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Greg Giuffria's flashy keyboard flourishes always exist outside of time. Otherwise, Sahara, the second release from his umpteenth shot at stardom, House of Lords, pretty much perpetuates pompous hair metal of the Whitesnake and Blue Murder variety. We're talking the kind of antiquated albums whereupon scrubbed members pose in front of well-lit castle walls. Luckily, some cool orbiting guest stars descend for the festivities, including White Lion Mike Tramp, Rick Nielsen, and Robin Zander of Cheap Trick (Rick's name erroneously placed under Robin's picture in the liner notes). HOL recklessly plows through one of Nielsen's delicious castoffs, "Heart on the Line." (Both bands share Ken Adamany management, and Giuffria helped with "All We Need Is a Dream" from Trick's last smash, Lap of Luxury). This ditty lightens the mood, and the quintet nails the retread lyrics and crumpled riffs. Actually, things stay refreshingly light with the innocuous "Lay Down Stay Down," and the surprising menage a trois lurking in the title track. The attempt at "Can't Find My Way Home" (Sahara producer Andy Johns engineered the Blind Faith original) surfed the airwaves and sold some units. Of course, these cats can't touch the innate uniqueness of Steve Winwood, but the baroque Zeppelin mellow/heavy shades treatment suits the song well (it should be easy to apply this formula, as other metallists have beat the paradigm into the ground). "It Ain't Love" isn't as hard rockin' as Dokken's more grammatical "It's Not Love," and naturally the second side slips onto balladry; the same team behind the "Flame" pens "Remember My Name," which comes off as a tolerable torch moment. The burning "Kiss of Fire" ends the proceedings with a nasty, unhinged bit of preening insanity. Sahara succeeds because of its bombastic brashness. [The import gives you the "short cut version" of "Can't Find My Way Home," which means nothing.]Read full review
Highly over looked metal band of the late 80's! 1 of the bands that got caught in the down turn of Rock when MTV decided to go BLACK and never came back! When Nirvana & Guns and Roses where proving everything that was wrong about 80's music House of Lords where making true Metal music that will always remain timeless! Just 1 listen to the opening track Shoot lets you know these guys can play! And there cover of Can't Find My Way Home is simply amazing! The REAL STAND OUT TRACK FOR ME IS AMERICAN BABYLON! No sophomore jinx here with this band! And the guest lineup is a WHO's WHO of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal LEGENDS! If you want REAL HARD ROCK .........GRAB THIS BABY!
This is the second release from House Of Lords, which is very excellent. It is a lot stronger than the first album as far as the hard rock sound all the way through it. The drums, guitar, and keyboards rock really good, and it reminds me of listening to Kiss- Crazy nights, with all of the keyboards and drums sounding as hard as that album. There are two songs that remind me of Dokken songs on it also. "It Ain't Love" reminds me of Dokken's "It's Not Love", and "Kiss Of Fire" reminds me of Dokken's "Kiss Of Death". If you want decent eighties style hard rock from House Of Lords, this is a very good and hard to find cd to get.
This was my first order in E-Bay and it was very easy. I confess that I was afraid in the beginning, but everything was right and 30 days after my order, I received my CD in Brazil. I bought this CD because I love hard rock of 80 - 90´s, the outrageous "hair metal" like, Winger, Warrant, Ratt and etc..
good CD
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