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Night Ranger - Big Life Audio CD

A fair review of the Night Ranger "Big Life" 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 Night Ranger reviews here, or go back to the Night Ranger tabs.

Night Ranger Band: Night Ranger
Title: Big Life
Rating:
Release Date: 2009-06-16
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Big Life 2: Color of Your Smile 3: Love Is Standing Near 4: Rain Comes Crashing Down 5: Secret of My Success 6: Carry On 7: Better Let It Go 8: I Know Tonight 9: Hearts Away

Loved The Group
Fox's hit movie the secret of my success. No matter if you love Night Ranger or not this as got to be one of their best cd yet? It has my favorite song on the cd Big Life and the theme song from Michael J. This group really knows how to rock.

Rondall.


They will never understand ...
I surrender, I'm tired of trying to explain them what this music means for us that lived the eighties as "twenties" (being guitar players by the way!). Critics of hair metal albums will never get it. I'm even tired of trying to explain them that melody is the most important thing in music and that you don't have to judge a tune for the gear the band used at the time or for their look. They will never understand the irresistible mixture of chops and melody that hair metal music was about. So I quit. Unlucky for them they are probably too young to understand: if it is so they probably lived their youth in the absolute overall worst period for music (grunge ARGHHHHHHHHHHH) so I'm sorry for them. Or probably they are too old so they grew up in the pre-Van Halen period, so to me are dinosaurs. But in one ways or another they were not in their twenties in those days and didn't live the energy, the excitment of the eighties and of the good music that was produced at the time. I do, so I can't do nothing but absolutly love this album which to me stands out as one of the best of those days. I remember that I used to pick my friends up with my car for our "guitar safaris" with this music cranked out loud . . . we traveled, we did buy guitars, we had fun, we learn, we laughed, we loved with this music. It's in my heart. I love this album from its beginning to its end and even if many guys who either love this album pointed out "The secret of my success" as the worst tune here, I don't know, I don't agree, I still like it very much! It seems to me that it perfectly fits the mood of the album instead. But the tune that I love the most is absolutly "Love is standing near" which is a stellar example of hair metal (rock with strong melodic hooks plus guitar chops,. . . try to beat it guys, try it). But in the end say whatever you want people, I'm absolutly happy to be a "poser guitar player from the eighties" just like Jeff and Brad here =))) and to have my memories coloured by this music, which is extremely warm, melodic, in two words just beautiful music! Totally mindblowing! Sorry if you're not one of us. .


My personal best
" The rest of the album is well done and I never get tired of listening to it. I would have given the CD a 5 star rating except for "Secret of my Success.


Not the best, but not the worst Night Ranger release
The intro to "Big Life" is a killer. This was actually a pretty good release. The "Color Of Your Smile" reminds me of ELO's "Turn To Stone". Great guitar work from the dynamic duo, as usual. .


4 3/4 stars--still awesome Night Ranger
By the time this came out, Night Ranger no longer was a pop music "flavor of the week". It amazes me how much this album is maligned. The empty-headed masses who probably claimed to be the biggest Night Ranger fans on the planet when "Sister Christian" was out found it easy to jump all over this album when it did not yield the top 40 hits of its predecesors. I will also acknowledge that it is not quite as good as their three previous albums and that the band themselves never play anything off this album live. Nonetheless, listen to this album for yourself if you are or were a Night Ranger fan beyond radio hits. If you do, I almost guarantee you will like this album.

Some people remember only "The Secret Of My Success" from this album due to the movie it came from. While I agree that it is not the best NR track ever, it is still a solid, catchy rocker. Better on this album are track like the opening rocking title track, the melodic, anthemic "Color Of Your Smile", and the classic (to me, anyway) "Rain Comes Crashing Down", which reminds me a lot of the awesome "Call My Name" from NR's debut "Dawn Patrol" album. Other rock highlights include "Better Let It Go" and the melodies within "I Know Tonight". Back at track 3, "Love Is Standing Near" is a great mid-tempo anthem, while the closing ballad "Hearts Away" (the only real ballad on the album) is also stellar.

This is still vintage Night Ranger here; trust me. If you are a fan of the band in particular and melodic rock in general, you owe it to yourself to try to find this album. Definitely a great listen--as most Night Ranger albums are.


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