Category: Wanted Album

Category: AOR / Melodic Rock
Year: 1993
Label: Self Released

Tracks
1. Freude Herrscht
2. Play The Game
3. My Friend
4. Downtown Girls
5. Waiting
6. Another Brick In The Wall
7. Sudden Death

Mauro Casciero drums
Martin Wuthrich guitar
Peter Hubacher guitar
Cornelius Morscher vocals
Simone Walti vocals

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

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

Country:Netherlands
Released:1983
Style:Synth-pop AOR

A1 Stranger 4:13
A2 Don’t Let Me Down
A3 Summer Breeze 4:03
A4 Love Seller 3:42
A5 Maze Of Love 3:49
B1 The Pawn 4:18
B2 Forever 3:56
B3 I Can’t Feel Your Feelings 4:16
B4 Too Late 3:40
B5 Savage Jungle 4:45

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

Country:US
Released:1984
Genre:WestCoast

Tracklist
A1 Last Night 3:51
A2 Playing The Fool 3:47
A3 Rachel 3:46
A4 Framed 3:26
A5 Somethin’ Might Be Burnin’ 4:37
B1 Don`t Be So Shy 3:16
B2 Holding On To Love 3:32
B3 Sky Singer 3:50
B4 Dancing With His Shadow 5:04

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

Country: UK
Style: Pop rock
Year:1977 / 2004

Tracklist
Love On The Airwaves 4:20
The Runaway 5:53
Every Little Teardrop 3:52
Had To Fall In Love 5:09
Street Boys 3:46
Never Give Up On Love 3:23
Dude In The Dark 4:43
Head Talk 3:49
Call For The Captain 4:05
It Only Hurts When I Laugh 2:57

Country:UK
Released:2004
Style:Soft Rock

Tracklist
1 Déjà Vu 4:58
2 Wide Wide World 4:49
3 Wheels 4:34
4 Let Go 3:21
5 Believed In You 3:40
6 Fool For Your Love 3:29
7 Lay Me Down And Die 4:12
8 Diamonds 2:25
9 Partners 4:33
10 Missing You 3:49
11 Concrete And Steel 4:08
12 Mexico 5:12

Country:US
Released:2012
Genre:Folk, World, & Country

Tracklist
1 Same Ol’ Cowboy
2 Life Is Just A Roller Coaster Ride
3 I Can’t Let Go
4 Life On The Road
5 Oklahoma Bound
6 Oh Hell
7 CMF Interviews
Notes
Available for a short time from Jeff’s website. Sold only in a cardboard slipcover. No jewel case version exists.

Gallagher and Lyle have a very ‘easy’ style. Their music is slightly progressive 70’s folk. Yet there are some surprises on here. If I needed someone and Storm in my soul are fine sought of tropical-flavoured pop that you might have found on a Ringo Starr album from the time, and I wanna stay with you is a disco song. But the reason I bought this album was for ‘Heart on my sleeve’, a song that I first heard Ringo Starr do.

A1 Showdown
Flute – Billy Livesay*
3:33
A2 In Your Eyes 4:09
A3 You’re The One
Bass – Alan Hornall
3:04
A4 H

Country:Europe
Released:2013
Genre:Rock, Pop

Tracklist
Atlantic Crossing
1-1 Three Time Loser
1-2 Alright For An Hour
1-3 All In The Name Of Rock ‘N’ Roll
1-4 Drift Away
1-5 Stone Cold Sober
1-6 I Don’t Want To Talk About It
1-7 It’s Not The Spotlight
1-8 This Old Heart Of Mine
1-9 Still Love You
1-10 Sailing
A Night On The Town
2-1 Tonight’s The Night
2-2 The First Cut Is The Deepest
2-3 Fool For You
2-4 The Killin

Category: Lite AOR/Westcoast
Year: 1990
Label: Fahed Productions

Tracks
1. Toda la Verdad
2. Solo Se
3. Que Tal Situacion
4. Un Juego
5. Fui Tan Cruel y tu Tan Simple
6. Moda
7. Otra Semana Singular
8. Jennifer
9. Elle no te Olvida
10. Son Hermanos Los Dos
11. Solo un Poco Mas
12. Que Hemos Logrado
13. Libertad
14. Vacia, No Eres Normal
15. Si No Estas

Fahed Mitre vocals
Jeff Porcaro drums
Tris Imboden drums
Alex Acuna percussion
Chris Trujillo percussion
Ramon Stagnaro

Country:France
Released:2005
Style:Hard Rock

Tracklist
1 Hit A Smag
2 Bad N’ Pretty
3 Your Snazzy Ride
4 Burned Macadam Road
5 Hungry Dog

Category: Hard Rock
Year: 2004
Label: Set-Fire

1. Genesis to Revelation
2. Music of the Angel
3. I Know My Way
4. Don’t Judge a Book (By Its Cover)
5. My Way Home
6. Separated
7. Jamie’s Gone
8. Storm Rider
9. Rise From the Ash
10. Finding Fault

Moving from the realm of death, we go to the Cali-fried rock of Catchin’ 22. Happily, this Canadian band is starting to make some waves in the metal scene, even stealing some airplay in their native Quebec. Hell, I can’t complain, as these guys are obviously hard workers and are gonna deserve every inch …

1 One More Time Around 4:31
2 N.Y.C. 3:40
3 The Greater Cause 3:57
4 Year Of The Gun 4:33
5 You Said…. 3:29
6 On To You 3:37
7 Since You’ve Been Gone 5:53
8 Harder 3:37
9 Now