Vanderbuyst - Vanderbuyst (2010)

Vanderbuyst is een Nederlandse hardrockband. De band werd in 2008 opgericht en maakt hardrock in de stijl van de jaren 80.
Gitarist Willem Verbuyst richtte de band Vanderbuyst op in 2008 na het uiteenvallen van de band Powervice. Verbuyst vroeg Jochem Jonkman (zang en bas) en Barry Van Esbroek (drums) bij zijn band. De muziek van Vanderbuyst is geïnspireerd door oude hardrock zoals die in de jaren 70 en 80 gemaakt werd door bands als UFO, Thin Lizzy, Van Halen en Deep Purple. Kort na de oprichting bracht de band een EP uit met drie nummers, die tot optredens leidden in België, Duitsland en Nederland. In de lente van 2010 begon de band aan de opnames voor het debuutalbum, getiteld “Vanderbuyst”. Deze CD werd in oktober 2010 uitgebracht bij het Duitse platenlabel Ván Records.  Het titelloze album opent werkelijk schitterend met To Last Forever. Het gitaarwerk voorspelt precies wat je van de rest van de cd kan verwachten. Jochem Jonkman doet ergens denken aan de veel te vroeg overleden Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy), maar helaas is zijn stem niet de sterkste schakel van de band. Tiger is één van de hoogtepunten van Vanderbuyst en bevat naast een sterk refrein en een uitstekende gastsolo van Selim Lemouchi.
Na al dit moois is Traci Lords een behoorlijke miskleun. Het nummer luistert gewoon niet lekker weg, wat voornamelijk te wijten is aan de bar slechte teksten. Gelukkig is dit snel vergeten door de uitstekende UFO-cover “Rock Bottom”. Samen met From Pillar To Post is deze in een enkele take opgenomen. Live in de studio dus. Het resultaat zijn twee muzikale pareltjes die met veel gevoel gebracht zijn. Het heerlijke authentiek warme geluid is een genot voor de oren. Liefhebbers van klassieke hardrock zullen niet om Vanderbuyst heen kunnen. Zowel live als op willekeurige geluidsdrager.    http://www.bing.com/translator


01.  To Last Forever  - 6:10 
02.  Tiger  - 4:24 
03.  New Orleans  - 4:34 
04.  Traci Lords  - 4:20 
05.  Stealing Your Thunder  - 3:44 
06.  Rock Bottom (Live) (M. Schenker, P. Mogg)  - 11:28 
07.  From Pillar To Post (Live)  - 5:18

Credits
Drums – Barry Van Esbroek
Guitar, Backing Vocals [Live] – Willem Verbuyst
Guitar, Vocals – Selim Lemouchi (tracks: Track A2, A3)
Lead Vocals, Bass – Jochem Jonkman
Produced by Vanderbuyst and Pieter G. Kloos

Notes
All songs recorded, mixed and mastered at The Void Studeo in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) by Pieter G. Kloos in the Spring of 2010.
'Rock Bottom' and 'From Pillar To Post' recorded live at The Void Studio.
Guest appearance by Selim Lemouchi on Tiger (2nd guitar solo) and New Orleans (spells).
Rock Bottom originally performed by U.F.O. and written by P. Mogg and M. Schenker
Genre: Hard Rock
Duration Time: 40:02
© 2010 Ván Records

Shanghai - Fallen Heroes (1976)

Shanghai is a U.K. rock band, who features former Rebel Rouser and Toe Fat vocalist Cliff Bennett , as well as guitar legend Mick Green, an English rock and roll guitarist who played with the Pirates (with and without Johnny Kidd), Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, and Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers.
Shanghai, released two albums, in 1974 and 1976, and supported Status Quo on their Blue for You tour.
The second album “Fallen Heroes” see an almost complete change of personnel with the addition of fantastic singer Clif Bennett (Toe Fat) and guitarist Brian Alterman (Great slide guitarist). There are only Mick and Pete Kircher from the first album. The music is different, more focused rock 'n' roll with the voice of Cliff. There is the classic "Shakin All Over" very successful but also more adventurous compositions as Let's Get The Hell or Nobody's Fool.  

