AOR Melodic Rock Sweden

Original 1993

Near Mint condition

Band:

Martin White (vocals)
Per Aldeheim (guitar)
Jocke Bjorkejan (guitar)
John Rosth (keyboards)
Per Ahlstrom (bass)
Anders Gustavsson (drums)

Tracks:

1. Give us a place
2. Someone in the house
3. I'm your man
4. Play that funky music
5. Pretend I'm god
6. Sing the blues
7. Wild metalapolis
8. Maybe yoyu are but I'm not
9. Pain
10. There is something
11. Where I

The first half of the 1990s was awash with melodic funk metal bands. There were those who made it into the big leagues and those who didn’t (hey, anyone remember the mighty Kingofthehill?). Extreme sold millions of copies of what I’ve always considered patchy albums, while the very cool Dan Reed Network were vritually ignored by everyone. Also in the long list of those which should’ve hit the big time comes Sweden’s Its Alive, whose second album (though first to get a full release) ‘Earthquake Visions’ always showed great promise and has aged remarkably well.

The future should’ve been bright for these guys, but sadly, it never really happened. I’ve no idea what happened to the rest of the band, but in the late 1990s, Martin White (now calling himself Max Martin) became an incredibly successful songwriter, penning the Britney Spears multi-million seller ‘Baby One More Time’… Now, if Britney would only have a stab at covering ‘Give Up A Place’ or ‘Pain’, that’d be something to see!!!