Rabbit Don't Come Easy [Import]

Rabbit Don't Come Easy [Import]

Track Listings

1. Just A Little Sign

2. Open Your Life

3. The Tune

4. Never Be A Star

5. Liar

6. Sun 4 The World

7. Dont Stop Being Crazy

8. Do You Feel Good

9. Hell Was Made In Heaven

10. Back Against The Wall

11. Listen To The Flies

12. Nothing To Say

13. Fast As A Shark (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Asian exclusive release of the German power metal act's 2003 album includes the bonus track 'Fast As A Shark' (originally recorded by Accept). Seoul Records.

Rabbit Don't Come Easy,Helloween,Seoul Record,Heavy Metal

Average customer rating:

A change for Helloween, but a neutral one...

Not Their Best But FAR From Another Chameleon

What the #%#@%^# happened?!!!

I Love The Title

Rabbits DO come easy...that's why there are so many of them.

Rabbit Don't Come Easy
Helloween
Manufacturer: Nuclear Blast Americ
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008XRTC
Release Date: 2003-05-19

Tracks:

Just A Little Sign
Open Your Life
The Tune
Never Be A Star
Liar
Sun 4 The World
Don't Stop Being Crazy
Do You Feel Good
Hell Was Made In Heaven
Back Against The Wall
Listen To The Flies
Nothing To Say

Album Description

Their last release, The Dark Ride, was a much darker album that experimented with different styles and themes. Rabbit Don't Come Easy is a much more positive, vintage relrelease that harkens back to the sound and style Helloween pioneered in the 80's.

Album Description

The German power metal act's 2003 album featuring 12 tracks to mark the triumphant return to their beloved sound. Nuclear Blast.

Customer Reviews:

A change for Helloween, but a neutral one..........2007-07-30

Andi Deris is firmly ensconced in Helloween as lead singer at this point. The "new" Helloween has lost nothing with the departure of Michael Kiske. Deris is capable of reaching the high notes quite well and is more aggressive, but still very melodic in the Helloween tradition of speed metal.

Most recently, we have the departure of Roland Grapow as the main guitarist handling the leads. In his place is Sascha Gerstner. The main thing I notice is that Sascha's style is more like that of Michael Schenker. He plays with a lot of feeling and possesses a good vibrato and some nice little tricks. I feel with this CD and the most recent "Keeper...Legacy" with him contributing quite a bit, the band has scored some more commercial singles with tunes like "Mrs. God" and "Invisible Man" etc. This particular CD does not have songs quite on that level, but it's very good... I think it's a trade off, somewhat, because I don't hear that Gerstner can play as fast Grapow or Kai Hansen could, but again, he has a lot more melodic sense than Grapow had. Whether this will be good or bad, I'm not sure. My feeling is that it doesn't make any difference. The band is still producing fantastic stuff and if you listen to the recent "Keeper...Live in Sao Paulo" release, you can hear that Gerstner and vocalist Deris do a fantastic job on both the old and new material. This CD is four stars. This, "Master of the Rings" and "Time of the Oath" are all four star performances (both of which had Grapow).

The only release that tops them is "Better than Raw" (Grapow on that CD) and "Keeper...Live in Sao Paulo" (Gerstner on that CD). Those two releases are five star classics.

Not Their Best But FAR From Another Chameleon.......2007-07-13

Well Now, Here is an interesting addition to the pumpkin-head catalog...Now me being a huge Helloween fan, (Even finding enjoyment within the dismal Chameleon album) I can honestly say that I am a bit lost with this album, I was promised something back to their roots, And while this is a decent attempt, It didnt completley fufill my ambitions, However, It is a solid album. The problem with this one though, Is that there are amazong songs, good songs & sucky songs. It does include 2 of my favorite Helloween tracks. ("Liar", and my all-time favorite Helloween Song, "Do You Feel Good?")
I can easily reccomend this album to any Helloween fan, But It IS NOT Another Walls Of Jerhico or Key-Keeper album.
Oh, the reason i dont like this album is "Sun For The World," and "Don't Stop Being Crazy" I'm not very partial to the "Egyptian" tone they both let off.

Killer Songs Include:
Just A Little Sign, Open Your Life, Never Be A Star, Liar, Do You Feel Good, Hell Was Made in Heaven.

GOOD Songs Include:
The Tune, Back Against The Wall, Nothing To Say

Sucky Songs Include:
Don't Stop Being Crazy, Sun For The World, Listen To The Flies & Far Away
ENJOY THE HEADBANGING!!!

