IV (Winger album)
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2006 |
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2006 |
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| Label (s) | Frontiers Records | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
47:07 |
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Kip Winger |
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Studio (s) |
The Funky White House and Quad Studios |
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IV is the fourth studio album released in 2006 by the US hard rock band Winger .
background
Winger broke up in 1993 after the commercial flop of the album Pull . Guitarist Reb Beach released a solo album, Kip Winger also started a solo career. In 2001 Atlantic Records released a best-of CD called The Very Best of Winger, and in 2002 the group came back together for a comeback.
In May 2006 Winger signed a new record deal with the Italian label Frontiers Records , after which the group recorded a new studio album. Since it was the band's fourth album, it was simply titled IV . Kip Winger said in an interview that he woke up one morning and had the next Winger album in his head and immediately knew what he wanted to do with it. The cover of the album was drawn by Ethan van Sciver, who worked at DC Comics as an illustrator for series such as Green Lantern , Superman and Batman .
In Japan the album was released with an acoustic version of the song Blue Suede Shoes as a bonus track .
Track list
- Right up Ahead (Winger, Beach) - 5:07
- Blue Suede Shoes (Winger, Beach) - 3:46
- Four Leaf Clover (Winger, Beach) - 4:18
- M16 (Winger) - 3:57
- Your Great Escape (Winger, Beach) - 3:55
- Disappear (Winger, Beach) - 3:49
- On a day Like Today (Winger, Beach) - 6:24 am
- Livin 'Just to Die (Winger, Beach) - 3:14
- Short Flight to Mexico (Winger, Beach) - 4:18
- Generica (Winger, Beach) - 6:33
- Can't Take It Back (Winger, Beach) - 4:05
reception
Frank Albrecht of Rock Hard magazine wrote that Winger's discs “always lived off of their oversized widescreen productions” , which was “no longer possible in 2006” if you “ended up with an indie label” . It is something like "as if one wanted to produce part three of" The Curse of the Caribbean "with the budget of a" Polizeiruf 110 "evening crime novel" . It is "Kip Winger managed one yet officially sounding record" record. Perhaps a lot of things sounded “not so smoothly ironed out,” but “definitely has edges and corners.” The decisive factor is that the duo Reb Beach / Kip Winger “succeeded” again in writing some “really wonderful songs that inclined Melodic fan just didn't want to leave ” . It is about "wonderful songs with great melodies, first-class guitar work and beautiful vocals" by the "master and namesake" . All in all, the album is "a really good comeback" .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Metal Sludge Rewind with Kip Winger . Metal sludge. Archived from the original on January 1, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
- ↑ Review in Rock Hard , Issue 234 (2006)