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Review
An electrifying stew of hard rock, biker rock, Southern rock, and keyboard rock (we're talking '83 after all), Nemesis may easily be Axe's defining statement: The band wants nothing more than airwave domination and to come into your town to help you party down. Ripped opener "Heat in the Street" bears a similar title to "Rock 'N' Roll Party in the Streets," Axe's biggest-ever hit from their previous offering, Offering (the CD reissue erroneously christens the song "Heat in the Night" but all that matters is Nemesis made it to disc), yet despite the obvious leitmotiv, nothing can touch this red-hot, hard-luck, fugitive tale which takes every right turn while crashing and burning in a league with the immortal Motörhead; Axe is always geared for the radio, though, throwing in keys and vocoder for a walloping slab of two-ton American-rock. "Eagle Flies Alone" soars skyward as endearingly as fellow knuckle-head Sammy Hagar's "Eagles Fly," only Axe kicks it out four years earlier. Axe also beats the Crüe to bat with the lascivious "Girls Girls Girls (backing vocals by the Mountain Jack Sluggettes). "Foolin' Your Mama Again" sneaks around a melodic outlaw chorus, and the hard-working Edgar Winter boogie, "Keep Playing That Rock 'n' Roll" is still another great, innocuous burner. The boys prove to be utterly fearless and amiable, forcing keys on guitars while swerving through a blissful riot of clichéd lyrics. "Masquerade" almost ends the LP on a slow ride (replete with a cell-phone ring?) before the drop-dead pounder "Midnight" fires things up again. Contrary to the intimidating cover art, Nemesis remains naughty but slick, heavy but friendly; nothing more than well-done, blue
EAC extraction logfile from 15. July 2005, 22:18 for CD
Axe / Nemesis
Used drive : TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1912 Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 12
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format : Monkey's Audio Lossless Encoder v3.97 DLL
Fast Lossless Compression
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename C:\Temp\Axe - Nemesis.ape
Peak level 98.7 %
Range quality 100.0 %
CRC 10D8FCAA
Copy OK
No errors occured
End of status report
Released by BeavisMan
1 Heat in the Night Barth, Osborne 2:53
2 Young Hearts Barth 2:50
3 All Through the Night Barth, Osborne 3:03
4 I Think You'll Remember Tonight Barth, Osborne 3:54
5 She's Had the Power Barth, Osborne, Spires 3:07
6 Girls, Girls, Girls Barth, Osborne 2:50
7 Eagle Flies Alone Barth, Osborne 3:27
8 Keep Playing That Rock 'N' Roll Winter 3:16
9 Foolin' Your Mama Again Barth, Osborne, Spires 2:56
10 Let the Music Come Back Barth, Mueller, Osborne, Riley 4:37
11 Masquerade Barth 4:45
12 Midnight Barth 3:31
An electrifying stew of hard rock, biker rock, Southern rock, and keyboard rock (we're talking '83 after all), Nemesis may easily be Axe's defining statement: The band wants nothing more than airwave domination and to come into your town to help you party down. Ripped opener "Heat in the Street" bears a similar title to "Rock 'N' Roll Party in the Streets," Axe's biggest-ever hit from their previous offering, Offering (the CD reissue erroneously christens the song "Heat in the Night" but all that matters is Nemesis made it to disc), yet despite the obvious leitmotiv, nothing can touch this red-hot, hard-luck, fugitive tale which takes every right turn while crashing and burning in a league with the immortal Motörhead; Axe is always geared for the radio, though, throwing in keys and vocoder for a walloping slab of two-ton American-rock. "Eagle Flies Alone" soars skyward as endearingly as fellow knuckle-head Sammy Hagar's "Eagles Fly," only Axe kicks it out four years earlier. Axe also beats the Crüe to bat with the lascivious "Girls Girls Girls (backing vocals by the Mountain Jack Sluggettes). "Foolin' Your Mama Again" sneaks around a melodic outlaw chorus, and the hard-working Edgar Winter boogie, "Keep Playing That Rock 'n' Roll" is still another great, innocuous burner. The boys prove to be utterly fearless and amiable, forcing keys on guitars while swerving through a blissful riot of clichéd lyrics. "Masquerade" almost ends the LP on a slow ride (replete with a cell-phone ring?) before the drop-dead pounder "Midnight" fires things up again. Contrary to the intimidating cover art, Nemesis remains naughty but slick, heavy but friendly; nothing more than well-done, blue
EAC extraction logfile from 15. July 2005, 22:18 for CD
Axe / Nemesis
Used drive : TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1912 Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 12
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format : Monkey's Audio Lossless Encoder v3.97 DLL
Fast Lossless Compression
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename C:\Temp\Axe - Nemesis.ape
Peak level 98.7 %
Range quality 100.0 %
CRC 10D8FCAA
Copy OK
No errors occured
End of status report
Released by BeavisMan
1 Heat in the Night Barth, Osborne 2:53
2 Young Hearts Barth 2:50
3 All Through the Night Barth, Osborne 3:03
4 I Think You'll Remember Tonight Barth, Osborne 3:54
5 She's Had the Power Barth, Osborne, Spires 3:07
6 Girls, Girls, Girls Barth, Osborne 2:50
7 Eagle Flies Alone Barth, Osborne 3:27
8 Keep Playing That Rock 'N' Roll Winter 3:16
9 Foolin' Your Mama Again Barth, Osborne, Spires 2:56
10 Let the Music Come Back Barth, Mueller, Osborne, Riley 4:37
11 Masquerade Barth 4:45
12 Midnight Barth 3:31