"Cool Night" is often tagged as a West Coast album but in fact, for the most part, it's one of the first 'radio-friendy AOR' records with a very modern sound for the era.
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The melodic hard rock band Mass has just released the EP "Holden on to Christmas" which can be found via including here.Mass do renditions of holiday classics from Grammy nominated writer’s David Foster, Mariah Carey, and Beale & Boothe.
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Category: Hard Rock / AOR
Year: 1991
Label: Balkanton
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Country: International
Genre: Hard Rock / AOR
Year: 2016
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The May 20 release Culver Kingz with, among others, Michael Thompson and Billy Trudel new album "This Time" by the company Escape Music. To be read in a press release:
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"Get Lucky" is Loverboy's best album. When I was in middle school in the early to mid 1980s, this was my favorite album. I had it on cassette, and I played it so much that I wore it out.
Everyobdy knows the song "Working for the Weekend." It's a truly great song. But it isn't necessarily the best song on here. Actually, there's so much diversity on this CD, it's somewhat hard to say what the best song really is.
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The project sees the involvement of guests from the past and present melodic rock scene such as Erik Martensson, Robin Beck, Harry Hess, Mikael Erlandsson, Michael Voss and Michael Bormann as lead vocalists, plus musicians including Vinny Burns and Douglas R. Docker amongst others.
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The band enjoyed international commercial success before taking a break in 1989. In 1992 the original lineup re-united for a charity concert and reportedly enjoyed playing together again so much that they decided to reform.
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SAMMY HAGAR, later to make a huge impact in Van Halen, first exploded on the rock scene as the front man of Montrose, playing his part in creating what is unquestionably one of the greatest debut albums of all time. It was a record that sent seismic shock waves around the globe, helping to propel the hard rock scene, and Hagar, into a new era.
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ONE OF THE great things for rock bands during the 1970s was that they had plenty of opportunity to play live, to hugely appreciative audiences. But not only did their studio recordings have to be great they also had to deliver live in concert, and this was an area that really separated the wheat from the chaff. If you were known as a great live act then your success was almost guaranteed...
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Great album with a great understanding for the west coast genre yet with his own style! For fans Pages, David Roberts, Gino Vannelli, Airplay, Mezzoforte, Ole Børud, Al Jarreau, Jay Graydon, David Foster, Toto, EW&F, Andreas Aleman, Bill Champlin.
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HAILING FROM LOS ANGELES , THIS IS THE COVETED DEBUT RELEASE FROM ONE OF THE BEST OF THE 80s MELODIC HARD ROCK GENRE. SILENT RAGE'S FIRST ALBUM WAS PRODUCED BY PAUL SABU AND SHOWCASES A CLASSY TOP-NOTCH SLAB OF HAIR METAL / AOR / 80s HARD ROCK WITH HUGE HOOKS , More»

This is 42 minutes of Melodic Hard / AOR bliss with a crystalline remastering treatment courtesy of Shawn R. Britton at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab on The Gain 2 System.
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