A double CD ! Hell yeah !
Keeping metal alive, through new songs that of course, touch your heart even without starting to listen to them, cos’ on your mind it’s still their WOW BALLAD and of course, the extra wonderful albums of the end of the metal decade, the 80’s!
“Starin’ Eyes” has got the anger and the melodrama and heartbreak inside, ever since the first chords of the guitar start, to let you know that it’s a man’s tale, to be enjoyed alone, while you live your love moments in your brain, the re orcherstration of it makes you think it’s a new one, even though the song was part of the “Don’t touch the light” album, during which Lessmann knew how to be touchy with the German version of English. As you hear a sweet “Jon Lord” keyboard, the song comes to your ears as modern, through it’s accoustic beauty! You can’t do any other thing than Love it!
Stahl, the new singer’s rockin’ it without imitating Lessmann, but with a talent that will urge you to see them live as soon as you can, with Ziller still the foundation of the group, rockin’ his guitar chords only to express his inner world while pleasing you! And the new members, you’ll feel they’re way talented!
Nothing in the world of nowadays can stop you remembering and can stop you to love what will soon make the situation better, starting with the albums. And theirs comes out on February 26th.
“American Nights with my American Girl” was sung in 1987 but America’s still the Rock N’ Roll country, that is why the song is re-recorded, with a touch of Hendrix in the first chords…..maybe to send us to Hippies’ World again.
The unplugged sounds of this 24-track album go on as you are still liking your first CD, containing their 2000’s duo and another song, that of Desmond Child, to make it ‘rougher’ while tender, credits to the acoustic guitars and of course, Stahl, the new frontman.
“Ready for reaction” has that Iron Maiden intro, to continue differently, more soft, yet rhythmic and appealing to practice the lyrics; it’s a work of fire but it doesn’t have to burn you.
Girls are stubborn but giving it a try for the second time, after listening to this unplugged version of the song, should make the girl remember the good times , which can’t be in vain. Why sleep alone? Why let the pride take over? Anyhow you answer, you still hurt in silence, girl.
True, men commit crimes and forgetting your own heart is a big one, but through the words his love’s gotta understand that it’s still that wounded heart talking and what she wants is the touch that shows the girl this love ain’t about who’s foolin’ who, it’s about who’s sacrificing until they both forget everything and get lost in wilderness and tears of the metal world!
There’s no pleasure in making a man go insane, not the one that fantasizes of you while singing “I close my eyes and see your face, but you’re not there”…..it’s not everyday that you fall in love, that you lose a love but never ever stop thinking that her tears deserve your tongue only and not the longlasting loneliness.
Age is just a number but you can feel old when your love’s not with you and what you have is this new song of Bonfire, you smell the roses alone, untouched, mad, proud even though it’s a snow time, but secretly waiting to be kissed with no end! “When an old man cries” is truly heart-trembling!
Great White and WASP say it does, I don’t know…..Bonfire’s “Love don’t lie” maybe you answer through your CD’s, as Lydia Pane’s collaboration somehow has the answer inside. But you gotta fall in Love or be already broken, to like Bonfire and not only their new album, “Roots”.
The harmonies of “Lonely Nights” make you love it even better than the Scorpions song, as we already are in the second CD, hearing about a man’s stupid pride. Been there, you too I think.
20 years later, we hear Clapton’s intro of the long version of “Layla” in the re-recording of “Under blue skies”.
This one is my favorite and I was about to phone the dudes and yell at them for touching it, I still want it in the cassette, I still wanna travel in time without boundaries. But you gotta give it a listen; “You make me feel” is immortal anyhow you look at it and an accoustic version still makes you bleed but the distance with the girl is shorter, the tears are hiding but the cry is differently entering her brain, to have the heart surrender to what makes the world go round and rock n’ roll, Love !
The devil made you do what ? He sure didn’t make you do a fantastic work to come up with this double CD, he didn’t make you love Bonfire, but he will make you sing alone, if you don’t listen to what the words of “Without You” are really written about.
It’s not some group singing big words, but heartfelt in a way that only those smart women understand and only reckless soul poets will compose , “Your love is Heaven to me ”.
And as you go towards the end of the album, the tunes are heavier, new, asking if she feels his touch when the other guy loves her, but only the heartbeat can answer to that and not the woman’s face expressions, words, tears or anything she plays with to confuse.
The anthem is in the closure, but it’s another kind of cherry……. about Wolves…..hoooooooowliiiiiing through the song, blasting your speakers, giving you that predator sexuality that sends you to wild territories of coyotes that wait for the wolves under the burning, starry eyes of the full Moon!
8/10
TRACKLIST
CD1
01 Starin’ Eyes
02 American Nights
03 Let Me Be Your Water
04 Price Of Lovin’ You
05 Comin’ Home
06 Ready 4 Reaction
07 Give It A Try
08 Sleeping All Alone
09 Who’s Foolin’ Who
10 Why Is It Never Enough
CD2
01 Fantasy
02 When An Old Man Cries
03 Love Don’t Lie
04 Lonely Nights
05 Under Blue Skies
06 You Make Me Feel
07 No More
08 The Devil Made Me Do It
09 Without You
Bonus Tracks / Fan Songs:
10 Your Love Is Heaven To Me
11 Piece Of My Heart
12 Youngbloods
13 Our Hearts Don’t Feel The Same
14 Wolfmen
