THE BAND:
Terry Brock - lead vocals
John Roth - guitars, backing vocals
David Huff - drums, backing vocals
Mike Brignardello - bass, backing vocals


TRACK FRAGMENTS:
1.) “Believer” (Redux) – This song opens with a minor lead guitar solo over the top of a synthesizer. This minor solo is basically the intro itself.  There is a small tom-tom fill connecting the intro with the musical verse.  True to Giant the guys kept the verse very simple.  There was a musical change for the musical chorus.  It’s at this point when the song really kicks-in.  The chorus had a huge Giant hook attached to it.  The backing vocals are amazing on this track.  The lead guitar solo connects the second chorus with a very small breakdown section.  The lead guitar solo actually runs throughout the rest of the track in between the vocals and main music arrangement. 
2.) “Promise Land” - This intro opens with a very eighties rock musical arrangement.  In many ways it reminds me of the stuff Richard Marx wrote back then.  There is a very small rhythm change for the musical verse.  It is such a small change that most non-musicians or people who are not paying that much attention will notice.  Terry’s vocal accents completely made the vocal lines.  As the drum line of the musical verse progresses Dan adds a snare crack.  There is a very small snare/tom fill connecting the musical verse with the musical chorus.  Dan switched the hi-hat pattern of the drum line to an almost shuffle pattern.  This alone adds to the hook of the chorus.  The chorus was kept very simple.  The highlight had to be the backing vocals!!!!  I did not notice until the second verse but the bass line that Mike wrote for this track had a disco feel to it.  Let me stress this does not make the song have a disco sound!  Every chorus ends with the lyrics “promise land”.  However if you listen to the lyric line prior to it they end with Terry singing a very cool vocal accent.  These vocal accents really show just how great Terry is as a vocalist.  The way the musical verses where written has both the keyboards & verses mainly playing fill-in riffs.  Scattered in between the lead vocals and music arrangements of the second verse John plays several lead guitar licks.  This continues through the chorus.  There is what I guess you would call a pre-verse after the second chorus that leads to the lead guitar solo.  The solo was very laid back and melodic.  However there was one small section were John speeded up the notes giving it an intense feel.  The chorus is repeated throughout the rest of the song.  Underneath the entire repeated chorus sections there are little lead guitar licks.
3.) “Never Surrender” – This intro consisted of two different rhythm guitar riffs.  About one measure into the intro the lead guitar breaks away for a minor lead guitar solo.  Underneath the minor lead guitar solo the keyboard picks up and begins playing the same rhythm that the lead guitar was just playing.  There is no rhythm change for the musical verse.  Instead of changing the arrangement what John done was double-tracked the lead rhythm that opened the song (This also is the same rhythm that was being played by the keyboard underneath the minor solo of the intro.).  John double tracked the 1^st and 5^th lyric lines of the verse.  There is a small lead guitar lick and if I’m not mistaken a female vocal accent connecting the verse with the chorus.  The chorus consisted of huge vocal backing harmony hooks.  There are a couple lead guitar licks underneath both the second verse and chorus.  The lead guitar solo connects the second chorus and breakdown section.  Though the solo was very short it was fuckin’ huge!!!  There are little lead licks scattered underneath the choruses of the outro.
4.) “Our Love” – This intro consisted of a minor lead guitar solo over the top a piano arrangement.  The musical pre-verse consisted of an acoustic guitar base.  Over the top of this there are several little minor lead guitar licks.  After the first measure of the musical pre-verse a piano arrangement kicks-in.  The last lyric of the third lyric line of the verse was echoed.  For the drum line of the verse David alternated between a snare crack and lay-over rim shot (woodblock sound).  There was a musical change for the chorus.  I had a few people tell me they thought the hook of the chorus was very reminiscent to Bryan Adams.  I don’t know if that being said wavered my opinion or not. However the more I listen to the chorus the more I heard a Bryan Adams sound.  There is a minor solo connecting the first chorus with the second verse.  The second verse consisted of a bigger hook than the first.  There was a small arrangement change connecting the second chorus with the lead guitar solo.    
