The Best of Prism

by Prism, John Hall, Ab Bryant

Overview

This compilation includes the band's best-known hit, 1981's "Don't Let Him Know" (co-written by Bryan Adams), and showcases the rest of their modest collection, which is mostly spirited attempts at a bland genre of music: watered-down synth rock. Call them art-rock lite, or hard adult contemporary. A hybrid of Sweet, Styx and the Little River Band, Prism goes for space-oddity flavor with lines like "On Mercury they're crazy about my stellar rock and roll, and I always seem to sell out at the Martian astrobowl" (from "Spaceship Superstar") and "The planet dies and no one cries" (from "Take Me to the Kaptin"). And oddest of them all, "Armageddon's" drum intro sounds quite similar to Metallica's intro to "Am I Evil?" (recorded several years later). Eerie.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/19/1996
Label:	Renaissance
UPC:	0724381912126
catalogNumber:	113
Rank:	31863

Tracks

1. Good to Be Back
2. Don't Let Him Know
3. American Music
4. Party Line
5. Cover Girl
6. Armageddon
7. See Forever Eyes
8. Spaceship Superstar
9. You Walked Away Again
10. Virginia
11. Mirror Man
12. Satellite
13. Turn on Your Radar
14. Night to Remember
15. Flyin'
16. Young and Restless
17. Take Me to the Kaptin

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Prism   Primary Artist
John Hall   Keyboards
Ab Bryant   Bass,Bass Guitar
Allen Harlow   Bass,Guitar,Bass Guitar
Rodney Higgs   Drums
Tom Lavin   Guitar,Vocals
Lindsay Mitchell   Bass,Guitar,Bass Guitar,Vocals
Rocket Norton   Drums
Henry Small   Keyboards,Vocals
Ron Tabak   Vocals
Andy Lorimer   Keyboards
Darcy   Vocals
Rocket Norton   Drums
Rodney Higgs   Drums
Ron Tabak   Vocals

Technical Credits

Prism   Producer,Audio Production
Carter   Producer
Warren Dewey   Engineer
Bruce Fairbairn   Producer
Bob Rock   Engineer
Geoff Turner   Engineer
Jim Vallance   Producer,Audio Production
Rolf Hennemen   Engineer
Carter   Audio Production
Bruce Fairbiarn   Audio Production