Prisoner of the Night

Prisoner of the Night Artist: Golden Earring
Label: Red Bullet
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 8712944662139
ASIN: B00005UBMY


Release Date: 2001-11-01

Prisoner of the Night


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Tracks:

  1. Long Blond Animal
  2. No for an Answer
  3. My Town
  4. Prisoner of the Night
  5. I Don't Wanna Be Nobody Else
  6. Cut 'Em Down to Size
  7. Will & Mercy
  8. Come in Outerspace
  9. Going Crazy Again

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Album Description

Import remastered reissue of the long running Dutch rock act's 1980 album that's out-of-print domestically.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Power Pop Masterpiece.......2006-05-11

This is probably the best Golden Earring album of the 80's, as the last reviewer points out. But it is is likely to be a bit of a shock for those expecting more songs like Radar Love and Twilight Zone.

For this is from the period when Golden Earring started to tighten up, and to focus more on their great talent for tuneful, short, and witty pop music. Not that it doesn't rock - they still put most of the heavy metal poseurs in the shade in terms of energy and excitement. But on this (and on No Promises No Debts, NEWS and The Hole) they stopped writing semi-prog epics, and started penning some pretty gorgeous rock and roll pop songs. Not that anyone in America or England bought them, mind you, but that is their loss.

Think of the better Tom Petty or Kiss or AC-DC songs for comparison. Golden Earring may not be very hip, but twenty years on, this actually sounds better to me than The Clash or the Police any of the other tedious icons that dominate the current media representation of pop music at the time. This is a tight, fun album, not politically correct, but all the better for it.

And one day someone in the media will actually realise that Golden Earring's major peers for comparison should be the Rolling Stones. Both have been going for forty years or more, both are rooted in RnB, and both are peerless innovators in the field of rock and roll pop music. Give them a listen.

5 out of 5 stars

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