Vigilante

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The approach adopted here was a lot more commercial and the end result is a more streamlined Magnum sound. Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description).

Queen is one of my all-time favourite bands, and I'm sure that fans of 80's Queen will like this music. The gloss serves to the band's advantage too, in that it reins in the beardy, prog-rock tendencies of some of their earlier work and draws attention to the concentrated quality in the songwriting, and especially to Bob Catley's superbly paced singing. I initially gave only one star to this album, but I have now upgraded my rating to a more fair two stars.Auf diesem Album geht es etwas rockiger zu, aber 2 melodiöse Nummern setzen sich auf Anhieb im Ohr fest. Tracks such as "Lonely Night", "Need a Lot of Love", "Midnight (You Won't Be Sleeping)" and "Vigilante" laid the groundwork for the group to reach their commercial and creative peak on their follow-up UK Top 5 album, Wings of Heaven. Only nine tracks but very much quality rather than quantity I found this album utterly absorbing from start to finish. those who ventures in this kind of music, for classical trained prog listner this one might be a desaster. Produced by David Richards and Queen drummer Roger Taylor, the band's sound stepped towards that of 1980s Queen, with keyboards much higher in the mix than guitar.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. While I have always liked the title track, I initially dismissed the rest of the album as too poppy and simplistic. From the breathy, synthy opening of Lonely Night to the ecstatic, drum-clattering coda of Back Street Kid, these are just nine top-notch songs given the best glossy, mid-80s production values by the skilled hand of Roger Taylor.There's truly not a bad track here, and different ones emerge as favourites each time I play it - currently it's Midnight, for its risky but perfectly judged saxophone climax, and Holy Rider, for that boomy, epic soundscape that prefigures what the Killers created in Sam's Town. This is a very good Magnum album - I don't like it as much as "Kingdom of Madness", "On a Storyteller's Night", "Wings of Heaven" or "Princess Alice and the Broken Arrow", but it is up there close to their best.