┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │■ ■│ │ .-/ .-. │ │ _.-~ / ___ | ~-._ │ │ \:/ -~| / __/| .\:/ │ │ / || (:/:| \ │ │ / /\/| |:\___\| |\ \ │ │ / /:::|.::/:::/:.|:\ \ │ │ / /:::/ \\/:::/::/:::\ \ │ │ / .::\ \-~~~~-/\/:.. \ │ │ /..:::::\ /:::::..\ │ │ /::::::::- -::::::::\ │ │ \:::::-~ ~-:::::/ │ │ \:-~ ~-:/ │ │ METAL CLASSICS ARCHIVE │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ P R E S E N T S │ │ │ │ │ │ + Arcade - Calm Before The Storm + │ │ │ │ │ │╔═════════════════════╗ │ │║ Release Information ║ │ │╠═════════════════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════╗ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Release Date.Feb-06-2006 Encoder......LAME 3.90 Modified ║ │ │║ Genre........Hard Rock Graber.......EAC ║ │ │║ Year.........1993 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Ripper.......rainbow Songs........12 ║ │ │║ Covers.......Yes Url... www.stephen-pearcy.com ║ │ │║ ║ │ │╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │╔═════════════════════╗ │ │║ Release Notes ║ │ │╠═════════════════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════╗ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Artist : Arcade Rating : You Decide! ║ │ │║ Album : Calm Before The Storm Label : Epic ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │╠════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Description : ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ I wanted to take some time and listen to it a ║ │ │║ few times before writing a review. I wanted to ║ │ │║ be sure to get it right. I purchased this cd ║ │ │║ expecting to be mildly diappointed by it. I was ║ │ │║ very wrong. Although I found myself comparing it ║ │ │║ to Ratt because of the voice of Stephen Pearcy, ║ │ │║ I had to point out some differences. Any Ratt ║ │ │║ fan would love to have this one. "Nothin' to ║ │ │║ Lose" sounds like a typical Ratt song to me and ║ │ │║ I love it! However another favorite of mine is ║ │ │║ "Cry no more", a ballad!! "Mother Blues" is a ║ │ │║ acoustic and a little bluesy which is obvious ║ │ │║ from the title. In my opinion every song on this ║ │ │║ cd is well worth the listening. Hats off to a ║ │ │║ group who can make entertaining music without ║ │ │║ the use of four letter words. It's called ║ │ │║ talent. I can't stop listening to it. I'd highly ║ │ │║ reccomend this for any collection, especially ║ │ │║ for Ratt fans!! ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ I've recently given this album another try, just ║ │ │║ to make sure that 12 years after its release it ║ │ │║ still sucked. Just to confirm, it does indeed ║ │ │║ suck, majorly. It's comparable to dental ║ │ │║ surgery, visits from your mother-in-law and hard ║ │ │║ punches to your testicles. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ If you liked Ratt (which I most certainly do) ║ │ │║ you won't like Arcade. "Why?!?!?" you ask? ║ │ │║ 1. The music is like Ratt, only with the same ║ │ │║ singer and worse musicians, and the lead singer ║ │ │║ seems to be recovering from a massive hangover ║ │ │║ the afternoon they recorded the album ║ │ │║ 2. The songs must have all been leftover from ║ │ │║ 80s Ratt albums that "didn't make it" - and now ║ │ │║ we know why they didn't... ║ │ │║ 3. Sounds like Stephen Pearcy was at about 12 ║ │ │║ packs of cigarettes a day when they recorded ║ │ │║ this piece of crap ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Overall Rating = 1 undeserved star. I would have ║ │ │║ given it a "zero" star rating, but that is not ║ │ │║ allowed on this site. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ If you are thinking of purchasing this album - ║ │ │║ STOP RIGHT THERE! Save your money and go have ║ │ │║ yourself checked out for a brain misfunction. If ║ │ │║ you really want to hear an over-the-hill rocker ║ │ │║ singing songs about "all the chicks that got ║ │ │║ away" and "my hair stands up without spray", ║ │ │║ head to your local county fair - I'm sure there ║ │ │║ you'll find "Arcade" among the carnies and cow ║ │ │║ poop. