Mcauley/Schenker [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Mcauley/Schenker [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Track Listings

1. Eve

2. Paradise

3. When I'm Gone

4. This Broken Heart

5. We Believe In Love

6. Crazy

7. Invincible

8. What Happens To Me

9. Lonely Nights

10. This Night Is Gonna Last Forever

11. Never Ending Nightmare

12. When I'm Gone (Single Edit)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese digitally remastered reissue of the heavy metal act's 1992 release. Includes 1 bonus track 'Never Ending Nightmare'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Tracks:

Gimme Your Love
Here Today-Gone Tomorrow
Don't Stop Me Now
No Time for Losers
Follow the Night
Get Out
Love Is Not a Game
Time
I Don't Wanna Lose
Rock 'Til You're Crazy [Edit]
Gimme Your Love [Edit]
Follow the Night [Edit]

Album Description

Japanese digitally remastered reissue of the heavy metal act's 1987 release. Includes 2 bonus tracks 'Gimme' Your Love' (Edit) and 'Follow The Night' (Edit). 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Japanese Reissue featuring Bonus Tracks and Digital Remastering.

Customer Reviews:

Brings back memories...........2007-07-06

OK,if you can get past the big hair on the cover,inside you will find a little masterpiece of 80's nostalgia. This cd is Solid,if not spectacular.There is no reason to skip thru any of the tunes,just enjoy them all. I can remember buying this cd and cruising the open road while blaring Gimme Your Love,and Love is not a game, thru my speakers....oh man,has it really been 20 years since this thing has been released? MSG released 2 more cd's after this one,but in MY opinion,neither one matched the quality of this one. I guess it was a matter of Perfect Timing!

McSG's best album..........2007-04-20

With the release of Perfect Timing Michael Schenker teamed up with Robin McAuley and put out a very good album with great songs, great playing and strong vocals. In all honesty McAuley was the best vocalist Schenker had worked since Phil Mogg in UFO. Gary Barden simply was too limited with his vocals and Graham Bonnett(while I personally like him) also is fairly limited. McAuley can handle anything from full out rockers too ballads. Schenker's playing is, as usual, great. I love how his playing can be so complex at times but still fit within the structure of the songs and his sense of melody is always strong.

Song Highlights include: Gimme Your Love, Here Today Gone Tomorrow, Love Is Not A Game, I Don't Wanna Lose and Rock Till You're Crazy.

Overall, this is a great, fun album. I don't understand people complaining about this being "hair metal". It's not like UFO or earlier MSG albums/music is thrash or hardcore metal. Schenker's music has always been powerful, but melodic. Perfect Timing provides all of that.

My favorite MSG album featuring Robin McAuley.......2007-04-03

THE BAND: Michael Schenker (guitars), Robin McAuley (vocals), Steve Mann (keyboards/guitars), Rocky Newton (bass), Bodo Schopf (drums & percussion).

THE DISC: (1987) 10 tracks clocking in at approximately 43 minutes. Included with the disc is a 6-page booklet containing song titles/credits, song lyrics, one black & white band photo, and thank you's. 7 of the 10 songs written by McAuley & Schenker (the others written by a combination of band members). Recorded at PUK Studios, Denmark. Re-mastered and re-released several times with bonus tracks and/or edits - now an import. Label - Capital Records.

COMMENTS: Michael Schenker has a long list of albums/discs he's made over the decades, but he only made three with singer Robin McAuley. "Perfect Timing", "Save Yourself" (1989) and another titled "MSG" (1991)... of which I truly believe this "Perfect Timing" is the best of the three. "PT" is slick, polished hair/glam rock that leaned more to the commercial side of hard rock. Schenker and his trademark black & white Gibson Flying-V guitar is in top form - as ALL the songs here are solid. Highlights include the two hits "Love Is Not A Game" (perhaps Schenker's best tune with McAuley on vocals) and "Gimme Your Love"; the rockers "Here Today - Gone Tomorrow", "I Don't Wanna Lose", and "No Time For Losers"; and two typical 80's style power ballads in "Follow The Night" and "Time". I wore this vinyl record out back in the late 80's... and I still find myself going back to the "Perfect Timing" disc frequently. I dig the cover too - so 80's with the hair and outfits, it's not even funny. For me, this is/was a special album (5 stars).

