Let The Hammer Fall

In 1999 Neat Metal released 3 Shy albums

, made up of unreleased material. Some tracks were demos, others were

new recordings of released tracks. Let the Hammer Fall is the third of these releases. The

other two are Regeneration and Live In Europe.  The title track "Let The Hammer Fall" is an early version

of  " Shake The Nations" ,  (except I think this is better!) which was released on the " Misspent Youth" album.

The other track redone for Misspent Youth is "Love is Just Another Word" (???????). Other stand out tracks for me

are : Time After Time & You're Gonna Lose Her . If you want to buy one of these 3 albums I would go for Live In Europe first,

and then this album or Regeneration. This is only my personal opinion, but give me feedback on this view.  Shy obviously recorded a

lot of tracks for Excess All Areas/Misspent Youth (87/89), many of which are excellent AOR tracks. Check them out and see yourself.....

There are tracks which are below par for Shy, but that is to be expected for a release of demos, B sides. Overall an interesting / quality AOR cd.