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1st Avenue - 1994 Daily Battle
 | | 'Daily Battle' would prove to be a much underrated and under-appreciated album during 1994. There are some terrific songs on offer, though I will admit that pompness has made way for more of a hard rock edge on some songs, but not all. |
Aces High - 1994 Ten N Out
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When I first heard this album I was totally overcome by it's class. There's AOR, there's hard rock elements, and power emphasised in both the musicianship and vocals. A total class package, and I gotta say it's knocking on the door of being in my top 10 albums of the decade.
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Antics - 1994 We're Just Bad Boys
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Primarily a blues rock band, they do have a smattering of keyboards, and mix their styles between guitar driven high energy blues rock, and AOR. I quite enjoyed this album, recognising it as a culmination of all those years of experience. On one hand the Stevie Ray Vaughan influences are evident, while on some other tracks midwest luminaries Head East, Shooting Star and Florida's Bobby Friss rear their head.
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Arena, Tina - 1994 Don't Ask
 | | Tina Arena's 'Don't Ask' album from 1994 became the biggest selling album in Australia during 1995. |
Asia - 1994 Aria
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'Aria' is, next to 1985's 'Astra', their most hardest rocking album of all their discography.
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Atlantic - 1994 Power
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An English band that released a fantastic one-off AOR album during the grunge era. If you read opinion elsewhere on the Internet, it would seem that this album is an absolute AOR masterpiece. Yes, it's good, and very well produced as well, but not quite in the stellar league..
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Barely Legal - 1994 Dirtier Than You
 | | Here's a short-lived Canadian outfit from Vancouver that released a pretty handy 6-track CD back in 1994. |
Billy Pilgrim - 1994 Billy Pilgrim
 | | If you liked the folk/rock interwoven style made popular by bands such as Stealin' Horses or Shaking Family, then Billy Pilgrim will appeal to your musical senses, though in all honesty, the duo dip into far more traditional folky styles than those two aforementioned bands ever did. |
Blind Fish (featuring David Hallyday) - 1994 2000 BBF
 | | Blind Fish are a Los Angeles based project from French singer/songwriter David Hallyday. Of course most people would know David from his hi-tech pop/AOR oriented albums released during the eighties, namely 'Rock n Heart' and 'True Cool', not withstanding he is the son of legendary French crooner/icon Johnny Hallyday. |
Boston - 1994 Walk On
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So here we are in 1994, 18 years down the road and the fourth Boston album 'Walk On' is before us, sans Delp. Luckily one of the replacement vocalists is Fran Cosmo, who provided stunning vocals to the 1984 Orion The Hunter album, regarded by some as the missing Boston record.
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Covenant, The - 1994 Spectres At The Feast
 | | What I do hear is a musically competent outfit and had they bothered to tour beyond a handful of dates a year should have been competing with the likes of Pallas and Pendragon while roping in AOR crowds with their catchy hooks and arena rock approach. |
Duke Jupiter - 1994 And The Band Played On [Twenty Years Of]
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Much like Le Roux, Duke Jupiter's career seems to have taken place in two halves - nondescript yet pleasant late 70's material and stunning early to mid 80's AOR efforts.
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Empire (Australia) - 1994 Empire
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Thankfully the music is great heavy rock. AOR it ain't, but class rock it sure is. Musically they come across in a similar vein to that fine LA band Eyes, with some other US and European influences thrown in for good measure.
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Foreigner - 1994 Mr Moonlight
 | | Some bands weren't unduly affected by the musical climate of 1994, add Foreigner to this list, who sounded professional and continued to churn out great melodic rock regardless of what was going on around them. |
Frontline - 1994 The State Of Rock
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Just when you thought that bands like Boston, Strangeways and Journey had faded into the sunset, along come these German upstarts Frontline, and reinvent the book of AOR and melodic rock, with a wonderful debut album.
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Hughes, Glenn - 1994 From Now On..
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1994's 'From Now On' was the real turning point of Hughes' comeback. With Europe's Michaeli, Haughland and Leven in tow, Hughes delivered his classiest AOR effort to date.
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Intuition - 1994 Turn It On
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From Baltimore Maryland, Intuition made a brave attempt to bolster the melodic rock ranks during 1994, even though they were probably a few years late..