Not one of Schenker's best but still a good album........2005-11-23

This album gets knocked by many fans as a commercial sell-out, but I think about half the album is really good. I agree that Robin McAuley's hairdo on the cover looks ridiculous, but I like his slightly raspy voice. My favorites are Gimme Your Love, the ballads Love Is Not A Game and Time, I Don't Wanna Lose (great rhythm!), and Rock Till Your Crazy. The rest of the album is not bad either. I still have good memories of listening to this album my first year of college, much to the annoyance of my roommate. I think the next album, Save Yourself, is as good as this album but I never got into the third album with McAuley.

Still a great LP.......2005-09-07

As tacky as putting the mullet on the cover and even the multi-layered vocal tracks, this CD still rocks for it's age. The best of the three (of this lineup) in my opinion, but I've been a UFO/MSG fan for as long as I can remember. This goes for a lot of bands from the 80's that were good but have been forgotten. Unfortunately, management back then called for these cheeseball tactics and even still do this to the new bands. I mean for real everyone, do you think Marylin Manson goes Christmas shopping in his bad makeup and leather poser outfits? I say "Play it, don't catagorize it" and grab this CD.

Average customer rating:

Great album you've probably not heard
Awesome
Misjudged classic
The (Second) One That Got Away
Michael, Gary, Simon, Cozy

M.S.G.
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Release Date: 2007-06-19

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Customer Reviews:

Great album you've probably not heard.......2006-09-24

I wore out my cassette copy of MSG's Perfect Timing back in the day. Years later I found it on CD and rediscovered what a great record it is. A few weeks later I ordered Save Yourself (save your $$) and then this one, which I never even knew existed until recently.

Note to Michael Schenker: probably not a great marketing idea to call this record MSG considering you already had an album called MSG released back in '81. Good way to confuse fans. Just look at the reviews for this disc here on Amazon--some of them are actually reviews of the '81 album. (Worthless trivia: Ratt did the same thing--an EP called RATT back in the 80's, then their big comeback disc a few years ago. Same title. Maybe they got this idea from Schenker when he played with Ratt as a sub for Robbin Crosby??? Told you it was worthless...)

In spite of the duplicate name, this album is really good. Jeff Pilson plays bass and James Kottak (ex-Kingdom Come, ex-Warrant, Scorpions) plays drums. The first tune, Eve, is the best song on the disc. I'm surprised I never heard it on the radio back then. Every album in this genre is apparently required to have at least a ballad or 2, and this disc is no exception.

The pairing of McAuley & Schenker was great, albeit short-lived. This 3rd disc was their last. Since then, Schenker has put out about 47 more albums with about as many line-ups, but none (in my opinion) match the quality of Perfect Timing or this MSG disc.

Awesome.......2005-01-01

This is THE best album from the MacAuley-Shenker era! It features Jeff Pilson(Dokken)on Bass and James Kottack(Kingdom Come,Warrant,Scorpions)on Drums. This Album opener "Eve" WILL blow your mind! It's got great,catchy melodies and blistering guitar work. A definate must have for ANY guitar player or Heavy Metal music fan!

Misjudged classic.......2004-03-30

I can even see a lot of people in the previous reviews mixing this 1992 cd with the classic 2nd cd of MSG. This one here was the thrid and last of the McAuley Schenker Group albums. Seems a lot of people have been putting down this era of MSG. I was a Gary Barden fan when the first two MSG albums first came out, remembering how Gary had a Dio like vocal presentation as compared to Phil Mogg, but as time went on, his voice got weak, as anyone who saw a live MSG show in 84 could attest to. So enter Robin McAuley formerly of Grand Prix. A bit of a harsher voice but fit in well. I guess peopel didn't like the fact that this new MSG had more of an LA sound as compared to the Euro-Metal of the past. But was till great stuff. In fact this 1992 MSG album had an all-star line-up in Jeff Pilson of Dokken on bass and James Kottack of the now Scorpions and Kingdom Come. Robin comes up with some very brilliant lyrics in this one, or maybe it was so to me caused it was reflecting the on-goings in my life at the time. In my opinion, this is one of the great MSG albums, and the latter MSG solo effort, liek Written in Sand, I could neve rget into them. In those he really took an LA sound and forgot about his classic rhythym guitar playing.

