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I'm enjoying this one. I guess I'd also have to agree the originals are still the best, but there's certainly nothing wrong with the new recordings. All sounds well in tact. The bonus tracks are good too. 'Let love be the leader' fits in especially perfect with this group of songs. 'Rainbow's end' and 'Shot in the dark' are a bit tame, but the rest is great. I know 'Let love be the leader' is an old song, but what is the vintage of the other bonus tracks?

 

Well Shot in the Dark was of that era - written by Overland but recorded by Ozzy of course.

 

 

It was actually originally written by Wildlife bassist Phil Soussan with lyrics later from the Overland Bros. if memory serves. Great song

 

 

 

Yeah! Killer song, actually my 2nd favorite from Ozzy, after secret loser.

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So I got today the Frontiers version of it. Cheap crap as usual with only a one sheet booklet (a photo of the band from a gig) and that annoying sticker. I won't buy again anything with only their logo on it.

 

 

And those fakkers from cdjapan. They announced a couple of weeks ago that the Japanese version was sold out from the Japanese label and now they're selling it again. :rant:

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Indiscreet 30's enjoyable... if you view it as a companion piece to the original album.

Merv (FM bassist) himself concurred with me when I put that view to him for the Firework's interview that I did.

 

Personally I think that the 2 CD Rock Candy remaster (with a huge eighteen bonus tracks!) from 2012 is the one to have...

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I wondering how this "Indiscreet II" stacks up to the debut.

It's on a banned site but you can't download it without being a contributor / donor:

FM – Indiscreet II [The Unreleased 1987-1988 album] *Exclusive*

PUBLISHED MARCH 30, 2022

 

FM - Indiscreet II [The Unreleased 1987-1988 album] *0dayrox Exclusive* full

FM is a British melodic rock / AOR institution still releasing quality material after forty years with their recent CD ‘Thirteen’. The band’s debut album 1986’s ‘Indiscreet’ is regarded as one of the best AOR albums from the Eighties. Many fans miss the unadulterated AOR sound of that first effort, as FM morphed to a more melodic (hard) rock style since second album “Tough It Out”.

“Tough It Out” took the band 3 years to crystallize, simply because the record label asked for a more mainstream, American style rock music. But in between the two albums, FM wrote a lot of songs in the 1987-1988 period, and with the classy AOR mold of their debut.

What we have here is “Indiscreet II“, an awesome bunch of songs the band penned & demoed for their second album that never was… These aren’t the poor sounding demos floating the internet for years – the quality of this “Indiscreet II” is far superior, and the songs – 18 never released – a treat for ’80s AOR aficionados.

After the European success of their debut album ‘Indiscreet’, Steve Overland & Co. began to work on the new songs that would make up their second LP. During the little time they had between gigs, song ideas were emerging within the band and soon they had a handful of songs.

Many of the new written songs for the new album were demoed in good quality, but their record label wanted to internationally release the band, especially in America, and a new musical concept was asked for FM: commercial, radio-ready melodic rock / rock&pop.

Then new songs were written and recorded but label still refused the too much AOR / European sound of the tunes, so most of them were shelved.

 

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What FM created here between 1987 and 1988 is really awesome, songs in the vein of debut but even more complete in arrangements and AOR melodies, the perfect follow up material for ‘Indiscreet’.

Well, most of them were discarded (a few appeared as b-sides) and the band spent almost 3 years to find the sound for “Tough It Out”, a wonderful melodic rock album but a commercial failure: the record label make FM lost its momentum, and for 1989, it was too late to conquer the American market.

What would have happened if in 1988 they released ”Indiscreet II”? I’m sure fans would love it, and make FM bigger, at least in Europe and Japan.
This is pure AOR in the British style, plenty of smooth vocals, terrific refrains and melodic choruses.

Some of the songs on this ”Indiscreet II” were later finally recorded by the band for especial releases / bonus tracks but these are the original demos, different, with that unique 1987/1988 atmosphere.

If you ask me, ”Indiscreet II” is the best FM album ever… and remains unreleased.

The songs are even better than the first album, and while there’s superb tracks on FM’s second album “Tough It Out”, none are in the AOR style / sound like the ones found here.

A MUST

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5 hours ago, AlphaMale said:

I wondering how this "Indiscreet II" stacks up to the debut.

It's on a banned site but you can't download it without being a contributor / donor

I knew before I even saw the watermarked image which website you were referring to... :D

How many different domains have they gone through now? At least half a dozen.

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I knew before I even saw the watermarked image which website you were referring to... :D

How many different domains have they gone through now? At least half a dozen.

Somehow they still get promos, though. I mean, someone out there is still giving them media copies. Unless they just download from other sites, and re-upload on their own. I dunno. 

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On 3/30/2022 at 11:11 PM, KarpetRydOFunk said:

Somehow they still get promos, though. I mean, someone out there is still giving them media copies. Unless they just download from other sites, and re-upload on their own. I dunno. 

I think most musicians/labels don't realize this isn't just a blog with reviews but am illegal downloads site. 

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Just got back from seeing them - excellent live act as always. Steve is like a fine wine. Great set with a few deeper cuts such as ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Crack Alley’. Top band. 

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