HURRICANE – Take What You Want {Caroline Records remaster +4}

It was requested here the remastered discography from one of the greatest melodic hard rock bands of the ’80s: HURRICANE. Let’s start with their first album “Take What You Want” and one of the official remasters available, done by Caroline Records.
There’s other, quite different remastered / reissue version to be featured here as well.

Few Eighties rockers have had their catalog bootlegged, decimated and mired in controversy to the extreme like Hurricane has. Finally someone has stepped up, as Caroline Records have given the group’s albums a proper legitimate release.
Repackaged in ‘Japanese-style mini-LP CDs’, these remasters come complete with inner sleeves meant to replicate that of the originals.
In the case of “Take What You Want”, this Caroline Records remaster adds 4 awesome bonus tracks.

For those of you that haven’t heard Hurricane before (although you may remember “I’m on to You, Na na na na na na”) they have the same vibe going on as Y&T (and to a lesser extent later era Whitesnake). Both bands play a melodic and classy version of hard rock, as both groups are fronted by vocalists with silky smooth voices, guys who actually sing!
However, Hurricane is more melodic hard overall, with a hair metal touch without being cheesy.

Aside from the infectiously simple chorus to their biggest single, the aforementioned, ‘I’m On To You’, Hurricane was best known for its members Robert Sarzo (guitar) and Tony Cavazo (bass) more famous siblings (Carlos Cavazo and Rudy Sarzo).
But the band also featured incredible vocalist Kelly Hansen (current Foreigner frontman), and future Unruly Child / Asia drummer Jay Schellen.
To write the band off for that simple reason would be selling Hurricane short however, as some of the songs included here could rival that of either Quiet Riot or Whitesnake.

They hit you from the start with the one-two punch of ‘Take Me In Your Arms’ and ‘The Girls are Out Tonight’. Two rockers you can’t help but bang your head to.
Then we have the awesome midtempo AORish ‘Take What You Want’, a classic. Next the track ‘Hurricane’ is highly melodic yet rocking as hell, the power ballad ‘It’s Only Heaven’ is strong & meaty, and the fast rocker ‘Hot and Heavy’ is the kind of a song that I just love to sing along to.

As bonus there’s ‘that song’; ‘I’m On To You’, Hurricane’s greatest hit. This is NOT the version appeared on their second album, it’s the rare ‘Super Stormin’ Hook Edit’, and one to treasure.
The other extras are the interesting instrumentals ‘Baby Snakes’ and ‘L.A. Luna’, plus the killer midtempo ‘Over The Edge’, another highly melodic rocker with a wonderful chorus. Again, this is the early recording of this song, not the one re-made later.

This Caroline Records remaster of “Take What You Want” is flawless and sounds really good. All tracks here had the potential to be MTV hits / radio staples in the mid-80s. For whatever reason Hurricane got the shaft during their heyday, an injustice that carried itself forward until now.
Finally justice has been served – finally “Take What You Want” is officially on CD, remastered – and finally you can (and should) buy it.
This is great stuff from one of those ‘close but no cigar’ type of bands. And one extremely talented.
Simply put, Hurricane is one of the greatest – and underrated – Melodic Hard Rock bands from the ’80s.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

01. Take Me In Your Arms
02. The Girls Are Out Tonight
03. Take What You Want
04. Hurricane
05. It’s Only Heaven
06. Hot And Heavy
07. I’m On To You
08. Baby Snakes
09. Over The Edge
10. L.A. Luna

Kelly Hansen – vocals
Robert Sarzo – guitar
Tony Cavazo – bass
Jay Schellen – drums

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