The (Second) One That Got Away.......2003-08-11

Michael Schenker, a fluent guitarist who is becoming more notable for his excessive drinking than actual talent, shines brightly on "MSG," the second "solo" album from Michael and company. The company this time is a little tighter than future M.S.G. alumni, thanks in large part by drummer Cozy Powell, who has a worthy enough bloodline in rock history to actually challenge the ego/whiskey bravado of Michael.

Gary Barden makes a second round as lead vocalist and again contributes nothing to loft his boss' success thanks to some second stage songwriting and predictable vocal workouts. In any event, it's clear that Schenker runs the show and "MSG" proves to be a great showcase for his guitar playing. Indeed, the first four songs of "MSG" are prime examples of Michael's talents on the fret board while also frustrating the listener who may wonder why more people haven't heard of this guy's abilities.

There are several answers to that question, but for a three album run "The Michael Schenker Group," "MSG," and the follow-up/line-up change effort "Assault Attack" Michael had a great creative burst and flexed big guitar muscle that is deserving of your attention. While by no means a perfect five star release, it packs enough punch to be mentioned in the same breath as "Blackout," "Diary Of A Madman," or "Diver Down." And out of those three albums, I would put "MSG" in front of Eddie's by the numbers playing on "Diver Down." Highly recommended.

Michael, Gary, Simon, Cozy.......2000-04-16

One could argue that these two albums represented the best MS put out after his last days of UFO and the Scorpions until he rejoined UFO for Walk on Water a few years back. The only reason I say this is not because the MSG stuff after this was not good, in fact, a lot of it is great, but because it simply does not get any better than this for melodic hard rock. As with Randy Rhoads' playing on Diary of a Madman, the most maddening thing, and only, albeit weak, criticism of these two albums was the fact that the best guitar playing was during the outtros of the songs, and gets faded out much too quickly. (...) Gary Barden's voice isn't in top form for the live versions, that is why these two studio LP's have a place alongside the live ones in my collection. If you don't have this, buy it!

Average customer rating:

Schenker can do better.
A worthy album
out-of-this-world
Michael Schenker: Hair Metal god?

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ASIN: B000008IA2
Release Date: 1989-10-10

Tracks:

Save Yourself
Bad Boys
Anytime
Get Down to Bizness
Shadow of the Night
What We Need
I Am Your Radio
There Has to Be Another Way
This Is My Heart
Destiny
Take Me Back

Customer Reviews:

Schenker can do better........2007-03-07

I was really dissapointed in this album."Anytime" is a great song,but the rest of the album pretty much stinks.As far as production quality,it sounds good,but the songs just seem kind of limp,and fail to evoke any kind of emotion.Also,Robin McAuley is a decent singer,but most of his lyrics seem a bit sophmoric.Put it this way,he's no Phil Mogg.If you want to hear some great Michael Schenker stuff,buy Essential UFO,or UFO's Strangers in the Night.

A worthy album.......2006-10-27

Save Yourself, by McAuley Schenker Group, was released in 1989. It sports 11 tracks, one being a bonus track, "Take Me Back." Also, an instrumental is included--"There Has to Be Another Way." Throughout, the guitar playing is proficient. Robin McAuley is a pleasing, expressive singer, too. The material is in a straight-ahead hard rock musical direction. I think that the songwriting is tight, the musicianship is solid, and the sound quality is gratifying. The compositions that I favor are "Anytime," "There Has to Be Another Way," "This Is My Heart," and "Take Me Back." The plaintive "Anytime" exhibits a winning, pretty chorus and well-crafted, regal-sounding guitar soloing. The somber "There Has to Be Another Way" is one of my favorite instrumentals (in general); it displays charming, elegant, mellifluous guitar work. The catchy "This Is My Heart" has an attractive refrain and nice guitar soloing, while the smooth "Take Me Back" displays majestic harmony vocals. As for the CD booklet, it includes the song lyrics, various black-and-white drawings, and a color photo of each member of the group. The disc is just over 51 minutes. Save Yourself is a recommendable album.

