Woo-ahh-ahh, woo-ahh-ahh-ohh-ohh etc

[davidn]

You know, I've got to admit I still like Crush 40. I'm sorry, but I do. Naturally, having a lineup whose stability doesn't exactly need to be measured on a seismometer (changing literally between just about every different song) means that they can be a bit hit or miss, but they always have the general core of guitarist Jun Senoue and vocalist Johnny Gioeli, who's in Axel Rudi Pell with Mike Terrana of Masterplan, Savage Circus, and billions of other things.

Formed about fifteen years ago under the significantly better name "Sons of Angels", their style - as much as they've ever been able to pin one down, and it could perhaps be best described as "80s cartoon theme" here - is a bit 'younger' than my actual age, but in a world where a band made up entirely of dinosaurs can produce a really good homage to The Trooper, it's easy to stop caring about any imagined rules. I found this yesterday and found it in my head all day - helped more than slightly by the chorus's slight resemblance to the UK theme of Gladiators.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWnknYp-5N0

If nothing else, you've got to admire the sheer cheek of producing a best-of album despite having to date released exactly one album.

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[igorium.livejournal.com]

Сonstant "and now a guitar solo and ending..." feeling about this song

[kjorteo]

I really like their one (actual) album. If I actually owned it, it would become the album with the single most ... upbeat sound in my entire collection, which is saying something considering I have albums from Heavenly and Helloween.

Seriously, it has a "show them what you're made of, rise up and do your best, you can do it, YEAH!" theme, both musically and lyrically, that is so incredibly potent that they can't even make the obligatory slower ballad piece of the album not sound like something I would have playing to keep me going while running a marathon.

All the miscellaneous songs they've sort of put out one at a time since then (basically whenever there's a new Sonic game, let's not kid ourselves) have been hit or miss, as you've said. There are some I really like and would have welcomed as an inclusion on their album, and some I ... don't.