Category: DONNIE IRIS

Rock Candy Records has just remastered & reloaded DONNIE IRIS‘ most celebrated 80s albums with a pristine sound quality, and here’s the last from the batch, the really mid-Eighties sounding ”Fortune 410”, including a bonus track.
New Wave-ish AOR anyone? ”Fortune 410” is plenty of it. The sound became more processed according to times (originally released in 1983) but still retained an edge of perfect pure power-pop. This album packs some of Iris’ most expressive vocals and songs, like ‘Stagedoor Johnny’, ‘I’m A User’, the delicious ‘She’s So European’, ‘Do You Compute?’ and the insanely catchy ‘Cry (If you Want To)’, paving the way for a tidal wave of praise from fans.
The album had a computer-like artwork – a hi-tech coolness for the era – and the single hit ‘Do You Compute?’ was used by the video game / computer company Atari to form a cross-marketing promotion.
Pure Eighties stuff indeed.
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Rock Candy Records has just remastered & reloaded DONNIE IRIS‘ the most celebrated Eighties albums with a pristine sound quality, and for many his best album is 1981’s “King Cool“, in this reissue including a bonus track.
Squeezing out a sound somewhere between The Cars and Foreigner with a dash of radio-friendly AOR, Iris and his kindred spirit, producer, keyboard player & songwriter Mark Avsec formed Donnie Iris And The Cruisers in the late Seventies, releasing a successful debut followed by this one a year after.
”King Cool” is rammed with potential hit singles that were presented in a luscious style with hints of classic old-school radio-rock but blessed with a smooth AOR sheen.
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Rock Candy Records has just remastered & reloaded DONNIE IRIS‘ most celebrated Eighties albums with a pristine sound quality, and perhaps the best is debut “Back On The Streets“, in this reissue including two bonus tracks.
With a sound somewhere between Cheap Trick, The Cars, Foreigner and Loverboy with a dash of radio-friendly AOR, Iris and his kindred spirit producer, keyboard player & songwriter Mark Avsec formed Donnie Iris And The Cruisers in the late Seventies, releasing ”Back On The Streets” in 1980 and surprising many ranking in the Top 40 with its catchy tunes…
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Rock Candy Records has just remastered & reloaded DONNIE IRIS‘ the most celebrated Eighties albums with a pristine sound quality, and among his best there’s 1982’s “The High And The Mighty“, in this reissue including a bonus track.
Squeezing out a sound somewhere between The Cars and Foreigner with a dash of radio-friendly AOR,
Iris and his kindred spirit; producer, keyboard player & songwriter Mark Avsec, the duo formed Donnie Iris And The Cruisers in the late Seventies, releasing two successful albums in 1980 / 1981, and the band’s rock steady, carefully crafted powerpop maintained a massive presence with 1982′s ”The High And The Mighty”…
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