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Angel 1975 Album

Angel Angel
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37m 8s
Country
United States
Release Dates
1975-10-27
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Angel is the first album by the rock band Angel. "Tower", the keyboard-heavy opening track, was used widely during the late 1970s and early 1980s by album rock radio stations in the US for various advertising purposes.
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1. Tower 6m 59s
2. Long Time 7m 2s
3. Rock and Rollers 4m 1s
4. Broken Dreams 5m 15s
5. Mariner 4m 23s
6. Sunday Morning 4m 10s
7. On & On 4m 19s
8. Angel (Theme) 1m 39s

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Angel was cast as the literal anti-thesis to Kiss – they wore white, angelic-themed outfits, mixed high-brow, quasi-progressive arrangements with hard rock, but otherwise, had the same basic aim as Kiss did – to take the country by storm using a flashy, pop-metal derived approach. It’s easy to peg this as a Kiss-meets-Styx kind of experience, then, but the guitar work and arrangements are far beyond anything Kiss even dreamed about doing at the time. “Tower” and “Long Time” alone have much more in common with the Todd Rundgrens and Argents of the day than a bunch of gorilla simpletons like Kiss. Angel’s problem was making this stuff interesting for anyone beyond stoned teenagers, which, by the way, was the same issue bands like Styx and Kansas used to have. Only when Styx and Kansas had crossover ballads and rockers did those guys start to have real success. It works better when the band sticks to more straight-forward power pop like “Rock and Rollers”, But more often than not, that is not what this album is about. So, in a technical sense, these guys had it in spades, but as far as this album goes, something gets lost in translation emotionally, that is for sure.
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