5.) “Prisoner of Love” – The rhythm guitar along with the bass & drum line of this intro was very reminiscent of the stuff Keeling was writing on Baton Rouge’s – ‘Shake Your Soul’ released in May 1990, especially the track, “Walks Like A Woman”.  From this opening intro up through the last note the song has a hook so big Jaws could not have gotten off of!!!
6.) “Two Worlds “ – There is a small lead guitar lick that opens this intro.  The guitar sound of this intro reminded me of the guitar riff James ‘JY’ Young wrote for the intro of “Miss America” track 5 of Styx’s – ‘Grand Illusion’ released July 7, 1977.  There was a small rhythm guitar change for the musical verse.  The riff for the musical verse had a small hook attached to it.  There was an arrangement change for the musical chorus.  At times the rhythm guitar riff has a mean feel to it. There is a breakdown section connecting the second chorus with the lead guitar solo.  The solo for this track is one of the best on the release.  The lead guitar solo runs underneath the lyric lines of the rest of the song.
7.) “Plenty of Love” – This song was so reminiscent of Baton Rouge that if one did not know any better you could make them believe it was a cover song.
8.) “Through My Eyes” – This ballad opened with a very simple intro arrangement.  The band altered the rhythm guitar arrangement just a little for the musical chorus.  The song does not kick-in until the rhythm change of the pre-chorus.  There was a minor lead guitar solo underneath the lead vocal lines of the chorus.  The last note of the solo carries off connecting the chorus with the musical verse.  The chorus had a huge hook attached to it.  There was a lead guitar solo connecting the second chorus with the third chorus.  An amazedly well written song!!!!
19.) “Dying To See You” – – This track does not have an intro only a small rhythm guitar riff.  The vocal accents at the end of each lyric line of the verse reminded me of Gregg Allman.  As the verse progresses it builds up to the musical hook of the chorus.  To connect each musical change David hits the wind chimes.  Though the wind chimes are there for accents, it’s the wind chimes that make the song.  For if it was not for the chimes the song probably would suck.
10.) “Double Trouble” -There is an electric slide guitar arrangement over the top of an acoustic guitar arrangement of this track.  The intro consisted of a lead vocal line.  For the musical verse the band overdubbed a third electric guitar arrangement.  This third arrangement is the same as the one with the slide only without it.  The second lyric line of the actual verse consisted of a backing harmony.  There is a complete arrangement change for the musical pre-chorus.  The chorus had a huge hook to it.  This track has a huge modern Country influence!!!
11.) “Complicated Man” (This bonus track will only be available in the first pressings of the digipak.) – This track opens with a very late seventies early eighties Edward Van Halen guitar riff.  After the fourth riff/one measure there is a rhythm change.  There is a heavily reminiscent Sammy Hagar influenced vocal accent over the top of what would be the second intro measure.  Though the band kicks-in the song at the second measure of the intro the song continued with a blues arrangement.  However it is a lot more intense than the single riff that opens the song.  For the musical verse the band basically used the same rhythm riff altering it just enough to where it has a different sound.  The musical & lyrical arrangements of the verse had a heavy metal/blues feel to it.  There is a very cool lyrical arrangement for the musical chorus.  Much like with all of these types of arrangements the chorus had a very simple feel.  There is a lead guitar run that leads out of the chorus and leads into a very cool music riff.  The second verse & chorus is a repeat of the first two except this time after the second chorus there is a lead guitar solo.  The lead guitar solo leads into a breakdown section.  I think ever hard rock band from the eighties recorded a track like this.     
12.) “Save Me” –From bf the beginning to end this track is a respectful bow to the Funk master Glenn Hughes!!!

     Too be honest with not only Giant fans however, our fans.  Before I received this release I had never actually heard any music by Giant.  That my sound odd to some people but in ’87 I was listening to more non-radio friendly heavy metal bands.  Being no dummy I borrowed a couple of Giant’s releases from a friend of mine and I just didn’t hear it.  That is until I put in ‘Promised Land’  an in a word, it  is amazing!!!  If you’re a fan of good solid hard rock this release is for you!