Diving For Pearls - Texas (2005) [FLAC] {Atenzia Records ATZ 02016}
Release Info:
RLSDATE: 2025/01/01 RTLDATE: 2005/XX/XX
GENRE: Rock SiZE: 420 MB
SOURCE: CD RUNTiME: 49:42
RiPPER: EAC 1.8 ENCODER: FLAC 1.5
DRiVE: ASUS SW-16D1X-U ORiGiN: Sweden
RELEASE: Atenzia Records ATZ 02016
MATRiX: Sony DADC IFPI 1551 A0100599898-0101 11 A 2
with log/cue/nfo/m3u/sfv/300 dpi scans.
GetReadyToRock (dot) com adds...
In a sense, there is a lot riding on this release, the first from Diving
For Pearls since 1989's eponymous album. As we have reported in GRTR!
that album has become something of a cult amongst the cognoscente: full
of uplifting melodic rock with a smattering of killer tracks.
With only vocalist Danny Malone and drummer/producer David Prater
remaining from the original line-up there has been an attempt to
'update' the DFP sound.
It has to be said, though, that 'Texas' reveals nothing that you
couldn't hear on countless other melodic rock albums either now or in
the 1990's.
I gather that the band have tried to remain faithful to the 1989
classic, but have been open to modern touches. This isn't that obvious.
Overall, you can't help feeling that they should have stuck with the
more upbeat and urgent stuff, there's simply not enough of it. It's a
case of come back Yul Vasquez, all is forgiven.
With the lack-lustre opener 'Thinking About Things That Will Never Be'
out of the way, 'I Thought About You' has that necessary urgency and a
neat time change and is one of the standouts.
The band do power ballad very well, and 'I Will Get Over You' is
excellent. 'Lonely Is The Dark' rocks nicely, the sort of track that
Foreigner should have performed more often.
But everything else could have appeared on a Bon Jovi album c.1986. More
worringly perhaps, there are echoes of the secret musical roots of the
band: Badfinger c.1974 come to mind, themselves heavily influenced by
the heavier beat music of the Fab Four. If you want confirmation of
this, check out 'The Sweetest Sin', 'Stop The World From Turning', and
the main verse of 'Heaven Only Knows'. Is this 'Norwegian Wood' or what?
Of course, there's nothing wrong at all with Badfinger, I just wasn't
expecting their presence on a DFP album.
This is one of those albums that I had high hopes for. It doesn't
totally disappoint but - sadly - it's more likely to make you reach (or
try and reach) for the melodic rocker's holy grail, that classic debut
album.
Ripper's Notes:
Diving For Pearls' self titled debut is a near perfect slice of '80 pop-
metal perfection, and easily stands along side the also exceptional
debut of Blue Tears that followed a year later. It was an album that
Bon Jovi wished they could have made.
It took 17 years for this follow up to be released, and, oddly, only in
Sweden, and by then the magic was gone. There isn't anything BAD on
this album, but it certainly doesn't have whatever made the debut so
special. Bottom line, "the sweetest sin" of this album is, when it's
over, it doesn't leave you wanting more.
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