Prisoner of the Night

This is one of a streak of very good albums that sandwiched the classic album "Cut", one of the best hard rock albums ever made.

Good as always goldenearring great music

Great cd. great service

not their best

I wouldn't call this the best Golden Earring album of all time but I can say as a guitarist with over 50 years under my belt, this has my favorite guitar tones from George Kooymans. I really admire George's sound on this recording. It has a very old school clean tone but with just a touch of "dirt" on most songs.Frankly, this is an underrated album in the Golden Earring discography. It seems that many fans don't think much of this one beyond "Long Blonde Animal," but I think this album has a lot of charm. This is one of those albums that is easy to dismiss with just a couple of listens but, if you stick it out and listen to it another couple of times, it really grows on you.The band was clearly trying to redefine themselves with the new decade (the 80's) getting under way. Their songwriting was showing some stylistic changes but still, its very good. As mentioned by another reviewer, "I Don't Wanna Be Nobody Else" is probably the weakest track but the rest of the tracks are solid. The title track is definitely in my top 5 Golden Earring songs of all time. George's solo on "Prisoner of the Night" is probably my favorite solo on any Golden Earring track.As always, Barry Hay (singer) is charismatic and the rhythm section of Cesar and Rinus are phenomenal. I don't know if I'd recommend this to someone that owns no Golden Earring and is looking to check them out for the first time, but it's definitely worth getting. I'm a big fan of album cover art, and this has a great cover, too!

You could argue that this is their best 80's album. It includes their awesome classic round 'n round rocker, "Long Blond Animal" (that usually rocks even more live with the audience singing along) and the terrific "Will And Mercy". "My Town", "Prisoner Of The Night" and "Going Crazy Again" are also good tracks. "Prisoner Of The Night" has a cool blusey guitar solo and "Cut 'Em Down To Size" is pretty good too, with some sax at the end. The worst would probably be "I Don't Wanna Be Nobody Else", which I find boring.

This is probably the best Golden Earring album of the 80's, as the last reviewer points out. But it is is likely to be a bit of a shock for those expecting more songs like Radar Love and Twilight Zone.For this is from the period when Golden Earring started to tighten up, and to focus more on their great talent for tuneful, short, and witty pop music. Not that it doesn't rock - they still put most of the heavy metal poseurs in the shade in terms of energy and excitement. But on this (and on No Promises No Debts, NEWS and The Hole) they stopped writing semi-prog epics, and started penning some pretty gorgeous rock and roll pop songs. Not that anyone in America or England bought them, mind you, but that is their loss.Think of the better Tom Petty or Kiss or AC-DC songs for comparison. Golden Earring may not be very hip, but twenty years on, this actually sounds better to me than The Clash or the Police any of the other tedious icons that dominate the current media representation of pop music at the time. This is a tight, fun album, not politically correct, but all the better for it.And one day someone in the media will actually realise that Golden Earring's major peers for comparison should be the Rolling Stones. Both have been going for forty years or more, both are rooted in RnB, and both are peerless innovators in the field of rock and roll pop music. Give them a listen.

Golden Earring "Prisoner Of The Night" DNC (1980).The 80's opened up good for Golden Earring here, "Long Blond Animal", opens this disc with one of their best rockers in a few years. "My Town", is pure power-pop. Other good songs are "Will + Mercy", the title track, "Going Crazy Again" and "No For An Answer". "Cut", would bring them back to the charts in 1982.

Dopo la mini sequenza di dischi opachi e poco incisivi iniziata nel 1976 i nostri Golden earring si riprendono parzialmente con questo lavoro. Si tratta di un disco che non ha ancora assorbito le sonorità più pompose ed elettroniche degli anni ottanta. Siano infatti proprio nel 1980 ed è ancora troppo presto; le sonorità di POTN si rifanno in larga parte ancora al sound di marca settantiana del decennio precedente; la novità è che il tutto nell'insieme funziona decisamente meglio che con i precedenti 3-4 dischi. Tutto qui. Diciamo che è il classico lavoro da acquistare non solo se siete fans ma anche se volete avere un buon saggio dello stile e delle sonorità tipiche dei G.E. Sicuramente un lavoro buono al quale io darei anche mezza stella in più, ma il sistema di voto non lo consente. Ecco, tenete presente che per me è un 3,5 stellette. hanno fatto sicuramente di meglio ma anche parecchio di peggio.Per un prezzo non superiore ai 10 € è sicuramente acquistabile

golden earring s 16 th album i bought this on cd because i lost my lp version years ago , its was a flash back in time for me to here . sound is good not over remastered i wish all of golden earrings releases were reissued 1969......2014...also barrys and georges solo stuff............prisoner of the night is must for any true earring fan.........on lp or cd.............................................

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