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Songs in the Key of Rock | 
| Artist: Glenn Hughes
Label: Import [Generic]
Category: Music
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 463512
Format: Import, Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 8024391014813
ASIN: B00009PM9Q
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | In My Blood | | • | Lost in the Zone | | • | Gasoline | | • | Higher Places (Song for Bonzo) | | • | Get You Stoned | | • | Written All Over Your Face | | • | Standing on the Rock | | • | Courageous | | • | Secret Life [*] | | • | Truth | | • | Wherever You Go |
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Album Description
Full title - Songs In The Key Of Rock. Limited digipak edition of 2003 album features11 tracks including one exclusive bonus track, 'Secret Life'. Frontiers.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Songs in the Key of Check + January 28, 2008
A. Silber (Damascus-ish MD)
A great compilation of songs. Some (perhaps most)of which are great music accompanying Glenn Hughes' amazing pipes. The is not solid from start to finish. There are a couple of which are so-so. I recommend purchasing this disc.
an uneven effort with a marvelous first part August 4, 2006
The Lone Wolf (Charlottesville, VA, USA)
To you reading this, you're most likely a Glenn Hughes fan. You probably know of his stint with Deep Purple, and all that. So, I don't feel obligated to convince you of how great Glenn Hughes is, why he's one of the best hard rock vocalists ever or anything like that. I'm going to cut to the chase and let you know of my feelings about this CD, and how it compares to his other output. One of the many good things about Mr. Hughes (yes, his voice is great, but you already know that) is that he really doesn't care about looking "hip" or "modern" or "riding the latest wave". He does his thing, that is funky hard rock with a lot of vocal pyrotechnics, one of the main reasons he drives crazy some people, even hard rock fans. And this CD is the perfect example of that. It's pure hard rock at its very best... well, at least the first part of the CD. That's the main problem with this recording, it sounds like 6 extremely crafty hard rock anthems (they wouldn't be out of place among the best of the old Purple canon), but the rest of the CD sounds like filler. The first song, "In my blood" is a guitar-fueled funky hard rock staple which works incredibly well among the textured layers of keyboard and soaring vocals by Mr. Hughes. "Lost in the zone" and "Gasoline" work equally well, keeping a high-stamina level throughout the record. Then, one of the two highlights, "Higher Places" starts off with a "Kashmir"-like guitar riff and evolves into a Zeppelin-esque epic to which Mr. Hughes vocals' adapt so well he'd give Plant a run for his money, even at his prime. Truly stellar. After another spirited song, "Get you stoned", we are presented with probably the best individual song Hughes has written in 15 years. At first, "Written all over your face" hits you with a keyboard-propelled melody superbly enhanced by deep bass lines and explosive guitar riffs. Then, the pace changes to what looks like a softer, almost ballad-like vocal chord, but immediately bounces back to a high intensity vocal self-exchange which continues to build tension up to an explosive moment in which Mr. Hughes sustains the same alto for more than 10 seconds in the most spectacular showing of his vocal prowess. Lirically, the song deals with finding a place in this world which Glenn may feel has left him behind, and the uncertainty of tomorrow. Well, Mr. Hughes can relax since as long as his die-hard fans (yours truly) are out here, he won't be left behind.
However, this is the end of the really worthy part of the record, the rest are second-tier songs which unfortunately sound stale and dull compared to the two moments presented before. Overall, this is a must for Glenn's fans (slightly superior to "Building the Machine" and much better than "Return of Crystal Karma") and a very interesting staple of one of the best hard rock singers ever.
Excellent, diverse sound November 3, 2005
njrobbo (Bayonne, NJ)
Higher Places is the best song on the album. Sounds like he sang it with a purpose (which he did since he dedicated it to John Bonham). Sold song writing, but this was only a sample of better songs he was yet to write & perform. His live stuff is where his voice really shines.
 Great stuff January 27, 2004
Mr. R. Van Schelven (Leidschendam, The Netherlands)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What can I say. I just like this CD. Just good "hard-rock" with a great sauce of soul and funck as to expected from Glenn. He still has an excellent voice.
Highly recommended.
Run - Don't Walk, RUN! - To Get This September 11, 2003
El Kabong
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Thank GAWD for the inner demons that nearly destroyed Glenn Hughes back in the 80s when he had all but vanished from music...because, if he hadn't faced his personal gotterdammerung and emerged whole and victorious, we would all have been cheated of this most extraordinary second wind that's caught his sails since '92. I know that we all equate intrinsic worth with sales charts and popularity - or at least we're schooled to - but you need to know this: regardless of radio and MTV's neglect, regardless of the iffy US distribution Hughes albums and projects receive, and regardless of the fact that 9 out of 10 kids don't even know who he is, there is no more electrifying hard-rock artist currently active than Glenn Hughes. The dozen or so cds he's released these past 10 years, under his own name & in collaborative projects, are such beautifully crafted gems - they almost glow - that it's regoddamdiculous that he's still referred to as 'ex-Trapeze' or 'ex-Deep Purple'. Bosh. His entire second career to date has altogether eclipsed his first, by finally coalescing the divergent styles he loves - raucous funk, chilled-out soul and unapolegetic rock - in perfect symmetry. This man is ALIVE at 52 in a way he never even approached at 25; if you require proof of that, plant your mitts on a copy of this new one, SONGS IN THE KEY OF ROCK, which climbs and climbs till it hits cruising altitude at somewhere around 30,000 feet up. Not a bad track to be found, and most importantly....and unlike many of his classic-rock contemporaries...there are no generic formula tracks here either. Each song is like a little piece of what makes Glenn Hughes tick: fierce, vibrant, crackling with spontaneous combustion. And when he takes it down a notch for something cool and contemplative, you're left just as stunned by his emotion and consummate mastery of craft. Look, kids, you have a choice here: you can either begin scarfing up the Glenn Hughes catalog NOW, starting with this album, or you can wait until he's inevitably 'rediscovered' by the critics later, when his records will be REALLY hard to find.
My suggestion is to dive right in and find out what you've been missing - and keep an eye out for the many side-projects Glenn contributes to as well, such as Voodoo Hill, the Hughes-Turner Project, Nikolo Kotzev, the LA Blues Authority, John Norum and a panoply of otherwise-unremarkable-but-for-Glenn's-tracks tribute albums. He's no longer "formerly of" anyone or anything: Glenn Hughes has quietly compiled a body of work that stands alone, on its own two feet. And SONGS might just be his crowning achievement thus far.
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