Europe

Artist: Europe
Label: Sony/Columbia
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5099747778629
ASIN: B000026ESX

Release Date: 2005-10-27

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Tracks:

In the Future to Come
Farewell
Seven Doors Hotel
King Will Return
Boyazont
Children of This Time
Words of Wisdom
Paradize Bay
Memories

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Customer Reviews:

Rockin Swedish Metal.......2007-01-22

This debut album by popular Swedish hair metal band Europe is awesome. Overall, it's about on the level of quality of most of their other albums, but the sound is more raw and punkish aggressive. The 1980s was supposed to be the future. When they were predicting the future, it was pretty similar to the 1980s. However, public school and Sunday school dropped the ball on the futuristic age as they they were stubbonly acting like it was still the 1800s or colonial days. My favorite track is the opener in the future to come. I was listening to this while playing Burnout my Xbox 360 (360 bit- virtual reality machine) and it still held up after all these years. If you still like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden bhut have a sense of humor who will also like Europe. This is NOT the NWOBHM New wave of British heavy metal! They are not remotely British; they're Swedish! Again, the lyrics are all in Swedish, made in Sweden recorded in Sweden but it's still similar to English so like the unviersal language most people now spek they don't speak in their native tiongue any more so it's easier to understand. I'm glad I opened my mind to music after a black metal rush and tencho nerd phase. I listen to a variety now, everything from Deicide to Lionel Richie.

Classic Debut.......2006-08-23

Man, I really love the first two Europe albums. OK, I love all of Europe's albums, but Wings of Tomorrow and the 1983 self-titled debut hold a special place in my heart. Like most people, I discovered Europe when the Final Countdown hit the airwaves, but it was the budget-priced cassettes of the band's first albums that I played to the breaking point.

Far from the super-polished AOR sound of the Final Countdown and Out of This World, Europe's self-titled debut album sounds more like a regionally displaced NWOBHM band than anything else. The band combined the charging riffs and vaguely sci-fi/fantasy lyrics of British power metal with elements of progressive rock and added a wild energy that only a band this young can provide. There are traces of the superstar melodic rock powerhouse the band would become, but at the time Europe was definitely a metal band. Songs like Seven Doors Hotel and Children of This Time wouldn't have been out of place on a Demon or Diamond Head album, and the rest of the album maintains that metal feel.

Some of these songs may seem a bit cheesy in retrospect, but when you consider the language barrier and the band's obvious passion for the material, you have to give them credit. The only real drawback is the album's poor production quality. Put this one in the CD changer with some more recent discs and you'll quickly find that you need almost double the volume to hear it.

I wouldn't call Europe a must-have album, as I'm sure there are some casual fans who will be content with the Final Countdown or one of the band's many greatest hits compilations. It is however a must-have for all serious Europe fans, as well as being one of the decade's more underrated metal albums.

Note to whoever owns the rights to the early Europe material: Can we PLEASE get some remastered versions on the market? These classic albums are practically screaming to be cleaned up with today's digital technology. Bonus tracks are optional, but digitally remastered versions of Europe and Wings of Tomorrow are mandatory.

Yes this is the same Europe that wrote the notorious 'F' song!.......2006-01-17

The review by Darth Kommisar pretty much sums up this release. Anybody who actually likes 80's hard rock should own this album as at this point Europe were really in their own little world. They may have loved Thin Lizzy but this release has a teutonic grandiose sound that Lizzy just wouldn't of done.

Memories is right up there as one of the tremendous rock songs about lost opportunities. Seriously, anyone over the age of 14 or so should be able to relate to this song as it's so universal. Paradize Bay - the music and the lyrics sound like they should be two different songs. Whatever Joey Tempest was drinking at the time he wrote these lyrics I want some, it should NOT work but it does.

Of course this is a debut effort and thre are some creaky bits. But I can forgive it all as a guilty pleasure, and John Norums Boyazont is not the low point that many instrumentals are. In fact to me it's one of the highlights of the album. And also shows why he won best guitarist in the competition that saw Europe get the funding for this, their debut effort.

Maybe 3.5 stars.......2005-08-30

The production, the composition, the lyrics. Everything is better on Wings of tomorrow. I would have given even a 4 stars but Wings is so much better.

A must for a fan. I like it very much in fact, but I got the feeling I will listen to Wings much mor often.

4.5 stars - An amazing debut album.......2005-03-28

Europe (1983.) Europe's first album.

In 1983, the little-known Swedish metal band Europe released their self-titled debut album. The band would make it big later in the decade with their multi-platinum effort, The Final Countdown, which featured a cool synth-heavy glam metal sound no other band sounded anything like. But what people don't know is that before their transformation into a glam metal band, Europe was more of a straight-up hard rock/heavy metal band. These early stylings were exhibited on the band's debut and its follow-up, 1984's Wings Of Tomorrow. Is the band's early sound better or worse than the one that immortalized them? Read on for my review of Europe's 1983 debut.

This album blew me away. I'm a fan of practically everything Europe did in the eighties, including their most popular material from the Final Countdown era, but I honestly think this earlier sound the group had was a better one. This doesn't even sound like the same band! Rather than using horn-like synthesizers with a melodic metal sound like they would do in that popular age, the early Europe features very minimal keyboards and synths, and for the most part, just features a straight-up, hard and heavy guitar sound. It's heavier than, say, Poison, but nowhere near as heavy as, say, Metallica. The sound featured here is in, many ways, similar to the one used by Dokken in their classic era. There are some slower, more melodic tracks on the album, but they are minimal. The vast majority of Europe's debut is devoted to serving up tracks that rock hard. Europe is a band that is severely underrated (even their so-called popular stuff never really gets the proper credit), and their most underrated age was the one chronicled on their first two albums. If you like classic eighties metal that rocks hard, the first two Europe albums will be right up your alley. Anyone who refers to the band as a soft metal group, pop metal group, or glam metal group has obviously never listened to any of the band's pre-Final Countdown material.

Sadly, every Europe album is long since out of print in America, with the exception of The Final Countdown and hits compilations. The band's catalogue has been reissued and remastered abroad, but sadly, their other work has yet to get the reissue treatment here in the United States. This is a shame, because the band's lesser-known earlier material is their best, and any classic metal fan who is being deprived of it doesn't know what he or she is missing.

Europe's debut is a masterpiece. I've heard some awesome hard rock albums before, and this one certainly ranks up there with the best of them. The only reason I didn't give the album a perfect five stars is because the follow-up to this album, Wings Of Tomorrow, features a similar sound but is ultimately better in every way. Still, this album more than holds its own against practically everything out there. No fan of classic metal should overlook Europe's work before they became a glam band. Although their Final Countdown-era stuff is good, this is the REAL Europe - the one that should have been immortalized. Hunt this album down if you like classic metal, and while you're at it, get the follow-up, 1984's Wings Of Tomorrow. No classic metal collection is complete without pre-glam Europe.

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