I am here to review melodic rock of all kinds. The industry continues it's slow fade into oblivion. My main goal is to keep the torch lit. Reviews and opinions are my own. Ratings system moving forward for all albums reviewed here. 10 is perfect, like getting an A plus. Fairly simple.
Station's "A Matter of Time" A Blissful Melodic Rock Indulgence
Indie rock in New York City has taken an odd twist. A band that combines 80's glam, rock and pop, and does so without sounding like everyone that ever was. Sure the lead riff on this track has an almost Zeppelin feel to it. And vocalist Patrick Kearney sounds like a cross between Paul Stanley and Kingdom Come's Lenny Wolf. But add a dose of swing to this track and you've got a song that rocks with style. I mean those opening guitar hooks are a thing of beauty for your ears to behold. The story line is lifted from the annals of rock songs where men are pursuing that perfect, beautiful woman. The production on this record is big, bold and clean.
Try not have to have the line "It was just matter of time until I met you" lodged in your cerebral cortex for the rest of the day. Drummer Tony Baptist slams, crashes and pounds his way through this track, adding another dimension - 1970's hard rock. The Station has arrived. Their new album "Stained Glass" is available for pre-order. It drops on November 1st.
Fantastic track and your're certainly 100 per cent dead on with your vocal comparisons to Paul Stanley and Lenny "Kingdom" Wolf! And, once again, it is indeed an absolute pleasure to hear a contemporary hard rockin' track properly recorded and with the correct production techniques. Please be sure to continue sharing more great picks like this one ASAP!!
Forgot to mention this in my first comment, but my absolute fave near, one-hit-wonder track in that seventies bluesy hard rock vein is "Lone Wolf" from the obscure, long-defunct Finnish act Havana Black and their 1988/89 track "Lone Wolf". Best Paul Rodgers approximation ever, IMHO! And that second Station track you recommended was aces as well, so once again, thanks for that!
We played that on the radio station I worked at in '89. Paul Rodgers but with fatter hooks! We used to get calls on the song all the time thinking Bad Co had booted Brian Howe and got Paul back in the group.
Robert Hart was a better fit for Bad Co. during his brief tenure with that band, but totally loved that band's Mick Jones-co-produced/Foreigner knock-off album "Fame & Fortune" is a musically-precocious 13 year old!!
That album certainly rocked harder than Foreigner were able to at that point, give or take a handful of sleeper tracks on the following year's underrated, if over-keyboarded "Inside Information' platter!
Fantastic track and your're certainly 100 per cent dead on with your
ReplyDeletevocal comparisons to Paul Stanley and Lenny "Kingdom" Wolf! And, once
again, it is indeed an absolute pleasure to hear a contemporary hard rockin' track properly recorded and with the correct production
techniques. Please be sure to continue sharing more great picks like
this one ASAP!!
But of course!
DeleteForgot to mention this in my first comment, but my absolute fave
ReplyDeletenear, one-hit-wonder track in that seventies bluesy hard rock vein
is "Lone Wolf" from the obscure, long-defunct Finnish act Havana Black
and their 1988/89 track "Lone Wolf". Best Paul Rodgers approximation
ever, IMHO! And that second Station track you recommended was aces
as well, so once again, thanks for that!
We played that on the radio station I worked at in '89. Paul Rodgers but with fatter hooks! We used to get calls on the song all the time thinking Bad Co had booted Brian Howe and got Paul back in the group.
DeleteRobert Hart was a better fit for Bad Co. during his brief tenure with
ReplyDeletethat band, but totally loved that band's Mick Jones-co-produced/Foreigner
knock-off album "Fame & Fortune" is a musically-precocious 13 year old!!
I thought it was Foreigner when I first heard it.
DeleteThat album certainly rocked harder than Foreigner were able to at that
ReplyDeletepoint, give or take a handful of sleeper tracks on the following year's
underrated, if over-keyboarded "Inside Information' platter!