Comments for Savatage, Streets - A Rock Opera

Great rock opera...I actually liked this one more than Dead Winter Dead. No disrespect to the band now but Streets just seemed to have the basics for an album while DWD had a lot more instruments used. Everything on Streets was vocals, guitars, bass, drums, piano with a few backing choir vocals. The album gets off on a heavy start with the title track and remains so through Jesus Saves. On Tonight He Grins Again, the music is mellower and this is how the rest of most of the album is performed. Yes, almost all of it is slow but none the less fantastic. The only real heavy tracks are Agony And Ecstacy, You're Alive, Sammy And Tex, Strange Reality, and New York City Don't Mean Nothing To Me. A definite classic 'Tage moment.

An excellent rock-opera. An excellent story. The music lends itself to the visualality of the story. If you put on the earphones, sit back and close your eyes, you are taken on a journey which will lead you from the darkest depths of hell (Jesus Saves) to the highest gates of heaven (Believe). Listening to this album reminded me of the first time I heard Pink Floyd''s - The Final Cut - . The images conjured in my mind seemed real enough to touch sometimes. I recommend this masterpiece to anyone who appreciates being stimulated by music.