00:00 The Lion 03:54 Silver And Gold 08:44 Down The Wire 13:51 You Could Be A King 17:32 After The Storm 23:19 Misunderstood 27:44 Kid Gone Astray 32:09 Fallen Heroes 36:42 Wishing Your Life Away 40:48 Blood On The Ocean You're welcome.
I think this style of rock was at the end of its run at this point. As far as quality, it’s amazing stuff and would have been much more popular I’m afraid if it had been released a few years earlier. This is so much better than most of those trashy copies of glam bands from the late 80’s, and unfortunately, this was too closely related to that stuff to be given a fair shot. I love it and would like to see a reissue, or have it available for streaming, because I can really only find it here. Cheers!!
*This is literary a masterpiece....Adrian knew what he was doing...low sales don't explain this gem.* Maiden has a giant marketing machine behind them you know... Dickinson 2nd & 3rd fantastic solo albums also weren't sales hits.
@@blademancano8035 I agree. This album is great but it didn’t do much financially/commercially. I think this would’ve done so much better if it was released a few years earlier.
This record got me through highschool, something about Adrian’s voice & the lyrics on this record… he’s talking about the struggle.. “Out in the jungle called the city, you’ll never make it on your own” It didn’t get its proper due cause of the time it was released I think but regardless of sales or popularity. It’s got of my favorite riffs and solos from him post Iron Maiden
In the 90s I was desperate to listen to this album but Icouldn't find it anywhere. Now I remembered it after like 20 years or so and... wow, super cool, exactly as I imagined it. Has that "Reach Out" feeling.
I fell in love with this album about 11 years ago. Back then there were only some torrent download versions in crap quality around. Some years later I finally found a original CD on the bay and payed 60€ for it. I would have payed ten times more if necessary, since it easily is one of my 5 lonesome island albums. ❤
Wow I would never suspect this to be the type of music Adrian would come up with being from maiden, you really get to hear the creative differences and styles.
He can do a lot of stuff, and as far as this style, he’s ridiculously good at it. But it blends well with maiden too, which is also unexpected but incredibly cool!
Criminally underrated album, I'm baffled why it wasn't more successful. It's popish but still has a heavy edge to it, and you can't help but love Adrian's rough voice.
If he took a more Prominent "Iin youFace" role in maiden, this WouHave been successful. he is to shy, humble and undestated, to build the necessary hype
And Brian Adams... Maybe critic was too hard with this album because it sounded like other groups but wasn't enough personality on its own. Maybe expecting a more Adrian/Maiden sound... but they forgot that THIS was Adrian's sound too. And his creative personality is totally clear hearing all of awesome guitar solos along the album. Solos that really reminds a fistfull of moments and passages across 80's discography of Iron Maiden, specially on Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son albums, where his contribution was enormous. An album to enjoy and makes you fly to golden years of best melodic rock albums and bands. Perhaps the greatest missing style since decades. ago.
Why Adrian Smith didn't continue the project when he left Iron Maiden soon after this was released is beyond me. It is so good! Instead Adrian formed a prog rock band called Psycho Motel, hiring a vocalist to front it instead of singing himself. I think he has an amazing voice.
Eu adoro Psycho Motel. Infelizmente nenhum projeto dele teve sucesso comercial, o que o desanimava muito de prosseguir. Foi aí que o Bruce convidou ele para carreira solo.
I’ve had that opening number stuck in my head for weeks now. This has become one of the things I most enthusiastically recommend to people, it’s really a shame this hasn’t gotten more attention.
Hell, this is my first time listening to it, and I only just got into metal as a whole around when quarantine began. Never too late to unearth a masterpiece.
This album is full of wonderful licks and tones. Adrian did a great job and it's a real shame that he had the Maiden expectations on him when he released this. It even blindsided me as I was expecting anything but this. Fav track is After The Storm. Incredible mix of Pink Floyd/ Rock and some Pop elements in there too. Something Peter Gabriel or Sting could have released at that time.
I think it started out with the intention of Nicko playing drums if I recall. Zak thanks him for borrowing his kit on the album credits too 🤟🏻😎🤟🏻 I love this album, still play it regularly "Just another kid gone astray..."
First time hearing this! Adrian going for the Bryan Adams sound....and that's no bad thing. If only Bryan Adams actually rocked like you think he should - he'd sound like this. Brilliant!!
Wish this was still on Spotify. Also, if you love this you may like 'Roadhouse' self-titled & only album. Has Pete Willis from Def Leppard, just a great rock album 🤟🏻😎🤟🏻
interesting to hear the different musical paths that Adrian, Bruce and Harris (Maiden) took during this era (beginning of 90's?) - all are completely different, you can see the split due to musical differences was inevitable - at that time.
