Passion Street – Million Miles Away (1994) [Japan Edition] , MP3+FLAC

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It was 1994 and Rock music industry, especially in America, bet for grunge and alternative styles. They didn’t care: these six lads from UK known as PASSION STREET released one of the greatest AOR / Melodic Rock albums from the Nineties.

Small Swedish label Megarock Records agreed to release PASSION STREET debut CD “Million Miles Away” and soon after Japan Zero Corporation did the same in Asia, a country still eager for melodious rock sounds.
PASSION STREET took the best of Strangeways, Dare, Blvd, Journey, etc, to shape their sound and deliver a 10-tracker rich in smooth melodies, elegant arrangements and of course, top class songwriting for the genre.
As requested, here’s this awesome AOR album essential in your collection.

The sessions for “Million Miles Away” started early in the decade when AOR / Melodic rock still enjoyed world-wide industry support, but PASSION STREET struggled to secure a record deal and while in years to come this style of rock decreased in popularity, they stood faithful to the music they love and it shows all over the LP.
You can’t resist to that keyboard intros, sweet guitars, clean catchy choruses: this is classy AOR.

There’s pearls such as the awesome title track, the first rate ‘Samantha’ and its finesse, the mid-80s Journey style of the incredible ‘Desperate Times’, the slow brilliance of ‘Love Lies Bleeding’m the heavenly keyboards of ‘Where Do We Go From Here’, ‘Kid In A Small Town’, ‘Strangers’, etc… all are pure delight.
Some fans of the genre may find the Americanized party hard rocker ‘Sexy Girls’ out of the place in the track list, however it’s a good number and a chance for PASSION STREET to show a different side – and other of ther confessed influences; ’80s glammy melodic hard.

You can’t go wrong with PASSION STREET’s “Million Miles Away”, a pure classy AOR album essential in your collection.

01 – Wasted Emotion
02 – A Million Miles Away
03 – Samantha
04 – Desperate Times
05 – Fall In Love
06 – Love Lies Bleeding
07 – Sexy Girls
08 – Where Do We Go From Here
09 – Kid In A Small Town
10 – Strangers

Rick Carty – vocals, keyboards
Stuart Brown – guitar
Neil Waterman – guitar
Chris Bloomfield – bass
Cris Playle – keyboards
Pete Edwards – drums

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