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The ’80s sounding’ albums from YES are a different beasts from the band’s discography. ‘90125’ (1983) and ‘Big Generator’ (1987) are huge, bombastic. And there’s many reissues / remasters of both albums, and all sound different.
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The debut album of the MIKE DELLA BELLA PROJECT received a very nice welcome and rave reviews by the WestCoast and AOR audience in 2019. This led Mike to the production of his second album on which he decided to rely again on his trusted musicians who already played in ‘ONE’, such as Daniele Trissati on guitars and Mauro Scardini on keyboards, who also helped him with the arrangements.

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Genre :Melodic Hard Rock
Year : 2020-2024
Country : USA
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Sony Music Entertainment is releasing a fresh 2024 remaster of FIREHOUSE awesome self-titled album. There’s very good remasters already, like the Bad Reputation Records including bonus tracks… do we need a new 2024 remaster?
As has been happening with many big record labels, Sony is updating their catalog with fresh remasters to update playback clarity on modern players. “Firehouse (2024 Remaster)” now sounds great from your hi-end equipment to the car or the iPod…
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Genre: Melodic Hard Rock | AOR
Country of origin of the disc (release): Japan
Year of publication: 2021/CD-Rip
Publisher (label): Avalon
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The band hails from Canada’s British Columbia and not many of these albums exist. The band plays heart pounding anthems and rocking tracks that take you back to the late 1980s. AOR fans as well would love this as the ballads are smooth slices of AOR heaven.
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After the recently released new Honeymoon Suite strong album, it was requested here the band’s lead singer and songwriter JOHNNIE DEE solo album titled “Songs In Dee“. More»



Canadian melodic rockers HONEYMOON SUITE returned with a strong new studio album a couple weeks ago, and now we have in exclusive at plotn08 the band’s studio album ”Clifton Hill” reissued last year, re-mixed and including 2 newly recorded tracks.
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If you like your AOR with a bit of balls and like Survivor, Refugee, Franke & The Knockouts and a hint of Toto here and there, then this will be right up your street. Opening cut 'She's Got A Way' straight away reminds me of Survivor, especially with the Jimi Jamison style vocals (which are excellent throughout this disc) and is an excellent opener. 'Chyna' carries on the Survivor style AOR and is another excellent tune. More»


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Country: Australia
Genre: Hard / Rock / Blues / Soul
Released: 1996
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John Parr - Letter To America
John Parr (born 18 November 1954) is an English musician, who had two number one hits, best known for his 1985 US number one hit single St. Elmo's Fire and in 1984 for his US number one hit single Naughty Naughty.[1] Parr has sold 10 million albums worldwide, and has written and performed 12 Hollywood movie themes, including that for one of Disney's most successful films, 3 Men & A Baby, Near Dark, and Schwarzenegger's The Running Man. He was nominated for a Grammy award for St Elmo's Fire in 1985. More»



Country: Sweden / Italy
Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Year of publication: 2023-2024
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For many music aficionados, RICK SPRINGFIELD is relegated to ‘80s-only status in their minds, but this talented musician has been making terrific, thoughtful, engaging melodious pop-rock for nearly 30 years. With his album “Songs for the End of the World”, Springfield rips out rockers with the verve of a musician half his age.
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