What the #%#@%^# happened?!!!.......2007-01-03

I really hate doing this and I mean I REALLY hate doing this. Helloween Is in my top 5 bands but this album sucks. I wanted to finish out my collection with this and Better than Raw but I don't know why I waited so anxiously waiting on this one. The lyrics suck (and I love Deris) and the music is mostly mediocre. There are a couple of songs on here that have some good soloing but there is no consistency and no rememberable songs. Basically, this is an easily forgetable cd that really has nothing to do with Helloween much like the latter Kiske albums, I hate to say.

There has hardly anything to do with their usual subject matter and it has a lot of songs about male/female dynamics which has NEVER been in a Helloween song, outside of Metal jukebox which doesn't count. I'm just really dissapointed in this and hope I like Better Than Raw better than this.

I Love The Title.......2006-09-16

Most People Dont, Dunno Why, Oh well Return To A From Yes, Old School Kiske Helloween From No Almost But No, The Time Of The Oath Form However I Must Say This Is The Form They Returned Too. Most People Took One Look at The Title And Deemed This Crap ut I Enjoyed It (As I Do Pink Bubbles Go Ape..Chameleon However Well Not So Much..) All In All The TRakcs Are Solid Much Better Than The Dark Ride If You Wanna Get A Look into Newer Helloween Start Here

Rabbits DO come easy...that's why there are so many of them........2006-08-18

Rabbit Don't Come Easy is billed as Helloween's triumphant return to their old style, but I must say that I'm a wee bit puzzled by that statement. They might have returned to touring North America for the first time since 1989, but let me assure you my friends, Helloween never left.

Though the band has been through various line-up changes throughout the years, core members Markus Großkopf and Michael Weikath remain firmly ensconced in the band they formed almost 20 years ago with Gamma Ray's Kai Hanson and the late Ingo Schwichtenberg.

Rabbit Don't Come Easy is Helloween's 15th (depending how you count, I usually omit Best Of's) album since the band first appeared on the radar in 1985 with their eponymous EP and tore into the metal scene with a vengeance with albums Walls Of Jericho and Keeper Of The Seven Key's Parts 1 and 2. It was during the Keeper Of The Seven Keys era when the band was riding high on the metal scene and had introduced Michael Kiske, an 18-year-old vocalist with more range and power than even Iron Maiden's Bruce "The Air Raid Siren" Dickinson. Helloween toured the US and elsewhere and at the time seemed unstoppable.

After having replaced Hansen with guitarist Roland Grapow and having received much criticism for their forays into humor, pop and prog in the early 90's with albums like Pink Bubbles Go Ape and Chameleon, the Teutonic Metal Meisters seemed to fall in disfavor with the US audiences and, much to my chagrin, were pretty much relegated to touring Europe and South America.

Following the suicide death of original drummer Ingo SchwichtenbergMichael Kiske shortly thereafter, Helloween regrouped and returned to their heavy roots with new force, this time adding singer Andreas (Andi) Deris and original Gamma RayUli Kusch. Albums Master Of The Rings and The Time Of The Oath melded pop sensibilities with pounding rhythms and super speed. Still feeling the need to push pop aside and rebuild their metal following, Helloween added even more octane to the gas tank, which resulted in making albums Better Than Raw and The Dark Ride their heaviest and darkest to date. and the loss of defining vocalist drummer

If anything, Rabbit Don't Come Easy is Helloween's return to yet another line-up change and yet another fantastic studio album. Whether heavy, slow, pop or progressive, Helloween has consistently released quality albums filled with monster playing and killer songwriting. This time, however, rather than dedicating a full album to one musical exploration, Rabbit Don't Come Easy melds the best of all worlds.

The album begins with the band's trademark brief orchestral fanfare before launching into the thunderous Just A Little Sign augmented by moonlighting Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee who first appeared on King Diamond's 1986 opus Fatal Portrait. The Scandinavian Skin Basher reportedly had only three days to learn, write and record his parts for the album, but it sounds like he had been playing with Helloween since day one. Though new drummer, Stefan Schwarztmann, plays on a couple of tracks, I would strongly suggest that Mikkey Dee is contracted to record on subsequent Helloween studio releases as, in this writer's humble opinion, Dee is the premier metal drummer and I will deny anyone who refutes this statement without proper documented proof. For all of Schwarztmann's talent, unfortunately, he's no Mikkey Dee.

