Track Listing

1. Big Life
2. Color of Your Smile
3. Love Is Standing Near
4. Rain Comes Crashing Down
5. Secret of My Success
6. Carry On
7. Better Let It Go
8. I Know Tonight
9. Hearts Away

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138960 in Music
• Released on: 1995-01-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Original recording reissued

Album Description
Japanese only SHM paper sleeve pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing* SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc* allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players. 2009.

Customer Reviews

A very good underrated Night Ranger Album
Night Ranger was under a lot of pressure from the record label at the time that they were making this album to come out with an album that would be more TOP 40 and this is what they came up with. The album I will say is alittle more radio friendly, however, it contains some really good guitar work as done by Jeff Watson and Brad Gillis. These two guys are wonderful guitar players. I consider these two guys as a great power duo along the lines of Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing. This cd has it's great power ballads as well as it's rockin' side. This album is one of the greatest Night Ranger cd's ever. It's a shame that they don't bother to play any of it live. The last cd that Alan Fitzgerald to play on until they reunited in 1997 on the "Neverland" release.

GET INTO THE BIG LIFE
I don't know why this album is not on the same level as Hysteria or New Jersey. Night Ranger never got the respect that they deserved. Every track on this album is definetly a smash hit, since the begining that every band wish to have written the song Big Life to open their concerts until the end that shows what a great ballad should be with Hearts Away.
The Secret of my Success has nothing to do on this album, it's clear that they included this song because the record company thought that it was a movie song and they had to or the guys in the band were drunk when they included it.
Although, this album it's not as very guitar driven as "Dawn Patrol" or "Midnight Madness" it shows you that Jack Blades is a master writing songs when he gets with a great team (He did it with Tommy Shaw too). It shows you too, that Rock'n'Roll as this one, it's fun and should be fun always.
Night Ranger will not be remembered for Big Life (maybe for Midnight Madness) but anyway yo have to have this album if you are waiting for a great melody on a hard rock song.

They will never understand ...
Critics of hair metal albums will never get it. I surrender, I'm tired of trying to explain them what this music means for us that lived the eighties as "twenties" (being guitar players by the way!). I'm even tired of trying to explain them that melody is the most important thing in music and that you don't have to judge a tune for the gear the band used at the time or for their look. They will never understand the irresistible mixture of chops and melody that hair metal music was about. So I quit. Unlucky for them they are probably too young to understand: if it is so they probably lived their youth in the absolute overall worst period for music (grunge ARGHHHHHHHHHHH) so I'm sorry for them. Or probably they are too old so they grew up in the pre-Van Halen period, so to me are dinosaurs. But in one ways or another they were not in their twenties in those days and didn't live the energy, the excitment of the eighties and of the good music that was produced at the time. I do, so I can't do nothing but absolutly love this album which to me stands out as one of the best of those days. I remember that I used to pick my friends up with my car for our "guitar safaris" with this music cranked out loud ... we traveled, we did buy guitars, we had fun, we learn, we laughed, we loved with this music. It's in my heart. I love this album from its beginning to its end and even if many guys who either love this album pointed out "The secret of my success" as the worst tune here, I don't know, I don't agree, I still like it very much! It seems to me that it perfectly fits the mood of the album instead. But the tune that I love the most is absolutly "Love is standing near" which is a stellar example of hair metal (rock with strong melodic hooks plus guitar chops,... try to beat it guys, try it). But in the end say whatever you want people, I'm absolutly happy to be a "poser guitar player from the eighties" just like Jeff and Brad here =))) and to have my memories coloured by this music, which is extremely warm, melodic, in two words just beautiful music! Totally mindblowing! Sorry if you're not one of us.