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Vigilante

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Vigilante" e' quel disco che ti fa assaporare il classico Rock fatto di chitarre possenti ma mielosee da atmosferiche tastiere che rendono tutto magico. It has been one of my favourite Magnum albums since it was released and shows them at their brilliant best. I initially gave only one star to this album, but I have now upgraded my rating to a more fair two stars. I've read quite a few reviews who depend their rating whether the album (or artist) is prog and rate it down if not.

While the band had wanted Rodney Matthews to paint the artwork, the record company chose a different cover against the band's wishes. Queen is one of my all-time favourite bands, and I'm sure that fans of 80's Queen will like this music. Eventually got round to properly replacing my very battered 2nd hand CD of this album with a shiny new one.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! 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. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. Please consider supporting us by giving monthly PayPal donations and help keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever. The approach adopted here was a lot more commercial and the end result is a more streamlined Magnum sound.

The feel of the album is entirely different from On A Storyteller's Night; lighter, streamlined, as I said, but not without substance. Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Three singles were released to promote the album, "Lonely Night", "Midnight (You Won't Be Sleeping)" and "When the World Comes Down".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. The album was produced by Roger Taylor of Queen and the sound of the album is very much of its time. Gracenote bizarrely categorizes this as 'Metal' (whereas even AC/DC and Led Zeppelin are tagged 'Rock') but who cares? 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.

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. While I have always liked the title track, I initially dismissed the rest of the album as too poppy and simplistic.

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. 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. Only nine tracks but very much quality rather than quantity I found this album utterly absorbing from start to finish.

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