Paul Laine - Stick It In Your Ear (1990) [Rock Classic Series]

“Stick It In Your Ear” is one hell of a Melodic Hard Rock album. Canadian musician, producer and singer PAUL LAINE hit the ground running in the early ’90s with the release of this, his debut album, delivering a perfect set of absolute classic Melodic Hard Rock tunes.
Mostly known for his 11 year stent fronting Danger Danger from 1993 to 2004 and releasing four studio and one live records with them, Paul Laine has also released two superb solo albums. Of course Laine also was part of Andersen / Laine / Readman, Shugaazer and more recently in Darkhorse and the phenomenal album with supergroup The Defiants featuring Laine’s ex-bandmate from Danger Danger, Bruno Ravel.
But the singer presented himself to the Melodic Hard Rock community with this terrific debut “Stick It In Your Ear”, a little masterpiece for the genre. Most of these songs were wrote when Laine was 17 years old… General press called Stick It In Your Ear “the greatest Bon Jovi album Bon Jovi never made”.

“Stick It In Your Ear” is packed with top notch songs, biting musicianship and a superb vocal performance from Laine. All tracks are ridiculously catchy with awesome choruses to die for. From songs like ‘Dorianna’ and the excellent ballad ‘I’ll Be There’, the album really showcase the set of pipes this man has and his sense of melody to craft a killer melodic rock song.


The original release of the album contained nine tracks, but here’s augmented with 4 extra songs. All are excellent, and one guess why these weren’t included into the first CD press in the first place.

Tracks:

01 – One Step Over The Line
02 – We Are The Young
03 – Dorianna
04 – Is It Love
05 – Heart Of America
06 – Main Attraction
07 – Doin’ Time
08 – I’ll Be There
09 – Break Down The Barricades
BONUS TRACKS:
10 – My Hometown
11 – Only Your Heart
12 – Keep On Running
13 – After The Rain

Personnel:

Paul Laine: lead and backing vocals, guitars, keyboards
Kenny Kaos: guitars
John Webster: keyboards, synths
Paul GoGo: keyboards, backing vocals
Rene Worst: bass, fretless bass
Scott Brown: bass, backing vocals
Mickey Curry, Pat Steward: drums
Bruce Fairbairn: guest piano, producer