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 Night Attack - Angels
Description: Genre: Rock / Artist: Angels / Import / Audio CD released 2006-07-10 at Liberation / Disc #1 Tracklisting 1 Long Ni ... more  Night Attack - Angels ... Night2 Running Wild 3 Fashion & Fame 4 City out of Control 5 Night Attack 6 Nothin' to Win 7 Living on the Outside 8 Talk About You 9 Storm the Bastille 10 Casablanca 11 Small Talk 12 Back on You 13 Chaplin's Drum 14 Fashion & Fame 15 Talk About You 16 Bad Dream 17 Angel 18 Desil's Gate Newest Review: ... tone is fairly raw but not in a dirgey, Black Sabbath way, and Brent Eccles' drums keep the whole thing catchy and upbeat ... more ... even in the more cynical songs where the band doesn't really have the heart to let scathing lyrics interfere with the fun sound. Doc Neeson is more or less the typical hard rock singer, lacking a distinctive voice or gimmick of his own but leading the way nicely with his gruff-but-soft-when-appropriate style, before the rest of the band joins in for some of the unison choruses. He must have been a big hit with the ladies.
The greatest praise I can bestow on this album is that at no points does it sound cheesy or reflect...more |
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Night Attack - Angels: Purging Hard Rock of Its Sins (886 words)
by Frankingsteins - written on 21.01.08 (Very useful, 13 readings)
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I was a little wary approaching this album, a 1981 hard rock record from a band calling themselves "The Angels" and thus engendering a nightmare vision of a seventies glam rock band strutting around on stage in white cloaks and face-paint, so I was pleasantly surprised to hear a decent melodic rock album with enjoyable early heavy metal crossover appeal. Now finally defunct after a long, drawn-out career, The Angels were one of the more prominent Australian hard rock bands, after AC/DC of course. The dominant style on display here is medium speed, guitar-led rock in its most basic form, without needing to expand the sound through keyboards and other ...
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