Loud & Clear

Artist: Autograph
Label: RCA
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 078635579628
EAN: 0078635579628
ASIN: B000008D1O

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

Loud and Clear
Dance All Night
She Never Looked That Good for Me
Bad Boy
Everytime I Dream
She's a Tease
Just Got Back from Heaven
Down 'N' Dirty
More Than a Million Times
When the Sun Goes Down

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Customer Reviews:

A rocking CD by a band never given its just dues.......2006-09-17

The synthesizer and drum heavy title track, "Loud and Clear" opens what is truely an overlooked jem recorded during a time as is quoted in the insert, "The 80s...glory days for some of us, back when rock celebrated the good things in life rather than dwelling on its pitfulls." How true, how true. Vocalist Steve Plunkett states his message "loud and clear," with the message to the masses, "if its too loud, your too old," noticably recorded mid-song.

A harder rocking song than can be found on other recordings, the title track explodes towards the listener with walls of vocals, a guitar riff laden chorus, synthersizer fills by Steven Isham, and an amazing guitar solo. Track 2, "Dance All Night," is reminscent of a song that could have been released by Motley Crue. With Steve Plunkett laying down some killer vocals "Dance All Night," sounds like it would have been amazing to hear live.

Track 5, "Everytime I Dream," give a pulsating rhthym that drives the fist pumping chorus forward with nasty growl vocals, heavy lead guitar solos, and drums that rock. A song to be heard again and again.

Keyboards open "Just Got Back From Heaven," which sadly is a little on the "pop rock" side. Although a good song, it tends to break up the hard rock momentem you hear up to that point. Especially when the previous track "She's a Tease," is a hard rocking tune which has the sounds of early Def Leppard and Van Halen. Listen careful for the sultry "get the hell out of here you........." trailing the final verse. Keyboardist Steve Isham quickly kicks it into gear again with the heavy, "Down 'n' Dirty."

To hear some of the best crystal clear harmonies recorded on this 1987 CD you need to hear the closing song, "When The Sun Goes Down." Then when the song is over, listen to it again, this time loud. Perfect harmonic vocals, each band member complimenting the song and each other. Excellent, excellent track.

Overall, a collection of songs recorded during the last days of Autograph. This should have been a follow up to "Sign in Please." If it had, these 5 boys from LA would have been a monstrous success.

Nice effort but..........2004-07-18

I bought this one blindly when it came out. I was really hoping to hear something that resembled the first album but was quickly disappointed to hardly hear any keyboards. The first side was just straight ahead boring guitar rock. Dance all was okay, but just didn't grab my attention. Teaser and Just got back from heaven are the best songs, the later I thought was the best. If you find this album get it, it's rare and does have some good songs. Maybe I'm being to rough, it would be hard to top Sign in Please. As with That's the stuff, get it but just don't take out a loan to get it.

Loud and Clear rocked like crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2003-09-03

This is a forgotten but great album!!!! If more people would have heard this, it would have been a big hit!!!! It is great!

As Good As The First!.......2003-05-04

I spent a long time finding this CD. I had it on tape and by accident found it in a bargin bin in 1990. I loved it and played it until it went no more. I do not know if I am alone but it is one of those rare CDS that should have sold more but got caught up in the shuffle of alternative madness of the early 90's. Only a couple of thousand sold in the original release.

It starts out with the Title(Loud) and with Steve Lynch's heavy riffs, does not look back. This is a song that you miss alot of great playing unless you hear it on CD. Dance All Night is on the vibe of Turn Up The Radio and "She Never Looked That Good" Finishes it off.

I could go in great detail of each song on this CD but I only have 1000 words. I have owned 3 copies of this (the last is a cd and will not wear out) and I am still not tired of listening to it.

I wish this band was still together. I know they have re-released alot of their stuff and I picked it up (on-line) Including Steve's solo LP.

If you are a FAN, you will love it. If you only heard Sign Up Please, then you need to listen more. You will like this as much.

Peace Out. And in the words of Forest "That's All I Have To Say About That!"

Broken, but still good. Yeah. still good........2003-04-13

This is a good disc, but some songs on here just seem like filler. For example, the title track "Loud And Clear" is all right but sort of sounds like someone threw together three chords, told singer Steve Plunkett (who can do much better vocally and lyrically) to scream a lot and said "That's good enough for those long hairs who buy these records". The second song "Dance All Night" is fun, but not exactly Dream Theater as it makes you want to do as it says and "dance all night" "She Never Looked That Good For Me" is a fun poppy rocker that has Plunkett musing on his former girl and her personality change. "Bad Boy" is fun but kind of cheesy and shows its age muscially. "Everytime I Dream" is a awesome and heartbreaking power ballad that seems to speak of unrequited love. "She's A Tease" puts me in mind of "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend Isn't Me" from "Sign In Please" and is slightly cheesy as it talks about a woman who is only after Plunkett's wallet and won't give him what he wants (i.e. sex). "Just Got Back From Heaven" is a keyboard-driven rocker in the musical vein of "Cloud 10" from "Sign In Please" but slightly more Bon Jovi-like in its style. "Down N' Dirty" is a sexy "raise-your-fist-and-yell" rocker in its style, attitude and chorus. "More Than A Million Times" is a fun keyboard-driven Dokken-style pop rocker about Plunkett's inability to forget an ex-lover. "When The Sun Goes Down" is another Dokken-style rocker that unlike "More Than A Million Times" doesn't hold up and just seems kind of contrived.

All in all, a good album. Not "Sign In Please" but almost as good!

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