out-of-this-world.......2005-07-22

first of all, i think 1 of the greatest unsolved mysteries of all time is why didn't this band broke big time. i mean, the time was ripe with all the motley & jovi singles racking up the millions: yet this super catchy band gets lost in time, is a thing beyond me...

anyway, this album is among the top 3 greatest albums i've heard in my life. here is the song-by-song review:

1. Save Yourself - omg! here i'm sitting unknowingly in front of my pc with hi-vol, & all of a sudden the power of the song almost blows me away. this album is worth 5 star for this song only. what a solo, what a fine vocal performance! the word amazing was created 4 this. 15/10

2. Bad Boys - an ok rocker. a tad bit overly-commercial, accompanied by very good drum intro by Bodo Schgopf, Mcauley's pipes show a lot of attitude complementing schenker's wicked playing. 8/10

3. Anytime - what can i say about this song, except that this is among the top 5 ballads of all time. the emotion that slurs from schenker's guitar is nothing short phenomenal. 10/10

4. Get Down to Bizness - a very commercial track with an ordinary verse. saved at the last moment by the madman's 'V' - tronics, yet an ordinary track. 7/10

5. Shadow of the Night - A dark ballad accompanied by Schenker's moody solo & mcauley's heart-felt vocals. the use of a computerized vocal was very cool. 9/10

6. What We Need - An up-tempo track, although mcauley's pipes seem a bit strained. another short but masterful solo. take note of the blistering guitar lick. 8/10

7. I Am Your Radio - a great track. very enjoyable with a funny lyrics by McAuley/Stewart. full of melodic guitar snaps. 8/10

8. There Has to Be Another Way - a great instrumental, yet a bit short. 8/10

9. This Is My Heart - A heart-felt power ballad. written by all the band members, one of their best. 9/10

10. Destiny - Classic! the best lyrics I've seen in any msg song. truly amazing. 10/10

11. Take Me Back - I expected this to be a ballad, instead i was treated with one of the
greatest mid-tempo rockers in my life. the guitar is just 'spitzenclass'. 10/10

ooh! what an album. even the worst track is better than many of motley's best singles. Schenker is in the form of his life, and McAuley is just out-of-this-world. great cohesive playing from Newton//Mann/Schopf - respectively on bass,
guitars/keyboards & drums. it's a pity that amazon has confined highest no of stars to 5. other wise i would have given it an infinite no of them.....

Michael Schenker: Hair Metal god?.......2004-07-08

Nope. Not exactly. From the big hair days of the late-80's, this McAuley Schenker Group album probably isn't going to set anyone on a fevered search for their own personal copy. True, Michael Schenker's normal guitar brilliance is present, but mixed with too many synthesizer and drum machine sounds for those who remember his far superior early 80's solo stuff and his work with UFO. The sole saving grace for this album is the power ballad "Anytime". McAuley's voice is a tad shrill on much of the rest of the album, but this song is easily his best work as a vocalist. I can't say I'm normally a big ballad guy, but something about this song works for me. The rest of the album won't offend, but I doubt you'll find yourself reaching for it very often. (Although the band member's pictures on the back are good for an uncomfortable laugh. Who thought that was a good look anyway?)

