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Lost Album of the Week
by Scott
December 28th 2010

Jon is on a well deserved sabbatical this week, so I thought I would do something I've been dying to try for awhile now.  And that's to post a long forgotten album.  Our forums are similar in that we get a chance to post cool tracks/albums that make up our musical identity and we think you would enjoy as well.  So...

This week, I decided to post the follow-up album to Axe's 1981 release titled 'Offering'.  In 1981 Axe struck gold, literally, and successfully toured on the heels of tracks like "Rock and Roll Party In The Streets", "Burn the City Down", "Video Inspiration", and the top 40 radio hit "Now or Never".

I simply remember cranking the twin guitar attack up as loud as we could, and cruisin' the strip in my hometown.  Occasionally we'd hit the park, crank it up and play hackey-sack.  We'd also open the car doors in the School parking lot and jam at lunch time.  Axe got lots of airplay to say the least. 

So when they released the follow-up to Offering, it was an automatic buy.  Nemesis came out with with a bang and died only days later, fading into the used bins of record stores everywhere. Maybe it wasn't hair enough?  Oh well, thankfully the hard core listeners demanded release on CD and so it is available quite easily for around 15 bucks, or download for around 9 bucks.

Enjoy...


Axe - Nemesis
January 1983

  1. Heat In The Street* (The CD version lists the title as "Heat In The Night" but that is wrong)
  2. Young Hearts *
  3. All Through The Night*
  4. I Think You'll Remember Tonight ** (Video is available on this site - Click Here to watch it)
  5. She's Had The Power *
  6. Girls Girls Girls
  7. Eagle Flies Alone ***
  8. Keep Playin' That Rock'n'Roll
  9. Foolin' Your Mama Again
  10. Let The Music Come Back **
  11. Masquerade **
  12. Midnight

 

My personal favorite is Eagle Flies Alone but the hidden treasure is really "Let The Music Come Back".

Oh yeah!  Ive been wanting to do an MSoTW!  Good Luck RJ, you should get this one.  By the way, the last MSoTW was a band called "Racer X" its a project involving Mr. Big guitarist Paul Gilbert.  I had no idea, but stumbled onto it via google...

Hope you enjoy ...  And thanks Jon!

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Hey, how do you get the shadow on your pix?  And the border, do you do it in an editing program or am I missing something when adding a pic to my AOTW thread?

I add it.  I use COREL graphics software...  I used to work for them so its simple,  in the this order...  select the edges of the image you want drop shadowed (In the case of album covers its the SELECT ALL command), increase the border size (I use 10 pixels) and add a drop shadow.  I actually have it macro'd so it s a button on my toolbar... takes less than a second that way.
Thanks.  I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something within ning because your pics look totally cool.  I don't know the mystery song, my first thought was Little River Band, but probably not.  I'm listening to Axe right now.
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Nice pick Scott.  I really like the song Eagle Flies Alone myself, and it's new to me because of you.  I believe it has made a previous appearance in SHT, correct? 

 

Probably my next favorite on this list, if not my favorite, is Masquerade.  That is a very cool song.  It has a ton of ambience (not sure if I spelled that right).

Yes Eagles Flies Alone was showcased on a SHT list.  Great band who had a chance to be headliners.  Not sure why this failed really, its a strong album...
Yeah, but isn't "Offering" much better? I like this album some years, some years I don't.  
Offering is much better.  Was thinking about that too, but Nemesis is more lost and more forgotten...
WTF? Hey! What's this???????? It's been stolen from me??? Sabbatical my butt!
ooops, thought you were out!  RJ said it was ok to post this in your absence this week...
Is the mystery song from Canadians?
No...

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