- Alien Shores
Infobox Album
Name = Alien Shores
Type = Album
Artist = Platinum Blonde
Released = 1985
Recorded = Metalworks,Mississauga, Ontario
Genre = New Wave
Length =
Label = CBS Canada - 80105
Producer =David Tickle
Reviews =
Last album = "Standing in the Dark " (1983)
This album = "Alien Shores" (1985)
Next album = "Contact" (1987)
Misc = Singles
Name = Alien Shores
Type = album
Single 1 =Crying Over You
Single 1 date = start date|1985
Single 2 = Situation Critical
Single 2 date = start date|1985
Single 3 = Somebody Somewhere
Single 3 date = start date|1986
Single 4 = Hungry Eyes
Single 4 date = start date|1986"Alien Shores" was Platinum Blonde's 1985 follow up to their debut album "
Standing in the Dark ". Released by Columbia/CBS Records Canada in 1985, it contained one of the band's biggest Canadian hits with "Crying Over You" and their only US hit, "Somebody Somewhere".This album was the first to feature
Kenny MacLean as a full-time bassist and keyboardist. This freed lead singer Mark Holmes to focus on lead vocal duties.The band enlisted
Alex Lifeson from fellow Canadian rockers Rush to perform guitar solos on two songs on the album, "Crying Over You" and "Holy Water".The liner notes from the "Seven Year Itch" collection bear this relationship out: "...Platinum Blonde managed to infuse well-crafted intelligent modern rock with pop hooks that literally grafted themselves onto the airwaves. One of the first to acknowledge this fact was Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson who validated their efforts with solos on 'Crying Over You', 'Holy Water'."
The album was released as a mini-concept album with the b-side (starting with "Lost in Space") containing various songs with a science fiction theme and narrative.
Like "Standing in the Dark" and "Contact", "Alien Shores" is incredibly difficult to find on CD.
Track listing
CD: CBS Records Canada / CK-80105 flagicon|Canada
# "Situation Critical" - 3:31
# "Crying Over You" - 3:39
# "Red Light" - 2:50
# "It Ain't Love Anyway" - 3:12
# "Somebody Somewhere" - 4:06
# "Lost In Space" - 4:04
# "Temple Of the New Born" - 4:02
# "Holy Water" - 3:41
# "Animal" - 4:31
# "Hungry Eyes" - 4:38
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