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Jackyl - 1994 Push Comes To Shove
 | | Jackyl's music is a combination of AC/DC styled riffs and hooks which promised much. |
Jester (Canada) - 1994 It's Time
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Jester combine the perfect tri-merger of Rush, Saga and Dream Theater in one very compact package, with musicianship and flair to boot.
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Killers (Paul Dianno) - 1994 Menace To Society
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This follow up 'Menace To Society' surfaced two years later and was surprising to say the least. Di'anno tweaked the sound to Pantera standards, they were of course the major act of the day, and set about writing songs attacking the US, where he supposedly was incarcerated. I'm not sure if Di'anno was taking the piss with some of these songs, but the results are often hiliarious.
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Know Illusion - 1994 Back On The Streets
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Here's another indie melodic rock band from the USA, who hold the middle ground for 90's bands, grouped among contemporaries such as Spiced Ice, Touris, Intuition and Justin Sayne.
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Lucifers Friend - 1994 Sumogrip
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'Sumogrip' then is a pretty amazing recording all things considered, because it's a real kick up the backside slab of melodic rock. Very similar in history to Uriah Heep's 'Abominog' album from 1982, and the change in direction and ensuing fortunes which followed.
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Magness, Clif - 1994 Solo
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The inevitable comparison to Planet 3 is obvious, with the style and approach being a logical extension four years on. In fact, there's not much difference, so for fans of Planet 3 there's only one rule .. get this album regardless.
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Marathon (Holland) - 1994 The First Run
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With a sound similar to Saga, fellow Dutchmen First Avenue and Germans 2 Hot4U, Marathon toggle the fence between progressive rock and melodic hard rock. You can be guaranteed that there a ton of keyboards and great vocals.
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Martinez, Rosco - 1994 Rosco Martinez
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The album is a blend of numerous styles. Rock, R&B, funk, jazz, hi-tech AOR - the latter style being compared to Canadian Tim Feehan. It's all rolled together like one big musical tortilla. Rosco has been compared to a latin/spanish version of Michael Bolton.
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Mattador - 1994 Save Us From Ourselves
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You don't see too many rock bands coming out of Puerto Rico do you? Well here's one. And we're not talking about Calypso music or some other form of Carribean reggae. It's spectacular progressive melodic rock all the way.
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Motley Crue - 1994 Motley Crue
 | | The self-titled album was two years in coming and hideously over budget, but it turned out to be Motley's heaviest album since 'Shout At The Devil' as well as one of the best of the whole sorry 90's hard rock scene. |
Page, Martin - 1994 In The House Of Stone And Light
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'In The House Of Stone and Light', judging from the album title, appears to have feet in two camps - the old and the new. The former touching on styles from past musical eras, the latter reflecting on modern styles, a la Sting's solo material.
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Pasquale, Joe - 1994 Ricochet
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This musician of French origins seems to have all the connections in the right places. And they all seem to be based in Los Angeles. People may remember his great introduction in 1991 courtesy of his album 'Prey'. Seemingly coming from nowhere, Joe Pasquale landed with a big name ticket (MCA) and a few terrific songs to boot.
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Passion Street - 1994 Million Miles Away
 | | Passion Street epitomised British AOR during the mid 90's grunge years, carrying on an 80's tradition of Brit bands wanting to sound American.. |
Perry, Steve - 1994 For The Love Of Strange Medicine
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After a long hiatus, which saw Michael Bolton usurp his crown as the 'King Of The Ex Rockstar Crooners', Steve Perry found himself back in the drivers seat for 1994 'For The Love Of Strange Medicine'.
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Pink Floyd - 1994 The Division Bell
 | | The fourteenth and last Pink Floyd album has sold over twelve million copies since its release in March 1994. |
Roadmaster - 1994 One For The Road: Live! [Video]
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Long and loud and lots of chrome captured live at the Vogue Theatre on August 26, 1993.
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Robertson Brothers - 1994 Symmetry
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The music is great melodic AOR and calls upon influences such as fellow Australians Rick Price and Southern Sons, and US melodic band Venice.
