Europe
The Final Countdown

80's "Hair Metal" is how to describe this. Although too "synth" for some people, "Rock the Night" is EASILY one of the best top 40 metal anthems EVER. Fist pumpin' jam is more like it!

The album is extremely ambiguous. The gorgeous thing “The Final Countdown” is familiar to, probably, any inhabitant of the Solar system belongs to the number of such hits that can be counted on fingers. Everyone knows that EUROPE is “The Final Countdown”! Perhaps, this hit will seem to someone too commercially (like the whole album, of course), but you can’t argue against the facts: the leading melody played on the synthesizer, just like everyone else, are simple and ingenious, ideally combined with each other as some kind of indivisible whole; the vocals are absolutely unmatched. This is quite enough to put the item among the greatest masterpieces. True, the play of instruments in this composition (and in all the others on the album) by itself gives a little primitivism ... But in the light of the mentioned advantages of this song, this no longer matters. The second thing “Rock The Night” is a bit more modest, but also great. She is one of those who, upon hearing of which, the uninformed listener notes: “wow, and I know this song! So it also turns out to be EUROPE ... ”The third number is a beautiful, albeit painfully standard, ballad. Alas, this is the end of the album. And from the fourth song “Danger On The Track” you start to get bored. The song, in general, is nothing like that, but not the same - just above average. Interestingly, it contains the most real keyboard solo, not the fact that relevant in this case. And the other things, in my opinion, nothing more than mediocrity. In some places stronger, in some places weaker. Although, played, of course, on the level. In general, evaluating this album with a single assessment is equivalent to bringing God's gift and scrambled eggs to a common denominator. The first thing is dozens above, the next two are just dozens, the fourth is about seven, and everything else is on the verge of five and six ... In short, whatever one may say, but the impression is that the album was created for one song. Nevertheless, this song is such (or rather, the first three songs), that for her sake the album is worth buying!

Remastered CD reissue of the original 1986 album from the Swedish rock band Europe. Including the hit Final Countdown and three bonus tracks.

I think this is not an album with one, s/t, masterpiece. Vice versa, a set of well done tracks, real glam/hard rock hits by the Swedish band. Sure, their best release!

When it appeared, this album was funny - today when I hear it, this is a good HM album