Trilogy

Yngwie Malmsteen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fontana Polydor
• ASIN: B000001FLA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,267 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Editorial Reviews

Japanese only remastered SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing packaged in a paper sleeve. Universal. 2008. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The last album of Yngwie being true to himself, October 30, 2003

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e5150 (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trilogy (Audio CD)

After this, it was all downhill. His albums began to get a bit "samey", containing songs of dubiously similar, commercial style, with the occasional left-field entry of a real metal epic. This album shows him wanting to try the radio-friendly thing with "You Don't Remember", which is probably his least bubble-gum flavored pop song, but overall it isn't very commercial. And it was the last one to be without one of his ultra-cheesey ballads, which gains MAJOR points for TRILOGY.
Nope, there are definitely NO songs on TRILOGY that your girlfriend would like, which is how it should be. Well, the aforementioned "You Don't Remember" might actually be a chick song, but besides that one it's all dungeons and dragons and shreddery.
Yngwie will never be called a poet, but he at least covers some fairly interesting topics with "Queen in Love" and "Dark Ages". "Liar" sees him seething at someone who backstabbed him, whilst "Crying" is a nice little acoustic solo vehicle.
Undoubtedly the final tune is the piece-de-resistance. "Trilogy Suite" is in my useless opinion his best, most interesting instrumental. It wears many more faces than the throw-away 3 minute shred-fests he tacked onto his subsequent albums, and never loses your attention. The blistering acoustic break towards the end is To DIE FOR.
Yngwie also plays bass on the album and does an amazing job at that, especially in the Trilogy Suite where he routinely does his Bach schtick on the four-string.
Apparently the singer Mark Boals has found some disfavor amongst Yngwie fans, which I can't really relate to. I find him much more interesting than any of the other singers Yngwie's had, especially the "middle-namers": Jeff Scott Soto and Joe Lynn Tuneless, rock star extraordinaire.
Yngwie's first 3 albums show him doing it his way. After that, it was Yngwie doing it the financial way. Turns out it never really paid off--he was never a radio staple--and part of me is glad that it backfired on him. Serves him right for abandoning his integrity to greed.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's the cheese..., December 27, 2001

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Nunya Business (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trilogy (Audio CD)

Everyone else has addressed the marvellous instrumental aspect of this album, so I'm not even going to bother with that. But here's my assessment of the rest - this album is full of cheese!
Of course, with song titles like "You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget" and "Queen In Love", how could it not be? You have to love it, though. This much cheese cannot be ignored.
Once you hear this album, you will not be able to take it out of your CD player for approximately 3.72 weeks. Make sure you have a nearby supply of food and water before listening. And don't worry; if your friends ask why you like it so much, you can always point to Yngwie's always superlative guitar work and the other excellent instrumentation, but you'll know the truth: it's the cheese.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must Have, June 20, 2000

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Methuselah (Philly, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trilogy (Audio CD)

I have to agree with a previous reviewer in that this album is what all other Yngwie releases are compared against. This CD unofficially introduced the world of lightning fast, neoclassical guitar playing even though Rising Force and Marching Out were released earlier. The reason is the songs. "You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget", "Queen In Love", "Fire", and "Magic Mirror" boast the best metal guitar solos in recorded music history. Yngwie has never matched the emotion and creativity of the instrumentals "Crying" and "Trilogy Suite". There is one major clunker in "Fury" and to me, "Liar" is Yngwie's most overrated song. Mark Boals is an average singer - high, shrill voice, very little range of emotions. However, these do not take away from what is one of the defining CD's in metal history. CLASSIC.