Odyssey

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Customer reviews

review by: metal mad date: 2008-12-16 rating:
Absolutely brilliant
This album is fantastic, I own all of Malmsteens albums and this one has a perfect sound of metal. The voice of Joe Lynn Turner is just amazing and completes Malmsteens awesome guitaring, what a pair of artists. For me this album is easy in the top 3 of its era.

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review by: date: 2007-09-25 rating:
Easily his best album a fine example of melodic rock
Fantastic songs, great guitar! Yngwie is a bit of a widdler and normally his solos all sound the same but on this album, for some reason, he pulled out all the stops and found MELODIES from somewhere! The songs are excellent, no filler whatsoever and the vocals superb. A once in a lifetime album, he's never come anywhere near repeating this gem.

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review by: retrospect date: 2007-01-03 rating:
Virtuoso Hair Metal
If you're able to pick your jaw up off the floor after hearing the solo to Hold On, congratulations, but be prepared to do it again and again and again. This really is a marvellous exhibition of rock guitar in the guise of a hair metal band. The songs' quality, inevitably, is affected by the over indulgence of Malmsteen: he completely dominates proceedings and wild, mind-bending, exuberant guitars blast out from all over the place here. It's more satisfying than an instrumental solo album because of the band context, and a couple of the songs did have mainstream hit potential (Hold On and Heaven Tonight), but Malmsteen is too much of a virtuoso to make this a mainstream hair metal album. If you're a big fan of that genre this won't bother you `cause you'll love the guitar work. Malmsteen does not however succeed in making this record a well balanced one.

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review by: date: 2003-07-15 rating:
The completion of a dream...
If you like guitar widdley and you can get past the cheese, and you were around in the 80's and have a forgiving heart, you might just about gleam a couple of minutes of pleasure from this album. Finally Yngwei completes his dream on this album I.e. to become Ritchie Blackmore, he's got the guitar he's got the Baroque style guitar lines and finally he managed to get hold of one of Ritchie's old singers/cast offs. Unfortunately, Yngwei forgot a couple of vital things; one the songs, two that Ritchie Blackmore is Ritchie Blackmore. This album is a soggy mess of 80's over production (where was the bass in the 80's?), terrible lyrics, and fast but predictable guitar. brYes I bought this album, yes I loved it in the 80's, yes I hide it when my mates come round.


review by: Dr Nick date: 2002-10-25 rating:
Commercial bliss.
This is Yngwie's most successful release stateside, just falling short of gold status. Joe Lynn Turner on vocals brought a commercial edge never experienced before or since, and also wrote most of the lyrics - maybe also the melodies depending on who you ask - adding to the "Rainbow" feel. He doesn't quite have the vocal range of previous vocalists, but his smooth, bluesy-edged delivery is unique, and personally I am a big fan of JLT anyway.pIn addition, Yngwie was recovering from a bad car crash, which left him unable to hold a plectrum. This makes the quality of the guitar playing even more astounding. pThere are still songs that are classic Yngwie, Rising Force, Faster..., Riot in the Dungeon for example. But Dreaming is one of the best rock ballads ever (the solo is outstanding), Heaven Tonight and Now Is The Time are pure pop, and Crystal Ball starts like a Toto song.pThis is not meant to be a criticism, however, the melodies are excellent and the choruses memorable; considerably more so that some of his more recent stuff.pShould have made Yngwie a superstar.

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