Such a masterpiece! Bought on CD many years ago 😁 it's a crime that isn't on Spotify. It deserves to be listened from any class rock fan that love wonderful music!
This sounds like it could be used on the soundtrack for Miami Vice or some other eighties American television production. This was made by Londoners but sounds so American, unlike Smith's former/future band Iron Maiden.
Listened this like 4 years ago when i was 14 y/o.Stills being amazing and it's a real shame that wonderfull bands like A.S.A.P. and also Winterose were so underrated back then.
Anyone still coming to listen to this album in December 2021? I love this since day one, kind of what i expected from Adrian after Reach out but even since Somewhere in time i knew he has more than offer, beyond Maiden.
Feb 2022, and this is my first time listening to the album. I’ve listened to Smith/Kotzen and I love it, so I know he has a range of talent beyond what Maiden has to offer, but this is something else entirely. I say this completely unironically, I think my mom would really like this.
i agree. i have no idea why this album didnt do well? i have had this since it came out back when i was 15. adrian did a lot of these songs back in 1985 with basically this same band but nicko on drums. the bootleg is called "the whole population of hackney" amazing stuff. the band was called "the entire population of hackney". if you can find it check it out.
TheCLOUDFORCE yeah that’s what it says in the Maiden biography. It wasn’t heavy enough for maiden fans, and Bryan Adams and Journey fans weren’t going to buy it because of Maiden
I think its vibe is too eighties... I guess that since it was released in the end of the eighties it didn't go so well in sales. In my honest opinion, if this very same album was released in '84, '85 or so, it would have been a massive hit
great aor melodic metal from this great british musician , i realy love iron maiden but this sound is so delicius, for my ears, congratulations Adrian smith for this great master piece, and Also thanx for it
+Rocco Saviano I think he meant the times as in the position on the entire CD that each song starts - not how long each song lasts (if that makes sense).
It's great to listen to it again ( I still have the original cassette but I feel lazy so I won't look for it 😄) it sounds very Californian and very 80's... It's a masterpiece...
Bruce D is a very accomplished singer (and all-round interesting guy) but I agree that Smith's style, as demonstrated here, is more in line with the vocal sound on the first two IM albums.
I think, it is an inconspicuous work of Adrian, the music is on the line of "The original Iron Men" (Dennis Stratton/Paul Di'anno). Best Adrian things out of Maiden are, works with Bruce Dickinson and of course Primal Rock Rebellion and the masterpiece "Awoken Broken" simply awesome!
different things! anyway, 'The Original Men', a nice work, was released in 1995, when a.o.r. played obsolete... on the contrary 'Silver and Gold' at the height of a.o.r. age!
Yeah, of course, different things and different times... but i think a.o.r actually is a big inspiration of the greats of metal. Something big inside the a.o.r. :)
Listening for the first time in 2024. Masterpiece. Great guitar and vocals!! I can taste some Somewhere In Time here!! Cheers!!!
Sounded awesome in 89' and still holds up in 23' !!!!!!!! 34 years later...
00:00 The Lion
03:54 Silver And Gold
08:44 Down The Wire
13:51 You Could Be A King
17:32 After The Storm
23:19 Misunderstood
27:44 Kid Gone Astray
32:09 Fallen Heroes
36:42 Wishing Your Life Away
40:48 Blood On The Ocean
You're welcome.
Merci!!
Thank you
Ginor ASMR gracias totales!!!
Adrian has THE voice 😍
Ginor ASMR I
This is literary a masterpiece....Adrian knew what he was doing...low sales don't explain this gem.
I think this style of rock was at the end of its run at this point. As far as quality, it’s amazing stuff and would have been much more popular I’m afraid if it had been released a few years earlier. This is so much better than most of those trashy copies of glam bands from the late 80’s, and unfortunately, this was too closely related to that stuff to be given a fair shot. I love it and would like to see a reissue, or have it available for streaming, because I can really only find it here. Cheers!!
*This is literary a masterpiece....Adrian knew what he was doing...low sales don't explain this gem.*
Maiden has a giant marketing machine behind them you know...
Dickinson 2nd & 3rd fantastic solo albums also weren't sales hits.
@@blademancano8035 I agree. This album is great but it didn’t do much financially/commercially. I think this would’ve done so much better if it was released a few years earlier.
@@blademancano8035 You got that right...Your analysis is spot on...
This record got me through highschool, something about Adrian’s voice & the lyrics on this record… he’s talking about the struggle..
