Hidden Treasures - Redemption!

[Scott]

 

REDEMPTION!

Last week we looked at bands at the point in time they stumbled and recorded albums that left us scractching our heads. But, because we love our bands we kept hope alive that they would return to form so we could look the naysayers in the eye and tell them "I told you so!!" This week Im posting 3 tracks from albums that I think redeemed a bands image an dput them back on the worldwide map!

 

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	KISS - Creatures of the Night 1982 1 - Creatures of the Night After a trip into the Pop music abyss with Dynasty and Unmasked KISS announced in 1980 that they were going to record their heaviest record yet, instead, the band released "Music from The Elder" in late 1981. Leaving everyone except Jon scratching their heads. Watching their popularity decline, KISS went back into the studio and got themselves back on track by focusing on what made them great to begin with, Rock and Roll. This album, in my opinion, restored faith in the core fan base that gave them the ability to sustain success throughout most of the 80's.
	AEROSMITH - Permanent Vacation 1987 2 - Hearts Done Time Let me state up front, I like Done With Mirrors a lot and think one could argue that was the album that let the fan base know they were serious about coming back. But without a doubt Permanent Vacation made the huge splash. If we could delete Dude Looks Like A Lady from the album it would be nearer to perfect. But this opening track leaves no doubt that they were back!
	DEEP PURPLE - Perfect Strangers 1984 3 - Perfect Strangers 1976 saw the band in shambles, Coverdale walked off stage, Bolin died and Lord and Paice had plans to disband. In 1980 Rod Evans toured using the name Deep Purple and was successfuly sued, things looked bleak! Then in 1984 a "legal" reunion came about of the most famous and popular verison of the band, Mark II. And what an album they came up with! Total Redemption!

[Jon]

That's what she said.

[RJhog (Admin)]

As for the songs, can't go wrong with any of these:

Creatures Of The Night - A great opening track.  And it translated very well live.  

Heart's Done Time - I think the production on PV isn't up front like on Pump.  Pump is covered in production and the songs just sound cleaner, with this song sounding like a rough version of something that could have been on Pump.

Perfect Strangers - Would you believe I have this album but I don't remember giving it a full lesson.  I wonder why you didn't pick the opener here since you did so on the other two albums?  Just curious if you even realized you had done that on the first two.  The beginning of the song reminds me of the song Heavy Metal, by Don Felder I believe.  

Nice conversational post Scott.

Oh, and I love the video clip to kick it off.  Nice touch.

[Scott]

Love Dumb and Dumber and this clip totally fit the topic, so it had to be a part of the thread!  hahaha...

 

Looks like I need to give Pump a listen, its gets a ton of mention on here.  It was posted previously but on the site that shall remain unmentioned.  As far DP goes,  I considered the opening track but went this way instead, probably would made the post more consistent, but whadda-ya-do now?  Now log off and go listen to the whole album, totally worthwhile!

[RJhog (Admin)]

No, you log off...

Just kiddin'.

Just now listening.  I agree, Perfect Strangers is a very good album.  The guitar work, the keys and the vocals are very good.  Sometimes Gillan sounds like Phil Mogg to me.  I really like the ballad Wasted Sunsets.  Tremendous geetar work on it.

Now, slightly off subject, how 'bout Masters And Slaves?  How does it rate?  I almost bought the newly released remaster the other day, but opted for two Rainbow remasters for about the same price.

[Scandal 2000]

I have put some more thought into this and here are a couple more:

Johnny Cash- American Recordings

Okay I know we talk mainly rock around here but Cash's influence is all over rock music. To me he was always cool but seemed out of date in the 80's. This one is stellar to me.

Ozzy Osbourne-Blizzard Of Ozz

I kind of cheated here because this is Ozzy's first solo album but probably his best as well. Considering how drugged out he was during his last few years in Sabbath and considering how bad the last two albums he did with them were, he was pretty much left for dead in the music industry. This album redeemed him.

 

 

 

[Niels (Mod)]

It's VERY difficult for me, to pick out a band/album where they went back to form, because it is my believe, that when a great band suddenly stops making great albums, they will never find back again. The list is sooo long. 

I would have picked "Done With Mirrors" instead of "Permanent Vacation", but since DWM was my first Aerosmith-album, then it wasn't really a "Redemption-album" for me.

On the top of my head, the only two I can think of are:

Bob Dylan: "Time Out Of Mind" from 1997

George Harrison: "Cloud Nine" from 1987

[Scott]

Good call on the Harrison album, don't know much about Dylan past Slow Train Comin. But I also agree with you about Done With Mirrors, I thought it was and still is a very good album.