 

 

01.   Fallen Heroes  - 0:58 
02.   Shakin' All Over  - 3:20 
03.   Lets Get The Hell Off This Highway  - 5:55 
04.   Nobody's Fool  - 6:53 
05.   Candy Eyes  - 3:18 
06.   Over The Wall  - 6:08 
07.   Solaris  - 9:34
08.   Fallen Heroes Theme  - 2:28 

 

Credits
Mick Green - Guitars
Cliff Benett - Vocals
Brian Alterman - Guitars
Speedy King - Bass
Pete Kircher - Drums, Vocals

 

Notes
Genre: Rock
Duration Time: 39:13
© 1976 Thunderbird Records

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - Here Lies Love (2010)

“Here Lies Love” is a concept album made in collaboration between David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, about the life of the former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos along with the woman who raised her Estrella Cumpas and follows Marcos until she and her family were forced to leave the Philippines. The album features 22 guest vocalists and was released on April 6, 2010.
“Here Lies Love” is primarily a great pop record featuring a bevy of name female vocalists. Grand conceptual themes aside, Byrne, Slim, and Slim cohort Tom Gandey (aka Cagedbaby) have delivered a kooky, fun, theatrical, and more often than not deliriously listenable collection of '70s and '80s club pop. Inspired by a disparate set of sources, not the least of which included his reading of Ryszard Kapuscinski's book The Emperor as well as various reports detailing the former First Lady of the Philippines' penchant for disco and club life, Byrne formulated this would-be stage production based around the notion -- as he says in the liner notes of the "bubble worlds of the rich and powerful" set to the popular sounds (disco, soul, Latin beats, cabaret) of Marcos' time in power. While there is no dialogue in this production, Byrne has crafted each track throughout the album to tell the story and evoke the emotional state of Marcos and her longtime nanny Cumpas' emotional state. And while the story hangs together quite well, the main impression you are left with is that Byrne and Slim have impeccable taste in female singers. Here we get British songstress Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine) delivering the title prologue track, an anthemic disco-inflected number that recalls any number of Studio 54 diva hits. Similarly, Tori Amos takes on the role of Marcos' mother, Remedios, on the eerie flamenco-infused "You'll Be Taken Care Of." Along the way you get '80s pop icon Cyndi Lauper, alt-country-rocker Allison Moorer, Irish soul siren Roisin Murphy, Philly punk-dance singer Santigold, Natalie Merchant, Nellie McKay, Martha Wainwright, Sharon Jones, and others.


Disc one
01. "Here Lies Love"  (David Byrne and Norman Cook)  - 5:52
02. "Every Drop Of Rain"  (David Byrne and Norman Cook)  - 5:34
03. "You'll Be Taken Care Of"  (David Byrne)  - 3:20
04. "The Rose of Tacloban"  (David Byrne)  - 2:33
05. "How Are You?"  (David Byrne and Norman Cook)  - 2:43
06. "A Perfect Hand"  (David Byrne)  - 4:58
07. "Eleven Days"  (David Byrne and Norman Cook)  - 2:44
08. "When She Passed By"  (David Byrne and Tom Gandey)  - 3:50
09. "Walk Like a Woman"  (David Byrne)  - 3:59
10. "Don't You Agree?"  (David Byrne and Norman Cook)  - 3:20
11. "Pretty Face"  (David Byrne)  - 3:23
12. "Ladies in Blue"  (David Byrne)  - 4:21

Disc two
01. "Dancing Together"  (David Byrne and Norman Cook)  - 3:53
02. "Men Will Do Anything"  (David Byrne and Norman Cook)  - 4:06
03. "The Whole Man"  (David Byrne)  - 4:15
04. "Never So Big"  (David Byrne and Norman Cook)  - 4:00
05. "Please Don't"  (David Byrne)  - 3:59
06. "American Troglodyte"  (David Byrne, Norman Cook, and José Luis "Cheo" Pardo)  - 4:07
07. "Solano Avenue"  (David Byrne and Norman Cook)  - 3:56
08. "Order 1081"  (David Byrne)  - 5:47
09. "Seven Years"  (David Byrne)  - 5:40
10. "Why Don't You Love Me?"  (David Byrne and Tom Gandey)  - 3:58