“Out in the jungle called the city, you’ll never make it on your own”
It didn’t get its proper due cause of the time it was released I think but regardless of sales or popularity. It’s got of my favorite riffs and solos from him post Iron Maiden
30 years of listening. From boy to man with this album. Pure gold.
my favorite album I've been listening to it for 30 years
In the 90s I was desperate to listen to this album but Icouldn't find it anywhere. Now I remembered it after like 20 years or so and... wow, super cool, exactly as I imagined it. Has that "Reach Out" feeling.
That is exactly what I thought :D
Damn I love Reach Out. I think it is the best Song Maiden ever made, despite being a b-side.
Same for me. 💯
True it was hard to find back then
@@elpenguinotierno6238 Don't be ridiculous
I fell in love with this album about 11 years ago. Back then there were only some torrent download versions in crap quality around.
Some years later I finally found a original CD on the bay and payed 60€ for it. I would have payed ten times more if necessary, since it easily is one of my 5 lonesome island albums. ❤
Adrian only created masterpieces :') 💖
Yo lo tenia en cassette , se me perdió. buena música un gran músico Adrian....
Wow I would never suspect this to be the type of music Adrian would come up with being from maiden, you really get to hear the creative differences and styles.
He can do a lot of stuff, and as far as this style, he’s ridiculously good at it. But it blends well with maiden too, which is also unexpected but incredibly cool!
I remember ASAP playing the Tonypandy Naval Club back in "91/"92 drank with adrian in the downstairs bar later on , great guy :)
Criminally underrated album, I'm baffled why it wasn't more successful. It's popish but still has a heavy edge to it, and you can't help but love Adrian's rough voice.
If he took a more Prominent "Iin youFace" role in maiden, this WouHave been successful. he is to shy, humble and undestated, to build the necessary hype
I love this record.. it's bluesy and a little dark. Very unlike Maiden.. and I think that was the whole idea..
You know what my friend i agree with you sir 🙏💯🤘
Of course it was the whole idea. Actually it's an AOR album. One of their best and one of my favorites of all time. Highly Underrated...
@@chabomorphosis I'd just call melodic rock
Awesome!
If Phil Lynott hadn't died, I'd expect late 80s Thin Lizzy to sound like this album.
This sound is full of influeces like Toto, Bon Jovi, Gary Moore and Billy Idol.... Too many distance from Iron! Incredible amazing! ❤
and Foreigner and Eddie Money of course
And Brian Adams... Maybe critic was too hard with this album because it sounded like other groups but wasn't enough personality on its own.
Maybe expecting a more Adrian/Maiden sound... but they forgot that THIS was Adrian's sound too. And his creative personality is totally clear hearing all of awesome guitar solos along the album.
Solos that really reminds a fistfull of moments and passages across 80's discography of Iron Maiden, specially on Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son albums, where his contribution was enormous.
An album to enjoy and makes you fly to golden years of best melodic rock albums and bands. Perhaps the greatest missing style since decades. ago.
This is a great album.
Got that album at the time of release - and return to it from time to time - a sweet AOR album.
Why Adrian Smith didn't continue the project when he left Iron Maiden soon after this was released is beyond me. It is so good!
Instead Adrian formed a prog rock band called Psycho Motel, hiring a vocalist to front it instead of singing himself. I think he has an amazing voice.
I remember thinking that too. I wanted Psycho Motel to be as good as this 🤟🏻😎🤟🏻
The album and club tour was a commercial failure. It's all online to read if you're interested.
Eu adoro Psycho Motel. Infelizmente nenhum projeto dele teve sucesso comercial, o que o desanimava muito de prosseguir. Foi aí que o Bruce convidou ele para carreira solo.
Miss this album. The new Smith/Kotzen album came out today. Adrian’s sound is brilliant as always.
Can't wait for it to arrive.
Thank (G/g)od I have this album. Not the ENIGMA one, but the original EMI one.
I’ve had that opening number stuck in my head for weeks now.
This has become one of the things I most enthusiastically recommend to people, it’s really a shame this hasn’t gotten more attention.
Adrian has such a powerful voice in this record
didn't realize Adrian's got such a distinctive voice, while being a good backing vocal in maiden
He sounds American!?
Why am I only finding this now after 31 years from it's release, I'm totally blown away
OMG ! 31 ys ago? I'm getting old ! :-D
Hell, this is my first time listening to it, and I only just got into metal as a whole around when quarantine began. Never too late to unearth a masterpiece.
Great AOR album , Adrian and the band are incredible as always .
