KZEL-96 Oregon's Best Rock LP 1985

KZEL-96 Oregon's Best Rock LP 1985
Label:	Starstream Record Company.	#:	SSTS-027	Country:	USA
Info:	Part of the beer brand Stroh's Superstar Talent Search series of US radio station albums, once again on the much productive Starstream label and this time from mid '80s Oregon.

CONTENT

bold = exclusive track / normal = non-exclusive track / italic = non-metal

STINGER - Love For Two
aor.
KENNEL CLUB - Don't Ask Why
Soft rock.
FLASHER - Wheel Of Fortune
'American Rockmetal' describes these guys to a T. It's nice, not too forcefully pounding Heavy Rock that thankfully never sounds sleazy nor aor'y. Gets your foot tapping more than your head banging..
LITTLE BIG BAND - Love On The Line
Sounds a bit 'alterno' at first but we'll file this under Unspecified melodic rock.
HARLOT - Don't Stop
...and this would be archetypical 'American Street Metal' then, sort of in the early Great White-vein. Nothing that Metal Blade would have looked twice upon but ballsy enough to be enjoyable.

RMS MC CONNEL - Save A Little
Wimp lightweight & upbeat rock/aor.
WILD SOCIETY - She's Learning How To Rock
Americanized AC/DC feelgood Hard Rock, alas w/ zero HM-flavour.
NEUMXS - Tell Me Do You
With a weird name like that I was almost expecting some weird new wave/minimal s*nth, but no - Beatles' flavoured ballad.
THE ZAPHIRE PROJECT - Heart Of Stone
Semi-pompy melodic Hard Rock/aor.
PAT MILLER'S MUSIC FACTORY - Someone Else's Nightmare
Not ultra-weird, but still a typical hidden-away-as-the-last-track-of-the-album oddity. Boogie rock + synths + silly sound effects = Outsider Rock?

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