Average customer rating:

3.5 - 4 Stars Not McSG's best, but not bad
Great Hard Rock Album
Vintage Metal

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ASIN: B000008KGC
Release Date: 1992-02-18

Tracks:

Eve
Paradise
When I'm Gone
This Broken Heart
We Believe in Love
Crazy
Invincible
What Happens to Me
Lonely Nights
This Night Is Gonna Last Forever
Never Ending Nightmare

Customer Reviews:

3.5 - 4 Stars Not McSG's best, but not bad.......2006-07-06

The McAuley Schenker era usually gets dumped on for being too "commercial". Well, isn't the point to make your music accessible and sell albums? This album is "radio friendly", but Schenker is still Schenker especially on Never Ending Nightmare.
The best songs include: Eve(a good rocker), When I'm Gone & This Broken Heart(both mid-tempo songs) and Lonely Nights(a simple fun rocker).
Robin McAuley is the best vocalist Schenker has worked with, outside of Phil Mogg(UFO). He can handle any song from full out rock to the gentler ballads.
If you're buying McSG start with Perfect Timing and then pick this one up. A solid album with good songs.

Great Hard Rock Album.......2006-01-03

Michael Schenker of Scorpions and UFO fame and Robin McAuley made one killer of a band and album. This album is full of soft ballads and kick-ass rockers. Michael Schenker plays guitar like few others and Robin McAuley is an excellent and underated singer. The album rock...hard. Fans of 80s hard rock will cherish this underated masterpiece.

Vintage Metal.......2005-04-20

Great Cd for an underated band. This bands music is hard to find but I can only compare the vocal sound to that of the Scorpions. The best song on here is "When I'm Gone". There are a few other good songs on here as well.

Average customer rating:

Vintage Metal
Very good effort by a good band
They just don't make 'em like this anymore!

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Gimme Your Love
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Don't Stop Me Now
No Time for Losers
Follow the Night
Get Out
Love Is Not a Game
Time
I Don't Wanna Lose
Rock 'Til You're Crazy

Customer Reviews:

Vintage Metal.......2005-04-20

The first time I ever heard of this band was when I saw the Video: "Gimme your love" on MTV. There was a bunch of fine girls in the video dressed in ripped jeans, along with the band doing a kind of behind the scenes theme with large cameras moving all around. I bought the cassette of this and recently purchased the CD used through Amazon. The other songs are pretty good as well. Robin's voice is comparable to Klaus Meine from the Scorpions. Great music!!!

Very good effort by a good band.......2004-10-10

I really like this record. It just rocks but it is very melodic also. Robin Mccauley had a raspy voice that I really like, different from others of that genre. I never followed Michael Schenker before so this was my intro to him and it impressed me. This could've been huge, I just don't know why it wasn't. The band was talented, the songs were well written and Andy Johns's production was excellent! The album kicks off with Give me your love (straight ahead rocker), Here today,gone tommorrow is a smart rocker, my personal fave is Don't stop me now(cuz the animal is free again), rest of record is good with strong songs and good playing. Bass is pumping, drummer is pretty good, and they just seem to jell together nicely. Just a nice rockin record. period. Hey, Robin where'd ya go dude, you had some serious pipes!!Next record Save me was a bit more commercial than this, but also good. A nice addition if you can find it. Rock on......

They just don't make 'em like this anymore!.......2003-02-08

This group very accomplished and this album is now my
favorite. The instrumentals are fantastic and the vocals
speak for themselves. I would highly recommend this album or
CD to those of you who still are rock and rollers. Must hear
to appreciate.

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Release Date: 2006-10-23

Tracks:

Gimme Your Love
Here Today Gone Tomorrow
Don't Stop Me Now
No Time For Losers
Follow The Night
Get Out
Love Is Not A Game
Time
I Don't Wanna Lose
Rock Til You're Crazy
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Follow The Night (Edit) (Bonus Track)

Album Description

Limited edition digitally remastered Japanese pressing of this 2000 album housed in a miniature LP sleeve featuring two bonus tracks. Virgin. 2006.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Average customer rating:

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Release Date: 2006-10-23

Tracks:

Save Yourself
Bad Boys
Anytime
Get Down to Bizness
Shadow of the Night
What We Need
I Am Your Radio
There Has to Be Another Way [Instrumental]
This Is My Heart
Destiny
Take Me Back [*]
Save Yourself [Single Edit]
Anytime [Single Edit]
Vicious

Album Description

Limited edition digitally remastered Japanese pressing of this 1984 live album housed in a miniature LP sleeve featuring three bonus tracks. Virgin. 2006.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Average customer rating:

Schenker is one of the best guitar players of all time
MSG AT ITS BEST
The BEST of the MSG albums
This album ROCKS!
A weak folow-up to Perfect Timing

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Save Yourself
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Album Description

Japanese digitally remastered reissue of the heavy metal act's 1989 release. Includes 1 bonus track 'Take Me Back'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Japanese Reissue Featring Bonus Tracks and Digital Remastering.

