Loudness - Thunder in the East
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Artist: LoudnessEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-10-14
Music Label: Wounded Bird Records
Soundtracks:
- Crazy Nights
- Like Hell
- Heavy Chains
- Get Away
- We Could Be Together
- Run For Your Life
- Clockwork Toy
- No Way Out
- The Lines Are Down
- Never Change Your Mind
Free Music Notes for Thunder in the East
Free Music Review: Loudness At Their Finest
Hit: 5 Stars
Loudness ranks as one of my all time favorite metal bands. They were technical, had an excellent guitarist, and a fine singer who sang in the upper register, and they wrote catchy songs. Thunder In The East, one of 1985's best albums, was Loudness at their peak.
Produced by Max Norman, who was THE metal producer of the time, the record is terrific from start to finish. The production is outstanding and one of Norman's best ever. The song that was pushed by the label and by rock radio as the single, "Crazy Nights" is OK but actually one of weaker songs on the album. Unfortunitely, as is often the case, labels and radio stations don't look past one song in which to define a band, where if they had more forsight, they could increase the shelf life of the CD by releasing more songs as singles.
Back to Loudness. "Like Hell" is an up tempo rocker with a fabulous solo, and a progression similar to song #4 "Get Away", which offers up another terrific solo very reminiscent of a fast Richie Blackmore solo from his Deep Purple days."Heavy Chains" and "We Could Be Together", are both quite good, but it is "Run For Your Life" which is the standout track here. A slow, ballad-like build up to a great chorus and melodic solo, this should have been a hit. "Clockwork Toy" is next and is also excellent and heavy. Another song which I just love is the albums closer, "Never Change Your Mind", which despite its unintentionally humorous lyrics (got a new hairstyle I see, you're dressed to kill, bright colored lipstick for me against my will) due to the language gap, is a stellar track. It builds up and builds up with great hooks and is one of their best songs.
While Loudness put out many more albums after "Thunder", none were as consistant, and none had as many great songs packed into one album.
Huge amounts of respect must be given to them as a band for their ability to pen decent lyrics in English and rock the western world at a technical level that few western bands can attain.
Loudness' "Thunder In The East" is a must for any complete metal collection, and in this writers opinion, their best work.
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Loudness was a Japanese hard rock quartet that had numerous hit albums in the 80's and early 90's. Thunder In The East reached number 74 on the Billboard charts in 1985. Wounded Bird. 2003.Hard Rock & Metal Music CDs
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