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ I'm sure there are plenty of you out there that ║ │ │║ fully supported Ratt in their heyday,like ║ │ │║ myself.Vocalist Stephen Pearcy formed this 'new' ║ │ │║ band Arcade(was originally supposed to be ║ │ │║ Taboo).Arcade has twelve rockin' tracks that ║ │ │║ shouldn't let too many down.Liked about every ║ │ │║ tune here,including the slamming "Dancing With ║ │ │║ The Angels",the disc's single "Nothing To ║ │ │║ Lose","Screaming SOS","Messed Up World" and ║ │ │║ "Living Dangerously".Great material here.You ║ │ │║ know,if Ratt had made a record like this rather ║ │ │║ than their cop out of an lp 'Detonator',the ║ │ │║ group just might've lasted longer.Oh,well. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ This is an excellent hard rock album in the vein ║ │ │║ of Aerosmith/Zeppelin made at a time(1993) when ║ │ │║ a non grunge rocker couldn't get a return phone ║ │ │║ call. Starts off strong with Dancin With The ║ │ │║ Angels which has a nasty groove not dissimilar ║ │ │║ to Joe Perry's Let The Music Do the Talkin. ║ │ │║ Screamin SOS and Livin' Dangerously rock with a ║ │ │║ vengeance. There's even some substance in the ║ │ │║ lyrics on songs like Messed Up World and Mother ║ │ │║ Blues. If you wanna hear hard rock made without ║ │ │║ samples or studio trickery by rock vets, pick ║ │ │║ this one up. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Stephen Pearcy is hands down the the best sleaze ║ │ │║ rock singer/ showman of that wonderful 80's era ║ │ │║ as well as today. Listen to this album and in ║ │ │║ the next second or 2, you'll be in your car with ║ │ │║ every window down and your stereo cranked up to ║ │ │║ the max, reliving the period of time, when your ║ │ │║ fist did the talking and "Let there be Metal" ║ │ │║ were the words you lived by! Pearcy, plain & ║ │ │║ simple rocks!!!! And we're talking "METAL" my ║ │ │║ friends! This album does righteous justice to ║ │ │║ the moniker! "All shook up" should be played ║ │ │║ over and over again in the workplace, it rocks ║ │ │║ so hard! The wonderfully delightful SEXY ║ │ │║ egotist, who has been likend to that that of a ║ │ │║ slick black cat, truly deserves the iconic title ║ │ │║ of "Scream King" -- move over Vince Neil & Axl ║ │ │║ Rose, let Stephen Pearcy show you how it's done! ║ │ │║ Incredible! ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Back in the early 90's, Stephen Pearcy left RATT ║ │ │║ to form a new band (with Cinderella drummer Fred ║ │ │║ Coury) ARCADE, in the 2 albums released by ║ │ │║ Arcade(93' s/t and 94'"A2") it was obviouse that ║ │ │║ this was an incredable band that should have ║ │ │║ been just as big as RATT ever was. Unfortunatly ║ │ │║ times and musical tastes where changing and ║ │ │║ ARCADE never got the push they deserved. ║ │ │║ Now with the re-release of their 93' self titled ║ │ │║ album comes the chance to re-discover a Band ║ │ │║ that had it all but just never exploded on the ║ │ │║ scean as they should have. ║ │ │║ From the opening of "Dancin'with the Angels" to ║ │ │║ the final song, a deep Pearcy epic titled ║ │ │║ "Mother of Blues", the band takes you on a ║ │ │║ Rock'n'Roll rollercoaster of everything that ║ │ │║ ruled about rock in the 80's early 90's. Afew ║ │ │║ other standout tracks include the semi hit ║ │ │║ "Nothin'to Lose", "Messed up World", "All Shook ║ │ │║ Up", and "Calm Before the Storm" (Which was ║ │ │║ originally going to be the title of the Album). ║ │ │║ Great songwriting, great production, great ║ │ │║ attitude, after listening to this album you'll ║ │ │║ wish this band was still around. I also highly ║ │ │║ recommend their 2nd disc, the much more ║ │ │║ aggressive "A2". ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │╔═════════════════════╗ │ │║ Release Tracklist ║ │ │╚═════════════════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════ │ │ │ │ 01 - Dancin' With The Angels [04:09] │ │ 02 - Nothin' To Lose [04:38] │ │ 03 - Calm Before The Storm [04:08] │ │ 04 - Cry No More [05:35] │ │ 05 - Screamin' S.O.S. [03:37] │ │ 06 - Never Goin' Home [03:41] │ │ 07 - Messed Up World [03:56] │ │ 08 - All Shook Up [03:38] │ │ 09 - So Good...So Bad... [04:39] │ │ 10 - Livin' Dangerously [03:13] │ │ 11 - Sons And Daughters [01:53] │ │ 12 - Mother Blues [03:11] │ │ │ │ Total Length : [46:18 minn │ │ │ │ │ │ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ╔═════════════════════╗ │ │ ║ Greetings To: ║ │ │ ╚═════════════════════╝ │ │ │ │ Too all people who contributes to make this │ │ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │■ ■│ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