Newman – Decade II (2018) , 2CD

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May 29, 2024 Melodic Rock | AOR

NEWMAN is one of the most productive bands out there when it comes to melodic rock. Their latest studio effort ‘Colour in Sound’ was featured here some days ago, and some of you asked for this stupendous 2xCD pack titled “Decade II“, released by the now defunct AOR Heaven Records label.

Appeared in 2018, “Decade II“ is a kind of expanded ‘best-of’ containing a 2-disc set – there’s no less then 17 tracks on each CD, 34 tracks in total.
However, this is not just a ‘compilation’. Steve Newman and his band re-recorded all tracks especially for this release, songs selected from the five albums Newman released in the last ten years, from the 2007 to 2017 decade. All these new versions – very good by the way – are packed on CD1.
But the other 17 tracks on CD2 are unreleased, or at least quite rare songs (e.g. Japanese bonus tracks) taken from that very period. And a must.

Newman already released some time ago ‘Decade I’, covering the first ten years / discography of the band from 1997 to 2007. Now it’s time for the second decade of the band, from 2007 – 2017, and “Decade II”.

”Decade II” it’s all good, the best of both worlds: the 17 ‘best of’ songs have been re-recorded with a crisp production (Newman has been faithful to the original versions, so he have here a varied material ranging from Melodic Hard Rock to AOR) while the other 17 songs are like a new album, because most are unreleased of hard to find Japanese edition bonus tracks.
Great release, HIGHLY Recommended

Cd 1: 01 Hero To Zero,
02 Heading For Your Heart,
03 Ghost In The Night,
04 Feel Her Again,
05 Stay With Me,
06 The Elegance Machine,
07 Killing Me,
08 Primitive Soul,
09 Endless,
10 Fire With Fire,
11 Scar Of Love,
12 15 Minute Revolution,
13 She Walks In Silence,
14 Under Southern Skies,
15 Had Enough,
16 Tumble Down,
17 For The Man I Am

Cd 2:
01 Breaking The Barrier,
02 Girl Found Love,
03 Liar,
04 One More Night With You,
05 Fight No More,
06 She's The Woman,
07 Nightmare,
08 Angel,
09 World Keeps Turning,
10 In Too Deep,
11 The More I Love,
12 Crossed My Heart,
13 A Witness To Love's Decline,
14 Does It Feel The Same?,
15 Race Of A Lifetime,
16 Never Becomes Again,
17 My Fantasy