Helloween - Pink Bubbles Go Ape
Tracklist
01. Pink Bubbles Go Ape02. Kids Of The Century
03. Back On The Streets
04. Number One
05. Heavy Metal Hamsters
06. Goin' Home
07. Someone's Crying
08. Mankind
09. I'm Doin' Fine Crazy Man
10. The Chance
11. Your Turn
12. Blue Suede Shoes [Carl Perkins cover] [2006 Expanded Edition bonus]
13. Shit And Lobster [2006 Expanded Edition bonus]
14. Les Hambourgeois Walkways [2006 Expanded Edition bonus]
15. You Run With The Pack [2006 Expanded Edition bonus]
Line-up
Michael Kiske - vocals
Michael Weikath - guitars
Roland Grapow - guitars
Ingo Schwichtenberg - drums
Markus Großkopf - bass
Additional musicians:
Phil Nicholas - keyboards
Pete Ivarsen - keyboards
Michael Kiske - vocals
Michael Weikath - guitars
Roland Grapow - guitars
Ingo Schwichtenberg - drums
Markus Großkopf - bass
Additional musicians:
Phil Nicholas - keyboards
Pete Ivarsen - keyboards
Additional info
Produced, engineered and mixed by Chris Tsangarides. Additional engineering by Paul Wright.Tracks 5 and 9 produced by Helloween, engineered by Dirk Steffens and mixed by Chris Tsangarides.
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If anyone has read my review of Gamma Ray's Heading for Tomorrow, you might have noticed that I consider it to be the real follow up to the Keeper albums. Well, this album might also be that follow up. This is Helloween's first album after the Keeper twins, and also after the departure of founding member Kai Hansen. His loss is not something you miss very much because he wrote some of the material for the album, and the new guitarist, Roland Grapow (which is going to have a great impact on future Helloween albums) is not taking a big part here. Read more ›› |
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7.5
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Before starting the review of this so called "Worst Helloween Album Ever," let's take a small briefing of the time it was released... "Pink Bubbles Go Ape" came out in a bad time for Helloween; the guitarist and founder of the band, Kai Hansen, had just left the band three years ago, the band had not released a full-length album after the Legendary "Keepers" and moreover there were legal problems with the record label! Other bands would have just disbanded, but Helloween continued? They hired a new guitarist to fill Hansen's gap, changed their record label and finally released their fourth album in 1991. The responsibility after the masterpieces "Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. I & II" was enormous. The fans and the critics were expecting an album-follower in the "Keepers" spirit, but instead, Helloween released an album with a ridiculous name called "Pink Bubbles Go Ape" with a weird cover and even weirder music? I don't know the purpose and the meaning of this move, but it wasn't the best. Read more ›› |
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Very good album. Michael Kiske's best performance in his whole career (Apart from some songs on the Keeper albums) i would say specially on "The Chance"...
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Posts: 19 Written by Mountain King on 26.04.2011 at 01:16 I would add also the Chameleon album for the best production this album had. Maybe a bit different in style but also unique. For PBGA listen how powerfull is his voice in songs like Someone's Crying and Mankind, Your Turn. At the end of Someone's Crying he reach again this unbelievable high voice he has.
---- Life's too short to cry long enough to try
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Posts: 1361 Written by AngelCryGr on 27.04.2011 at 02:24 That's true. I've heard the album tons of times. Your Turn is an amazing ballad...
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A lot better than it's reputation, and I do prefer this one to Keepers 2. It has a lot better flow and the song writing is more even. I also have to agree with some earlier comments here that Michael Kiskes performance on this record is among his best.
---- Everything's twice as bright with money in your hands
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I think it's amusing how the guy with the eggs on his eyes on the back cover resembles Michael Kiske now.
---- "I'm here to nunchuck and not wear helmets. And I'm all out of helmets." "I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples." " 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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When meta. goes pop but still have long hair and vocals and you're still denying pop
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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Good album. Awful cover and mainly idiotic lyrics. Kiske sounds divine as always.
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I don't see that much to write home about on this album. It has a couple of remarkable songs tops, Kids Of The Century and The Chance, I'd suggest. Other highlights would be Kiske's voice and Ingo's drumming (.. the latter best shown on Someone's Crying). I don't have a, nor ever had, a tendency to listen to most of this album again. I wouldn't say the band is dead yet here, but if you don't see the down fall already happening, you sir are a fool.
---- My vision is augmented
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I know it's like blasphemous to say this, but Helloween's style is near unbearable. Occasional good guitar solos, but I can't enjoy the music with the repetitive riffs and painful vocals. Kiske definitely sounds lots better these days. "Mankind" is great though.
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So, Hansen left, and the whole band stopped to take their medications, or they started to do unsubscribed ones... I don't know what happened, but this album is painfully weak in comparison to all their previous works. "Kids Of The Century", "The Chance", "Mankind" and "Someone's Crying" are just okay, and everything else falls flat for me.
---- Glory to the Nation!
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After one excellent album and two very good ones they release this, I didn't think it was horrible, but it's extremely average and most of the songs are very boring, the only ones that are really good songs and that you can listen to several times are Mankind (which has the coolest riff on the album) and The Chance, these are really good, Kiske has some good moments, but there are certain parts of certain songs where his voice is very annoying and difficult to listen to. Otherwise, the album is very weak and doesn't deliver material as good as its predecessors. It's likely that the band decided to go for a more hard rock style of music with a view to commercial success, but in the end it was a shot in the foot, Pink Bubbles go Ape was a commercial failure.
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Thank you - that are exactly my words about this ... thing. Especially "one excellent (I presume you mean WoJ) and two (I would cancel the very here) good albums". The Keeper LPs were allready a step back after the Masterpiece WoJ. This is unhearable. I don´t like Kieskes voice and Deris later made it even worse. IMHO Helloween wrote one masterpiece and the rest is german volksmusik level.
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I do like this album. It’s surely is not Helloween power metal but the songs are good. It’s a moody album, a bit over dramatic at times, and yet I keep going back to this album 30 years later. It’s not an album you should start with if you’re new to them. But if you know the history, you can surely respect the amazing job kiske does on this album, and how grapow came up with some of the best songs on this album. I can’t stand chameleon, but this album is solid. Mankind, going home, someone’s crying, I would love for Helloween to play those songs live
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