RHYTHM & NEWS NEW RELEASES
BABY ANIMALS Baby Animals Fronted by Suze De Marchi, the Baby Animals bring you their debut album of Australian rock at its finest — big, powerful and earthy. Produced by Mike Chapman (Pat Benatar, Blondie) and featuring the singles 'Early Warning' and 'Rush You', Baby Animals is authentic and accessible rock, simple as that. From the cool majesty of Suze's voice to the all out riffing, the Baby Animals are class all the way.
TRANSVISION VAMP Little Magnets Vs The Bubble Of Babble . . • ' England's swinging genius's of sexpop return with their third and most ambitious album, setting new standards in a genre so often dominated by airheads. Transvision Vamp bring us the brilliant combination of raunch and roll, live they made strong men melt, and Little Magnets does the same over and over again. Shiny, sparkly, sexy perfect pop.
GUNS N'ROSES Use Your Illusion I & II Undeniably one of the most important Rock acts of the last decade, Guns n' Roses are finally back on the scene, and with two albums! Produced by Mike Clink, these two epic albums are every bit as intense as the world the band exists in, and even more uncompromising.
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THE BLESSING Prince Of The Deep Water A debut album of enormous scope, Prince Of The Deep Water blends moods, images and rhythmic colours in a way that is powerful yet comforting at the same time. No hastily contrived greenhorns, The Blessing have, with the aid of Dire Straits producer Neil Dorfsman, created an exciting and cinematic album.
Featuring tracks like 'Right Next Door To Hell', 'November Rain', 'Civil War' and 'You Could Be Mine', both albums are the Gunners at their rawest, rockinest best. Guns n' Roses set the hard rock standard with Appetite For Destruction, and now they've redefined it twice over with Use Your Illusion I & 11. Welcome back boys.
HALL & OATES The Best Of With near to three decades of work to draw from, including a string of Platinum albums and six Number One hits, it can't have been easy to compile this album, but we can be glad the effort was made. Fourteen gems from the masters of Pop/Soul featuring the likes of 'Maneater', 'Rich Girl', 'I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)', 'Private Eyes' and many more.
THE TRAGICALLY HIP Road Apples Rock n' Roll will never die! Well, not with the likes of The Tragically Hip around it won't. These robtsy Canadian's debut album went double platinum in their homeland, and now they're taking on the rest of the world with Road Apples. Recorded in Memphis with Don Smith of Tom Petty, U2 and Travelling Wilburys fame at the helm, the soul of the Delta and the spirit of rock rolled into one irresistible package.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON Storyville Named for what was once the most colourful part of New Orleans, and utilizing some of that city's most famous musicians, Storyville is Robbie Robertson's second solo release and a unique narrative journey into a world of the artist's making. Drawing on his own incredible musical past and the talents of Aaron & Ivan Neville, the Meters, the Rebirth Brass Band, Bruce Hornsby, Neil Young and members of Blue Nile and R.E.M. amongst others.
TESLA Psychotic Supper The fourth album for Sacramento's Tesla, and by their own admission their wildest. After an all-acoustic live album, Tesla were ready to turn it up, and Psychotic Supper is the result. From the melodies of 'Call It What You Want' and 'What You Give' to the explosive rock of 'Edison's Medicine' and 'Had Enough', Tesla are putting their heart and soul into this one, no holds barred.
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS Into The Great Wide Open Typifying rock and roll at it's simplest ‘ and most honest, the legendary Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers have produced yet another slab of down-home brilliance. With Jeff Lynne at the helm and tracks like the hit 'Learning To Fly', 'Built To Last', 'The Dark Of The Sun' and the title track, lnto The Great Wide Open helps further cement Petty's reputation as one - of the true greats.
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Rip It Up, Issue 171, 1 October 1991, Page 17
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