Millbrook Usa [Import]

Golden Earring | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 23, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B00008OHSW
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #499,089 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hammer of Love

2. Albino Moon

3. Skyscraper Hell of a Town

4. A Sound I Never Heard

5. Better Off Dead

6. Colourblind

7. On a Night Like You

8. Kingfisher

9. Coming in Going Out

10. The Thief

11. Beautiful Blue

12. Love Is a Loser (When Lust Comes Around)

13. The Frontier Hotel

Editorial Reviews

2003 album for the Dutch rock icons. 13 tracks. Universal.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Say cheese, March 15, 2003

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Nicole Emery "purpletemple" (Brussels Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Millbrook Usa (Audio CD)

Excellent!This album-as the title says-has been recorded in the states and you can really feel it.There's that country/folk feel add to the rocking usual Golden sound.A mix of rocking folk songs and good old hard rock.Some riffs even bring us back to some of their early works(Buddy Joe, Back Home...).No filler tracks, excellent performance from A to Z.A little bit of slide guitar, the usual complaints of Kooymans as co-singer, a blasting rythm section, and last but not least no synths or horns.

Golden Earring has always produced excellent records but this one is really one of their best from the decade.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best studio album since Bloody Buccaneers!, November 10, 2004

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Jessie (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Millbrook Usa (Audio CD)

Millbrook USA was recorded in New York and released by the long running Dutch band in February of 2003 in Holland. After the dissapointing Paradise In Distress, Millbrook USA is a refreshing return to basics. Just good old classic rock, none of the horns and synths from PID, just the same kind of stuff that you'll find on their greeatest studio album, Bloody Buccaneers which was released in Holland in 1991. Like Bloody Buccaneers, Millbrook USA doesn't really have a bad track on it.

Better Off Dead, Skyscraper Hell Of A Town, and Hammer Of Love are three old hard school rock songs that have quickly become concert favorites among Dutch fans. The excellent opening riff to Skyscraper sounds like AC/DC, and the guitar playing is fantastic. Better Off Dead is a hard rocker about wasting your life being a hooker, and Hammer Of Love features some harmonica playing. I have to say that Hammer Of Love is a good song but is one of those that is better performed live.

The Thief is a slow acoustic, spanish flavored song that was born at the last second when the American fan Dan Lynch's (who was invited by the band to visit and film their studio videos) wife had her car stolen back in Masschusettes. Kingfisher is a threatening rocker about a guy who's drunk on Kingfisher and is hallucinating in the night. Albino Moon, the big hit from the album, is a very catchy, fast paced song with a western flair. The Last frontier Hotel was made in memory of The Who's John Entwistle. It's a beautiful song sung by lead guitarist George Kooymans and I especsially love the choir singing at the end.

All in all, Millbrook USA contains 14 tracks, many of which are now immortal Earring classics. It's truly the band's greatest studio album since 1991, and I highly recommend it alongside Bloody Buccaneers and the awesome live album Last Blast Of The Century. I certainly hope Golden Earring's next studio album is just as good as Millbrook USA.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best in years!, January 30, 2004

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R. Cusick "drumz2006" (Norwood, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Millbrook Usa (Audio CD)

For any skeptics: buy this cd! Don't listen to the bad reviews on this page. As long as you buy it knowing you're not getting Moontan or Switch you'll be satisfied with this album. The music has a nice edge to it, and Barry still sounds like he's 20 years old.