House of Shakira - Best of 2
7.5 von 10 Punken
Erscheinungsjahr
2000
Label
MTM
Besetzung
Gesang: Andreas Eklund
Gitarre: Mats Hallstensson
Gitarre/Keyboard: Anders Lundström
Bass: Per Schelander
Schlagzeug: Tony Andersson
Gitarre: Mats Hallstensson
Gitarre/Keyboard: Anders Lundström
Bass: Per Schelander
Schlagzeug: Tony Andersson
Tracklist
01. Morning Over Morocco
02. Lint
03. Method of Madness
04. No:8
05. Who´s Lying Now
06. Elephant Gun
07. Love Was Good
08. The Song Remains
09. Best Of Times
10. Time Bomb
11. Ghost in Town
12. The Chance
13. WARP
14. Separate Ways
15. Susan (unreleased Bonus Track)
16. You Touched Me (unreleased Bonus Track)
17. Antelope (unreleased Bonus Track)
02. Lint
03. Method of Madness
04. No:8
05. Who´s Lying Now
06. Elephant Gun
07. Love Was Good
08. The Song Remains
09. Best Of Times
10. Time Bomb
11. Ghost in Town
12. The Chance
13. WARP
14. Separate Ways
15. Susan (unreleased Bonus Track)
16. You Touched Me (unreleased Bonus Track)
17. Antelope (unreleased Bonus Track)
Datum: 12.10.2004 - Autor Odette
Englisch:
HOUSE OF SHAKIRA is a swedish rock formation that started out in Stockholm around 1991. Their music doesn't remind of any comparable band. The band's motto is "Try every idea with an open mind", therefore every member of the band contributes with own ideas to make this music unique. They consists of five very different personalities that only have one thing that ties them together – to write and perform good songs. A good song is the key to make this band function, style or sound doesn’t matter as long as the song is good. H.O.S producing melodic rock of the very highest quality because they mixed hard rock with several music styles - the vocals soar, the melodies rise and the guitars bring it all together. All these components make House of Shakira an outstanding listening sensation. Due to the diversity of the songs and the music, they aren´t a typical hard rock band; they will find a wider audience and fan community. Their debut “Lint”(bluestone) hit the stores in 1997 and were nominated as best debut album in a lot of magazines. Big plans where made for the release of the second album “On the verge”(bluestone) but everything failed since the record company disappeared from the face of the earth just in time for the release. A bad situation for every band. This is a band that signed at least twice as many record deals as they’d released records so the situation didn’t make them stop working and writing good songs.HOUSE OF SHAKIRA returned to the scene in the year of 2000 with the release of “III”(MTM). The record received rave reviews and was called “the best AOR-album in ten years”. The Style of the songs are the same, they really groove with a Middle Eastern touch like as „Morning over Morocco“, „Method of Madness“ or „The Song Remains“. A bit harder are the songs „Elephant Gun“, „Love was Good“. The three extra bonustracks also are great with „Susan“ the guitar grooves just like that. „You Touched Me“ is a good song similar like Journey, nice refrains, great melodies and really good riffs. „Antelope“ sound not so good for me, but nor really bad it´s just a touch more blues in it. Take a look on it, i´m sure someone would like it!





