![]() We cover Hard Rock and Heavy Metal around the globe. ![]() Really enjoyed your articles on here… I am looking to recruit new writers to join our global online Magazine Myglobalmind. While the last three songs may not measure up to the rest of the album in my view, those other seven songs are more than enough to make this album a great one. It’s only Aldo’s guitar solo that saves it for me and that gets me into the song at the end. ![]() It is done very well and sounds good despite being keyboard dominated but with all the harder tracks, I found myself straining in anticipation for a power chord that never comes. I would like to say that the album closes with a blinder but I really can’t say that about “See the Light.” The song reminds me of something you would hear from a nightclub band. I wouldn’t call “You’re My Love” and “Can’t Stop Lovin’ You” power ballads, just ballads although the latter has a cool guitar solo reminding me of why I added Aldo to my ever growing list of underrated guitarists. The album seems to slow down a great deal after that. Even more so because the next track, “Under the Gun” is the best rocking track on the album complete with another great guitar solo. Following it is what sounds for me was a definitely intended AOR single, “Fooling Yourself.” However, the chorus is quite catchy so I don’t blame him for this one. Still, “Heart to Heart” is a great song and in metal power, I put it between the power ballad and first three tracks. It would have been wrong of me to say that the album picks up after the power ballad because it never really slowed down. This song, along with April Wine’s “Just Between You and Me” and the Killer Dwarfs’ “Fire In Your Eyes,” has me thinking that maybe Canadian bands are the best at power ballads. “Ball and Chain” also has me pondering something else. Then comes the power ballad, “Ball and Chain” and it is this track that has forced me to put Aldo Nova into the category of deeply under appreciated guitarists. In the case of Aldo, the tracks “Hot Love” and “It’s Too Late” keep me headbanging away. In typical 1982 fashion, the album opens with the big single but like so many other great rock and metal albums from that year, the rest of the album carries on very well. That, along with the single I heard, was enough grounds to explore the debut album and what a wise decision that turned out to be. He supported giants Rainbow and Blue Oyster Cult on two different tours and the reports I received from my friend and my sister was that he was pretty good. I guess I should be grateful to MTV or else I might have missed it all together.Įven before I first saw the video for “Fantasy,” Aldo Nova was making a name for himself in metal circles back then. It is also the reason why I am still posting it for 1983. Therefore, this was another great album that came out in 1982, which I missed on account of my commitments to the military back then. It was only later that I discovered that the song and the album were actually released over a year earlier. Naturally, I assumed that the song was current. Okay, it may not have been played as much as Big Country’s “In a Big Country” or the full twenty minute video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” but I saw it a good few times. When my household finally caught up with the times in 1983 and got MTV, the video for the big single, “Fantasy,” from Canadian rocker Aldo Nova’s debut album received a fair amount of airplay.
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