Customer Reviews:

Schenker is one of the best guitar players of all time.......2006-12-21

Listen to the guitar solo on the 'Save Yourself' track from this McAuley Schenker Group album. It's just mind blowing guitar work and I'm a die hard Van Halen, Hendrix, Led Zep and AC/DC fan. Schenker just did not get the recognition he truly deserved in the U.S, but he deserves to be on any top 100 guitarists of all time list. This album is worth buying for just the 'Save Yourself' track if you love blistering 80's style guitar playing from a player who is right up there with Eddie Van Halen and Hendrix. Overall the album is very good with one or two weak tracks. I have owned this album since it was originally released in 1989 and I seen this band live once around the same time. I pull this album out every six months or so and listen to the 'Save Yourself' track which has always blown me away.

MSG AT ITS BEST.......2006-08-28

The guitar work is great, like satriani surfing with the alien with vocals.every song stylisticly different every solo as well

The BEST of the MSG albums.......2005-10-20

"Perfect Timing", the precursor to "Save Yourself", introduced everybody to the awesome vocals of Robin McAuley. Schenker himself must've known there was something special going on here in his band if he retitled the band "McAULEY-Schenker Group" rather than go with the usual "Michael Schenker Group" moniker. While "P.T." was a good album, "Save Yourself" proved to be Schenker's best commerical effort of his solo career. Don't get disillusioned by the word "commercial", though. It just illustrates that the songs were his best songwriting attempt, before or since, to capture the ear of the average rock fan in addition to the diehards who knew him since his UFO days or guitar fanatics. Lord knows everyone I lent my tape to back then, who'd never heard him, usually ended up asking me "Who IS this guy and where can I get some more of his stuff?"
The band came flying out of the gate from the get go with the neo-classical-ish "Save Yourself" and never let up. Unlike neo-classical "god" Yngwie Malmsteen, however, the songs were't limp excuses to allow Schenker to solo endlessly. They were ACTUALLY songs!!
The sound and songs, though, now seem very much from that late 80s metal period, but tracks such as "Anytime" and the sweet instrumental "There Has to Be Another Way", among others, are still enjoyable to listen to. The album description lists "Take Me Back" as a bonus track but as I recall from my cassette of the album, which I still have, "Take Me Back" was part of that medium's songlist too. "Vicious", on the other hand, is new to all the mediums (LP, Cassette, & CD). Such was the push to get MSG on the pubic consciousness that the band actually did a video for "Anytime", thus probably explaining the [Single Edit] version included on the CD.
Alas, while the band did exceedingly well with this album and was largely the same lineup from the "Perfect Timing" session, the follow-up CD entitled "MSG" would see the band whittled down on the album art to just McAuley & Schenker, with no signs of the rest of the band; unlike as was the case in "Perfect Timing" and "Save Yourself".
If you're looking for a good introduction to Michael Schenker without first trying UFO's "Strangers in the Night" live album (another EXCELLENT must-have) THIS is the place to start!

This album ROCKS!.......2004-11-03

Some of the best Schenker melodies and solos ever. I wore this CD out in the 80's (is that possible?) and somehow lost it over several moves. Now I've rediscovered it again and am loving every minute of it. Every track sizzles. Strong hooks, great harmonic solos, and that trademark "solo fade out" that no one can match. McAuley's vocals are powerful and are just as strong as Schenker's fretwork. By far one of the best Schenker albums. All I can say is buy it, turn it up, and enjoy!

