STRAIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES

One song from "Straight Between The Eyes" is truely oriented with his first "love". The opener "Death Alley Driver" sounds indeed a bit like "Highway Star" (only vocals are not on par). And if you think that "Miss Mistreated" has something to do with the great "Mistreated", you're wrong. It is just a standard rock song. Nothing fancy about it.

But, again, most of the songs are middle-class hard-rock ones. A bit poppier for "Stone Cold" as well as "Bring on the Night". Somewhat heavier / bluesier like "Tite Squeeze". A rock ballad, maybe ? OK, we'll get "Tearin' Out My Heart". Some AOR atmosphere ? Why not ! Let's get "Power". Some good old rock'n'roll ? Let's go for "Rock Fever" (which shares some similarity with "Smooth Dancer" from "Who do You Think We Are").

At least this album will close as it opened : on a good song. "Eyes Of Fire" has some Middle-East connotations and Ritchie plays a great solo. The highlight of this album.

Very few of these songs (two) are appealing. Average hard-rock music. Here and there a good guitar break but that's not enough to raise this album to the three stars rating. To discover the prog side of the band, I guess that we'll have to wait for later releases.

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