Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Odyssey
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Free Music Review: Yngwie is the best!
Hit: 5 Stars
Of the myriad Yngwie Malmsteen albums to own, this is one of them, especially for guitar players (neven guitar aficionados). Also, Trilogy, Odyssey, Marching Out, and the Concerto Suite with the orchestra are all very good, with a definite must have is the Live in Leningrad show. Yngwie does a 10-minute solo that fuses his neo-classical style with blues and other genres, and it is simply amazing. Yngwie does like to play fast for a long time, and quite consistently, which turns away a lot of people looking for simple guitar lines (which is a shame). I just saw him live last weekend and can say that his finger speed in person is dazzling. Scalloped frets or not, he can play blindingly fast anywhere on the guitar, and the cleanliness of both his picking and fingering hands while he plays above the 12th fret is simply amazing. But when he broke it down and played some bluesy tunes, it was just as amazing. And he can play the classical guitar as fluently as he does the electric, which is refreshing. Yngwie can be described as an amalgamation of metal, blues, and classical mixed together to present a heterogeneous style that is unique and appreciable.
Yngwie influenced some of the best guitarists out there, such as Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, and Vinnie Moore (Tony MacAlpine is good too but is a far better keyboardist). Check out some of the Cacophony (Friedman & Becker) and Racer X (Gilbert) material, it is phenomenal, and you can notice the influence Yngwie's neo-classical style had (arpeggios galore). If Jason Becker had not gotten ALS (known commonly as "Lou Gehrig's disease") he would be competing with Yngwie for the role as the best rock guitarist on Earth.
Any guitarist who bashes Yngwie as merely a shredder (a complete misnomer) needs to consider switching to a more suitable instrument, perhaps the lute.
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Free Music Review: Amazing guitar work
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the first CD I bought of Yngwie Malmsteens and I am very impressed. He is an awesome guitarist and proof that you can have both speed and melody even while improvising solos. "Rising Force" has a great rhthym guitar part and the break into the first blazing solo of the song is stunning. I also particularly enjoyed the instrumental "Bite the Bullet" for its expressing soloing over almost no backing instruments and the classical guitar sections of "Dreaming". While Turner is a talented vocalist I don't have much taste for this type of 80's glam rock vocals, but it did not ruin the guitar work of Malmsteen for me.Free Music Review: VIRTUOSITY plus COMPOSITIONS
Hit: 5 Stars
I can still remember the first time I listened to Malmsteen.
It was the "Odyssey" album back in the summer of 1988.
It was a life-changing experience. I put the cassette tape on the player and pressed "PLAY". After 3 minutes of listening to the "Rising Force" track, my jaw had fallen on the floor. I had never heard any kind of guitar playing, like this before.
The arpeggios on this very first track were coming out of hell, executed with devilish virtuosity and unbelievable speed.
I can still remember the first time I listened to Malmsteen.
The same night I was not able to fall asleep. My mind was flooded with millions of notes, scales, arpeggios, and guitar riffs played at an out-of-this-world speed. The effect was permanent. I became a fan of the most technical & most innovative metal guitar player of the world.
My opinion about "Odyssey": catchy & commercial, yes, classic & powerful yet. Stands the test of time. A blend of good song writing and impressive guitar acrobatics. A nice introduction in Malmsteen music.
I can still remember the first time I listened to Malmsteen.
Free Music Review: Neo-Classical Shred meets 80's Glam Rock
Hit: 5 Stars
This is far and away the best Yngwie Malmsteen album after his original RISING FORCE lp. Yngwie goes through lead vocalists like I go through pairs of shoes, but I always felt that Joe Lynn Turner was the best singer to complement Malmsteen on a studio recording.
This was a great album because Yngwie got a chance to fully develop his sound by melding it with an 80's hair band (ala Poison or Cinderella), but at the same time he freely expressed himself by way of mind-boggling solos, sweep-picked arpeggios and some of the fastest playing I have ever heard. Examples of this can be found in the three 'hits' from this album, 'Deja Vu,' 'Hold On,' and 'Heaven Tonight.' The last of the three starts with a fantastic vocal harmony and is probably the 'catchiest' Malmsteen song ever.
On the other side of the coin, I felt Malmsteen missed the boat on albums like TRILOGY and MARCHING OUT, where we had great hits like 'Queen in Love' and 'Liar,' whereas the remaining songs were never really that great. On ODYSSEY, however, I find myself enjoying other less known tracks like 'Crystal Ball,' 'Rising Force,' and 'Now is the Time.' All of Yngwie's solos on studio recordings are improvised and you will never hear the same solo twice. I always liked his live solos much better, but if I had to pick one studio release where I truly enjoyed his soloing over the live performance, it would be ODYSSEY. Notable solos occur on 'Deja Vu' and the instrumental 'Krakatu'.
Listeners not familiar with Malmsteen will inevitably be turned off by the corniness of songs like 'Crystal Ball,' and will dismiss it as unoriginal 80's hair band 'glam rock,' but those of us who can appreciate this style of guitar playing know how important and revolutionary Malmsteen's style was, and continues to be today.
Free Music Review: Either this is THE Yngwie album, or the worst Yngwie album
Hit: 5 Stars
This is where Yngwie J. Malmsteen ("not to be confused with the other Yngwie Malmsteens") put it all together. The riffs grooved, the chops had feeling (at least by Yngwie standards), the melodies were accessible, and the lyrics weren't goofy. Okay, they were cheesy just like any other pop rock song, if you're too cool for school and look down upon something like that. But, I'll take cheesy pop over cheesy nonsense D&D lyrics anyday. The older stuff "Queen is in Love", "I am a Viking", "Disciples of Hell." What the hell was the point of all that?
I'm not going to go back and replace just anything I used to own on cassette tape, but I'm glad I rediscovered this one on CD. Sure, it sounds like a Survivor album on speed, but this is the one studio CD from Yngwie that's all around tasty.