A weak folow-up to Perfect Timing.......2004-06-11

I thought 1987's "Perfect Timing" was a fantastic record, so when MSG put out "Save Yourself" two years later, I was really looking forward to it. Apparently they used up all their creative juices on the first release.

Aside from Anytime (which is great) and "Shadow of the Night" (pretty good), the rest of the album is filled with exceedingly mediocre songs.

McAuley/Schenker
Average customer rating:

One of the best ever

Half-a**ed effort

Schenker at his best !!!!

msg's breakout album

japanese edition - expensive but worth for 2 songs only!

McAuley/Schenker
Michael Schenker Group
Manufacturer: EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004U8WM
Release Date: 2000-06-07

Tracks:

Eve
Paradise
When I'm Gone
This Broken Heart
We Believe in Love
Crazy
Invincible
What Happens to Me
Lonely Nights
This Night Is Gonna Last Forever
Nightmare

Album Description

Japanese digitally remastered reissue of the heavy metal act's 1992 release. Includes 1 bonus track 'Never Ending Nightmare'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Japanese Reissue Featring Bonus Tracks and Digital Remastering.

Customer Reviews:

One of the best ever.......2004-04-08

I stumbled on this by accident and what a find!! This is excellent vocals and guitar and every song is great. Normally I cannot listen to an album two days in a row but this one needs to be played more often. Good solid rock - absolutely love it. One of the best albums ever.

Half-a**ed effort.......2003-12-09

Excellent guitarist aside, this is a boring and uninspired album. The first few songs are dischordant (without attempting to be) and grate on the nerves. The album picks up about the time we hit song five, but we hit another low note at Lonely Nights.

The best parts of this album are the bridges in Crazy. Too bad the rest of the song blows. Never Ending Nightmare is pretty good with a very cool guitar sound. Pick up Perfect Timing and Save Yourself, which are vastly superior albums, instead.

Schenker at his best !!!!.......2003-11-06

Why would someone compare this to Bon Jovi? Bon Jovi could never compare to this album. Schenker shreds like Ive never heard him shred on any other album. Robin Mc Cauley is one of the best vocalists. He blows Bon Jovi Away.Great heavy attitde and killer riffs and soaring solos. My favorite MSG album of all time.

msg's breakout album.......2003-01-06

the enigmatic, but profoundly talented michael schenker puts it all out on the line for his faithful following on this masterpiece. Previous releases always seemed to lack that one little ingredient that makes an interesting meal outstanding.
Having followed michaels career from 1972 through today, and purchasing everything our sorry record outlets carry, i found this nugget tucked away ,and hurried home brushing it off and finding the gold pressed into this plastic.
Michaels patient testing of various rock throats ,and co-writing talents kept his success on a virtual roller coaster.
He and Robin McAuley hit the mark by giving us one of those rare albums where every song is a great song.From the opening riffs of 'EVE', you are transported back to the great power playing and melodic stylings that makes him one of the greatest guitar players in metal history,and the misunderstanding as to why he hasn't become a household name.
this is the record that spawned the great radio hit "when i'm gone",this is one of those "1" time listen and love songs,with its melodic hooks,and searing vocals which sing out success.
"we believe in love " is another fabulously hooky "1" time listen song.whatever Michael chooses to do in his private life is his business,we don't need to completely understand the man,we know what he can do ,and how well he does it.
i'm afraid of running short on words,but as a music audiophile, or a rock guitarist who is on the fence about michael,run tommorow to your fave record store and pick up a copy of this album,you will be happy with what blasts from your speakers.

THANX FOR THE LISTEN

japanese edition - expensive but worth for 2 songs only!.......2002-12-15

i bought this adition and know why someone give this 1 star and the other give it 5 stars-
never ending nightmare ( track 11) and "when im gone (track 12 the single adit` ant track 3 ) are awesome - must have 6 stars
but the other tracks 2 stars .( unnecessary).
expensive but must have tracks.
tal avraham

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Perfect Timing
McAuley Schenker Group
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00004SLGR
Release Date: 2007-06-19

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