Ralfster

Fantastic tune and well done with the clean up. Thanks for posting 👍🏼

Yeah, know what you mean. Really hard to get these tunes out of your system... Guess that's what they call a guilty pleasure... 😉

Have you heard the follow up album "Moonraker"?

Love these Swedes!! Symphonic pop with funny lyrics and ultra catchy hooklines. Two albums only sadly, the follow up Moonraker is fantastic as well! 

On 8/26/2020 at 8:46 AM, Leykis101 said:

I found a box of tapes in my neighbors garage, he died so they had me help move this shit out, and I was listening through these tapes, none of which had any labels on them, I came upon this song, I dig the song a lot, I cannot figure out who sings it, it sounds like it may be a ballad or something off like a commercial rock band, but not American, as you here his accent, figure I'd let you guys take a crack at it, since it may have been a band not known in the US as this guy was from Germany and lived in Holland, i figure you guys if anyone can figure this out, It's just a clip out of the song, the sound quality's too bad to upload the whole song.

 

Sounds familiar in a way but I just can't put my finger on it yet... Initial guess was it's a German band ans the song is from the mid to late 80's. I'll keep listening and thinking who it could be.

I did but had to stop halfway through... Painful to watch really 

Awesome, didn't expect this vintage 80's sound and his voice hasn't changed a bit! Maybe not the best hook line ever but cool enough... Now I'm really looking forward to the album and to seeing him live at the H.E.A.T festival!

Now that was an easy one 😉

Great Westcoast / AOR album from producer legend Michael Omartian 😁

Bingo, found it!

Bernard Oattes - Go 

Great stuff mate!

The voice sounds familiar, I'm 100% sure that I've heard this song before and 99% sure that I have that CD in my collection but... for the life of me I have no idea where to start searching. I'll keep on trying to find it out!

Cheers

Ralf

Wanted to see if I could help but that link doesn't work for me mate. Tried to copy and paste into my browser but nothing...

https://youtu.be/5KnuqciUmfo

 

Certainly no coincidence... LOL 

Very much looking for their new album though!!

This sounds awesome, just awesome!

Hoping the other new tunes are on a similar level!! Now I'm absolutely stoked to give the full album a listen.

Great stuff! Like this full song A LOT!

Not totally sold yet on the other two soundbytes, especially in the vocal department, but I like their energy, harmony vocals and slightly progressive twist which could well make this a grower. Sounds like production is top shelf as well...

Looking forward to the next full song.

2 hours ago, gener8tr said:

Not sure if these have been released elsewhere, but they came to mind as soon as I saw the thread title:

"Holiday Road" Lindsay Buckingham

"Up The Creek" Cheap Trick

Both great songs but officially released on vinyl (OST & 7")

QUIET RIOT's "Slave to love" was a variation of the STAN BUSH demo "Blinded" with different lyrics (credited to the QR members). STAN released his original version later in 1990 as b-side of "Forever" which was used in a TV commercial. Both songs don't feature on any of his full length albums. 

Musically very basic but fun tune. Totally reminds me of what BRYAN ADAMS did with this one in the 80's:

Written by STAN MEISSNER and featured on the wonderful METROPOLIS CD ?

Thanks mate!

It's the other way round for me but will need to invest in the digital copy in this case. Sounds fantastic!

Great stuff indeed, cheers for the heads up! Completely passed me by back in 2012...

Just a pity that the CD doesn't seem to be available to buy anymore anywhere. ?

But maybe it's just me and you can point me in the right direction. Where did you get your copy from?

Having just checked their FB site it seems they not only have a new rhythm section but have also replaced singer Lars Aass... Well to be fair the new guy sounds pretty good in that clip. Cool song and as both guitarist and keyboarder are from the classic "Back in business" lineup and they've used the same producer from back in 1989 I guess we can expect a good album. Wonder if they've recycled any of those old demos from their shelved 3rd album from the early 90's...

- Awesome guitarist!

- Bloody awful singer...

The vocalist in the last clip sounds much better though! Different guy for sure?!

Cheers mate!

Will order it anyway, was just hoping it would be silver pressede though.

Can anybody confirm the physical version is silver pressed or comes as a CD-R?

Geoff, what the hell was the 4th song?

So far I've heard "Let's Go" (loving it!), "All Time High" (great!) and "Dangerous" (killer tune if there ever was one! Never expected to hear something that good from the Leps again - ever!) but can't for the life of me find any trace of a 4th new song anywhere on the net. Am I blind or has the posting been deleted? Which one was it? How you'd desrcibe it? Any link available?

i read somewhere the 3 bonus tracks are the demos that was released before the 1st cd, Andre.

haven't seen you,Andre, at Radical for along time.

Right! I talked to Jules at the H.E.A.T. festival in Ludwigsburg last Sunday and he confirmed that the Japanese pressing will have the three EP tracks ("Cross To Bare", "Change Of Passion" and "Don't Fail Me Now") tagged onto the end.

Their performance at the H.E.A.T. festival was just awesome by the way. Wish they'd have played a tad longer... If I didn't have to work on Saturday I'd go seeing them play in Munich in a second. Especially as this will be a headliner gig where surely they'll play a few more songs (if not both albums in their entirety)

You guys going to Firefest this year will be in for a treat!

And yes, "Serenade" is a killer CD if there ever was one! Those massive keys mixed with crunchy guitars is just AOR perfection if you ask me. Honestly, for me this is the best CD I've heard this year.

Cheers

Ralfster