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Sanne - 1994 Language Of Your Heart
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If you can imagine Bonnie Raitt or a smoother Sass Jordan singing over the top of radio friendly midwest AOR then you get the general gist of the sound.
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Siam - 1994 The Language Of Menace
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Life immediately after Shy for Tony Mills was trying to become a Geoff Tate soundalike. Despite the obvious references to Queensryche, this is bloody good actually.
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Sing Sing - 1994 Sing Sing
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This is a wicked mix of melodic rockers melding Honeymoon Suite, Mastedon and perhaps at the heavier end of the spectrum, a band like Shark Island.
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Skin - 1994 Skin
 | | There have been a few unusual selections within the Rock Candy catalogue and 'Skin' would rank right up there among them, but kudos to Derek Oliver for giving this band an increased profile among the melodic rock/AOR faithful. |
Slyboyz - 1994 Good Time Music
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My imagination runs wild thinking about what might have been if 'Good Time Music' had been released 6-7 years earlier. With a fantastic amalgamation of Firehouse, Nelson and a heavy dash of Extreme I'm certain that Slyboyz would have had a shot at the top in the late 80's.
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Smudge - 1994 Manilow
 | | In the UK, Smudge are little more than cult figures. They achieved cult status through mainman Tom Morgan's many collaborations with Evan Dando of the Lemonheads. |
Stairway - 1994 State Of War
 | | To my ears, this Swiss outfit sound similar to Craaft and Douglas, with a ton of parping keyboards. Very accented vocals though. Worth checking out if you're into that stuff. |
Strangeways - 1994 And The Horse
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With a massive reputation for quality AOR, Strangeways digress with this album. Reflecting the many years of frustration and problems with record contracts wrangles, and copyright arguments, this album presents a deep and meaningful insight to a band disillusioned with the music industry's bureaucracy.
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Talisman - 1994 Humanimal
 | | I was (and still am) a huge fan of Talisman's debut from 1989, it's an album packed with quality songs and damn fine musicianship. Their second outing, 'Genesis' was not without its merits. Neither album, though, would prepare any of us for Talisman's third studio album! |
The Big Easy - 1994 The Big Easy
 | | This is a superb slice of AOR sitting somewhere in the middle lane of Keven Jordan, Brett Walker, West Of Sunset and fellow Danes Sko Torp. |
This Picture - 1994 City Of Sin
 | | Some of you may remember the first release from British band This Picture - 'A Violent Impression'. The 1991 CD received its fair share of criticism, much of it dead on for sounding just a little too much like Ireland's U2. |
Trixter - 1994 Undercovers
 | | So then, this their third album would be prove to be make-or-break for the band. Everyone told Trixter that releasing an album of covers at that point in their career would be a mistake. So the boys figured that would be reason enough to go ahead and do it anyway. |
Ultravox - 1994 Ingenuity
 | | While many hardcore aficionados tend to blow-off 'Ingenuity' and its predecessor as 'not really Ultravox', I think they dovetail perfectly in the Glory Daze canon and get a big thumbs up from yours truly. |
Walk The Wire - 1994 Walk The Wire
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Out of the UK, Frozen Heart released a few promising demo's back in the early nineties, but nothing to indicate how good this product was going to be. This is storming stuff, and no surprise then that Swedish label Megarock picked them up.
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Walters, Jamie - 1994 Jamie Walters
 | | If you're a TV buff, you'll remember Jamie Walters from his two year stint on Beverly Hills 90210. Of more interest is his 1994 debut album which eventually went platinum. Some nice songs here.. |
Wetton, John - 1994 Battle Lines
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For this incredible slice of AOR he went over to the States and hooked up with some of the best in the biz. 'Battle Lines' as an album has more in keeping with his work with Asia, rather than any leanings toward his progressive roots.
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Williamson, Mark - 1994 Time Slipping By
 | | Upon first listen, I am impressed. He looks the part too. Sort of part David Coverdale meets Michael Bolton at the Hairdressers! Funnily enough, as far as the sound is concerned, this is coming on like Michael Bolton (circa 'Time Love And Tenderness'). |
Yes - 1994 Talk
 | | A very underrated album, there might be two duds included but the rest is pretty damn good in my opinion. |
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