Title: “Silent rain”
Format: Album track
Written by: Gary Hughes
Performed by: Ten
Genre: Melodic Rock/AOR
Taken from: Babylon
Year: 2000
Acclaim: n/a
Nobody likes, or even knows about Ten, but that's ok, you can all suck it. They happen to be one of my favourite bands, ever since I discovered them about ten (hah!) years ago, and I've yet to hear a bad album from them. This is from their concept album
Babylon, one of three great ballads on the album, and if there's one thing Gary Hughes does well, it's write a cracking ballad. There's an even better one as the closer to the album, but at the moment we're not concerned with that.
The great Don Airey does a fine job on the piano here, and Gary is as ever in great voice. Vinny Burns' guitars power through just at the right time, and Gary's ever-perfect songwriting is heavily in evidence –
”Like a lost ship of dreams that failed to sail” – and the song really ramps up for the chorus. Great orchestral style keys by Don near the end too, the track building to a strong crescendo dripping with emotion and passion and fading away to a few lonely piano notes.
Things I like about this :
1. Gary's vocal
2. The lyric
3. Great keys from Don Airey
4. Guitar solo
5. Piano ending
Things I don't like about this:
Nothing
Rating: 