Vigilante

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The album was produced by Roger Taylor of Queen and the sound of the album is very much of its time. Gracenote bizarrely categorizes this as 'Metal' (whereas even AC/DC and Led Zeppelin are tagged 'Rock') but who cares? Only nine tracks but very much quality rather than quantity I found this album utterly absorbing from start to finish. This is a very good Magnum album - I don't like it as much as "Kingdom of Madness", "On a Storyteller's Night", "Wings of Heaven" or "Princess Alice and the Broken Arrow", but it is up there close to their best.

Tracks such as "Lonely Night", "Need a Lot of Love", "Midnight (You Won't Be Sleeping)" and "Vigilante" laid the groundwork for the group to reach their commercial and creative peak on their follow-up UK Top 5 album, Wings of Heaven. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. Queen is one of my all-time favourite bands, and I'm sure that fans of 80's Queen will like this music. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Eventually got round to properly replacing my very battered 2nd hand CD of this album with a shiny new one.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. From the breathy, synthy opening of Lonely Night to the ecstatic, drum-clattering coda of Back Street Kid, these are just nine top-notch songs given the best glossy, mid-80s production values by the skilled hand of Roger Taylor. Capitalising on the success of On a Storyteller's Night, Magnum changed to a more commercial direction with Vigilante. I've read quite a few reviews who depend their rating whether the album (or artist) is prog and rate it down if not.

There's truly not a bad track here, and different ones emerge as favourites each time I play it - currently it's Midnight, for its risky but perfectly judged saxophone climax, and Holy Rider, for that boomy, epic soundscape that prefigures what the Killers created in Sam's Town. It has been one of my favourite Magnum albums since it was released and shows them at their brilliant best. Produced by David Richards and Queen drummer Roger Taylor, the band's sound stepped towards that of 1980s Queen, with keyboards much higher in the mix than guitar. those who ventures in this kind of music, for classical trained prog listner this one might be a desaster.