Night Ranger - Night Ranger's Greatest Hits
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Free Music Notes for Night Ranger's Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: Rocks like soggy toast
Hit: 1 Stars
These guys have to be the blueprint for all the hilarious cheesy songs the Southpark guys use on their TV show and in "Team America". You can't find much rock n' roll music that is weaker than Nightranger. And to think this is the greatest hits! Horrible, horrible music. Back in the 80's when everyone was listening to this instead of the Replacements it was laughable. 20 years later it's even more laughable and shocking. The ONLY way anyone could enjoy this would be listening in a nostalgiac sense. If you were 12 in 1985.Free Music Review: When You Close Your Eyes...
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, I suppose I might be biased, since my father actually *wrote* 'When You Close Your Eyes'. yes, that's right. Look at who the lyrics are by, it's says Jeff Smith, and I, am his daughter, Kendall Smith.
Anyhoo, aside from my little brag-fest (MY DAD WROTE IT!) this is a great album. All of the songs are catchy and fun, it's not the best 80's rock, but still really cool and AWESOME! I give it 4/5, plus one star because I love my Daddy. ^_^
Free Music Review: Take a trip down Sentimental St. w. Night Ranger
Hit: 4 Stars
Of the hard rock bands of the 80s, Night Ranger did an awesome job without actually being classified as metal. Some of their songs were tinged with the synths that typified 80's music, and along with contemporaries like Loverboy, their biggest hits were power ballads. Yet they did have quite a hard-edge without them going into metal. Case in point was "(You Can Still) Rock In America," their hardest rocking hit with a pulsing and snarling guitar a la Riggs that could've been on the Heavy Metal soundtrack, yet only made it to #51 in 1984. Barely scraping the Top 40 is another hard-edged number, "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" from Dawn Patrol, as is "Eddie's Comin' Out Tonight" from the same album.
"Sing Me Away" from Dawn Patrol (1982) alternated between hard rock guitar in the verses and a chorus tempered by synths. A pleasant enough number that somehow stalled at #54. However, their biggest hit was the power ballad "Sister Christian" of a teenage girl growing up and feeling the pangs of adolescence, from their second album Midnight Madness, which starts out with a gentle piano before the drums transition into the power guitars. This was their second Top 40 hit and only Top 5. "When You Close Your Eyes," also from MM, was more upbeat rock, though with a more poppified rock beat, kind of like Rick Springfield. This reached #14. The rocker "Rumours In The Air," also from MM, is a Loverboy-type number.
However, they had more power ballads, particularly on 7 Wishes, their second biggest album. It stood to reason, considering the success of "Sister Christian." I saw videos from 7 Wishes during my MTV years, so this is where I came in. "Sentimental Street," with its majestic synths opening and steady mid-paced beat, was their second biggest hit, charting at #8. The #19 song "Four In The Morning (I Can't Take It Anymore)" was quicker-paced, with the standard pop backbeat coupled with their usual sound, putting them in the same company as hard-rock tempered by pop groups like Loverboy, Heart, and Journey. And the wistful Auld Lang Syne-type rock ballad "Goodbye" is a magical combination of synths and guitars. Brad Gillis' guitar works its magic at the finale, accompanied by the synths. It seemed appropriate, as it turned out to be their last Top 40 hit, peaking at #17.
The only representative from Big Life, their 1987 album, is "The Secret Of My Success," the title track for the Michael J. Fox movie of the same name. With an uptempo Jan Hammer keyboard backbeat and a more pop/rock sound, it isn't as hard as their earlier oeuvre, but again, with repeated airplay on MTV, I got accustomed to this song, where others might've cringed. It peaked at #64, far below their usual chartings. "Restless Kind" from Man In Motion (1988), reverted to the usual power ballad genre, but by that time, two groups of metal had eclipsed Night Ranger, who had never ventured beyond hard rock, veterans like Def Leppard who exploded with Hysteria and newcomers like Skid Row and Guns N Roses. Needless to say, the song failed to even chart.
Following Night Ranger's breakup, bassist and lead vocalist Jack Blades joined Damn Yankees, where he scored a hit higher than "Sister Christian," namely "High Enough" which hit #3. Brad Gillis, who had been Ozzy's guitarist for the live Speak of the Devil album, tried his hand at a solo career before resurrecting Night Ranger with drummer and lead vocalist Kelly Keaggy.
Despite the absence of "Interstate Love Affair" from the movie Teachers, this collection captures the hard rockers at their best, and is ideal for those of us 80's people wanting a stroll down a Sentimental Street.
"And all this could be such a dream so it seems/I was never much good at goodbye" From Goodbye.
Free Music Review: A tour de force
Hit: 5 Stars
There are many great 80s bands out there and Night Ranger ranks among the best of the best. Jack Blades has one of the top perm fros of the 80s and backs the top level hairdo up with top of the line vocal bliss. I think every track on this thing is a platinum single in itself, but if you are going to keep bugging me about my favorites I'll go ahead and tell you. "Sister Christian" is one of the 20 greatest moments in the history of rock n' roll. It's the story of a girl who is motorin, which is a subject most hair bands refuse to tackle. The video for the song could've won an oscar if they would have extended it to the hour and a half it deserved. So the song is 5 minutes long you say? If you played it 30 straight times as a backdrop to the heartwarming story of a girls journey into manhood people would lap it up like a bowl of Sunny D. So as good as Sister Christian is, "Don't tell me you love me" might even be better. Blades takes you on a mystery tour on this song telling the chicks not to say they love him because he doesn't want to know. How genius is that? If a girl tells you they love you, you are kind of stuck in it for the long haul unless you're a love 'em leave 'em type like Kites. But if the girl doesn't tell you she loves you, you can go on assuming you're just there to hook with one another with no strings attached. Speaking of strings, this cd is missing the cover of "Billie Jean" done with Millard South string section that blew the doors off the Steinhauer music festival in 87. Overall, this is top of the line rock that you should be proud of owning.Free Music Review: zicofuss
Hit: 4 Stars
Totally 80's muzic man. love it, esp the song "Sing me Away" brings back some good memories.