Briar - Crown Of Thorns (1987) (Japan Edition 1988)

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Briar - Crown Of Thorns (1987) (Japan Edition 1988)

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Briar - Crown Of Thorns (1987) (Japan Edition 1988)

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Year : 1987 (Japan Edition 1988)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , AOR
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 94 mb


Bio:

British melodic Metal/AOR band from Birmingham formed in 1979 and disbanded in 1993.Briar were formed in 1979, by schoolfriends Kevin Griffiths (Vox/Guitar), Dean Cook (Drums), Dean Rogers (Guitar) & David Tattum (Bass).In 1982 the line up changed and Darren Underwood & Dave Fletcher were recruited for the departing Dean Rogers, soon after John Smith also left the band and Kevin Griffiths took up bass guitar !, the new lineup was Kevin Griffiths (Bass & Vox), Darren Underwood (Guitar & B.V's), Dave Fletcher (Guitar & B.V's) & Dean Cook (Drums & B.V's).By 1992 the lineup had almost totally changed Kevin Billington (Vox), Kevin Griffiths (Bass & Vox), Dean Cook (Drums & B.V's), Mark Carleton (Guitar) & Jez Prosser (Keyboards).

Album:

Third full-length album.What do Ozzy Osbourne, Bruce Dickinson and the late Lemmy have in common? The three of them, in the second half of the 80s, kind of sponsored Briar, and pictures in the booklet of "Crown of Thorns" don't let me lie. Originally released in 1987, the third and penultimate studio album of the Englishmen has just got a beautiful CD edition - with slipcase and booklet with lyrics and photos - in Brazil by Classic Metal Records.Although the name Briar is often associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal - not for nothing, since the band was born in 1979 in Birmingham,"Crown of Thorns" presents a sound much more related to the American hard rock, and its repertoire includes songs of party character and covers of the kind "love it or hate it" that are the proof that, for Kevin Griffiths (vocals and bass), Dave Fletcher (guitar), Darren Underwood (guitar) and Dean Cook (drums), the fun had no limits.At the time, backed by CBS / Columbia, the quartet remade songs like "Frankie", by the disco music strongman Sister Sledge, and "La Bamba", by Ritchie Valens, with distorted guitars and, in the case of the latter, scratching in Spanish. These two, along with the fart that is track 11 - correctly named "Fart" - make up the fourth I won't say dispensable, but that doesn't help itself in the mission of being well-liked by the listener either.In the remaining eight tracks, two more covers, only on these the band hit the nail on the head. "Just Another Day in the Life of a Fool" by Verity and the anthem "The Boys Are Back in Town" by Thin Lizzy - dedicated to Phil Lynott, who died a year before - stand out not only for the energy applied in their performances, but for being proof that sometimes the best version is the one closest to the original.In the authorial half, it is impossible not to highlight the winning refrains of "Back and Wild" and "Everyone's Going Crazy" and the melodic metal prototype that makes "Spirit of the Wood" not only the best of the repertoire, but a strong candidate to the best song of Briar's career. In the lyrics, an elderly citizen remembers when he was "just a boy" and life was "just a toy" to then realize that everything was just a breath and that not even higher powers, such as the spirits of the woods or the night mentioned in the verses, have the answer to everything. To paraphrase the humorous slogan of twenty years ago, "it's a lot of heads in the game".

Line-Up:

Kevin Griffiths - Vocals (lead)
Darren Underwood - Vocals (backing), Guitars
Dave Fletcher - Vocals (backing), Guitars
Dean Cook - Drums, Vocals (backing) - See also: Machine Boy, SpaceHobo, tenboy, Tiny Rockets, ZZsTOP, ex-Bogus Blooze, ex-Secs Pistols, ex-Tinybluechildren

Tracklist:

01. Crown of Thorns 05:00
02. Frankie (Sister Sledge cover) 02:56
03. Just Another Day in the Life of a Fool (Phoenix cover) 04:15
04. Back and Wild 04:16
05. La Bamba (Richie Valens cover) 02:53
06. One Foot Back in Your Door (Roman Holliday cover) 03:45
07. Spirit of the Wood 04:00
08. The Boys Are Back in Town (Thin Lizzy cover) 04:21
09. Empty Words 03:33
10. Everyone's Going Crazy 03:58
11. Fart 00:02


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