New guitarist Sascha Gerstner's writing makes an appearance on the next track Open Your Life, a wonderful piece that jumps between a prog intro, superb breakdowns, a fantastic pre-chorus and a thrashing power chorus and defines the best of everything Helloween has done in the past two decades.

One of my personal favorites is the humble Never Be A Star, a song whose premise is that even though the band will never be superstars, they are very content with their position in the rock and roll stratosphere. One of the track's highlights is Markus Großkopf's middle section bass groove, which is probably one of his best since Chameleon's Revolution Now and the band's b-side version of Grand Funk Railroad's Closer To Home. Throughout the years Großkopf's fantastic playing is always hidden beneath a wall of drums and guitars, so it's nice to hear him shine on occasions like this. Though he is frequently compared to Iron Maiden's Steve Harris (my idol), Großkopf is his own man and has way better time and groove.

Another outstanding contribution by newcomer Gerstner is Sun 4 The World, featuring a rich middle-eastern sitar intro before launching the band into a power groove and double kick chorus. Again, another great song deeply rooted in metal, but still chock full of various styles and influences. I was initially reluctant to another line-up change, but having now listened to the album and seen the band live, I feel Gerstner's contribution to Rabbit Don't Come Easy and the band in general is a much needed and welcomed shot in the arm.

The rest of the album is delightfully consistent and my only criticism would be that the Japanese version contains a cover of Accept's Fast As A Shark, a song considered by many to be the first thrash metal song, and the US release does not.

So, if rabbits don't come easy, then why are there so many of them? Yes, Helloween is triumphant, yes they have returned and yes, against all odds, they've pulled yet another magic rabbit out of their hat. For those of you that never heard of them or lost track along the way, then let me strongly suggest that Rabbit Don't Come Easy will either win you back or start you on the journey of discovering one of metal's most definitive and influential groups.

Average customer rating:

Pumpkinheads rejoice

Rabbit Don't Come Easy
Helloween
Manufacturer: Seoul Record
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00009WVF5
Release Date: 2003-06-16

Tracks:

Just a Little Sign
Open Your Life
Tune
Never Be a Star
Liar
Sun + The World
Don't Stop Being Crazy
Do You Feel Good
Hell Was Made in Heaven
Back Against the Wall
Listen to the Flies
Nothing to Say
Fast as a Shark

Album Description

Asian exclusive release of the German power metal act's 2003 album includes the bonus track 'Fast As A Shark' (originally recorded by Accept). Seoul Records.

Album Details

Asian Version featuring a Bonus Track: "Fast as a Shark".

Customer Reviews:

Pumpkinheads rejoice.......2004-03-17

I forked over the money for this excellent import. Production top notch. Vocals, duel guitars, double bass drumming all sound superb. Not really a bad song on the cd. These guys are outstanding musicians. The bonus track "Fast as a Shark" sounds great and is pretty much played note for note like Accept's original version.

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Rabbit Don't Come Easy
Helloween
Manufacturer: Jvc Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008YLSF
Release Date: 2003-05-26

Tracks:

Just a Little Sign
Open Your Life
Tune
Never Be a Star
Liar
Sun + The World
Don't Stop Being Crazy
Do You Feel Good
Hell Was Made in Heaven
Back Against the Wall
Listen to the Flies
Nothing to Say
Fast as a Shark

Album Description

Japanese version of the German power metal act's 2003 album features 13 tracks including the bonus track 'Fast As A Shark' (original recorded by Accept). JVC.

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: 'fast as a Shark'

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Rabbit Don't Come Easy
Helloween
Manufacturer: Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008YJBJ
Release Date: 2003-05-05

Tracks:

Just a Little Sign
Open Your Life
Tune
Never Be a Star
Liar
Sun 4 the World
Don't Stop Being Crazy
Do You Feel Good
Hell Was Made in Heaven
Back Against the Wall
Listen to the Flies
Nothing to Say

Album Description

Full title - Rabbit Don't Come Easy. Limited gatefold digipak edition of the German power metal act's 2003 album includes one bonus track 'Far Away'. Nuclear Blast.

Album Details

The Special Limited Edition of their 2003 Metal Slab Comes in a Digipak and with a Two Track Bonus Disc! the Rock is Hard and Raging as Good as Ever, as These Guys Never Succumb to the Commercial Trappings of Many of their Cartoonish Contemporaries, Keeping Thing Real and Serious. The Beat is Laid Down by Drummer-on-loan Mikkey Dee from Motorhead, a Labor of Love in his off Time.

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Rabbit Don't Come Easy
Helloween
Manufacturer: Nuclear Blast
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000LX78FQ

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