{"id":10207,"date":"2012-09-12T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=10207"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:58:25","slug":"retro-review-gorky-park-gorky-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=10207","title":{"rendered":"Retro Review: Gorky Park – Gorky Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gorky Park \u2013 Gorky Park<\/strong>
\n Release Date<\/strong>: 1989
\nThe Good<\/strong>: Bang, Try and Find Me, Hit Me With The News, Sometimes At Night, My Generation, Child of the Wind, Fortress, Action
\nThe Bad<\/strong>: Peace In Our Time,
\nThe Indifferent<\/strong>: Within Your Eyes, Danger<\/p>\n

Back in 1989, the hard rock\/metal world was wowed by The Moscow Music Peace Festival which took place at Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Russia.\u00a0 For the first time, some of the biggest names in hard rock (Skid Row, Cinderella, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, and Bon Jovi) would join forces and perform a benefit for substance abusers in Russia (go figure).\u00a0 In exchange, we got Russian hard rockers Gorky Park.\u00a0 Now if you ask anyone who was a headbanger teen back then, they without a doubt saw this band\u2019s video for the song \u201cBang\u201d on MTV which was on in heavy rotation.\u00a0 The band was met with a lot of mixed words.\u00a0 You either dug them or you hated them and I was one of the ones that loved what they were doing.<\/p>\n

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Listening to this album over 20 years later, it\u2019s really amazing to me how fun and still unique this album sounds.\u00a0 Gorky Park took elements of their homeland\u2019s percussive sounds and even their gang-like chanting background vocals.\u00a0 Lead singer Nikolai Noskov had such powerful and unique voice that I still feel like I am hearing something really special.\u00a0 \u201cBang\u201d still sounds cool and is a really neat way to open the album.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s anywhere near as strong as some of the other songs on the album but it\u2019s still a cool song mixing American and Russian lyrics to create something really different.\u00a0 Gorky Park seems to teeter more on the mellow\/melodic side of things with some really beautiful songs like \u201cTry and Find Me\u201d and \u201cChild of the Wind\u201d and the song \u201cSometimes At Night\u201d reminds me of something that could\u2019ve been an Ozzy Osbourne song reminiscent of \u201cFire In The Sky.\u201d<\/p>\n