ALPHA

After tolerating their first, epic album, I saw this in a bargain bin and decided to give it a shot. Yikes... More of the same AOR (or less of the same?) tinged arena rock. There is very little prog here, and a lot of Journeyesque 80's average short stuff. The only saving song on this entire thing for me is "The Smile has Left your Eyes". Why? I have no idea. But catchy doesn't always equal bad. But the rest of the albums, except for a few keyboard moments from Geoff, fails to even stand up to their first album. 20 years ago I may have given this a 3 star rating, but, hopefully, I have become more sophisticated and can only give 1 star here. Maybe 1 1/2. Some wine improves with age. Some does not. This music is just too much a product of it's times to interest me.