''Never Say Never'', released in 2009, is the second album from the 1990s

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band

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. In early January 2009, Alias announced the release of their long-awaited second album. This album, appropriately titled ''Never Say Never'', sat unreleased for nearly 18 years. It was recorded in 1992 and was planned to follow the self-titled debut album ''

''. However, due to the rapidly evolving music scene of that time where the

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movement was growing in popularity and

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was fading, it was not released. A few of the songs from this album were re-recorded and appeared on lead vocalist

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's solo album ''Dreamer's Road'', but many tracks remained unreleased.

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vocalist

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recorded 3 of the ''Never Say Never'' songs, "Pleasure and Pain", "The Warden", and "Woman Enough", for his 1994 debut solo album, ''Rude Awakening'', although "Woman Enough" only appears as a bonus track on the Japanese edition and the expanded 1999

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re-issue.

Track listing

# "Woman Enough" (Curci, DeMarchi, Baker, Dei Cicchi) (4:31) # "XTCOI" (Curci, DeMarchi, Baker, Dei Cicchi) (3:42) # "How Much Longer Is Forever" (Curci, DeMarchi, Ribler) (4:10) # "Give Me a Reason to Stay" (Diamond, Lorber) (4:36) # "Wild Wild One" (Curci, DeMarchi, Meissner) (4:47) # "Pleasure and Pain" (Baker, Dei Cicchi) (4:47) # "The Warden" (Curci, DeMarchi, Baker, Dei Cicchi) (5:12) # "Bare Necessity" (Curci, DeMarchi, Schwartz) (4:04) # "All I Want Is You" (Harms) (5:03) # "Call of the Wild" (Curci, DeMarchi, Burgess) (5:36) # "Diamonds" (Curci, DeMarchi, Stewart, DeMarchi) (4:13) # "Play Me a Song" (Curci, DeMarchi) (2:00) # "We Want It All" (Curci, DeMarchi, Baker, Dei Cicchi) (5:23) Bonus tracks: # "Perfect World" (Krikorian, Burtnick) (4:33) # "Into the Fire" (Curci, DeMarchi) (4:37) # "Who Do You Think You Are" (Curci, DeMarchi) (4:07) # " When I'm with You" (Lanni) (live acoustic version) (3:46)

Musicians

- Lead vocals, background vocals, additional keyboards (tracks 3 & 13) * Steve DeMarchi - Guitar, background vocals, bass guitar (track 16) *

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- Keyboards, background vocals *

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– Bass * Larry Aberman - Drums * Robert O'Hearn - Keyboards

Additional musicians

* Eric Troyer - background vocals *

- background vocals * Rick Neigher - background vocals * Ross Stewart - additional guitar (track 11) * Mike Baird - drums (track 15) * CJ Vanston - additional keyboards (track 16)

References

External links

ShipwreckIslandStudios.com

melodicrock.com

Angelmilk Records

Release Date and order information
shopemi.com
March 2009 Steve DeMarchi Interview, Behind the Alias

Official Alias website
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