Vigilante

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Auf diesem Album geht es etwas rockiger zu, aber 2 melodiöse Nummern setzen sich auf Anhieb im Ohr fest. Produced by David Richards and Queen drummer Roger Taylor, the band's sound stepped towards that of 1980s Queen, with keyboards much higher in the mix than guitar. Please consider supporting us by giving monthly PayPal donations and help keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever. The gloss serves to the band's advantage too, in that it reins in the beardy, prog-rock tendencies of some of their earlier work and draws attention to the concentrated quality in the songwriting, and especially to Bob Catley's superbly paced singing.

Tracks such as "Lonely Night", "Need a Lot of Love", "Midnight (You Won't Be Sleeping)" and "Vigilante" laid the groundwork for the group to reach their commercial and creative peak on their follow-up UK Top 5 album, Wings of Heaven.Capitalising on the success of On a Storyteller's Night, Magnum changed to a more commercial direction with Vigilante. Three singles were released to promote the album, "Lonely Night", "Midnight (You Won't Be Sleeping)" and "When the World Comes Down". While I have always liked the title track, I initially dismissed the rest of the album as too poppy and simplistic. Only nine tracks but very much quality rather than quantity I found this album utterly absorbing from start to finish. While the band had wanted Rodney Matthews to paint the artwork, the record company chose a different cover against the band's wishes.

I don't give many five-star reviews, but Vigilante gets one because it's proof that there was good music being made even in the Thatcherite taste desert that was Britain in 1986. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. There's truly not a bad track here, and different ones emerge as favourites each time I play it - currently it's Midnight, for its risky but perfectly judged saxophone climax, and Holy Rider, for that boomy, epic soundscape that prefigures what the Killers created in Sam's Town.Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. From the breathy, synthy opening of Lonely Night to the ecstatic, drum-clattering coda of Back Street Kid, these are just nine top-notch songs given the best glossy, mid-80s production values by the skilled hand of Roger Taylor.

The weakest tracks are the first three and the last, but the ones in the middle are all good ones; Midnight (You Won't Be Sleeping), Red On The Highway, Holy Rider, and When The World Comes Down are actually not bad at all! It has been one of my favourite Magnum albums since it was released and shows them at their brilliant best. those who ventures in this kind of music, for classical trained prog listner this one might be a desaster. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The album was produced by Roger Taylor of Queen and the sound of the album is very much of its time. I've read quite a few reviews who depend their rating whether the album (or artist) is prog and rate it down if not. This is a very good Magnum album - I don't like it as much as "Kingdom of Madness", "On a Storyteller's Night", "Wings of Heaven" or "Princess Alice and the Broken Arrow", but it is up there close to their best. Eventually got round to properly replacing my very battered 2nd hand CD of this album with a shiny new one. Gracenote bizarrely categorizes this as 'Metal' (whereas even AC/DC and Led Zeppelin are tagged 'Rock') but who cares?

Vigilante was the first Magnum album I bought (still on vinyl back in 1991 as I didn't have a CD player then) and I still believe it is their best one. The feel of the album is entirely different from On A Storyteller's Night; lighter, streamlined, as I said, but not without substance. I initially gave only one star to this album, but I have now upgraded my rating to a more fair two stars. The approach adopted here was a lot more commercial and the end result is a more streamlined Magnum sound. peut-être un peu trop hard fm, mais néanmoins des titres comme Vigilante font de cet album un des meilleurs de Magnum mais pas un des plus typiques.Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). Queen is one of my all-time favourite bands, and I'm sure that fans of 80's Queen will like this music. Vigilante" e' quel disco che ti fa assaporare il classico Rock fatto di chitarre possenti ma mielosee da atmosferiche tastiere che rendono tutto magico. I decided to replace my old cd as some tracks had always seemed to jump so I was quite disappointed to find the new does the same so perhaps it is a mastering fault when the it was transferred from vinyl.