Save Yourself [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

McAuley-Schenker Group | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 24, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Japanese Import
• ASIN: B00004U8YF
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,822 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Save Yourself

2. Bad Boys

3. Anytime

4. Get Down to Bizness

5. Shadow of the Night

6. What We Need

7. I Am Your Radio

8. There Has to Be Another Way [Instrumental]

9. This Is My Heart

10. Destiny

11. Take Me Back [*]

12. Save Yourself [Single Edit]

13. Anytime [Single Edit]

14. Vicious

Editorial Reviews

Limited edition digitally remastered Japanese pressing of this 1984 live album housed in a miniature LP sleeve featuring three bonus tracks. Virgin. 2006. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The BEST of the MSG albums, October 19, 2005

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The_Grand_Onion - See all my reviews

This review is from: Save Yourself (Audio CD)

"Perfect Timing", the precursor to "Save Yourself", introduced everybody to the awesome vocals of Robin McAuley. Schenker himself must've known there was something special going on here in his band if he retitled the band "McAULEY-Schenker Group" rather than go with the usual "Michael Schenker Group" moniker. While "P.T." was a good album, "Save Yourself" proved to be Schenker's best commerical effort of his solo career. Don't get disillusioned by the word "commercial", though. It just illustrates that the songs were his best songwriting attempt, before or since, to capture the ear of the average rock fan in addition to the diehards who knew him since his UFO days or guitar fanatics. Lord knows everyone I lent my tape to back then, who'd never heard him, usually ended up asking me "Who IS this guy and where can I get some more of his stuff?"
The band came flying out of the gate from the get go with the neo-classical-ish "Save Yourself" and never let up. Unlike neo-classical "god" Yngwie Malmsteen, however, the songs were't limp excuses to allow Schenker to solo endlessly. They were ACTUALLY songs!!
The sound and songs, though, now seem very much from that late 80s metal period, but tracks such as "Anytime" and the sweet instrumental "There Has to Be Another Way", among others, are still enjoyable to listen to. The album description lists "Take Me Back" as a bonus track but as I recall from my cassette of the album, which I still have, "Take Me Back" was part of that medium's songlist too. "Vicious", on the other hand, is new to all the mediums (LP, Cassette, & CD). Such was the push to get MSG on the pubic consciousness that the band actually did a video for "Anytime", thus probably explaining the [Single Edit] version included on the CD.
Alas, while the band did exceedingly well with this album and was largely the same lineup from the "Perfect Timing" session, the follow-up CD entitled "MSG" would see the band whittled down on the album art to just McAuley & Schenker, with no signs of the rest of the band; unlike as was the case in "Perfect Timing" and "Save Yourself".
If you're looking for a good introduction to Michael Schenker without first trying UFO's "Strangers in the Night" live album (another EXCELLENT must-have) THIS is the place to start!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This album ROCKS!, November 2, 2004

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Steven Maes "Schenker Fan" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Save Yourself (Audio CD)

Some of the best Schenker melodies and solos ever. I wore this CD out in the 80's (is that possible?) and somehow lost it over several moves. Now I've rediscovered it again and am loving every minute of it. Every track sizzles. Strong hooks, great harmonic solos, and that trademark "solo fade out" that no one can match. McAuley's vocals are powerful and are just as strong as Schenker's fretwork. By far one of the best Schenker albums. All I can say is buy it, turn it up, and enjoy!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars AOR? Not Really..., September 20, 2000

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"carlittu" (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Save Yourself (Audio CD)

Some people ask me "What, you're listening to old Adult Oriented Rock (AOR)?" when I ask around about this rare masterpiece of McAuley Schenker Group.

I can't blame them since all the critic I've been reading so far about MSG (Michael Schenker Group), punctually stamp them with the AOR mark, which is true except in this case where the name of the band, MSG is just a coincidence.

In fact, if we go back in the band history, Michael Schenker needed to come up with something new after his first AOR albums and joined forces with Robin McAuley to give a new power and energy to the brand new MSG (McAuley-Shenker Group rather than Michael Schenker Group): same name, different band.

The resulting album "Save Yourself" is an excellent combination of kicking Power Hard Rock (tracks: Save Yourself, Bad Boys, Destiny), and most classic AOR (tracks: Anytime, Shadow of the Night, This is my Heart).

In short, a must for whoever is interested into the pioneers of Hard and Power Rock.