Guilty Pleasures
Vitamin Z - Sharp Stone Rain [838 847-1 UK 1989 24-Bit FLAC] Everybody is allowed to own and love just one pompous eighties pop-rock album - this was mine. Vitamin Z were from Sheffield, a city more celebrated on these pages for its industrial musical heritage than growing long hair, tucking its stone-wash jeans into its boots and waving a bono-like white flag over its audience. In fact, if you didn't know differently, you would swear that the bandana'd one is chopping some 'edgy' riffs on a couple of tracks. Vitamin Z's first album was Rites Of Passage which strolled around in Tears For Fears' footprints and produced a minor hit Burning Flame on both sides of the Atlantic in 1984. This the delayed follow-up was laden with catchy eighties rock hooks and would have faired better if it had been released a few years earlier. Cast aside your prejudices, there isn't one duff track on this record, however it is let down by the common issue of using five diffe...