Knockin on Heaven's Door [Import]

Heaven | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sg
• ASIN: B000CCZH6I
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #223,538 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Show on the Road

2. Wind of an Eye

3. Knockin' on Heaven's Door

4. No Turning Back

5. Last Laugh

6. Burn

7. Keep the Fire

8. Without Your Love

9. No Where to Run

10. Rock On [#][*]

11. Hard Life [Live][*]

12. Where Angels Fear to Tread [Live][*]

13. Love Child [Live][*]

14. In the Beginning [Live][*]

15. Madness [Live][*]

16. Rock School [Live][*]

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Forgotten Hair Metal Classic!!, August 18, 2006

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Graboidz (Westminster, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Knockin on Heaven's Door (Audio CD)

I picked up a cassette of this album at a podunk West Virginia flea market back in the 80's. I played the tape so much it wore out!! I have been checking occasionally to see if it's ever been issued on CD, and found some copies available on Ebay, and even bid up to $40 bucks for a copy....which I still lost? Anyway, here it is, this is a CD I have waited over a decade for...and it was well worth the wait. This is just great hair metal, with catchy lyrics, excellent guitar work, and pounding rhythms that great hair metal is known for. Heaven actually sounds a good bit like Dokken, but don't take themselves too seriously. All of the songs have a pop-metal feel, that is perfect for cranking up on a hot summer day. "Show on the Road" kicks off the album, and is one of my favorite tracks. The chorus is catchy and you will be singing along after the first listen. This is true with "Wink of an Eye" as well. "Burn" and "Keep the Fire" are great hair-metal anthems, and will immediately put you in an 80's frame of mind...(Man I miss this kind of music!!!). Heaven's cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is really good, and I feel it's the best hair metal version of Dylan's classic (Heaven beat GnR's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" cover by a few years). Buy this CD for the original album, the extras contained here don't really add much to the disk. The unreleased track, and live stuff is decent musically, but there is like a "pop" or "crackling" noise overlaying most of the extra tracks. It's almost like the master recording came off of an old LP??!!! It's not bad on a car stereo, noticable, but not bad, but on an Ipod, it will drive you crazy! With that said, don't let the poorer quality extra stuff deter you from picking up this lost classic!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, May 1, 2009

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Fred Rayworth (Las Vegas, NV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Knockin on Heaven's Door (Audio CD)

I am basing this review off the original vinyl album, which I just burned to CD.

We bought Heaven based on the MTV clip of Knocking On Heaven's Door. We liked that song well enough, and the band didn't have the typical poufy hair of the average hair metal band. They seemed more working class, and this album fits that description well. I understand they started off sounding more like AC/DC than hair metal, and you can still hear those influences in each cut. I'd venture to say this is AC/DC hair metal. However, what keeps this from being strictly hair metal is not only the songs, but the lack of that hair metal snare drum sound. Since I was never all that crazy about hair metal, these guys mix it up enough to make things interesting.

There is not a bad cut on the album, and to tell the truth, I like their version of Knockin' On Heaven's Door much better than the GNR version, or for that matter, the Bob Dylan version. It is by far, the best interpretation of that song ever recorded, as far as I'm concerned. The rest of the songs are working class rock with maybe a touch of glam to them, but still not enough to detract from their roots.

Good stuff and highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Blast From My Past, March 18, 2007

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Brian Dennis - See all my reviews
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I originally bought this cassette back when cassettes where out numbering anything else.I have to say that their version of Knockin' On Heaven's Door is one of the best verison played my a metal band bar none (yes even better than G&R).The bonus tracks on the album are a wonderful surprise as well.I'm glad I finally have this one on compact disc and if you like really good 80's metal this album will not let you down.