1766 - Prism - The Best of Prism (1996)

Prism
"The Best of Prism"
Nov 19, 1996
Renaissance
70:56
Compilation
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REVIEW
by Gina Boldman
This compilation includes the band's best-known hit, 1981's "Don't Let Him Know" (co-written by Bryan Adams), and showcases the rest of their modest collection, which is mostly spirited attempts at a bland genre of music: watered-down synth rock. Call them art-rock lite, or hard adult contemporary. A hybrid of Sweet, Styx and the Little River Band, Prism goes for space-oddity flavor with lines like "On Mercury they're crazy about my stellar rock and roll, and I always seem to sell out at the Martian astrobowl" (from "Spaceship Superstar") and "The planet dies and no one cries" (from "Take Me to the Kaptin"). And oddest of them all, "Armageddon's" drum intro sounds quite similar to Metallica's intro to "Am I Evil?" (recorded several years later). Eerie.
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1 Good to Be Back (Adams, Harlow, Vallance) 3:10
2 Don't Let Him Know (Adams, Vallance) 3:10
3 American Music (Mitchell) 3:32
4 Party Line (Harlow, Mitchell) 3:23
5 Cover Girl (Adams, Mitchell) 2:55
6 Armageddon (Mitchell) 7:46
7 See Forever Eyes (Hall, Mitchell) 5:10
8 Spaceship Superstar (Higgs) 4:08
9 You Walked Away Again (Adams) 3:39
10 Virginia (Miller) 3:58
11 Mirror Man (Hall, Mitchell) 5:31
12 Satellite (Harlow, Mitchell) 3:26
13 Turn on Your Radar (Walker) 3:14
14 Night to Remember (Mitchell) 5:53
15 Flyin' (Harlow) 4:35
16 Young and Restless (Harlow, Mitchell) 3:28
17 Take Me to the Kaptin (Higgs) 3:58
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A.B. Bryant Bass
John Hall Keyboards
Allen Harlow Bass, Guitar
Rodney Higgs Drums
Tom Lavin Guitar, Vocals
Andy Lorimer Keyboards
Lindsay Mitchell Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Rocket Norton Drums
Henry Small Keyboards, Vocals
Ron Tabak Vocals
Jim Vallance Producer
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