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Yngwie Malmsteen - Archives Audio CD

A fair review of the Yngwie Malmsteen "Archives" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Yngwie Malmsteen reviews here, or go back to the Yngwie Malmsteen tabs.

Band: Yngwie Malmsteen
Title: Archives
Rating:

Release Date: 2001-03-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Never Die 2: I Don't Know 3: Meant to Be 4: Forever One 5: Hairtrigger 6: Brothers 7: Seventh Sign 8: Bad Blood 9: Prisoner of Love 10: Pyramid of Cheops 11: Crash and Burn 12: Sorrow 13: Angel in Heat 14: Vengeance 15: No Love Lost 16: Tomorrow's Gone 17: Only One 18: I'd Die Without You 19: Overture 1622 20: Voodoo 21: Cross the Line 22: Time Will Tell 23: Fire in the Sky 24: Amberdawn 25: Cantabile [Op. 10 No. 3 Rv428 "Il Gardellino"] 26: Carry on Wayward Son 27: Pictures of Home 28: Gates of Babylon 29: Manic Depression 30: In the Dead of Night 31: Mistreated 32: Sails of Charon 33: Demon's Eye 34: Anthem 35: Child in Time 36: Spanish Castle Magic 37: Braveheart 38: Facing the Animal 39: Enemy 40: Sacrifice 41: Like an Angel [For April] 42: My Resurrection 43: Another Time 44: Heathens from the North 45: Alone in Paradise 46: End of My Rope 47: Only the Strong 48: Poison in Your Veins 49: Air on a Theme 50: Casting Pearls Before the Swine [*] 51: Icarus Dream Fanfare 52: Cavalino Rampante 53: Fugue 54: Prelude to April 55: Toccata 56: Andante 57: Sarabande 58: Allegro 59: Adagio 60: Vivace 61: Presto Vivace 62: Finale 63: Blitzkrieg 64: Leanardo 65: Playing With Fire 66: Stand (The) 67: Wield My Sword 68: Blue 69: Legion of the Damned 70: Deamon Dance [7, 405, 926] 71: Hangar 18, Area 51 72: Voodoo Nights 73: Asylum [I] 74: Sky Euphoria [II] 75: Quantum Leap [III][Version] 76: God Vs God 77: Prophet of Doom 78: Crucify 79: Bad Reputation 80: Catch 22 81: Masquerade 82: Molto Arpeggiosa 83: Miracle of Life 84: Wizard 85: Preludium 86: Wild One 87: Tarot 88: Intrumental Institution 89: War to End All Wars 90: Treasure from the East [*] 91: Requiem [*] 92: I Can't Wait 93: Aftermath 94: Rising Circle [Live] 95: Far Beyond the Sun [Live] 96: Power and Glory (Takada's Theme) 97: Power and Glory (Takada's Theme) [Stadium Edit] 98: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 99: Flamenco Diablo 100: Amadeus Quattro Valvole 101: Opening 102: Toccata 103: Never Die 104: Bedroom Eyes 105: Rising Force 106: Bad Blood 107: Forever One 108: Interview I 109: Pyramid of Cheops 110: Drum Solo 111: Seventh Sign 112: Guitar Solo 113: Interview II 114: You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget 115: Keyboard Solo 116: Brothers 117: Crash and Burn 118: Heaven Tonight 119: Interview III 120: Black Star 121: I'll See the Light, Tonight 122: Forever One [Bonus Clip] 123: My Resurrection 124: Facing the Animal 125: Rising Force 126: Bedroom Eyes 127: Far Beyond the Sun 128: Like an Angel 129: Braveheart 130: Seventh Sign 131: Guitar Solo [Trilogy Suite, Manic DePression, Badinere and Batt] 132: Never Die 133: Black Star 134: I'll See the Light, Tonight

Not worth your money....
I am not a big fan of Yngwie but I wanted to see what the hype was all about. I recently purchased Archives from ebay for only 150 dollars. The box set lacks diversity. You can hear 2 cd's and not bother about the rest of them because he does the same thing over and over. He's a good guitarist, but I think this box set was overdone. The price is also a lot! imagine 8 cd's + 2 dvd's for 361. 00! 8 cd's you can purchase used for around 10. 00 and 2 dvd's for around 40. 00. . . that makes it 120. 00$ Whats the silver chain used for. . . . who wants that unless u are one of Yngwie's family member. This is a huge investment so think and buy. .

Pricey But Worth It
And I must say I was blown away. I just got involved in Malmsteen a few years back I was drawn to him because I was into Vinnie Vincent as a child and later in my adult life decided to see what Yngwie could do.
Yngwie can structure his guitar playing & shreds (unlike Vinnie) so it sounds orchestrated and beautiful, rather than following the mindless shredding of his 80s counterparts.
I would most certainly buy this box set because although it does cost a lot it is well worth it if you consider how much it would cost you for the individual imports that contain all these tracks.
Yngwie was lucky enough to escape to the East and avoid the terrible backlash that happened against the 80s guitarists, like when the other guitar shredder Vinnie was forced to go bankrupt due to a flood of lawsuits. So we will be likely to see his masterpieces for a good long time.

Massively Malmsteen!
If you don't own any of these albums, this set can be a great deal. If you are a fan of Malmsteen, you have to get this box set. You get the Japanese versions of all the CD's, many of which have bonus tracks that you can't get unless you buy the imports of the CD's, which can get to be very expensive. You also get 2 DVD's (which play in America), which are good. Great buy, if you are a big Malmsteen fan.

8 albums and 2 DVDs
, plus 1998's "Live!!" for another 81 min. Made in JAP in 2001, Serial# PCCY-01501, Playing Time 456:35

That's right! 7-and-a-half hours of music on the 8 CDs, plus 2 DVDs (region 1, rejoice!): 1994's "Live at Budokan", 107 min.

If you're curious about what this item is all about, I won't talk about the quality of the music (you probably know about that, otherwise you wouldn't be looking at this item!)

This collection of releases begins with his recordings post Polydor (the latter have already been re-mastered and made available in LP-style jackets).

It's packaged in a cube (about 6" per side) containing each of the 10 discs in its own jewel case, and also includes a necklace with a cross made of sterling silver, bagged in a leather mini-pouch; too bad the artwork on the box is simply printed in a gold/amber ink: gold foil would have been better, like what they used to print "Yngwie Malmsteen Archives".

Each disc has been repackaged (to display the new serial number on each booklet and each disc), and each CD has been remastered using 24-bit technology. Here's what's included:

Discs 1 to 7 are "The Seventh Sign", "Magnus Opus", "Inspiration", "Facing The Animal", "Concerto Suite. . . " with the "rock" artwork, "Alchemy" and "War To End All Wars" respectively. Each is the japanese pressing generally containing 1 or 2 bonus tracks, with customized picture disc artwork.

Disc 8 is a specially newly expanded version of the "I Can't Wait" EP, this time containing 9 tracks (instead of 5). Added are an edited version of "Power And Glory", as well as 3 tracks from the "Anthology 1994-1999": "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!", "Flamenco Diablo", and the spectacular "Amadeus Quattro Valvole".

It's the first time in over 200 reviews, at least as far as I can remember, that I review an item without listening to it at least 3 times. But it sure was tempting!

And if you don't know about this Swedish guitar player, it's pronounced "ing-vay", not "ying-wee".