Wow, this is goddamned killer. Love the production...pure '80s hard rock awesomeness.
Adrian sounds AMAZING! love his voice here
This album truly is gold! 💛
This album is full of wonderful licks and tones. Adrian did a great job and it's a real shame that he had the Maiden expectations on him when he released this. It even blindsided me as I was expecting anything but this. Fav track is After The Storm. Incredible mix of Pink Floyd/ Rock and some Pop elements in there too. Something Peter Gabriel or Sting could have released at that time.
Bought the cassette when it was first released. Not heard this in decades. Wish they would reissue the album again. Better than I rememberred
You can find it on Ebay
first time listening to this... its amazing!
Fun fact: the drummer on this album is the son of The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
Wow!! really?
Zak Starkey
I think it started out with the intention of Nicko playing drums if I recall. Zak thanks him for borrowing his kit on the album credits too 🤟🏻😎🤟🏻 I love this album, still play it regularly "Just another kid gone astray..."
Zak Starkey has been the drummer for THE WHO for decades. Absolutely brilliant and his style is just like that of "Moon the Loon"!
@@toka1971 I don't think he was with the Who at this point tho
ADRIAN, YOU FUCKIN' RULE.
And this album is THE evidence.
Such a great album. Been listening to it for 31 years!!
First time hearing this!
Adrian going for the Bryan Adams sound....and that's no bad thing. If only Bryan Adams actually rocked like you think he should - he'd sound like this. Brilliant!!
Wish this was still on Spotify. Also, if you love this you may like 'Roadhouse' self-titled & only album. Has Pete Willis from Def Leppard, just a great rock album 🤟🏻😎🤟🏻
@Ariel Ariel Roadhouse, autotitulado
Wonderful. No words!
Un capolavoro, troppo sottovalutato sia quando uscì, sia oggi. Un album da manuale.
Oh wow. I had this on vinyl! Bringing back some memories.
Gatefold sleeve, weren't it?
This is a mix of Joe Lyin Turner, Richie Sambora and Toto in 80's high period.
AOR heaven from Adrian Smith!
interesting to hear the different musical paths that Adrian, Bruce and Harris (Maiden) took during this era (beginning of 90's?) - all are completely different, you can see the split due to musical differences was inevitable - at that time.
Man it's incredible that this LP is not available anywhere
Such a masterpiece! Bought on CD many years ago 😁 it's a crime that isn't on Spotify. It deserves to be listened from any class rock fan that love wonderful music!
why would be in that crap of spotify??? the important is to have it in mp3 and in YT!
@@mikatu I mean that with Spotify, it could be listened from more people
Mr Adrian Smith.
Great
Guitar my friend long live sir adrian🤟🤟🤟🤟🔝🔝🌋
pure class european hard rock, like blue murder, the 80s thin lizzy, gary moore hard rock records, etc.
Awesome album, then and now.
This sounds like it could be used on the soundtrack for Miami Vice or some other eighties American television production. This was made by Londoners but sounds so American, unlike Smith's former/future band Iron Maiden.
Sounds like an empty stadium during soundcheck post 1986 production.
Listened this like 4 years ago when i was 14 y/o.Stills being amazing and it's a real shame that wonderfull bands like A.S.A.P. and also Winterose were so underrated back then.
Thank You Adrian For This! I LOVE YOU! Up The Adrians!
Produkcija je strašna, koje radio, nisam baš gledao, svaka mu čast.,a o vokali, i prarateceim vokalima, Odlično.
Anyone still coming to listen to this album in December 2021? I love this since day one, kind of what i expected from Adrian after Reach out but even since Somewhere in time i knew he has more than offer, beyond Maiden.
Feb 2022, and this is my first time listening to the album. I’ve listened to Smith/Kotzen and I love it, so I know he has a range of talent beyond what Maiden has to offer, but this is something else entirely. I say this completely unironically, I think my mom would really like this.
Oh wow... I still have this cassette tape. But I no longer have a player set-up... I haven't listened this in decades...
The first track is very "Top Gun". Love it
Reminds me of Run For Cover....really excellent.
Grandissimo disco AOR !!
This is probably one of the most underrated albums of the 80's, the very best music Adrian Smith has made besides Iron Maiden.
Because is not from the 80's. Just sounds like. Should be released in 1988, was perfect time for this record
@@davidetonioni This record was released in 1989 sir.
@@WarthDader74 you re right. I was sure about 1990 because I associated with Dickinson single release
The Great Adrian smith
Thanks for the upload. Had this on tape then my dog chewed it 15 years ago....along with my 7th son tape! Was soooooo pissed. Cheers
Never knew this existed. Thank you for posting
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I love Adrian's style. Such an original guitarist and his side projects are awesome.
