Category: 1997
Frontline’s ‘Heroes’ album drew a lot of conversation on Internet discussion lists at the time of it’s release due to…
After three fantastic studio albums Gotthard did what most rock bands do and that is go live, and acoustic.
A great debut from Street Talk, and one for Journey and Toto freaks.
The 90’s saw a brace of albums released by Mark Spiro. Arguably his best came in between the years 1996…
Vocal shortcomings aside, this is a superb disc from Tesseract and is worth every effort to track down.
Not exactly a memorable name in AOR circles, Tony Kishman has been around for a wee while, plus he is…
Sahara Snow was in the main a whole raft of 1997 penned tunes from the trio of Springfield, Pierce and…
Indeed this album sounded nothing like the W.A.S.P. of old, with a heavy industrial influence tainting the album.
Musically, Icebreaker has all the hallmarks of a great melodic rock album, bordering on pomp. Not quite, only just.
Following on from their 1994 effort ‘And The Horse’, Strangeways continue their sabbatical away from quality AOR.
Posthumously released in 1997 but recorded in June and September 1969, ‘Ghost Of A Smile’ is an eye opening listen…
For a bit of a laugh, I’ve included Pat Boone’s ‘In A Metal Mood’ CD from 1997. It caused a…
Former Air Raid main man Arthur Offen returns in 1997 with his new project Flag.
Overall what do we get with Big Mouth? Sweeping melodic rock which brings to mind the best moments of the…
This is probably the last definitive studio album from British crossover prog outfit Barclay James Harvest.
1997 was the commencement of a new phase for UK prog rockers come pop converts Genesis.
Matthew and Gunnar Nelson wanted to release as a follow up to the smash 1990 debut.
This is the 1997 comeback album of sorts from perennial ‘good guys’ and pop/R&B legends Hall And Oates.
‘The Kindness Of Strangers’ was the third Spock’s Beard studio album. Mildly complex music with a melodic Yes, Gentle Giant…
Megadeth’s ‘Cryptic Writings’ remains a directionless jumble as Mustaine crammed too many ‘era’s’ into one album, trying to satisfy fans…
The song titles on this LP are hilarious. I’ll Bi Yer Luv.. I mean.. come on. This is probably where…
Unfortunately this album wasn't available in it's entirety on YTM. All the individual tracks are there but no logged in…
I recently reacquainted myself with this album. It's much better than I remembered it by. Good to hear 'Can't Stop…
I like the storyline but not much else. 👎
Have added a new video into the review. 'Breaking Me Up'. These gals look and sound great. 💛
Carmine Appice is also involved with the band Ruffyunz, and appears on their 2023 album 'III'. https://raritetno.com/hard-rock/210584-ruffyunz-iii-2023.html
30 years on, the song 'Foreclosure Of A Dream' can be directly aimed at former Dutch PM Mark Rutte and…
There is one unofficial release on YouTube Music from around 2008/2009 with a load of Unreleased tracks. It's called Post…
I would agree this isn't one of Queen's best. Jazz which followed after this wasn't much better. Live Killers from…
I have this need to revisit the first two Argent albums for review. Argent and Ring Of Hands. Watch this…