Year : 2008 (Expanded Edition 2024)
Style : Hard Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 163 mb
Bio:
Thunder are an English hard rock band, who originally formed in 1989 when the band Terraplane broke up, leaving lead singer Danny Bowes and guitarist/main songwriter Luke Morley to form a new group, namely Thunder. Retaining Terraplane drummer Gary James (popularly known as 'Harry' James), they completed the line-up with bassist Mark 'Snake' Luckhurst and guitarist/keyboard player Ben Matthews. Though the band's main area of support has remained their homeland of the UK, they also enjoy significant success in Japan.Luke Morley and Danny Bowes first met at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in 1975, where they formed the band Nuthin' Fancy, which played in pubs around the London area and released an independent single "Looking For A Good Time". When Harry James joined after the previous drummer left, the band renamed themselves Terraplane. As Terraplane they played numerous gigs, including regular performances at the Marquee Club and a slot at the 1982 Reading Festival. They were signed by Epic Records and ultimately released two albums.Renamed Thunder, they were signed to EMI after performing a demo audition in 1989, and began recording their first album Back Street Symphony. With their producer, Andy Taylor (of Duran Duran) they created blues-rock and atmospheric ballads. Their debut album was a success in the UK, helped by an appearance at the 1990 Monsters of Rock festival at Donington Park.A follow-up album, Laughing on Judgement Day appeared in 1992 and reached number 2 in the UK Albums Chart. All four singles released from the album were Top 40 hits, and A Better Man made the UK Top 20 in early 1993. Snake quit the band after the subsequent tour and was replaced by Swedish bass player Mikael Höglund. In the meantime, rumours of an approach by Whitesnake singer David Coverdale to recruit Luke Morley were circulating, although in 2002 Danny Bowes stated that "the whole thing was made up" by the band to engineer some press interest.[1] and it would be another two years before the third album appeared.That album, Behind Closed Doors was reasonably successful, reaching number 5 in the UK Albums Chart. Despite this it was to be the band's last studio album for EMI, and they parted company with the label with a compilation: Their Finest Hour... And A Bit, notable for its inclusion of several unreleased tracks, in particular a cover of the Python Lee Jackson song "In a Broken Dream". For personal reasons Mikael Höglund was unable to participate in the recording of the band's fourth album The Thrill Of It All; Luke Morley handled bass duties and the album was released on the independent B Lucky record label. The band recruited bassist Chris Childs for the tour and he remained with them for the rest of their
Album:
British hard rockers THUNDER continues in 2024 with the expanded remastered reissues of their albums on both deluxe colored vinyl and digipak CD. Originally released in late 2008, “Bang!” is Thunder’s ninth studio album, and this Expanded Edition features fan favorites ‘On The Radio’ , ‘Carol Ann’ and ‘Stormwater’, as well as previously unreleased studio and bonus live tracks.Thunder really have hit form on their past couple of albums and they have continued this onto ‘Bang!’ All songs bar one are written by guitarist Luke Morley and there are plenty of opportunities throughout the course of this record for him to let fly on his guitar.This “Bang! [Expanded Edition]” is a worthwhile reissue as includes two good previously unreleased studio tracks from the same album sessions, plus unreleased live takes.The album starts with a big, catchy anthem ‘On The Radio’ although with vocalist Danny Bowes shouting ‘f@ck you!’ just before the guitar solo you can guarantee this track hasn’t been played on the radio for sure! Mind you the lyric bemoans the fact that bands like Thunder never get any mainstream airplay.‘Stormwater’ is another instant hard rock hit with some nice and heavy riffing forming the basis on the tune. ‘Carol Ann’ is great sing-a-long-a-Thunder and with its gang chorus and handclaps you just know this will be great when performed live.‘Retribution’ brings the pace down nicely (‘Watching Over You’ is the other classic Thunder slow song on the album) and if you need more rock n’ roll just play ‘Candy Man’ and ‘Have Mercy’. ‘Turn Left At California’ is a bit of fun, acoustic tinged (almost Led Zep like!) with a fun lyric. ‘Honey’ rounds the album off on a high with more big guitar riffs.“Bang! [Expanded Edition]” is another fine THUNDER effort with the band all firing on six musically.
Line Up:
Danny Bowes – vocals
Luke Morley – guitar, backing vocals, production
Ben Matthews – guitar, keyboards
Chris Childs – bass
Gary “Harry” James – drums, percussion
Production:
Rupert Coulson – engineering, mixing
Hugh Gilmour – artwork, design
Tracklist:
01. On The Radio
02. Stormwater
03. Carol Ann
04. Retribution
05. Candy Man
06. Have Mercy
07. Watching Over You
08. Miracle Man
09. Turn Left at California
10. Love Sucks
11. One Bullet
12. Honey
13. On the Radio (Live at Rock City Nottingham, 2008) (Bonus Track)
14. Delilah (Live at Rock City Nottingham, 2007) (Bonus Track)
15. See My Baby Walking (Bonus Track)
16. I Believe (Missionary Position Version) (Bonus Track)
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