Rocket Ride [Import, Extra tracks]

Edguy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 31, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Extra tracks
• Label: TDNE
• ASIN: B000CS9ISU
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #585,458 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Rocket Ride is the follow-up to 2004's Hellfire Club and was recorded with producer Sascha Paeth (who also worked with the band on their Superheroes EP) and is said to feature the band's most "diverse" material to date. Includes the live bonus track 'Land Of The Miracle'. Nuclear Blast. 2006.

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like metal, take a ROCKET RIDE, January 31, 2006

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Roberto M. Barros (São Paulo, Brasil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rocket Ride (Audio CD)

What happens after a metal band delivers a perfect album? It depends. Iced Earth and Nevermore screwed badly on their following CDs. But like Iron Maiden with The Number and Piece of Mind, Edguy strikes a great album after the absolute Hellfire Club.

Rocket Ride is no Hellfire for sure, but it's an awesome, intriguing album that after a few listens will become one of your favourites. At first, what you will notice is the lack of agression, rawness, cohesion and overall quality that defined Hellfire, where everything seems to match perfectly.

But Rocket Ride has more melody, Edguy's unique humour, drama, variety and definitely risk. It definitely shows that Edguys in not your average metal band, because they can make something completely different from a perfect album, and still seems plausible and worth listening.

While some songs are among the best (if not the best) in Edguy's career, others will keep you thinking: what these ****ers had in mind? While I still believe that Hellfire is a better album, the fact that Edguy can leave the comfort zone and defy our senses make this album entirely worthwhile, because it's a**-kicking metal of best quality and notsomething you find on the usual Helloween-wannabe band of the week.

So let's go for the songs:
- SACRIFICE: non-traditional, 8-minute opener, takes you to a mix of opposite emotions you never felt in your life. Hope and despair, happiness and sadness, light and dark, challenge and defeat, aggression and subordination, it's all there. Listen to believe. One of the best ever.
- ROCKET RIDE: that silent, low guitar riff, Tobi's scream, a defying vocalization, some mid-song Megadeth-like guitar solos, a perfect bridge, all ending in a great Majestic chorus. Oh, how great this song will sound live.
- WASTED TIME: starts a mix of slow, sad keyboard and guitar parts, then BANG!!! Perfect riffs, melodies all around, almost spoken and retreating vocals, that suddenly becomes your boss kicking your a** and then an Edguy's signature chorus, but better. Marvellous, to say the least.
- MATRIX: The first weird one, crazy key intro, Matrix-movie-inspired-lyrics, a great chorus that makes you hum it (even if you don't want to).
- RETURN T0 THE TRIBE: a perfect Stratovarius-like song, very much like HC's We Don't Need a Hero. Cheesy-melodic-high-note chorus, wannabe-heavy guitar riffs and so on. But then there is Tobi's vocalized "guitar solo", which is absolutely hilarious (and a good solo BTW).
- THE ASYLUM: best song here. Starts slow, sad, a series of Ohohohohohohs and BANG!!! Tobi screams, heavy riffs, you suddenly start jumping in the middle of the street, raise your fists during the aggressive bridge, and raise your voice to sing the best song in Edguy's career (perhaps in recent metal history).
- SAVE ME: how a ballad should be. Cheesy, panties-wetting, but not too much. Tobi sounds a little bit like Kiss' Paul Stanly and some parts remind me of Savatage's When The Crowd Are Gone with Britney(!!!). I hope they make it acoustic.
- CATCH OF THE CENTURY: a great hard rocker about someone who thinks he's better than everyone else, the songs grows, leading you to a majestic all-singing chorus that screams the song title as a life statement. Tobi's delusional ending is absolutely hilarious - Ahhhhh! Helicopter...
- OUT OF VOGUE: the perfect show opener. Fast key and heavy guitar start, epic key parts for Tobi entering the stage, almost spoken initial words, singalong chorus, instrumental part for Tobi saying Good Evening, afterchorus slow part for clapping hands, a Maiden's Murray-Gers like guitar solo duel and ending abruptly to start the second song immediately.
- SUPERHEROES: same song as in the EP. Not my favourite, but that Batman-TV-series-theme-song-like bass intro and the melodramatic chorus are quite funny and catchy. I would replace it for any of the other EP songs.
- TRINIDAD: the unexpected mix of Edguy's humour and chorus, caribean music and some Rolling Stones. Weird, but it catches you when you don't expect. At least you can travel to Jamaica and not have to listen to Bob Marley.
- F*****G WITH FIRE: did you ever wonder if Edguy loves Motley Crue and other hair bands? Well, they do and here is the tribute. You can picture Edguy in a big, dark stage, all with heavy makeup, high heels, stomping their feet, playing bad boogies.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We Are All Superheros!, March 3, 2007

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Turisas "thylionheart" (PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rocket Ride (Audio CD)

I am a big Edguy fan. I love all of their albums and I was really excited when I heard that they had come out with a new cd. I looked around and read some rather mixed reviews of this album. So I was a little apprehensive when I bought it, then I listened to it...This album was quickly added to my list of favorite albums. One of the things some fans didn't like about it was that it drifted away from their power metal roots. In fact it did. This album is not power metal it is melodic metal. I don't think this change took anything away. I actually think that this is their best album. What I liked most about this album was that you could tell that the band enjoyed making every song, it was all so natural. There is an underlying humor throughout the whole thing, especially in Tobias' lyrics. So if you go into this expecting to hear another power metal album, then you will be disappointed. I recommend that you don't expect anything from this album but, a good time. Cheers to Edguy who continue to impress.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Here there be no dragons, January 27, 2006

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Félszemű Farkaskutya (Call me Wolfie) (Lexington, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rocket Ride (Audio CD)

Edguy's last full length, Hellfire Club, was absolutely a landmark and a breath of fresh air for metal. Rocket Ride continues in the same vein and is consistently good - if you heard the excellent Superheroes EP, you have a pretty good idea what to expect - and it's already gotten a lot of listens over the past month or so even though there isn't any one song on here that totally sends me through the roof like the very best ones on HC. I'd probably give this one 4.5 stars if I could.

Standout tracks for me are Wasting Time and Catch of the Century - two uptempo, shorter, and very catchy tunes, the sort of thing that Edguy is almost alone in doing these days - and The Asylum, a longer and more structurally varied track that's in the line of Mandrake and The Piper Never Dies. Superheroes is an instant classic with notably good lyrics. But while the diversity on the album is enormous (every track stands out, unlike so many totally homogenous power metal albums), the quality is also consistently high, and there isn't one throw-away track on the whole album, which is great. On the other hand, there isn't anything really fast and agressive, and I think the album would have been better for having something a little more violent for contrast.

With Rocket Ride, Edguy will continue to annoy folks who think that metal has to consist only of "epic" songs about dragons, kings, and steel; there's not a fantasy cliche in sight, and there's quite a lot of joking around. If Hellfire Club's "Lavatory Love Machine" wasn't your cup of tea, then Catch of the Century, Trinidad, and, ah, the Fire song aren't going to do it for you this time either, not to mention the cartoony cover art. But me, I'm glad there are some bands with this level of technical ability who are willing to just rock out and have fun - and when Tobi and the guys get out on tour for this one, don't miss it. You'll never have a better time at a show.