Thunder – The Thrill Of It All (Expanded Edition) (1996/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Thunder – The Thrill Of It All (Expanded Edition) (1996/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:29:28 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited

“The Thrill of It All” is the fourth studio album by British hard rock band Thunder and reached #14 on the UK album charts.

This expanded edition, on limited edition pink and clear double vinyl for the first time in over 25 years, features the key tracks “Living for Today,” “Love Worth Dying For” and “Pilot Of My Dreams,” as well as previously unreleased bonus live versions of selected hits from the album.

How fast things change in rock & roll. In the span of just a few years during the early ’90s, Thunder went from favored saviors of British hard rock thanks to their triumphant 1990 debut, Backstreet Symphony, to strife-ridden not-quite-stars when 1992’s strong follow-up, Laughing on Judgement Day, almost saw guitarist Luke Morley joining a then still relevant Whitesnake, to borderline untouchables thanks to the advent of grunge and a bitter, disillusioned third album in 1995’s Behind Closed Doors. So, come 1996 and their fourth album, The Thrill of It All, two details were evident: first, that Thunder was never going to become the next Whitesnake or Def Leppard (not that they’d want to, by that stage) and, second, that the only way for their fortunes was up, even if their latest material showed only marginal improvement over their latest effort. Nevertheless, ensconced among the mindless drivel (“Don’t Wait Up,” “Hotter Than the Sun”) and the insipidly frivolous (“Welcome to the Party,” “Cosmetic Punk”) governing these sessions, one will find occasionally memorable efforts such as first single “Pilot of My Dreams,” with its Eastern-flavored solo, “Love Worth Dying For,” with its “Ten Years Gone”-styled opening guitar figure, and “Something About You,” with its forlorn Boston-isms. Classic rock galore, in other words, and, although its immaculate production and meticulous songcraft helped make it a huge smash in Japan, The Thrill of It All sounds unbearably safe by today’s standards, a relic of a far more commercial era in rock history and, therefore, really not very thrilling at all. – Eduardo Rivadavia

Tracklist:
1-01. Thunder – Pilot Of My Dreams (04:31)
1-02. Thunder – Living For Today (04:04)
1-03. Thunder – Love Worth Dying For (04:03)
1-04. Thunder – Don’t Wait Up (04:03)
1-05. Thunder – Something About You (05:03)
1-06. Thunder – Welcome To The Party (04:42)
1-07. Thunder – The Thrill Of It All (05:35)
1-08. Thunder – Hotter Than The Sun (04:48)
1-09. Thunder – This Forgotten Town (05:06)
1-10. Thunder – Cosmetic Punk (03:43)
1-11. Thunder – You Can’t Live Your Life In A Day (05:57)
1-12. Thunder – Don’t Wait Up (Extended Version) (04:35)
1-13. Thunder – Hirsute Boogie (02:15)
1-14. Thunder – Every Word’s A Lie (04:13)
1-15. Thunder – Somebody To Love (04:07)
1-16. Thunder – Lethal Combination (03:41)
1-17. Thunder – Love Worth Dying For (Acoustic Version) (03:21)
1-18. Thunder – Something About You (Acoustic Version) (03:53)
1-19. Thunder – Bring It On Home (Acoustic Version) (03:16)
1-20. Thunder – You Can’t Live Your Life In A Day (Acoustic Version) (04:07)
1-21. Thunder – Too Bad (04:14)

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