Alias

Alias | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 30, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000008CRT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,349 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

this alias album has waiting for love, haunted heart, the power, heros and many more

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential AOR, April 22, 2003

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Fredrik Nilsson (Umeå, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alias (Audio CD)

In 1990 members of the bands Heart and Sheriff formed Alias and released this masterpiece. The music is impeckable, and the singer Freddy Curci has a perfect melodic voice. The ballad "More Than Words Can Say" was the hit, but there ain't a weak song on the album. If you like the members ex-bands, and other Canadian AOR like Honeymoon Suite and Harem Scarem, then this album is a must have. Highly recommended!!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 2 parts Sheriff, 3 parts Heart, 1 part 80's music in 90's, June 16, 2005

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Daniel J. Hamlow (Narita, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alias (Audio CD)

After the reissue of their old hit, "When I'm With You," which peaked at #61 in 1983, but then surprisingly topped the charts in 1988, ex-Sheriff vocalist Freddy Curci and guitarist Steve DeMarchi formed a new group, Alias, soon after. Joining them were guitarist Roger Fisher, drummer Michael Derosier, and bassist Steve Fossen, who if you know your music history, used to be with Heart during the 70's.

Upon hearing "Waiting For Love," I wondered if this was something I missed back in the 80's, because this song has all the hallmarks of an 80's rock/pop song produced by Ron Nevison, Mike Chapman, or Desmond Child, soaring synths, harmony vocals, and a pulsing backbeat reminding me of the Police's "Every Breath You Take," Heart's "Nothin' At All," or John Waite's "Missing You." Small wonder I took to it. Despite this late entry in the 80's-style synth-rock, it's #13 peak in 1991 isn't bad, considering the undercurrents of grunge burbling.

I didn't listen much to the radio in summer 1990, hence I missed hearing their first single, the #2 hit "I Need You Now," which is a classic power ballad with squealing and grinding guitars, soaring and long drawn out vocals, and a REO Speedwagon/Air Supply-type sound. A worthy addition to the power ballad pantheon. A less bombastic is "Heroes," a more sobering number of a man remembering his lost love, now in heaven. On hearing the chorus, I detect the marked contrast between the hero one encounters in Greek mythology whom Zeus placed in the stars and "the hero in all our hearts," i.e. the things we are capable of here on Earth.

However, the rest of the album fits in my decade, of choice hard-rockers, such as Scorpion-type rockers like "Say What I Wanna Say," and the rousing Boston meets Bon Jovi "Haunted Heart." Ditto for the accusatory love betrayal of "After All The Love Is Gone," with the bridge confirming one standing one's ground for good: "I'm gonna close that door, forget you're alive/Don't come around no more. I'm walking away."

Others such as "The Power," where the group is roused to the "power of ten" onstage, could stand side to side with corporate-type rock a la Foreigner and Boston.

I wonder if they would've lasted more than this album had they begun earlier. They only made this one album and that was that, and had they done more of the same, it would only have been overlooked by Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and the like. If I get anything out of this album, it's this: remember 80's rock, because it'll never return. It's had its run, and now it's time for goodbye. So glad Alias managed to put this album out so I can remember.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars El sonido de los 80 en sus últimos momentos de éxito!, May 15, 2010

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Pedro Jimenez (mexico city) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alias (Audio CD)

"Alias" el álbum, surge en 1990, derivado del último impulso del sonido ochentero, grabado por músicos de los grupos "Heart" y "Sheriff", siendo parte de este último sus principales componentes, Steve DeMarchi (guitarra) y Freddy Curci, dueño de una voz única y con un gran registro, y él es, quien realmente le da vida a estas composiciones, que se inclinan más al lado melódico del Hard Rock (mejor conocido como AOR), dando la fuerza de interpretación que llegó a tener un gran éxito en la canción "More than Words Can Say", reminiscencia del "When I'm With You" de su anterior grupo, al mismo tiempo, que compositores externos como Jeff Paris, les entrega un par de temas importantes como "Waiting For Love" y "After All the Love is Gone" (a mi parecer 2 de los mejores de todo el disco) y canciones propias como "Say What I Want to Say", "True Emotion", "One More Chance" brindan la oportunidad de escuchar la estupenda voz de este cantante.
En general, un trabajo que deja la inquietud de que este grupo pudo haber sido más exitoso, si hubiera llegado a la escena 2 ó 3 años antes, dando así la posibilidad de editar en su momento su continuación "Never Say Never", que llega hace unos meses, y a más de 15 años después de su grabación original a ver la luz.
En mi opinión, un disco que debe llenar las expectativas de todo aquel que está inmerso en el ahora llamado "Hair Metal", y que poco a poco en cada escucha, va creciendo la calidad de estas interpretaciones y composiciones.
Buena música para recordar tiempos en que la calidad y variedad de las grabaciones estaban a la orden del día.