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░ ██ ██ Artist: Hurricane ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Over the Edge █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2008 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2017-01-03 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Hard Rock ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Caroline Records ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Remastered ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ This is Hurricane's second album and first full █
█ length release. Unfortunately, because the Enigma █
█ label is no more this release is no longer in █
█ print. Would be nice if some other label picked up █
█ the rights and reissued it. Similar to the debut █
█ EP, Take What You Want, this release has some █
█ really good songs, but also has some filler. █
█ Eighteen is a cover of the Alice Cooper song and █
█ is an aquired taste in this slower, plodding form. █
█ Give Me An Inch sounds like a heavier Duran Duran █
█ song. Also, the key changes in We Are Strong █
█ sometimes seem to put the song on the verge of █
█ being out of tune. However, Over The Edge, I'm On █
█ To You (probably their best known song), Spark In █
█ My Heart, and Shout are all solid rockers and █
█ pretty much define the sound of the band with its █
█ original lineup. This was the last record to █
█ feature original lead guitarist Robert Sarzo and █
█ afterwards the band has never sounded the same. █
█ The next album, Slave To The Thrill, featured █
█ guitarist Doug Aldrich, but sounded too much like █
█ a lot of other bands out at the time and isn't as █
█ good an album. The singer (Kelly Hansen) and █
█ drummer (Jay Schellen) reunited and put together a █
█ new album in 2002, titled Liquifury, with a new █
█ guitarist and bassist. That album is probably the █
█ most cohesive the band has ever recorded, but █
█ still lacks the distinctive guitar sound Sarzo █
█ seemed to bring to the group. If you can find a █
█ used copy of Over The Edge, pick it up while you █
█ can. █
█ █
█ --- █
█ █
█ First, I'm a fan of the musicians in the band. █
█ They're talented but I like what they've done █
█ after Hurricane better than what the band ever put █
█ out. I couldn't remember why I never bought any of █
█ their albums in the late 80'summer early 90's. █
█ Then hearing Hansen in Foreigner, Sarzo in Tate's █
█ Queensryche, Aldrich in Whitesnake, I figured now █
█ why again did I never get into Hurricane. So I █
█ decided to go out and get all their albums used █
█ copies. Put them on and listened to each one █
█ multiple times and realized. The talent in the █
█ band really didn't put out good music. The hooks █
█ weren't very good, the production was poor. I just █
█ can't put my finger on it. Maybe, there was no █
█ team within. Or like a fine wine they just got █
█ better with age. █
█ █
█ --- █
█ █
█ I picked this up back in the 80's basically to █
█ hear what they would do with Alice Cooper's █
█ "Eighteen". It wasn't what I expected, they turned █
█ it into a ballad, but after a couple listens it █
█ started to grow on me. What I like about this band █
█ was that they tried different things. This is █
█ definately a pop metal album, and the songs all █
█ have a radio friendly chorus and hook, that is 9 █
█ of the 10 songs do. My review and three stars all █
█ go toward the final song on the album called "Baby █
█ Snakes". This song is great, I guess you could █
█ call it an instrumental, because basically the █
█ band is just jamming out while you hear a loser █
█ named Jeff working up the courage to call a girl █
█ and ask her out. Listening to Jeff get shot down █
█ in flames all to a killer drum beat and screaming █
█ guitar riff is too much. I think my favoite line █
█ is when Jeff is asked what he is doing he says "Oh █
█ not much just sitting around watch Mr. Ed...I mean █
█ Miami Vice" If you can find a used version of this █
█ disk pick it up. █
█ █
█ --- █
█ █
█ I got into Hurricane very late, 20 whole years █
█ after this was released in fact. It was on a free █
█ compilation dvd i got with another cd i'd ordered, █
█ on this dvd is over an hour of pure 80's rock █
█ magic and one of the best videos is Hurricanes I'm █
█ Onto You. As soon as I heard the opening few █
█ seconds I was hooked and made a real effort to █
█ find the album it came from. I'm happy to say I █
█ managed to download the remastered version in █
█ highest quality for a mere ú7.99 which I burned █
█ onto a cd immediately. █
█ I find Hurricane to be one of the best of the █
█ overlooked 80's bands because judging from this █
█ 1st full album they should have been huge with █
█ songs like the title track, Over The Edge and I'm █
█ Onto You. Also their cover version of Alice █
█ Coopers I'm Eighteen which they slowed down █
█ slightly giving it their own unique take is really █
█ very good. █
█ All of the songs here are well written and well █
█ played with all the band showing off their skills █
█ without showboating and trying to steal any █
█ limelight for themselves instead creating a tight █
█ sound and complimenting each other. Kelly Hansen █
█ has a wonderful voice, powerful and melodic, █
█ Robert Sarzo is a very skilled guitarist and the █
█ other 2 guys provide a fantastic rhythm section. █
█ I also feel that they have made a rather strange █
█ choice of tribute for a rock band, the song Give █
█ Me An Inch to me sounds like a hard rock tribute █
█ to Duran Duran given the way Kelly sings it and █
█ the whole sound of the song, the even stranger █
█ thing is that it fits perfectly with the rest of █
█ the album and feels totally natural. █
█ I will close now by saying if you don't have this █
█ album and you like great 80's hard rock then you █
█ should definately buy this as I can't rave about █
█ or recommend it enough. █
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░ 1. Over the Edge 5:35 ░
░ 2. I'm Eighteen 4:15 ░
░ 3. I'm On to You 3:56 ░
░ 4. Messin' With a Hurricane 5:02 ░
░ 5. Insane 3:48 ░
░ 6. We Are Strong 4:41 ░
░ 7. Spark in My Heart 4:56 ░
░ 8. Give Me an Inch 4:17 ░
░ 9. Shout 4:46 ░
░ 10. Baby Snakes 4:30 ░
░ 45:46 ░
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