Very melodic hardrock with an outstanding voice. Geddy Lee eats helium, then you know how he sings. Good compositions with good ballads makes this a curious jewel.
As Listed in the Acid Archives: GROUNDSTAR (CA) "Forced Landing" 1980 (Stellar sr-2549) By 1980 AOR was all over the airwaves, but within the genre this is a bit of an oddity and is rather special. Bits of hard rock, prog, space rock mix with a pure pop sensibility, and the powerful helium-voiced woman and poppy-sounding man are much more appealing than the eunuch-like wailers who ruled the genre in the 80s. The songs are reasonably short and the rockers are fast. The kind of pomp and arrogance that gave the genre a bad name are nowhere to be found here. This doesn't resemble heavy metal at all, even on the power ballads. The album has been compared to Styx and Yes in their poppier moments, but this is much more (pardon the pun, given the album title and cover) down-to-earth. This ranks just a notch below Marianus for me as top of the heap early 80s AOR private press fun!
A1 New World 4:16 A2 Dreaming 2:51 A3 Forced Landing 2:20 A4 It's All The Same Up There 3:10 A5 Come To The Mountain 5:00 A6 Settle Down 2:49 B1 Maiden And The Knight 3:09 B2 Watcha Gonna Be 2:20 B3 Party 3:35 B4 Aquawings 5:42 B5 Westwood Park 3:16
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