Credits
David Byrne – composition, instrumentation, and vocals
Fatboy Slim – composition and instrumentation
Tori Amos – vocals on "You'll Be Taken Care Of" and "Why Don't You Love Me?"
Theresa Andersson – vocals on "Ladies in Blue"
Nicole Atkins – vocals on "Solano Avenue"
Camille – vocals on "Pretty Face" (as Imelda Marcos)
Charmaine Clamor – vocals on "Walk Like a Woman"
Steve Earle – vocals on "A Perfect Hand"
Sia – vocals on "Never So Big"
Cyndi Lauper – vocals on "Eleven Days" and "Why Don't You Love Me?"
Nellie McKay – vocals on "How Are You?"
Allison Moorer – vocals on "When She Passed By"
Sharon Jones – vocals on "Dancing Together"
Natalie Merchant – vocals on "Order 1081"
Róisín Murphy – vocals on "Don't You Agree?"
Candie Payne – vocals on "Every Drop of Rain"
Kate Pierson – vocals on "The Whole Man"
Alice Russell – vocals on "Men Will Do Anything"
St. Vincent – vocals on "Every Drop of Rain"
Santigold – vocals on "Please Don't"
Martha Wainwright – vocals on "The Rose of Tacloban"
Florence Welch – vocals on "Here Lies Love"
Shara Worden – vocals on "Seven Years"
Mastered By – Greg Calbi
Mixed By – Patrick Dillett
Producer(s) - David Byrne, Fatboy Slim, Cagedbaby, Patrick Dillett and Los Amigos Invisibles

Notes
All songs mixed at Kampo Studios, NYC.
All songs mastered at Sterling sound, NYC.
Recorded at South Hell Studios, New York City, New York, United States
Genre: Alternative Rock, Art Rock
Duration Time: 90:06
© 2010 Todomundo/Nonesuch Records

The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (2008)

“Saturnalia” is the first studio album by The Gutter Twins, a collaboration between Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan.
Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan had been working together since the early part of the millennium, Dulli with Lanegan on his solo work and Lanegan with Dulli's group the Twilight Singers, even touring as part of the band and showing up twice on the 2006 EP A Stitch in Time. It therefore makes sense that much of Saturnalia sounds quite similar to the Twilight Singers' material, particularly the songs where Dulli takes full or most of the writing and singing duties. This is by no means a bad thing; Dulli is all powerful, surging hooks and biting, twisting electric guitars, and Lanegan's baritone -- when he sings both lead and background vocals -- give the words an extra power, subtlety, and resonance, helped no doubt by the visceral growls he adds to lines in "Bête Noire" and "Circle the Fringes." These are songs drawn from the gothic tradition, where good and evil and pleasure and pain crisscross and entwine facilely and indelibly, where the secular and the sacred have no clear defining lines. Religious imagery weaves its way in and out, as much a part of the tracks as are the sex and violence and drugs and all the other Lanegan/Dulli constants. "I hear the Rapture's coming," they sing in "The Stations," recalling both life and death as Dulli's snarl rises over his partner's moan, while Lanegan takes the lead on the gospel-inspired "Who Will Lead Us?" and the ominous storm cloud of "All Misery/Flowers," which starts with "Little girls might twitch at the way I hitch" and ends with the refrain of "I tell you my story so that you might save me," as Dulli sings softly behind. So well, in fact, do the two voices work together, that the one track to which only one contributed (Dulli wrote and sings alone on "I Was in Love with You") seems almost out of place, shiny nickels and dimes on the offering plate stuffed with bills. Saturnalia is mysticism and hedonism, saints and sinners, dark and light, but this is no clear-cut Manichaean collaboration. Both Lanegan and Dulli represent this, both contain all the good and the bad they sing about, sometimes at different moments but very often together, and it's that joined duality, that very disturbingly human quality, telling us things about ourselves we'd rather not acknowledge, that makes the album so absolutely alluring.


01  "The Stations"  (Dulli/Lanegan)  - 4:34
02  "God's Children"  (Dulli)  - 4:57
03  "All Misery/Flowers"  (Dulli/Lanegan)  - 4:23
04  "The Body"  (Dulli)  - 3:03
05  "Idle Hands"  (Dulli/Lanegan)  - 4:38
06  "Circle the Fringes"  (Dulli/Lanegan)  - 5:24
07  "Who Will Lead Us?"  (Lanegan)  - 3:49
08  "Seven Stories Underground"  (Dulli/Lanegan)  - 3:22
09  "I Was in Love With You"  (Dulli) - 4:25
10  "Bête Noire"  (Lanegan)  - 3:52
11  "Each to Each"  (Dulli/Klein)  - 4:49
12  "Front Street"  (Dulli/Lanegan)  - 5:22
 
Credits
Mark Lanegan - Vocals
Scott Ford - Bass
Greg Dulli - Vocals, Mellotron, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Piano, Drums, Guitar
Greg Wieczorek - Guitar, Drums
Guitar – Dave Rosser
Jeff Klein - Guitar
Mathias Schneeberger - Guitar
Troy Van Leeuwen - Guitar
Producer – Dave Rosser, Gutter Twins, The, Mathias Schneeberger
Recorded By – Alain Johannes, Ben Mumphrey, David Catching, Dave Rosser, Ken Rich, Mathias Schneeberger, Mike Napolitano, Norm Block
Written-By – Dulli, Lanegan
Mixed At – Donner & Blitzen Studios
Mixed By – Mathias Schneeberger, Sir Damian Stainsley