This it`s just amazing. I don`t understand why i didn`t sell
i agree. i have no idea why this album didnt do well? i have had this since it came out back when i was 15. adrian did a lot of these songs back in 1985 with basically this same band but nicko on drums. the bootleg is called "the whole population of hackney" amazing stuff. the band was called "the entire population of hackney". if you can find it check it out.
probably cause maiden fans were too dumb to embrace this sound..and AOR fans thought this was a maiden thing..but it was a great record
TheCLOUDFORCE yeah that’s what it says in the Maiden biography. It wasn’t heavy enough for maiden fans, and Bryan Adams and Journey fans weren’t going to buy it because of Maiden
I think its vibe is too eighties... I guess that since it was released in the end of the eighties it didn't go so well in sales. In my honest opinion, if this very same album was released in '84, '85 or so, it would have been a massive hit
I always said,he missed a moment.A few years earlier-and this album could be a bomb.If he could released it in 85...
I fckn love this album!! One of my favorite CDs ever!
How do we contact someone in a suit to convince them to put this on spotify or amazon music?
This is actually pretty good!
Wanderfull Album.
Smitz/Kotzen brought me here! Bit late but i will take it nevertheless haha. Love you "H"
First songs great, if the whole album was like that it would have been a classic.
great aor melodic metal from this great british musician , i realy love iron maiden but this sound is so delicius, for my ears, congratulations Adrian smith for this great master piece, and Also thanx for it
I remember buying this album back in the day. Great album Mr Smith.
Got this album on cassette. It's a great solo album. Check out his Psycho Motel albums.
i bloody love you. thanks for putting this up \m/
ahah glad to make you happy! :)
Rocco Saviano
Can you please add the times in the description for every track? :)
+Rocco Saviano I think he meant the times as in the position on the entire CD that each song starts - not how long each song lasts (if that makes sense).
+thrasher1889 That's true. Silver and gold isn't placed on the start of the song :)
I'm sorry this album flopped Adrian, but for what it's worth, it's fuckin amazing :D
Imo, it's an underrated gem. I've heard much worse albums that are being praised to this day, especially in terms of music quality.
The lion is a great track! Adrians voice is amazing
as theres 3 guitarists its hard to know how much adrian is playing nice album thou.😊
Grande Adrian Smith, além de um grande guitarrista, canta muiiiiiito. Que voz linda!!!👊🤘🤘🤘
Best Leppard album out there
Damn, I love this kind of music.
love this ,very atmospheric
It's great to listen to it again ( I still have the original cassette but I feel lazy so I won't look for it 😄) it sounds very Californian and very 80's...
It's a masterpiece...
Adrian is a great musician......
Very underrated AoR album by maestro Smith!
Iron Maiden should let Adrian sings Paul era songs, I'm sure it would be better than Bruce
Bruce D is a very accomplished singer (and all-round interesting guy) but I agree that Smith's style, as demonstrated here, is more in line with the vocal sound on the first two IM albums.
i remember playing this all the time whenni bought it
Thanks for the upload Rocco Saviano. !!!!!!!!!! APPRECIATE IT MUCH !!
you're welcome!
Is there download link for this album?
in a not smart ass way. ya gotta look like the rest of us. if you find it let me know. thanks, don
Awesome Gem! Adrian Smith a great guitarrist and composer!
Amazing album!
awesome...........up the irons from Texas
adrian GOD of ROCK
I sStill love this album
I think, it is an inconspicuous work of Adrian, the music is on the line of "The original Iron Men" (Dennis Stratton/Paul Di'anno). Best Adrian things out of Maiden are, works with Bruce Dickinson and of course Primal Rock Rebellion and the masterpiece "Awoken Broken" simply awesome!
different things! anyway, 'The Original Men', a nice work, was released in 1995, when a.o.r. played obsolete... on the contrary 'Silver and Gold' at the height of a.o.r. age!
Yeah, of course, different things and different times... but i think a.o.r actually is a big inspiration of the greats of metal. Something big inside the a.o.r. :)
Rocco Saviano i
That piano part in "The Lion" sounds like 20 years ahead of it's time :P
Mais um álbum de carreira solo que supera vários do Iron Maiden, Hard Rock AOR de altíssima qualidade.
Excelente disco hubieran seguido adelante buena voz
2nd track sounds so catchy!
Maravilhoso !!!! Adrian Smith, reative este projeto !!!
Great melomaniac this guy