Four Winds

Artist: Tangier
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075679125125
EAN: 0075679125125
ASIN: B000008LE3

Release Date: 1989-06-19

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80's Rock!!
PHILLY ROCKS!

Tracks:

Ripcord
Mississippi
On the Line
In Time
Four Winds
Fever for Gold
Southbound Train
Sweet Surrender
Bad Girl
Good Lovin'

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Customer Reviews:

Heavy Metal Gem Overlooked.......2005-12-29

Tangier's "Four Winds" was released in 1989. When you think of that year, you think of the radio-frenzy hair-bands like Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses, Poison, Bon Jovi, just to name a few. But your average heavy metal listener will not think of Tangier. This is a totally awesome album and not one bad song on this release. "Ripcord" is just the perfect opening track, especially the way the song begins in a unique sort of way with the bass for eight seconds and the whole song comes together afterwards. "Southbound Train" is a standout and should have gotten air play it deserved in the late 80's and early 90's. Other great tracks include "Mississippi" (a bluesy hard song), "Sweet Surrender" "Bad Girl" and Good Lovin'." The album track, "Four Winds" is probably Tangier's masterpiece. It starts out slow and bluesy for the first verse and the chorus. After the chorus, then the song picks up in a faster tempo. It's such a brilliant song. If you like the sounds of Metallica and Pantera, then you will like Tangier.

SOLID ALBUM.......2005-12-12

this was a very good album. their style can best be described as "Southern Hard Rock" . the sound is in the style of alot of the 70's bands like bad co. or skynrd. with a later 80's kick to it. its too bad this style didnt really jive with the Hair slease LA sound of the day and it got basically ingnored by the masses. If you like The 4 horsemen or Black Crowes, this album is perfect for you.

Almost 5 stars.......2003-02-26

"Four winds" by Tangier is a great album, featuring melodic straight forward hard rock with no frills. The style can be described as a kind of a southern approach with good vocals from Bill Mattson, who sadly quit the band after this debut. Tangier brings on a musical feel connected to the 1970's hard rock scene, but since the record was released in 1989 I guess it got lost, competing with the whole hair metal scene. That's too bad because Tangier's "Four winds" is absolutely a better choice than any album by bands like Poison, Cinderella, Tesla etc.

I would say that all of the songs are very good indeed and this forgotten and overlooked album will certainly satisfy any rock fan of early Whitesnake, Bad Company and others in that genre. Maybe this is a 5 star effort, at least it is a very strong and powerful album featuring all the ingrediences we love about hard rock music. Highly recommanded!

The follow up album "Stranded" is not by far as good, and the band did the only decent thing - called it a day...

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