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Don't Say No (30th Anniversary Edition)
Billy Squier
Don't Say No (30th Anniversary Edition)
Genres: Pop, Rock
 
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Billy Squier s landmark 1981 album, Don t Say No, included the mega-hits The Stroke, My Kinda Lover, and In the Dark and laid the groundwork for the success of such crossover hard-rock/metal acts as Def Leppard and Bon Jov...  more »

     
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All Artists: Billy Squier
Title: Don't Say No (30th Anniversary Edition)
Members Wishing: 6
Total Copies: 0
Label: Shout Factory!
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 7/27/2010
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Pop, Rock
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 826663121056

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Billy Squier s landmark 1981 album, Don t Say No, included the mega-hits The Stroke, My Kinda Lover, and In the Dark and laid the groundwork for the success of such crossover hard-rock/metal acts as Def Leppard and Bon Jovi. His most critically acclaimed album, it reached #5 on Billboard s album chart and went on to sell over 3 million copies in the U.S. Now it s being reissued for the first time ever since first appearing on CD in the 80s, complete with newly remastered sound, bonus tracks, and a new booklet.

Squier was the personification of 80s rock, with an array of arena rock anthems and power ballads. Don't Say No: 30th Anniversary Edition features 2 bonus tracks, live version of hit songs The Stroke and My Kinda Lover, recorded during a 2009 tour.
 

CD Reviews

The perfect early 80's radio-friendly rock album.
M J Heilbron Jr. | Long Beach, CA United States | 08/10/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Wow. What a freakin' great album THIS is!



"Don't Say No" was Billy Squier's breakout album, led by the hit single, "The Stroke." But if that's all you know about this record, you are sorely misinformed. Top to bottom, this is a classic example of "all killer, no filler." If you were paying any attention to rock music at the beginning of the 80's, half of these songs will be immediately recognized. The opening threesome, "In The Dark", "The Stroke" and "My Kinda Lover" you will know. I'm telling you, even if you don't think you know these songs...you KNOW these songs.

And they are the perfect examples of radio-friendly early 80's rock, after the Styx/REO/Foreigner wave but before the hair-band/pop metal wave (and paralleling the New Wave time-wise). Crunchy guitars, towering drums, hummable melodies, memorable lyrics...this is so much better than you remember. Heck, this is way better than what I remember!

Back when there was side one and side two, side one continued with two more uptempo tunes, but flipping this sucker over rewarded you with an all-time classic tune, one that should be on every 80's lover's iPod playlist, "Lonely Is The Night". Here you have a killer melody, stop-start tempo changes, anthemic guitars, whip-cracking drums...it's a one-song distillation of this time and genre in American music.

The acoustic flavored tunes that follow are not as mind-blowing, but the Lennon tribute, "Nobody Knows" has grown on me over the years.

Finally, the album closer and title song, for me, was an undiscovered gem. I guess I kept replaying "Lonely" back in the day, and never let the album play out. I LOVE this song for the same reasons as "Lonely"...it's got all the same dynamics...maybe a bit more "drama" in the changes between the quiet segments and the rock blowouts. THIS is the song I kept replaying when I first got this CD.



And this is one awesome remastering! Compared to the previous ancient, original release, this is a revelation, with crystalline sound, expansive range and definitive sound-staging...all the instruments sound like they're in the right spots.



The two live add-ons don't add much...basically they just prove he's alive, and still performing somewhere. They're not exactly revelatory...



...but this remastering sure is. Buy this now. It's a bargain at twice the price..."
Great Remastered Sound
S. Johnson | 08/09/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD is fantastic from start to finish. Not a bad song on the entire CD. The big plus for buying the 30th ann. edition is that the sound is fantastic. The non remastered edition of Dont Say No is very light in bass, but the thump really comes through in this remastered version."