- Product Code: KRECD45
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€ 12.50
- Price in bonus-scraps: 125
Hellanbach's debut album gave pause to many critics who'd been previously incapable or unwilling to see past the band's very obvious debts to the great Van Halen: a slew of pretty decent songs. Indeed, let the first band that hasn't borrowed from another source throw the first stone, lest you take the issue of stylistic recycling in Rock & Roll too seriously and fail to realize that Hellanbach was no more guilty than the next band in this regard. And given the band's unlikely location, how can you fail to appreciate Hellanbach's commendable efforts to bring fun-loving party anthems to the dreary climes of northern England, as evidenced by the energetic highlights "Look at Me", "All Systems Go", "Let's Get This Show on the Road", and "All the Way".
Fueled one and all by Dave Patton's exuberant guitar histrionics, these L.A.-by-way-of-Tyneside Rockers nevertheless pack plenty of punch despite suffering from Neat Studios' notoriously weak production values. In fact, the album's only serious blunder is thankfully saved for last, when Hellanbach takes an ill-advised stroll into camp cabaret territory with a cover of "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat" from Disney's The Aristocats. Rather than measuring up to Van Halen's explosive rendition of "Ice Cream Man" (as was clearly intended), this unconvincing performance - and particularly singer Jimmy Brash's halfhearted stab at mush-mouth cleverness - simply serves to remind listeners that there's only one David Lee Roth, and more importantly, only one Van Halen.
Somewhere in between Diamonhead and Van Halen, this band demonstrates the continuity of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock styles in the NWOBHM era! Digitally remastered album. First time on CD.
Universal Music/Krescendo Records, 1983/2009 (KRECD45). Made in UK. Pressed in Czech. First press.
Tracklist:
1. Dancin'
2. Times Are Getting Harder
3. Look At Me
4. All Systems Go
5. Maybe Tomorrow
6. Motivated Desire
7. Taken By Suprise
8. Let's Get This Show On The Road
9. Kick It Out
10. All The Way
11. Everybody Wants To Be A Cat
Total playing time: 42:59
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- Product Code: KRECD46
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€ 12.50
- Price in bonus-scraps: 125
Hellanbach has gone down in Rock history as England's half-assed response to the glory of classic Van Halen. Band was facing an uphill battle when it finally released its much-delayed sophomore album "The Big H" in late 1984. In its defense, however, Hellanbach was, like many New Wave of British Heavy Metal hopefuls signed to the Neat Records roster, poorly managed, severely under-produced, and generally left to fend for itself in terms of career guidance once the albums were shipped off the production line. With that in mind, one can better appreciate the Tyneside quartet's humble but enthusiastic forays into California-bred Rock'n'Roll; and, for his part, guitarist Dave Patton came as close as the next guy to nailing the famed Eddie van Halen "brown sound".
"The Big H" is undoubtedly the stuff of diehard N.W.O.B.H.M. collectors, and anyone with lesser convictions is advised to approach with caution. So, if you're a fan of the celebrated New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, you have to love Hellanbach!!
Digitally remastered album. First time on CD.
Universal Music/Krescendo Records, 1984/2009 (KRECD46). Made in UK. Pressed in Czech. First press.
Tracklist:
1. Beaten To The Bone 2:32
2. The Main Man 4:21
3. Nobody's Fool 3:00
4. Bandits Run 3:37
5. S.P.G.C. 3:25
6. Saturday Night 3:44
7. Panic State O.D. 3:35
8. Daddy Dig Those Cats 2:27
9. When All Is Said And Done 3:44
10. Urban Paranoia 4:10
Total playing time: 34:35
For the first time released on CD the second full-length album by the cult British Heavy Metal/NWOBHM band. Hellanbach has gone down in Rock history as England's half-assed response to the glory of classic Van Halen. Band was facing an uphill battle when it finally released its much-delayed sop..
€ 12.50
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