Artist: EUROPE
Album: PRISONERS IN PARADISE COLLECTORS DELUXE EDIT. (CD)

Release date: 29.11.2024
EAN/UPS: 5056321670397
Media type: CD

Special Collector's Deluxe Edition / Remastered in 24-bit digital technology / Produced by Beau Hill / 16-page color booklet with essay and new interviews, renewed artwork.

There are few rock bands that have penetrated the mass consciousness as quickly as Europe, the Swedish group that made a name for themselves worldwide in the mid-1980s. No one seemed immune to the quirky charm of the worldwide hit "The Final Countdown", which has become something of a hard rock standard.

For Europe, the success was life-changing, but it didn't dampen their continued desire to create and impress. Prisoners In Paradise" was their fifth album, recorded in Los Angeles in 1991 with Beau Hill (RATT, Winger, Warrant), the man of the hour. Hill and the band presented their sound in a slightly heavier form, suggesting that they were still looking to move away from their poppier direction and towards a more early seventies style of hard rock. That the band could write great songs was never in doubt, but this time they were encouraged to co-write with some proven songwriters like Eric Martin (Mr. Big), Nick Graham (Cheap Trick) and Jim Valance (Bryan Adams).

Despite the somewhat slower commercial response, due in large part to the poor timing of the release during the rise of grunge, the album contains excellent tracks, including the title track, Bad Blood, Seventh Sign and Little Bit Of Lovin, which made it clear that the band had a vision, that Europe's real musical ambitions lay in the realm of hard rock. This was also evident in the revival of their career in the 21st century.

CD:

1 All or Nothing
2 Halfway to Heaven
3 I'Ll Cry for You
4 Little Bit of Lovin'
5 Talk to Me
6 Seventh Sign
7 Prisoners in Paradise
8 Bad Blood
9 Homeland
10 Got Your Mind in the Gutter
11 'til My Heart Beats down Your Door
12 Girl from Lebanon