Notes
Shot on location in Arcadia, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Joshua Tree
Design [Album Design] – Scott Ford
Photography By – Sam Holden
Photography By [Front Cover] – Frank Relle
Mixed at Donner and Blitzen/Arcadia, CA
Mastered at Capitol, Hollywood, CA
Genre: Alternative rock
Duration Time: 52:30
© 2008 Sub Pop Records

Donnie Iris - No Muss...No Fuss (1985)

“No Muss...No Fuss” is the fifth album by American rock singer Donnie Iris, released in 1985. Donnie Iris and his band the Cruisers released four outstanding yet shamefully underappreciated albums for MCA between 1980 and 1983. "Ah! Leah!" and a few other songs were hits, but the public really needed to embrace those albums by the Pittsburgh-area rockers. It didn't happen, and the stardom that Iris and company richly deserved passed them by. But Iris kept fighting. In the aftermath of mainstream indifference and legal tangles with MCA, Iris released “No Muss...No Fuss” in 1985 on the small HME label, and it's a killer record full of absurdly high-quality arena rock and power pop. Iris' stunning vocals and the clean, melodic instrumental hooks of keyboardist Mark Avsec, lead guitarist Marty Lee, bass guitarist Albritton McClain, and drummer Kevin Valentine remain amazingly consistent. It starts off with three absolute home runs: "Injured in the Game of Love" (which scratched the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart), the insanely catchy, aggressively nostalgic "10th Street" and the rumbling "Ridin' Thunder." Iris' command of '60s-style pop is evident on "You're My Serenity." "L.O.V.E." is funk/pop bordering on disco. Jubilant blasts of horns propel the relentless drive of "Follow That Car." The smooth melodic groove and assured vocals on the energetic cuts "State of the Heart" and "Headed for a Breakdown" are magnificent. And it goes without saying that Iris' soaring falsetto and the Cruisers' exuberant harmony vocals are found throughout “No Muss...No Fuss”.


01.  "Injured in the Game of Love"  (Avsec, Iris)  - 3:26
02.  "10th Street"  (Avsec, Iris)  - 3:42
03.  "Ridin' Thunder"  (Avsec, Iris)  - 3:58
04.  "You're My Serenity"  (Avsec, Iris)  - 3:38
05.  "L.O.V.E."  (Avsec, Iris)  - 3:13
06.  "Follow That Car"  (Avsec, Iris)  - 3:54
07.  "Don't Cry Baby"  (Jones)  - 3:25
08.  "State of the Heart"  (Avsec, Iris)  - 3:57
09.  "Headed for a Breakdown"  (Avsec, Iris)  - 3:22
10.  "I Want You Back"  (Avsec, Iris)  - 3:34

Credits
Guitar, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Donnie Iris
Keyboards, Harmonica, Backing Vocals – Mark Avsec
Guitar [Rhythm, Lead], Backing Vocals – Marty Lee Hoenes
Bass, Backing Vocals – Albritton McClain
Drums, Percussion – Kevin Valentine
Dan McCarthy - horns on "Follow that Car"
Rodney Psyka - percussion on "L.O.V.E."
Engineer [Recording, Mixing] – Carl Maduri III
Executive Producer – Carl Maduri
Mastered By – George Marino
Written-By – Ierace, Avsec
Producer – Mark Avsec

Notes
Recorded 1984 at Beachwood Studios in Beachwood, Ohio
Genre: Rock
Duration Time: 36:09
© 1985 HME Records/Primary Recordings

Intocable - Intimamente: En Vivo Live (2004)

