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13 Apr, 2007
Distant Thunder
1990 feels like such a long time ago. Back then this sounded like the future of British rock. Now it fits in nicely alongside it's influences from a generation earlier, but looks like it was the last hurrah for a certain kind of Stodgy Blues Riff Zeppelin Derived Rock. There are some perfectly hummable rock songs in Englishman on Holiday, Dirty Love, She's So Fine, Love Walked In. Rock songs that could have come from Whitesnake, The Who, Bad Company or equally peers of their era Kingdom Come or Great White. Back then that would have been a compliment, these days it's shorthand for Pre-Darkness Hair Metal.
Thunder were totally likeable popstars, very accomplished musicians and well versed in the rock book of tricks. Back Street Symphony is a fun album to listen to again if you remeber it (or it's ilk) fondly. Otherwise it sounds like an archeological study of Big Rock By Numbers.
17 Dec, 2024
Some of their best material
These songs were the band’s introduction to the world. They made several great albums before splitting up. These stayed in the set list until the end
05 May, 2007
Mature Cheddar
0 of 1 found this helpful Thunder's secdond album is bigger in every way to their debut. The difference in how the album is packaged shows exactly how this band were upping their game.
The sleeve to the first one was appalling. A pun on the title shot in a back alley, it was dingey, unglamourous and only mildly amusing. This album took a rock legend (Storm Thorgerson of Pink Floyd, Hipgnosis fame) out of retirement. It's professional, ambitious, striking and feels like a classic from another era.
Laughing On Judgement Day is cinemascope where Backstreet Symphony was home video. The track listing alone id huge. The titles are no loger fixated on holidays, lovin' and girls. This time satellites, empty cities and the end of the world jostle their way into the rockers repetoir.
The real stand out tracks however are the one that deal with the time honoured subject of the unattainable woman. Everybody Wants Her, Does It Feel Like Love, Flawed To Perfection, Like A Satellite were all big tunes live and for Thunder proved career highs on record. Complimented by the huge acoustic hit A Better Man and lead single Low Life In High Places this album deserves it's brilliant sleeve. It deserves a higher profile in UK rock history and I'd go so far as to say it deserves to be in any rock affectionado's music collections.