This is the 2nd and last album from this southern-rockband that featured several Lynyrd Skynyrd-members. For more info on Rossington Collins Band, see album number 27. The members on this one is exactly the same as on the 1st album and the music continues in the same southern rock-flavoured 70's rock as on the 1st album and is almost as good even thoug it looses tempo here and there. Seems Like Every Day is the best track.  

1)Gotta get it straigth (7,5) A rockin' start!

2)Tashauna (8,0) Already as 2nd track is this absolutely wonderful ballad with great singing from Dale.

3)Gonna miss it when it's gone (8,0) A fine midtempo southern-rocker with great sounding guitarplaying.

4)Pine box (7,5) An accapella with a great melody.

5)Fancy ideas (7,5) Barrys strong vocals lifts this heavy rocker.

6)Don't stop me now (7,5) Just a good rocker.

7)Seems like every day (8,5) Nice riff and lovely guitarplaying and strock vocals.

8)I'm free today (7,0) Barry sings an acoustic song including banjo.

9)Next phone call (7,0)

10)Means nothing to you (7,5)

Score: 7,60

With 4 members from Lynyrd Skynyrd this band continued a southern rock-saga that began in 1973 and ended in 1977 with a planecrash that killed 3 of Lynyrd Skynyrds members. Gary, Allen, Leon and Billy from LS released this album, mostly with Dale on vocals but also Barry sings a few songs. The music is traditional southern rock but with a typical 70's-beginning of the 80's style of rock with a melodic touch that I really like.

Dale Krantz had been a back-up singer for 38 Special before joining this band and in 1982 she married Gary Rossington. Allen Collins surived the plane crash in 1977 but his pregnant wife died in 1980 and another girlfriend died in 1986 in a car crash in which Collins drove the car under influence and hemself got paralyzed from the waist down. He died in 1990. Leon Wilkeson died in 2001. Billy Powell died of a heart attack in 2009.

1)Prime time (8,0) A good rockin' kick off!

2)Three times as bad (8,0) A soulful powerballad with strong vocals.

3)Don't misunderstand me (8,0) Co-vocals with Dale and Barry. Wonderful driving rhythm and just a good song!

4)One good man (8,0) Slow heavy rocker with Dale on topform on vocals. A song with great feeling and a refrain that sends chills down the spine.

5)Opportunity (8,0) A very good rocker with nice guitarsolos and variation in the song.

6)Getaway (8,0) A slow rocker with sensitive and good singing.

7)Winners and losers (7,0) Another slow rocker with a honky-tonk-break.

8)Misery loves company (7,5) Slow start that goes into a good refrain and mixes that way all through.

9)Sometimes you can put it out (7,5)

Score: 7,78

Dale Krantz-vocals

Gary Rossington-guitars (b.1951)

Allen Collins-guitars (b.1952-d.1990)

Barry Harwood-guitars

Leon Wilkeson-bass (b.1952-d.2001)

Derek Hess-drums

Billy Powell-keyboards (b.1951-d.2009)

I started listening to this Swedish band in the 80's when they became rather big in my homeland. I liked their mix of hardrock and funk and still do. This comebackalbum have some really good songs but unfortunately there are some songs that don't put up to standard and lowers the final score. This album is their first in 16 years. Conny Bloom and Andy Christell has played with Hanoi Rocks in their final years before they called it quits.

1)Reeferlord (9,0) A hell of a start! Fast and heavy mixed with funky breaks and a strong refrain. God stuff!

2)My hearts not for sale (8,0) What they do best; funk and hardrock. It rocks and grooves!

3)Father popcorns magic oyster (5,5) Nice and funky in some parts but some weird parts and a strange refrain destroys the song.

4)Angel in an armoured suit (8,5) A good hardrocking song with a nice drive!

5)Ten thousand times goodbye (6,0) Not a ballad but a soft song with a melodic choir-kind-of chorus.

6)The house is rockin' (7,0) Funky!

7)Welcome to the high times (7,5) Heavy and funky and good!

8)Sometimes u gotta go look for the car (7,5) Well, that's all they sing in this one. A nice groovy song with a steady heavy rhytmh. Charming!

9)Put your arms around me (7,5) Cool riff and melodic refrain.

10)The day the gypsies came to town (7,0) Strange rhythm and nice guitarpicking.

11)Rollin' down the road (6,5) Another funky rocker. Good at first but then it gets soft and repetitive.

12)A mother of a love story (8,0) Great ending!

Score: 7,33

Conny Bloom-vocals, guitars (b.1964)

Franco Santunione-guitars

Andy Christell-bass

Niclas Sigevall-drums

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Sator has played together since the end of the 70's but has not released that many albums but has always been popular among swedish rockfans. They play, and has always played, a kind of punky Ramones-like dirty rocknroll with melodic hooks and refrains and has during the years had a good reputation as a kick-ass live-act.

Chips has played with Joakim Thåström and has produced several band like Hellacopters, Sahara Hotnights and Millencolin. Heikki Kiviaho has played with Ingo & Floyd, Whale, Joakim Thåström and Lisa Miskovsky and is also a producer.

1)Your up gets me down (7,5) Fast,heavy and catchy, just the way Sator has always been. Good opener that sets the standard.

2)Drive through the night (8,0) Midtempo punky song with good melody and refrain. Very much o-o-o I look just like Buddy Holly, the song by Weezer.

3)S.T.S. (8,0) Yeah! Sweaty and dirty rocknroll!

4)Tonight is the night (7,0) Midtempo song with a simple riff and as usual a melodic refrain.

5)Wanted: Hope and pride before I die (7,0) A sweet midtempotune with cute refrain.

6)When you lie down with dogs (8,0) Rocknroll! Love it. Fast and crazy.

7)Under the radar (8,0) Slow, heavy and unpolished.

8)The get out. (8,0) Another punky rocker.

9)You've got blood on your hands (7,5) A Hives-like punky stomper.

10)Were all gonna die (7,5) Rocknroll.

11)Love bells (7,0) A ballad!

Score: 7,50

Chips Kiesbye-vocals, guitar (b.1963)

Kent Norberg-vocals, guitar (b.1965)

Heikki Kiviaho-bass (b.1966)

Micke Solén-drums

Hans Gäfvert-keyboards

www.sator.se