a regular nightspot for the legendary guitar-based blues-rock band that was the springboard for the likes of Clapton, Beck and Page.
For Paul, Chris and Jim, the reunion made them realize they had to make mor
New CD’s are arriving to our mailbox, and we’re featuring ’em in fake at trashbox. Reissue label Bad Reputation is well known for resurrecting hard to find albums from the ’80s, mostly from the melodic hard rock field. But from time to time, the company surprises us with unexpected releases.
One of these is the just appeared remastered reissue of MELVIN JAMES 1987’s album “The Passenger“. With a catchy set of tunes sounding like a mix of Billy Idol, Bryan Adams, Stan Meissner, etc, and a clean polished production, “The Passenger” is absolutely ‘Eighties’.
Already a seasoned studio expert, Melvin co-produced the album with Bill Szymczyk (The Who, Eagles’ Hotel Califor