Category: Melodic Rock | AOR

Easily among the best female fronted AOR ever recorded, all the songs on this CD are fantastic. Why Darby Mills as solo artist never became a household name is beyond me.

01 – Don’t Stop Keepin On
02 – Hot Water
03 – Cry To Me
04 – Give It All Up
05 – Never Look Back
06 – Run
07 – Monkey
08 – Someone Turn The Light On
09 – Want It
10 – Bad Bad Boy
11 – House On Pooh Corner (previously unreleased)

Genre: Melodic Rock
Year of release of a disk: 1987
Disc Manufacturer: Canada

1. In The Western World
2. The Beauty Of Pain
3. Love Survives
4. Lay Me Down
5. Burning From The Inside Out
6. Power
7. American Dream
8. Keep The Lion In The Cage
9. Violence

Rob Kennedy (vocals/guitar)
Myles Hunter (vocals/guitar)
Martin Jones (bass)
Howard Helm (keyboards)
Brian Doerner (drums)

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Capitol Records released this ‘Best of’ Billy Squier 16 Strokes, CD back in 1995. The disc spans most of his career up to that point. Although his fans have nothing but praise for his solo debut (Squier was the singer of a 1970s band Piper), 16 Strokes does not include any songs from that album, Tale of the Tape (1980). Instead 16 Strokes starts right up with The Stroke, perhaps his most famous song. The track is from his Top Ten album from 1981 Don’t Say No.

01. The Stroke
02. In The Dark
03. My Kinda Love
04. Emotions

A good record of AOR quite classic and elegant with powerful guitarists and rockers. An album that never reaches excellence nor has sweeping themes, but always flying at great heights and with great quality.

01. Going Nowhere
02. Too Young
03. Anytime
04. It’s Time To Get Back
05. How Many Roses
06. We Can Make It Last Forever
07. Out Of The Blue
08. Stop Waiting For The Moment
09. What’s The Reason?
10. Patiently

Marc Engeran lead vocals, guitar, additional keyboards, piano (

Genre: Piano Rock / Midwest / AOR
Country: USA
Year of Publication: 1995

Tracks CD 1:
01. Farther And Higher
02. Light Your Candle
03. It’s A Dying World
04. Fire And Ice
05. Living In Laodicea
06. Love’s Not A Feeling
07. Upon This Rock
08. Shake Me To Wake Me
09. Lazy Jane
10. Stranger To Holiness
11. Surrender Your Heart
12. He Covers Me
13. Threshing Floor
14. Foolish Things
15. He’s All You Need
16. Cheap Grace
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Hello Forever” is his debut solo album came out in 1993, a wonderful Christian based album with a bit of an 80’s sound, produced by Dino and John Elefante, which was pretty much a guarantee of great AOR

01. Anytime 3:54
02. Hello Forever 4:30
03. Behold The Lamb 4:39
04. Psycho Babble 4:03
05. The Victory 4:29
06. His Name Is Jesus 4:55
07. Stand Up 4:14
08. On My Knees 4:16
09. Promises 4:38
10. Wounded Soldier 4:10

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Bootlegs 1988-2006, 1988 Against The Wall, 1994 Live Milwaukee, Steve Perry – 2006 Demos, Lost Angels.

Steve Perry – 1988 Against The Wall 00:46:48 (128)
Steve Perry – 1994 Live Milwaukee 01:42:36 (128)
Steve Perry – 2006 Demos, Lost Angels 01:19:12 (128)

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In early December release singer / songwriter Johnny Lima acoustic album “Unplug ‘n Play”.

01 So Excited
02 Still Doing Nothing At All
03 I Do
04 Hallelujah! (What’s It To Ya?)
05 Feel What It’s Like To Be Loved
06 Superman (I Don’t Want To Save The World)
07 I’m On My Way
08 Nothing’s Worth Losing You
09 Let It Shine 1
10 I Got The Girl

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9th Street may look like Heaven 17 on their only outing, but fear not as they operate in the pop-rock/AOR area. Signed to Frankfurt based Bellaphon Records, this British outfit play in a similar style to bands such as Channel 5, Modesty, Valet Parking and Go West.

01. Feel It 3:20
02. Some Time 5:33
03. The Feeling’s Gone 4:48
04. The Prayer 4:34
05. Tonight 4:41
06. Nobody Knows 3:55
07. Confusion 6:02
08. Ordinary Man 4:39
09. Sabotage and Secrets 4:12
10. I Heard It Through the Grapevin

And this album became well-known as one of Robert Byrne and Brandon Barnes related works among AOR / Westcoast freaks.
It has been believed that “Free For The Evening” is the only one album Rick Bowles released because he lost his deal with Polydor before releasing his next album. Rick had not succeeded so much as a solo singer but does well as a songwriter. His materials are recorded by many big names in Pop Country field such as Alabama and/or Terry Clark through 1990′

01. Too Good To Turn Back Now
02. (Tonight I’ll