Intocable (Untouchable) is a Tejano/Norteño musical group from Zapata, Texas that was started by friends Ricky Muñoz and René Martínez in the early 1990's. In a few years, Intocable rose to the top of the Tejano and Norteño fields with a musical signature that fused Tejano's robust conjunto and Norteño folk rhythms with a pop balladry. Intocable is perhaps the most influential group in Tejano and their tough Tejano/Norteño fusion has become the blueprint for dozens of Tex-Mex groups. The group's style, which combines romantic, hooky melodies, tight instrumentation and vocal harmony, is consistently imitated by other Tejano and Norteño groups, including Imán, Duelo, Costumbre, Solido, Estruendo, Intenso, and Zinzero.
Career accomplishments include four consecutive sold-out nights at Mexico City's prestigious Auditorio Nacional and the group's 2003 headlining appearance at Reliant Stadium in Houston, which drew a record 70,104 fans. They also played two sold-out dates at the 10,000-capacity Monterrey Arena in Monterrey, Mexicn an unusual accomplishment given that Norteño groups typically play large dance halls and rarely arenas unless it's an all day festival event. Intocable has also won at least eight of Univision's Premio Lo Nuestro awards. They received their first Grammy win in February 2005 at the 47th Annual Grammys, Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album “Intimamente” En Vivo Live (Eng.: Intimately: Live) This album became their fourth number-one set on the Billboard Top Latin Albums.


01. "Enseñame a Olividarte"   (Luis Padilla)  - 3:28
02. "Déjame Amarte"   (Eduardo Alanis)  - 3:47
03. "Es Tan Bello"   (Miguel Mendoza)  - 3:59
04. "Estás Que Te Pelas"   (Marco Antonio Pérez, Cornelio Reyna Jr.)  - 3:53
05. "Eso Duele"   (Padilla)   3:14
06. "El Amigo Que Se Fue"   (Miguel Luna, Mendoza)  - 3:11
07. "Llévame Contigo"   (Pérez)  - 3:15
08. "Fuerte No Soy"   (Ricardo Muñoz, Pérez)  - 4:38
09. "Soñador Eterno"   (Padilla)  - 3:13
10. "Y Todo Para Qué?"   (Pedro Reyna)  - 3:12
11. "Eres Mi Droga"   (Mendoza)  - 2:16
12. "Perdedor/Ayúdame (Medley)"   (Pérez)  - 4:41
13. "Coqueta"   (Padilla)  - 4:08
14. "Sueña"   (Padilla)  - 4:41
15. "Nada Es Igual"   (Alanis)  - 5:04
16. "El Poder de tus Manos"   (Padilla)  - 8:48

Credits
Ricardo Javier "Ricky" Muñoz - Vocals, Accordion
René Orlando Martínez - Drums
Sergio Serna - Percussion
Johnny Lee Rosas - Sixth Bass & Backing Vocaks
Félix Salinas - Electric Bass
José Juan Hernández - Announcer and Rhythm
Carlos Cabral, Jr. — Guest appearance
Adrian G. Gonzalez — Guest appearance
Paul Olivarri - guest appearance
Megan Taylor - Intern
Jack Saenz — Mastering, mixing, digital imaging
Gerard Bustos — Recording assistant
Oscar Carrasco, Gibby Cevallos, Miguel Trujillo, Roger Bresnahan - Executive producer
James Bulka - Engineer
Gretta Gamez - Mastering, mixing
Malcolm Harper - Engineer, recording
Intocable - Arranger
Matt Nichols - Assistant art director
Producer René Martínez, Ricky Muñoz

Notes
Genre - Tejano music, Tex-Mex
Duration Time - 60:05
© 2004 EMI Records

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Impossible Dream (1974)

“The Impossible Dream” was the third album by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. It was released in 1974.
Whoever thought that the surface obsession of glam rock never met the loopy idealism of the hippie movement at least in the musical realm has obviously never heard the appropriately titled “The Impossible Dream”. Recorded, again, appropriately, as the Age of Aquarius was in full transition to the age of the Spiders From Mars and, later, the me decade, “The Impossible Dream” manages to capture that cultural DMZ in an operatic blast of pub rock-based pomp without circumstance. Harvey is the bacchanalian ringleader, marshalling the Sensational Alex Harvey Band's considerable, flexible resources to the task at hand and providing a damn good listen in the process. Multi-part song cycles, three-minute rockers. and tomes such as "Long Hair Music" keep you, the unexpecting listener, on edge. This is one of those overlooked records, and Harvey was one of those artists, that could easily have reached less than an arm's length and touched T. Rex, Queen, the New York Dolls, AC/DC, or Sweet, and, by extension, Mötley Crüe, Poison, and Guns 'n' Roses. “The Impossible Dream” is a key album in the discography of one of rock's little-known grand schemers. It rocks out, is pretentious, bombastic, rollicking and grand, but it's never boring.


