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  2. Europe - War Of Kings (new CD)

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    My grades for the last 4 discs:

     

    Start From The Dark (2004) 80%

    Secret Society (2006) 73%

    Last Look At Eden (2009) 65%

    Bag Of Bones (2012) 59%

    I'm looking forward to anything they do but I have to say as well, Start from the Dark is about a 90%. My second favorite from their catalog. I also though Eden was very strong.

  3. David Reece...... vocalist for hire!

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    Claus Lessman is Bonfire.

     

    Say what you want about the quality of their discography in recent years, but this is indeed a fact. It's like replacing Jon Bon Jovi as the lead singer of Bon Jovi. Just ridiculous.

     

    Interesting fact about Bonfire - although a CD was never released, Michael Voss (Casanova) was the vocalist for Bonfire for a brief while after Lessman left around the 1993-1995 era, wasn't he? I guess that'd be how the Demon Drive project with ex-Bonfire guitarist Angel Schliefer (sp?) came to life?

    Michael Bormann was. I have the demos somewhere but it turned into Charade.

  5. Tony Harnell quits TNT...again.

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    Okay, spun all the discs today and "hate" is way too strong a word for 'Knights.' The thing I have to remember is that it was 1984, they were a brand new band. If you take it for what it is, okay, I admit it, it's okay. 'Break the ice' is a cool rocker, 'Without your love' is actually a pretty good ballad and 'Seven seas' and 'Ready to leave' are both decent too. I do dislike the rest, but it's not the worst ever. Definitely the weakest TNT disc, but that's a given.

     

    It is a very good discography. Some extremely good albums hurt every time by that one or two weak song, but I love the band as they are. LeTekro is no doubt a great talent, but you can't deny that Harnell is the reason that guy ever reached the "masses" with his music. Without Harnell his music is horrific, yet with Harnell, it was quite magic, the two of them together. One of the great partnerships. So many classic songs. The one comment Glen made that stood out for me as so, so, so wrong (and later explained by the fact that he actually hadn't really heard the band) was that there were no hooks in their music aside from '10,000 Lovers.' Probably the most incorrect statement I've ever read in my life. These guys lived and breathed incredible hooks, none more evident on their partially brilliant sell-out disc, 'Firefly.' They may have modernised the music, but the hooks on that disc are absolutely divine. 'Tripping,' 'Soldier of the light' and 'Sunless Star,' amongst others, are some of my favourite TNT tracks.

     

    Anyway, here's how I ranked their discography:

     

    1. Tell No Tales - 1987 - 86%

    2. Transistor - 1999 - 86%
    3. My Religion - 2004 - 83%
    4. Intuition - 1989 - 83%
    5. Firefly - 1996 - 79%
    6. All The Way To The Sun - 2005 - 77%
    7. Realized Fantasies - 1992 - 76%

    8. Knights Of The New Thunder - 1984 - 62%

     

    I assume the placement of 'Realized Fantasies' may ruffle a few feathers, but to explain... The first 5 songs are great. Love them all. The next five? All awful. 'All you need' has a moment in the chorus, but otherwise, the disc is the most perfect example of two opposite halves there is. Shame. Anyway, great band.

     

    Still so surprised you never heard them properly, Glen. Listening today brought back good memories of my intro to melodic rock. I started with all the "typical" US bands, but I still remember the two songs that were basically the gateway to European / Scandi melodic rock. The two epitomes of that style. And those two songs were (and still are, to me) 'Love Cries' by Stage Dolls, and 'Intuition' by TNT.

     

    To think of a CD collection without the 'Intuition' album... it's just not a proper collection until that's in there. ;)

    2 Things...1. None are rated in the 90's? 2. have your last two ranked below "Sun" is nuts. If any album had a ton of fillers it would be that one.5-6 keepers, the rest are ok with a c ouple bad ones.

  6. Tony Harnell quits TNT...again.

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    There is no way I could pick a favorite 15. I am surprised though that more don't mention "Knights" and "Realized Fantasy".

     

    You trippin', man? 'Realized Fantasies' is there. I love TNT, but I hate 'Knights.' It is an awful CD and not representative of their sound and style at all. I do actually like 'Break the ice,' but dislike the rest of the disc proper.

    Funnily enough, 'Knights ...' is the only TNT disc I own ... trust me to go flying in the face of popular opinion (again!)

    No worries, Geoff was dropped on his head many times as a child :)

    Knights was when they were more metal to me and I love all of it. Every song is awesome and the cd cranks with great production.

  7. Autograph - Louder EP

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    Decent song but I would be happier if Plunkett was involved....my favorite releases are 'Buzz' and 'My Attitude' ....

    I love My Attitude but absolutely hated Buzz. My fave from them would be Loud and Clear and Missing Pieces. I also loved Jailhouse so this will be in my collection anyway.

  11. Tony Harnell quits TNT...again.

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    on an EP ;-)

     

    Rubbish. Not even you believe that. I feel like you've used these very pages to speak favourably of the great 'My Religion' album?

     

    Anyway, I'm a realist and although I love this band until the anus meets the tip of the vagina, even I can admit - because it's plain as day - that they do have a lot of fillers in their catalogue. I don't think you could have an artist like Letekro in your band without fillers popping up, to be honest.

     

    But jeezus wept, if you weed out the fillers, there are KILLER songs all throughout their entire discography. And if you want pretty complete discs, 'Tell no tales,' 'Realized Fantasies,' 'Firefly,' 'Transistor,' 'My Religion' and 'All the way to the sun' ALL have convincing killer>filler ratios. Actually, even 'Intuition,' which does have a handful of their best ever songs, isn't overall bad either.

     

    Yeah, I guess I can understand not adoring this band, but painting a picture that they only have 5 good songs in their discography is just plain wrong. A 17 track best of I can cater to, but it would be one fucker of an amazing compilation.

     

    I could do an EP of their fillers maybe...not sure if it would be an EP though...maybe a single :)

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