Savannah - Savannah | ||
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Down Ever Road |
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Label: Z Records Producers: Savannah & Jim Lightman Year: 1998 Total Playing Time: 43:06 m:s Review date: 28 Aug 1998 |
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| Rating: 8/9 | ||
| Verdict: A good debut. | ||
| After listening to the Z Records Sampler CD earlier this year, Savannah were one of the bands I wanted to hear more of. Well, their debut album was released on 24 August 1998, so now the waiting is over. Z's releases, so far, have tended to be on the harder side of things & could have left AOR purists wondering if the label had forgotten about them. Enter Savannah.
Listening to the intro to the first song, had me thinking about how good things used to be. You know, when every new band wanted to be the next Journey, Survivor or Foreigner. These days new bands want to the next Alice In Chains or whatever masquerades as rock music in the pages of Kerrang etc. Savannah have a 'classic AOR' sound that contains elements of Journey, The Storm & Survivor and on the more rocking numbers Danger Danger. Many will pick vocalist, Earle Lord, as the star the show, but I'd say everyone plays their part in creating a sound that is surprisingly refreshing. Opener, Down Ever Road, sets the tone for the rest of the album - a mixture of Journey & Survivor. The second track starts with the sound of Rain. Just what is this obession with the weather for Journey wannabes :) Seriously, you're gonna have a big smile on your face by this stage. It is great to hear that classic AOR sound again. Premonition is another winner. On Never Too Late they sound more like The Storm. Two Young Hearts is the song you might have heard on the Z Sampler disc. It is an uptempo number that echoes Danny Vaughan era Tyketto.The guitars are cranked up for Spend A Little Time, Never Let It Go & Back In Line. Never Let It Go comes off best, the other two being the only places on the album that I'd say the quality dips slightly. After listening to the Useless Alibis ballad you may well reaching for your copy of The Eagles - Hotel California, I know I was. A bit too pink and fluffy for some, but I'm partial to a bit of candy floss. For the final tune, we get something a little different - a good time tune as dispensed by the likes of Poison. A good debut. It is nice to see a band going for that Stadium AOR sound. In days gone by, these guys would have been getting loads of airplay on American rock stations. | ||
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