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Title: Rekindling The Flame
Review: Billy's last studio album to date is also one of his finest. After the mediocrity of The Bridge, Kohu'ept, and Storm Front, this effort proved that Billy was still capable of recording first-rate pop music. The album moves gracefully in all musical directions, veering from Cream-inspired hard rock ("No Man's Land","Shades Of Grey") to white-man's blues ("A Minor Variation") to casual pop ("Famous Last Words"), not to mention the title track (which sounds much better within the context of the album than on AOR radio). But the two standout tracks are "The Great Wall Of China" and "Two Thousand Years", songs that rank with any of Billy's 70s classics. He has even rekindled his lyrical genius, an element missing from his mid-to-late 80s work. It may sound radically different from The Stranger, but it is as tuneful and insightful an album as Billy has ever put out.
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