 | Savatage Streets: A Rock Opera
4.2
excellent
| Ranking: #24 for 1991 | |
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| 4.0 excellent | ExoskeletalJunction | February 5th 22 |
26th January: Savatage - Streets (heavy metal, 1991)
One of those albums where my enjoyment of it comes with quite a few buts. I mean, it’s a glam
metal rock opera from 1991, if that doesn’t start you off on bad note already. But there are just
so many good melodies and riffs in this thing, both heavy and ballad, that you can look past the
mediocre vocals, corny production, over-the-top solos and overall rubbish aesthetic. Oliva’s voice
has never been to my taste, but at least here he can find some bits of passion and intensity in
the way he works melodic ideas, and honestly some of the hooks here get stuck in my head all the
time. It also doesn’t really have any filler - although some segments (read: the solos) meander a
bit, every song has at least one or two great riffs or great musical moments. As far as glam metal
operas go, this one is probably one of the best.
7.2 (6th listen)
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| 4.5 superb | Robbit | December 10th 17 |
STREETS was Savatage?s most mature, diverse and well executed work of their career. While their technical achievements here are impressive and commendable, it?s the soulfulness of this album that make it most praiseworthy. There are some aspects of this album that might make it just slightly Broadway for some people?s taste. It is difficult to achieve perfection with any concept record, yet Savatage came very close with this superb album. Standout tracks include "Ghost In The Ruins", "Jesus Saves" and "Believe".
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| 3.5 great | Fernando Alves STAFF | August 4th 11 |
Definitely one of their classic records where broadway meets metal. Streets have good songs like Streets, Jesus Saves or Ghost in the Ruins but my favourites are the previous two and the next one. Chris Oliva was an amazing guitar player.
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| 5.0 classic | bSmith | October 25th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Djokoll | September 14th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Bren80 | July 2nd 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Josh | November 19th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zakusz | June 30th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | eirinn | March 17th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Basina | December 31st 20 |
| 5.0 classic | CalinD | December 27th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | neikos | October 26th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Tib | May 19th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Marci | April 11th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | hsb | March 3rd 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Ziopsis | December 19th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | mEyck07 | December 2nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kris/KJ | September 28th 19 |
| 3.0 good | gk1979 | January 28th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | batmura | January 23rd 19 |
| 3.5 great | ElioG | December 6th 18 |
| 3.5 great | igi78 | November 16th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | J1m1 | September 8th 18 |
| 3.5 great | ssak | July 4th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rosier | February 12th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Casavir | February 1st 18 |
| 3.5 great | adios | October 8th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | GazAldo | August 1st 17 |
| 5.0 classic | Svetli | May 30th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fenix | February 12th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Xurxo | November 8th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | DaveD | August 18th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Lanas | July 24th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | Mitch | July 10th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Ianman | June 27th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Pegana | January 29th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | musixxx | December 22nd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | PhilSam | December 16th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | IronWolf | December 14th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | IrishC | August 13th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | nadryv | March 25th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ueddy | November 19th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Samppa | October 12th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | bjb | October 8th 14 |
| 3.0 good | ariich | October 5th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | aguzman | September 22nd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Palatial | September 20th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | jybt | August 12th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | deslad | January 14th 14 |
| 4.2 excellent | manosg EMERITUS | January 6th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | slackr | July 3rd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | pains | June 4th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Fra | May 24th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | SCR1971 | April 21st 13 |
| 5.0 classic | Amos81 | December 25th 12 |
| 3.5 great | KILL | August 5th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | mho | June 29th 12 |
| 3.5 great | TLX | April 17th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | zyklzy | April 13th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ruezann | March 9th 12 |
| 2.5 average | Siamois | January 14th 12 |
| 3.5 great | sodas | October 20th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | tsoman | September 27th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Phate72 | September 25th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | zacab | August 15th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | iZac | June 3rd 11 |
| 3.5 great | nkbr | April 10th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | delinho | January 14th 11 |
| 3.5 great | dwen | December 22nd 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | deroeckj | December 11th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Jarvig | November 14th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | madmok | November 12th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | ArchoN | August 5th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | kayowas | February 27th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | Awake88 | September 2nd 09 |
| 2.5 average | pdbn | June 20th 09 |
| 2.0 poor | Mikesn EMERITUS | May 11th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | met65 | November 27th 07 |
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