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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Incredible, unknown melodic rock from early '90's, October 3, 2001
This album is a masterpiece, plain and simple. While grunge was taking over the world, this album was lost in the shuffle. What a shame, as this probably would have been huge if released 5 years earlier (it came out in 1992). With searing rockers like the very minor hit "Hot Cherrie" and "Rhythm In a Red Car" and beautiful ballads like "Can't Find My Way", this collection is a winner through and through. Many more rockers than ballads, by the way. Neal Schon indeed shreads on this album, as others have indicated. But Johnny Gioeli's vocals are an equally important contribution to this collection--why hasn't he shown up on other great rock albums? I can't say enough good about this collection for any fans of melodic hard rock. Strongly recommended purchase.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hardline : "Double Eclipse", January 31, 2005
***** - FIVE STARS
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What a wonderful find!!!
HARDLINE cranks out some of the best RNR I've heard in quite some time. I want to thank all of the previous reviewers too, I would not have purchaced this without reading all of them. The 5 star reviews were dead on too. This is a RNR masterpiece....
If you like your RNR with power, style, and flawless musicianship, this is certainly the purchace for you. I'm a big fan of all 80's RNR, from Aerosmith to ZZ Top, and this is certainly worthy of the high praise it recieves. I only wich I had bought in back in the 90's when it was released....
GREAT CD / EXCELLENT / A MUST BUY!!!
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
AOR Gem - look at all the 5-star reviews!!!, February 17, 2005
First things first, this album featured Neal Schon of Journey on guitar, and he was one of the main songwriters for the band as well. For those who like Journey, if you don't mind your music a little more aggressive (closer to Whitesnake in the heaviness category), you will be wise to dive right in, as will all fans of any good AOR/pop metal/hard rock. This album simply smokes, it is considered one of the all time classics of AOR by those in the know. Released in 1992, it didn't do much business, though I believe Schon's name helped the band get on bills with Van Halen and Extreme. The rest of the band is solid too, especially vocalist Johnny Gioeli (formerly of hair metal unknowns Brunette). I remember sitting around at age 9 writing letters to the band, and wearing out 2 copies of the cassette and 1 of the "Can't Find My Way" single before finally buying the CD. I guess its a bit of nostalgia creeping up on me because this was one of the first albums I ever owned, but I can say without fail that along with Harem Scarem's "Mood Swings", Double Eclipse is one of the best hidden gems of heavy melodic rock.
Best Tracks:
"Dr. Love" - Blistering guitar work, with a chorus that just explodes out of the slower verses.
"Everything" - Should have been all over radio, I guess it was just a little too late. A hit in any other year (this had the bad luck of being released in '92).
"Hot Cherie" - Cover of the Danny Spanos single, the original didn't do much business and neither did this one. But this cover is unbelievable.
"Can't Find My Way" - A slower ballad that might have been even better if it was a bit stripped back, this was the 1st single as far as I know.
"I'll Be There" - Similar to "Everything" for its hands-in-the-air qualities and monster chorus. Maybe the closest to the Journey anthem sound of anything here.
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