Excalibur - One Strange Night (1990)

This is pretty standard UK melodic rock that offers little except a collection of mid-tempo rockers, but deserves einclusion considering some of the wastes of space I've included on this blog! 'Round And Round,' 'Running Scared,' all follow similar suit, half macho rockers with bolshy vocals and half-cocked guitars that drive the sound down the middle of a dark road without any real effect. These guys supported Saxon many aeons ago, which pretty much sums them up, because this is mediocre at best when one considers how many far better US bands there were at the time, and playing far better music. It's the sort of average album one coulod get bored of very quickly, only lighter tracks such as 'Carole Ann'lift the mood, but here is when the band stray into hair metal territory. It all passes by harmlessly, like so much British metal I'm afraid. 5.5/10