01.  "The Hot City Symphony, Pt. 1: Vambo" (Alistair Cleminson, Alex Harvey, Hugh McKenna)  -
         5:03   
02.  "The Hot City Symphony, Pt. 2: The Man in the Jar"  (The Alex Harvey Band, David Batchelor)
        - 8:14   
03.  "River of Love"  (Alistair Cleminson, Alex Harvey, Hugh McKenna)  - 3:12  
04.  "Long Hair Music"  (Alistair Cleminson, Alex Harvey, Hugh McKenna)  - 4:37 
05.  "Hey"  (Alistair Cleminson, Alex Harvey, Hugh McKenna)  - 0:39
06.  "Sergeant Fury"  (David Batchelor, Alex Harvey, Hugh McKenna)  - 3:31
07.  "Weights Made of Lead"  (Alex Harvey)  - 2:41  
08.  "Money Honey/Impossible Dream"  (J. Stone)  - 2:10  
09.  "Tomahawk Kid"  (David Batchelor, Alex Harvey, Hugh McKenna  - 4:34   
10.  "Anthem"  (David Batchelor, Alex Harvey, Hugh McKenna)  - 7:45 

Credits
Alex Harvey - Lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Zal Cleminson - Guitar
Chris Glen - Bass guitar
Hugh McKenna - Keyboards, synthesizer
Ted McKenna - Drums
Vicky Silva - Vocals on "Anthem"
Engineer – Cyrano, Martin Rushent
Producer – David Batchelor, Derek Wadsworth

Notes
Design [Sleeve] – Keith Davis
Illustration – Keith Davis
2 pipers from The London Scottish TA Regiment, one of whom was John Gilligan, played on "Anthem"
Genre Rock
Length 43:09
© 1974 Vertigo Records

Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve - Through The Fire (1984)

“Through the Fire” is the first and only recording by the band Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve, also known as HSAS. The album was recorded live with guitar overdubs added later.
Journey axeman Neal Schon satisfies his yearning for a four-piece Van Halen/Montrose environment through meat-and-potatoes metalhead Sammy Hagar on this heavily doctored live document, the creatively titled “Through the Fire”. Journeyman Aaronson, who looks cool and played bass on tour with Billy Idol, gives some new wave credence to this quartet, in image only. Like Schon, drummer Shrieve also boasts Santana roots. Most importantly, each member held the same management. Of course, “Through the Fire” is by-the-numbers, not in a league with Hagar's peak on the landmark Montrose, but as enjoyable as his solo '80s work. HSAS approaches each cut as an epic, and some fat could be cut from each, but Bay-Area brothers Hagar and Schon wisely use the opportunity to stretch their considerable AOR muscles. Hagar's always dubious lyrics try the patience at times: Who or what is "Giza"? Is "He Will Understand" feminist? But radio song "Missing You" captures sizzling prime Schon, and hot-clockin' dinosaur juggernaut "My Home Town" lumbers like an extinct GFR/BTO/FM staple. VERY strong songs that stand the test of time include the opener, "Top of the Rock" which smashes into powerchord rock anthems like "Missing You", "Animation", "Hot and Dirty" and a great cover of "Whiter Shade of Pale".

01. "Top of the Rock"  (Sammy Hagar / Neal Schon)  - 4:21
02. "Missing You"  (Sammy Hagar / Neal Schon)  - 4:28
03. "Animation"  (Sammy Hagar / Neal Schon)  - 4:55
04. "Valley of the Kings"  (Sammy Hagar / Neal Schon)  - 3:30
05. "Giza"  (Sammy Hagar / Neal Schon)  - 1:22
06. "Whiter Shade of Pale"  (Gary Brooker / Keith Reid)  - 4:49 (Procol Harum cover)
07. "Hot and Dirty"  (Sammy Hagar / Neal Schon)  - 4:19
08. "He Will Understand"  (Sammy Hagar / Neal Schon)  - 4:49
09. "My Home Town"  (Sammy Hagar / Neal Schon)  - 4:06

Credits
Sammy Hagar - lead vocals
Neal Schon - lead guitar
Kenny Aaronson - bass
Michael Shrieve - drums
Engineered By - Don Smith
Mastered By - Doug Sax, Mike Reese
Mixed By - Don Smith, Greg Ladanyi
Recorded By - Don Smith
Produced By - Sammy Hagar, Neal Schon

Notes
Art Direction, Concept By [Cover], Design – Jim Welch
Recorded Westwood Mobile, 9–21 November 1983, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California, December 1983
Photography - Joseph Quever, Randy Bachman, William Hiroshi-Hames
Genre - Hard rock
Duration Time - 36:39
© 1984 Label Geffen Records