Gutter Ballet by Savatage (CD, Jan-1990, Atlantic USA)

One of Savatage's best. You can listen to the CD first song to the last without skipping a song. A must buy for any Savatage fan.

Some of their strongest songs are on this. Heck, some of the strongest pompous rocksongs ever written! If ever there was a "Bat out of Hell" in Heavy Metal, this is it!

Check out "Jon Olivia's Pain" if they do a show somewhere near you, he still performs some of these, and he can still sing like that!

I first heard this album on a winter afternoon in Middletown NY at the legendary Rock Fantasy heavy metal shop on 75-79 West Main Street, I was playing on one of the pinball machines and I was just the only one in the store along with Steve and the title track "gutter Ballet" caught my ear, not enough to buy it then,I was always broke, but as the years went by and the album became out of print, I started appreciating it a little more, I would hear it on Digital Cable Radio once in a while, but overall a good rock album also check out Streets..A Rock Opera released in 1991, also by Savatage.