Alcatrazz - Breaking the Heart of the City: The Best of Alcatrazz (2017)

Admittedly, there was a plethora of bonus tracks on the past re-issues, but it appears there was a lot held back. this release is full of them. The majority of which come from the No Parole For Rock ‘N’ Roll era with that young upstart, Ynqwie Malmsteen. Compilation contains highlights from No Parole and Live Sentence. The No Parole demos, which are included as bonus tracks, didn’t appear on the re-issue for some reason, but the inclusion of Yngwie performing the track S.O.S as his audition is superb. The Best of Alcatrazz has the highlights from Disturbing The Peace and Dangerous Games. Disturbing The Peace has the fretboard wizard, Mr. Steve Vai yet it’s Dangerous Games that gets the bonus tracks.

When the Dangerous Games remaster was released last year (2016), the only bonus you got was the audience recorded live tracks. This release gives you 6 demos from that album and to be honest, they are incredible. From the live rehearsal vocal take of Set Me Free, the Jimmy Waldo Instrumental and the various instrumental rehearsal takes are brilliant. Dangerous Games is finally getting the attention it deserves as it’s the album that is most overlooked.

TRACKLIST

01. Island in the Sun
02. Jet to Jet
03. Hiroshima Mon Amour
04. Kree Nakoorie 0
05. Too Young to Die, Too Drunk to Live
06. Starcarr Lane
07. Suffer Me
08. Night Games (Live 1984)
09. Since You've Been Gone (Live 1984)
10. Desert Song (Live 1984)
11. Evil Eye (Live 1984)
12. All Night Long (Live 1984)
13. Lost in Hollywood (Live 1984)
14. General Hospital (Instrumental Demo)
15. Incubus (Instrumental Demo)
16. Big Foot (Instrumental Demo)
17. S.O.S. (Yngwie Malmsteen Audition)
18. God Blessed Video
19. Mercy
20. Will You Be Home Tonight
21. Wire and Wood
22. Desert Diamond
23. Painted Lover
24. Skyfire
25. It's My Life
26. Undercover (12 Inch Remix)
27. Ohayo Tokyo
28. Dangerous Games
29. Blue Boar
30. Witchwood
31. Double Man
32. Night of the Shooting Star
33. Set Me Free (Live Rehearsal Vocal Take)
34. No Imagination (Live Rehearsal Vocal Take)
35. Jimmy Waldo Instrumental
36. Blue Boar (Instrumental Rehearsal Demo Take)
37. Double Man (Instrumental Rehearsal Demo Take)
38. Rider (Instrumental Rehearsal Demo Take 3)
39. Incubus (Take 1)
40. Incubus (Take 2)
41. Kree Nakoorie (Take 1)
42. Kree Nakoorie (Take 2)
43. I'm Not Down
44. Big Foot (Take 1)
45. Big Foot (Take 2)
46. Jet to Jet (Live - Rehearsal)
47. Kree Nakoorie (Take 3)
48. Starcarr Lane (Live - Rehearsal)
49. Too Young to Die, Too Drunk to Live (Live - Rehearsal)
50. General Hospital