Disco de Valentine: “Valentine”

Valentine is Awesome!! This cd is very hard to find since it was on the Giant label. I consider this an AOR/Melodic Metal masterpiece. They sound like a heavier version of Journey. They later became Open Skyz but it is not as good as this. The songs I like are: Tears In The Night, Running On Luck Again, No Way & Where Are You Now. If you don't have it get it while you can!

This album is perfection personified. From the opening lyrics of 'God' to the very last notes of '!' This guy just gets better and better. 'The Arms of Lonliness' is a most beautiful ballad and as for 'Ma Cherie'...it's pure heaven! You get all the pomp of 'Eyes in the Mirror' (similar to Queens' 'Seaside Rendezvous') and 'The Mourning Minstrel' is so over the top you have to play it a few times to appreciate the quality and production. This album has absolutely everything...if you buy this Robby Valentine album, it will be only the first of many more...guaranteed!!!

This is one of the finest groups of musicians ever assembled. The songwriting is fantastic, Hugo's voice is phenominal, and Adam's guitar playing is simply brilliant. This album is worth every penny and more. It's a shame that they hit the scene so close to the end of the hair / melodic rock era. A few years earlier, and they would have been a household name!

Keep on rockin'. Oh, and check out www.valentineopenskyz.com for news! Just found it today!

I didn't know what to expect when I bought this album because I had never heard of them before and didn't even know what type of music they were. Fortunately this album provided a unique blend of heavy guitars, heavily integrated keyboards (but not in a crappy 80's synthesiser way) and strong vocals. The lyrics are a bit cliche, but it adds comedy value to songs such as 'too much is never enough' and a little sentiment with strong ballards such as 'never said it was gonna be easy'. The bands sound resembles that of firehouse and white Lion, with plenty of fast guitar solo's, screaming vocals and catchy melodies. Check out the bands later project with open skyz which was the only two albums they ever did unfortunately. Overall, it does blend in a little with the rest of the hair metal bands of that era, but it is one of the best, just a shame they weren't recognised that much.

At the end of the glam pop/rock era this album has to go down as one of the finest pieces of music that has ever been wrote.You have got keyboards to the max,crunching guitars and sublime vocals.I have to say that this is in my top 5 albums of all time,just a shame they only made the one album.