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I like the song myself... It's much better than All the nights which never really resonated with me. Look to the sky sorta reminds me of some of the Savatage piano songs and it's a nice break/change of pace from all the guitar driven songs with all their sweep picking

Musically the album is quite good.. I think I'm getting over the vocals somewhat

I didn't realise there was demo versions of anything other than Breaking the silence (which I already had) Is Emergency the other demo? Is the solo slightly different?

Yep I approve! hahah

Says the person with the obscenely large signature image

Yep, Digitech whammy pedals need to be thrown into the sea. The solo section on this really kills the pace, and it's just so...weird sounding, like Hot. But like Hot, I enjoy the rest of it a lot

And, you know.... all his fans. And all the people who like the band too *insert massive roll-eyes smiley here*

She does nothing for me as a vocalist unfortunately, which is a shame as I love H.E.A.T...

Thanks for the samples! I heard a bit of Need you to understand on Alexander's facebook page a few months ago and couldn't wait to hear more of it. I must be an oddity - the best thing about the Diamond dawn album for me was his vocals. I know he's not the strongest vocalist but there's something really unique that I like about him. And, I don't find the accent an issue either

I love the band but I do find the 4th album the weakest of them all. They kinda adopted this "tough guys" image and the songs got a bit heavier, somewhat crashdiet-ish in places? Talking about masturbating and ecstasy in HEAT songs just seems...wrong! I think Erik needs to chill out a bit on stage too.. The spitting into the air thing is just...bizzare, and fairly gross.. especially as last time he failed to 'catch' it and it hit him right in the eye. I feel his vocals seem to suffer a bit with all the gurning and hopping about he feels the need to do. Bar Point of no return, Mannequin show (that one grew on me unexpectedly) we will never die, Emergency and Enemy in me, the rest of the stuff gets skipped.. which is a shame.I'll put it down to them losing Dave (who had a LOT of writing credits) and just assume they were still finding their feet.. High hopes for the next album! The first 3 albums are classics though, with my order of preference being Address the Nation, Freedom Rock then the self titled... I think there's only 1 weak song on each of those albums. (Heartbreaker, Shelter and Straight Up). Freedom Rock is especially brilliant if your a fan of fantastic guitar solos Forgot to say, the Korean Freedom Rock also has another big difference, on Black Night, Tobias Sammet sings most of the song, singing the entire second verse as well as the first.

It's pretty bad... it sounds like a bad version of Silverchair. Also, I'm too new here to tell if the arbitrary rating system people use on here is a pisstake or not?... either way, I vote this thread 63%

The Korean Freedom Rock has Tonight as well as Living in a Memory. They're different mixes/recordings of those songs too so it's worth checking out. The Korean Freedom Rock (never heard the Japan version) is actually somewhat different to the normal version. Besides a different track order, it lacks High on love and the songs themselves are quite different.. extra backing vocals here and there, slightly different guitar solos, more reverb in certain places. I dunno what the story with it is

Yeah Generation Wild was such a fantastic album.. Only one bad song on it in my opinion (That Skid Row Slave to the grind style one). The Savage Playground was just awful... what a disappointing follow up.

I have the Japanese version - Beg Beg Beg sounds great It's the last track on the album though, which is incredibly stupid.

I wasn't impressed with it at first but it's growing somewhat. I just wish they'd drop the copying of other bands - the Gary Moore/Whitesnake/Sykes and now Def Leppard stuff. Wide Open is a definite skip track - that Chorus is *awful*. I can't really get into Breakdown as it's basically a Blue Murder - Jelly Roll "homage" / ripoff and the Def Leppard Gods of War riff in Caught up in the rush is really jarring. I loved Are you ready to rock but the riffs on everything that has come since just sound very unoriginal, unfortunately. Definitely prefer this one to Bleed and Scream anyway.

I personally found the Manchester show to be a lot better.. Plus, they were able to play Danger road without technical issues, and were able to fit in Eye for an eye due to Supercharger finishing on time The Japanese bonus track thing is always a bloody pain though, especially annoying on a live album! I'll be picking this up anyway as I'm a bit of a die hard fan. It's just a pity it's missing those two songs and I'll have to get the more expensive Japanese version AGAIN to get all the tracks