McAULEY SCHENKER GROUP - Perfect Timing [Remastered] (2012)

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Among my favorite Schenker albums ever, "Perfect Timing" by McAULEY SCHENKER GROUP criminally never was released in a remastered form outside Japan, until now.
UK label Cherry Red has coming to do justice, as this is a great Melodic Hard Rock album.

Released at the end of 2012, this "Perfect Timing" fresh remaster is truly awesome.
The original CD from 1987 had the typical quiet digital transfer of many editions from the era when the CD format recently appeared in the market and the mastering job in this type of physical support was pretty naive. The vinyl version sounded million times better.
Although released in Japan with a very good remastering (in 2000 and again in 2006), in the rest of the world none company took the challenge.
This Cherry Red's "Perfect Timing" is excellent with a brighter sound, controlled gain enhancement, more clarity and even sounding like if it was remixed yet it wasn't touched in this department.
Occurs that the high amount of layers in the recording - this was a big budget release intended for MSG to conquer the United States - now really pops up with this remaster, crisp and clear.

If you never heard "Perfect Timing", this is somehow a forgotten MHR classic.
After four studio albums and two live records released on Chrysalis between 1980 and 1984, Michael returned in 1987 with a new label (EMI) and fronted by former Grand Prix and Far Corporation singer Robin McAuley, with a change of name to the McAuley Schenker Group, but still conveniently shortened to MSG.
Still in the veins of hard rock elements, but now with a more melodic US approach, radio-friendly choruses and lush production, "Perfect Timing" even borders AOR proportions on many tracks.
The commercial hard-rocking single "Gimme Your Love" opens the album, followed by the bouncy melodic rocker "Here Today – Gone Tomorrow", also a highlight of the record.
"No Time for Losers" is catchy, while the AORish "Love is Not A Game" showcase McAuley's melodic vocal lines, definitely another radio-friendy track.
Two ballads are surely to rest your ears for a while, the harmony layered "Follow The Night" and the haunting "Time", a track with a very original skeleton and full of Schenker’s trademark melodic fills.

It's time to pick your delayed MSG "Perfect Timing" remastered version, now at a good price and in a excellent package, a complete 16 page booklet with period memorabilia and rare photos, original artwork, lyrics and a Malcolm Dome essay with new interview snippets.
And most important of all: with a terrific sound, you'll hear a world of difference.


01. Gimme' Your Love
02. Here Today Gone Tomorrow
03. Don't Stop Me Now
04. No Time For Losers
05. Follow The Night
06. Get Out
07. Love Is Not A Game
08. Time
09. I Don't Wanna Lose
10. Rock 'Til You're Crazy

Robin McAuley - Vocals
Michael Schenker - Guitar
Mitch Perry - Guitar
Steve Mann - Keyboards
Rocky Newton - Bass, Backing Vocals
Bodo Schopf - Drums
Produced by Andy Johns



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