This one came out of the blue (neat, a PUN), kind of a request from Rjhog and I'm here to please.
A suergroup formed in the late 80's, Blue Murder consisted of John Sykes (Tygers of Pan Tang, Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake), Carmine Appice (I believe he's played for everyone) and Tony Franklin (The Firm). Cozy Powell and Ray Gillen were also briefly in the group before the above mentioned lineup was in place.
I can remember some of these songs getting significant airplay on both radio and MTV, most notably "Valley Of The Kings", "Jelly Roll" and "Billy". Good stuff, and to me it was much better than most of the metal coming out at the time, this being 1989 when this album was released.
It's one of those albums that I have picked up on vinyl, cassette and CD, it's that good. A bit 80's sounding here and there, but sometimes that's not a bad thing.
The followup was released four years later, titled "Nothin' But Trouble" (with a couple different members) which, in my opinion, was nothin' but bad. I might have to go back a listen to it again, haven't heard it for over 15 years and maybe my opinion will change. Bummer I only have it on cassette though.
A live album was released next (in Japan only), titled "Screaming Blue Murder" and that was that.
Blue Murder
1. Riot
2. Sex Child
3. Valley Of The Kings*
4. Jelly Roll*
5. Blue Murder*
6. Out Of Love
7. Billy*
8. Ptolemy*
9. Black-Hearted Woman
Availability: Can be had for around 3+ bucks.
MSoTW: A couple people really think last week's trck was Uriah Heep. I will neither confirm or deny if this is true. This week might bea little bit hard? Maybe not.
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