Search - Loudness :: Hurricane Eyes

Good album,but not for fans of Loudness's early material

Brian Bergen | 12/13/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I have always considered Loudness to be Japan's answer to Dokken and Judas Priest.There is some good material on here,but this album is the most poppy sounding one that they had made at that time."In my dreams" and "rock and roll gypsy" are definite skipover tracks."This Lonely Heart" has a great opening with great guitar riffs,but quickly drops off after that.The rest of the songs are decent but overall,this album will not set your world on fire.I recommend the two previous albums,Lightning Strikes and Thunder in the East if want to hear this band's best American released material,although their best material is on the early eighties Japanese import albums which contain no pop at all and are'nt so grossly overproduced like the later releases."

Some Good, Some Bad

Brian Bergen | USA | 10/01/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Hurricane Eyes could have been a great album. The music is there, but the bad sound and akward vocals bring this down a few notches. It does not compare to Thunder in the east, (The underrated) lightning strikes, or even Soldier of fortune. It is better than the terrible, On The Prowel. High notes include S.D.I., This lonely heart (sick riff), Take Me home, and rock this way. Low points, The keyboards and bad backround vocals on rock n roll gypsy. The lowest of all lows comes at the end, in a bad song, "So lonely". Where did this crap come from.



Loudness was a great band, this was not up to their standards.

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