"Acoustica" opens with the rocker "The Zoo" before slowing down with "Always Somewhere" and then new track, the first of four new tracks, the ballad "Life Is Too Short", it's ok but not great being too long with an extended repetitive outtro.īut I've always had a thing for hard rock/metal bands going acoustic so here goes". The infectious "Holiday" from the breakthrough "Lovedrive" album follows picking-up the pace slightly and getting the Portuguese audience going but somehow in this acoustic setting it lacks the oomph and power of the electric version. "You and I" follows keeping-up the audience participation levels up before another new track "When Love Kills Love" and it's about this point with six tracks down and nine to go that I'm beginning to have my doubts about this album.
So far it's all largely been a bit stodgy like a rice pudding, the songs have been laboured and drawn-out, and I get a feeling that I'm caught in an endless re-run of the all-time most mediocre moments from the Eurovision Song Contest. Things don't really get any better with the next track, a cover of the Kansas hit "Dust in the Wind", it's never been one to get the heart racing but here it too gets the Eurovision treatment with ladleful's of over-wrought pathos. The ballad "Send Me an Angel", a real standout from the general frankly forgettable thump-thump-bang-bang that makes up much of the "Crazy World" album, follows but what I want right now is some forgettable thump-thump-bang-bang and not another hand-wringing ballad.Īt least "Catch Your Train" kicks-off with a little honky-tonk piano before rocking and rolling and at this point things are looking up. But not for long, "I Wanted to Cry (But the Tears Wouldn't Come)" is another slow ballad, but then at last it's time for "Wind of Change" and things must get better, but no, this too is laboured and over-engineered, it does at least get a big cheer so someone must have appreciated it. A cover of Queen's "Love of My Life" follows, always a dirge it only succeeds in dragging the album down further, fortunately though it's short.
The cover of The Cars "Drive" could have been inspired, the instrumentation would be great but for the awful plinky-plinky highlights.
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