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Nelson
"After The Rain"
© DGC Records
Year of Release: 1990
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track listing
(Can't Live Without Your) Love And Affection
I Can Hardly Wait
After The Rain
Tracy's Song/ Only Time Will Tell
More Than Ever
(It's Just) Desire
Fill You Up
Interlude/ Everywhere I Go
Bits And Pieces
Will You Love Me
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Nelson "After The Rain"
Twin brothers Gunnar and Matthew Nelson had a famous musician father, Ricky
Nelson, who, tragically, died in a a plane crash on New Year's Eve, 1985.
Like their father, the twins would have a #1 song "(Can't Live Without Your)
Love And Affection". (Ricky Nelson had two #1 songs in his career;
"Poor Little Fool" and "Travellin' Man"). Nelson's 1990 release,
After The Fire, captures them being a band with a sound similar to the
typical 1980s pop/hard rock hair bands, especially Bon Jovi. (And yes, the
twin brothers definitely had the hair...)
Kicking off their album is the #1 song, (Can't Live Without Your) Love
And Affection, a real good rock song that received heavy radio airplay.
"I Can Hardly Wait" captures the band having a sound similar to Bon Jovi
and/or a medium-rocking Kiss song. The title track of this album is another
great rock song, that also received heavy radio airplay.
"Tracy's Song" (named for their older actress singer), is a
medium-type ballad, with an accoustic guitar intro, as it blends into the next
song, "Only Time Will Tell," a ballad that definitely has the
comparison of Bon Jovi. Another song that received some radio airplay,
"More Than Ever," is another Bon Jovi-type rocker.
"(It's Just) Desire" and "Fill You Up" are songs having
a much more hard-rocking sound. "Interlude" is a piano/classical
instrumental, which blends into another tune, "Everywhere I Go," which
is a bit moody in sound, yet it's another rocker.
"Bits And Pieces" is another typical rocker as heard in previous
songs on this album, and the album's closing song, "Will You Love Me"
is another hard rocker, as it closes out an excellent, fine album.
And that best describes Nelson's After The Rain: It's an excellent
album, for the hard-rock fan, especially for the fans of Bon Jovi. It has
a 1980s hair rock sound, and all of the members of Nelson have the hair.
And forgive me, but I can't help notice the resemblance of the Nelson twins.
Don't they kinda resemble the actress (Kendall, formerly of All My
Children and) Buffy The Vampire Slayer? (Sarah Michelle Gellar)
By the way, the twins do have an older sister, Tracy, who appeared on the TV
series with Tom Bosley, Father Dowling Mysteries. But for your
information, Sarah is not their sister, but she could sure pass that test as
being one.
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