Europe

Exelent CD

their 1st album and a very good one at that

The big Europe, excelent! I recommend.

What can I say....brings me back to my childhood!!

Good album

Great cd thank you

Great CD and service !!!!

1983's Europe debut album is a long lost album for most. People remember The Final Countdown but the 1st album? Did they have another album? Yes. This is Swedish metal. Think Yngwie. Think Silver Mountain. Joey Tempest (Rolf Larsson) on vocals. John Norum on Guitars. John Leven on bass. Tony Reno on drums. The album is a bit dated sounding right out of the gate, just like something from 1983. I don't think I've ever listened to this album all the way through, so let's give it a spin. In The Future To Come is the opening track and it sounds like something straight off a latter Yngwie Malmsteen album. It's the precursor to neo-classical metal or power metal. So it's got that. Tempest's voice is pretty damn good. John Norum is kind of hidden in the $7 production but he wails. Unexpectedly heavy though the production does the music no favors. It was released on Hot Records and produced by the band and a couple of Vikings, so what do you expect? Listen to Norum shred the solo. Why isn't he in the conversation, ever, for great guitar players? Seriously. This is years before the whole neo-Classical shred thing. Shrapnel Records. Whatever. Great opening song, very grand and epic. Farewell comes out like a straight ahead rock song. These guys are Swedish? That's what you'll ask yourself because they sound like they're from L.A. or some such destination. So long, farewell, I gotta go... Lyrically not very stunning. The solo is shred. This is Europe, right? Those Final Countdown guys? You'll find yourself asking that several times. This is a empty-headed rocker. Nothing stellar but nothing stinky either. The lyrics are cheesemo. Seven Doors Hotel just starts off all mysterious and moves straight into a Swede Metal opera. The Eibon is open, use your eyes to read and learn... Swedes and Satan seem to go hand in hand, especially in metal. I guess this is a song about a hotel that is a gateway to hell itself. Listening to the solo breakdown you feel like you're cruising around Rising Force or maybe Marching Out-era Yngwie, but this is two years before that. No credit. These guys were innovators. This is a cool power metal song about Satan. This was Europe's 1st ever single, too. The King Will Return is moody and odd. Not sure if it's the production but there's just a somber subdued feel to the music. Tempest sounds crystal clear but the music sounds muted. This is a cool song. The neo-Classical feel is slathered all over this but the guitar is buried in the mix until the solo. You can definitely tell that this is Joey Tempest's band, He wrote all the songs except for one instrumental. Boyazont is the instrumental. Written by John Norum and Swedish composer Eddie Meduza. Probably in 1983 this was absolutely mind-blowing. Post-Shred, this is just another instrumental. Knowing this pre-dates Shred by at least a year, nearly two, this song takes on a different significance. It is masterful. It's like Uli Jon Roth-caliber neo-classical awesome. This album was recorded in 1982. Yeah. 1982. Children Of This Time suffers from the production. Were they running out of money on the second side of the album. The music is muted and muddy. Even Tempest doesn't sound as clear. This song is catchy. You are the children of this time, you are the bread and the wine... Words Of Wisdom opens like some opera. Tempest can set a mood. This is a mid-tempo rock song. It was the B-side to Seven Door Hotel. The song suffers from lyrical banality. Oh oh, words of wisdom, oh oh, teach me more... Something like that. The problem with neo-Classical is that all the songs start to sound the same, like Vivaldi or Bach or Paganini is in the house at all times. It can be tiresome. Small doses. Paradize Bay comes at you. The production is broken by this point and really does a disservice to Norum's shredding. Not sure why they felt the need to spell paradise with a 'z' which is nonsense. They probably thought we sheepish Americans would totally dig the letter 'z' cuz it's so metal. Yeah. Z. Metal. The solo here is like a heart attack , it's all over the place and jolting. Then the guitars fade back into the underbelly of this muted void. Not a bad song, just predictable and sort of generic. Memories comes on strong as the album ender. It's different. It sounds great (minus the $2 production. Yes we're down to $2 by this point.) and showed that Europe could break out of that neo-Classical vein for a few minutes. Sounds almost like old UFO in spots. Overall, this long-forgotten album is a pretty impressive debut. The music on here was recorded in 1982, years before Neo-Classical rose up and was everywhere. This album has quite a few bright spots and if you are only familiar with The Final Countdown, you'll be blown away. John Norum is a criminally underrated guitarist. Then again, he was in Europe. They sort of became a running joke for many years. Not really sure why. Success breeds jealousy. This is a cool album. Wish the production was better. Well ahead of it's time. The pioneers of Neo-Classical? Of Power metal? Maybe. Dig it!

I just love this album,such goodness is in the songs,yet it still rocks but in a way that's easy to listen too. Here they were more of a pop version of the classic bands that influenced but before the stylists got hold of them, though I love their mega-success period as well. It just strikes me the songs are just great songs.

absolutely love it. Europe's first album and rare, arrive quickly seeing as it was coming from Sweden. very happy with it

1° storico album per l'hard rock band svedese che si presenta subito, potente, melodico e di grande grandissimo impatto. "Seven doors hotel" è certamente il pezzo più epico che infatti ancora oggi, a distanza di 30 anni, non manca mai nei live degli Europe; tutte le altre canzoni sono comunque importanti e rendono l'idea della bravura agli strumenti di questi 4 ragazzotti che da lì a qualche anno scaleranno le classifiche mondiali!

Se uno acquista questo cd nella speranza di trovare gli stessi grandi artisti della fine degli anni '80 o ancora di più, del giorno d'oggi, può rimanere un po' deluso.Deve capire che questo è il loro primo album, avevano tutti 18/19 anni, tentavano ( o tentava, visto che le scriveva tutte Joey ), di capire come fare !.In più avevano vinto questo grande concorso in Svezia come primo gruppo hard rock, in un periodo in cui , questo genere di musica, non andava per la maggiore nel loro paese.E' stato registrato in uno studio non adatto al genere ( in Svezia non ce n'erano ! ), ed è venuto con un suono non dei migliori ( lo ha detto Joey, ed ha ragione ), ma chi è fan di questa band, non può non acquistarlo per la propria collezione. Se non altro per constatare l'enorme crescita di questi artisti !.

llegó correctamente. todo perfecto. disco con buenos despuntes que ya anticipaban los exitos posteriores. indispensable para fans y para interesados en heavy de los 80