Breaking Loose

Artist: Helix
Label: Griffin Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 054421278128
EAN: 0054421278128
ASIN: B00000IPAW

Release Date: 1999-04-13

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Tracks:

I Could Never Leave
Don't Hide Your Love
Down In The City
Crazy Women
Billy Oxygen
Here I Go Again
You're A Woman Now
Wish I Could Be There

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Customer Reviews:

Helix - 'Breaking Loose' (Griffin).......2006-02-12

Originally released in 1979,as this was actually Helix's debut record.News to me,that it wasn't '83's 'No Rest For The Wicked',as I've always previously thought.Hadn't listened to that much Helix in the last couple years,as that's as long as I've been on the internet.'Breaking Loose' is a decent effort by the long-running Canadian heavy rockers.Certainly not as good as their later material,but 'okay'.Tunes I sort of dug were "I Could Never Leave",the power rocker "Down In The City" and "You're A Woman".Might appeal to fans of Dokken,early Rainbow,Roth-era Van Halen and Ratt.

Helix's First, Helix's Finest.......2005-07-06

Breaking Loose, Helix's debut album, stands today as one of the finest albums they've done, if not their very best.

In 1976, original band members Brian Vollmer and Keith Zurbrigg were joined by the Doerner brothers, Brent and Brian (lead guitar and drums respectively) and Paul Hackman (lead guitar) and toured extensively. This album collects many of the songs they wrote during those early days.

Kicking it off with the mid-tempo "I Could Never Leave", Helix right away hit you with one of their best songs. They keep building it until you get to "Billy Oxygen", one of their first hits, with lead vocals courtesy of Brent Doerner. "Billy Oxygen" is still a favourite to this day, a short fast rocker about a guy named Billy Oxygen, captain of a starship called an ES-335, looking to meet some aliens to party with.

There isn't a weak song on this album, but two other highlights are definitely "You're A Woman Now", featuring female backing vocals and a structure that builds into something dramatic, as if it's Helix's own "Stairway To Heaven". "Wish I Could Be There" brings back the outer space theme, and has acoustic and heavy sections, sort of Helix's foray into prog rock.

This lineup only lasted for one album, both Brian Doerner and Keith Zurbrigg departed shortly after this, leaving Vollmer the sole original member. Their legacy is this debut album, something for any band to be proud of.

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