Making Contact/Misdemeanour (UK) [2-On-1 CD] [Import]

Making Contact/Misdemeanour (UK) [2-On-1 CD] [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
1996 reissue on BGO featuring the metal vet's 1983 & 1985 Chrysalis albums on two separate CDs in a double slimline jewel case. Contains each albums original 10 tracks, for a total of 20 hard rockin' classics. Also contains the original cover art of each & sleeve notes by Malcolm Dome ofKerrang! magazine. Tracks include 'Blinded By A Lie', 'Push,It's Love', 'This Time' and 'Wreckless'.

Tracks:

Blinded By A Lie
Diesel In The Dust
A Fool For Love
You And Me
When It's Time Rock
The Way The Wild Wind Blows
Call My Name
All Over You
No Getaway
Push, It's Love

Tracks:

This Time
One Heart
Night Run
The Only Ones
Meanstreets
Name Of Love
Blue
Dream The Dream
Heaven's Gate
Wreckless

Album Description

1996 reissue on BGO featuring the metal vet's 1983 & 1985 Chrysalis albums on two separate CDs in a double slimline jewel case. Contains each albums original 10 tracks, for a total of 20 hard rockin' classics. Also contains the original cover art of each & sleeve notes by Malcolm Dome ofKerrang! magazine. Tracks include 'Blinded By A Lie', 'Push,It's Love', 'This Time' and 'Wreckless'.

Album Details

Two Albums on a Single CD from the German Band that Persevered on Through to the End of the Century and Just Beyond. These Two Albums Came after Spontaneous Combustions and Regroupings, which Helped Resurrect the Band. Pretty Much Lead Vocalist Phil Mogg's Time in the Sunshine. These Two Albums Fulfilled the Band's Contract to Chrysalis Records.

Customer Reviews:

Blinded by the Lies.......2007-03-12

Anyone giving this five stars must have a seriously pants music collection. The first half of this CD, "Making Contact", is a three-to-four star effort at best, more lightweight in style with a drifting towards American rock. Despite no Schenker on guitar, tracks like "Blinded by a Lie", "Diesel In The Dust", "The Way The Wild Wind Blows", and "When its Time to Rock" are examples that UFO could still cut it with the best.
After this album the band musically disintegrated. Phil Mogg and Paul Raymond were the only remaining members when "Misdemeanor" was produced and Raymond didn't stick around for long after that. This album is "UFO does Duran-Duran" and I can't say that any of the tracks are worth a listen. Cheesy lyrics, bad hair styles, this is really awful. Don't be fooled by the only good point which is the excellent album cover.

If you like Bon Jovi tributes then you might find something here. Unless you are a real UFO fan who must have all their albums then don't bother with this one. Go for the live "Strangers in the Night" or studio wise "Walk on Water" or any of the seventies Schenker albums first which are all real five star efforts! (see my other reviews!).

Not as good as Schenker era, but better overall songwriting........2006-05-05

Schenker's distinctive guitar tone, vibrato and excellent palm muting is missing on these releases. With the departure of Schenker the band incorporates much more of a keyboard emphasis. The first thing I want to mention is that I can't understand the cruel reviews that the "Misdemeanor" CD has received. It is really pretty good. First I will comment on "Making Contact", though. This disc includes what I would say is UFO's best post-Schenker hit single. This would be "Blinded by a lie". Other than that there are about two other decent songs and the rest are just so-so. Lyric wise, the songs are a bit more in depth than previous releases with Schenker. For guitar playing, Paul Chapman is no Michael Schenker, though. He is very average when you get down to it. Very little vibrato, average speed, average tone, decent speed on the power chords, but that doesn't take a virtuoso. Any pretty good guitar player can this stuff and even a lot of the stuff Schenker put out, for that matter. On a basic level his work is not that hard, but it's the subtle components that often makes a guitar player's writing special. Chapman never really possessed those attributes in his work.

Next is "Misdemeanor". UFO definitely starts sounding like Bon Jovi here. Mogg is not able to compete in this area and his style of conveying lyrics is quite awkward. Still, none of the songs are really awful. In fact, again, there's about four decent tracks that stand out. But what is most remarkable is the guitar playing that makes this average keyboard-driven pop metal album really attractive. I play guitar but I'm not a good player. Still, I can certainly pick out a guitar great when I hear one. Atomic Tommy M is the guitarist here. This guy is just as good as Schenker. Just fantastic. He doesn't have Schenker's ability to produce those subtle palm mutes and left hand vibrato, but he has some other tricks. Just listen to his hard fast picking and hammer-on/pull-offs. Also, his sense of melody is on par with Schenker, coupled with pinch harmonics and the use of the right hand on the tremolo bar, instead, to obtain a thinner vibrato. Reminds a person a lot of another great Japanese/American guitarist, Jake E. Lee anyone? Don't know where Atomic Tommy went to after his stint in UFO, but I would include him in the same league as Schenker, Rhoads, Malmsteen, Satriani etc. In fact, I read that UFO had considered using the great Yngwie Malmsteen on "Misdemeanor", but opted for Atomic Tommy M guy instead.

great cd.......2004-03-17

First of all i'm a die hard UFO fan,i own EVERY UFO album not just the michael shenker cd's...some of you fools reviewing the ufo albums without michael ..1) do the band a disservice 2)are smokin crack, and 3) are very inept in your musical judgement. While i'm a huge shenker fan he is far from the greatest guitar god,and i hate to break the news to ya's but for overall sound/effect and appeal paul chapmans just good as michael on many a song. That bein said MAKING CONTACT is one of the top five UFO albums MADE!!!! the top five UFO albums any fan should get are (PHENOMENON,LIGHTS OUT,NO PLACE TO RUN,MAKING CONTACT,and WALK ON WATER) along with the two live cd's BBC,and strangers in the night. Misdemeaner has some cool 80's guitar and is an attempt at mainstream(and they deserve to be mainstream) so who can blame them,and some of these songs are pretty cool...IF,I might add if you have an open mind (so that excludes most of you shenker diehards)............

"Making Contact", One of the Greatest Rock Records EVER.......2003-10-20

"Making Contact" is my favorite U.F.O. record, and I think it's one of the greatest Hard Rock records ever recorded. Michael Schenker isn't on it and maybe that's why it sounds so great. I.M.H.O., Michael Schenker's song writing isn't as good as his guitar playing. Yes, great guitar playing is, of course, an essential ingredient for Hard Rock music, BUT so is great SONG WRITING!! The songs on "Making Contact" are INCREDIBLE because of the teaming of Phil Mogg (Vocals) and Neil Carter (Keyboards, Rythem Guitar, Bass Guitar and Vocals) who are credited for 7 of the 10 songs on this album. Melodic, yet still Hard and Powerful, every song ROCKS! Back in 1983 I went to a Talas concert (bassist Billy Sheehan's group before he joined David Lee Roth) and they played "DIESEL IN THE DUST" live, it was killer! So if you're into VERY WELL WRITTEN Melodic Hard Rock Songs, you should make contact with U.F.O.'s "MAKING CONTACT".

WASTE OF TIME.......2001-08-21

UFO, is most cases, is a waste of time after Michael Schenker left. (it's similiar to Marillion without Fish; Black Sabbath without Ozzy; Iron Maiden without Bruce; Aerosmith without Joe Perry, etc,etc,etc). THese albuns here, unfortunately, are no exception to the rule. They are bad, with Mogg writing cheesy lyrics.

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