Johansson - The Last Viking

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Johansson - The Last Viking

Post by Holy Light » Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:56 am

Just got Johansson - The Last Viking in the mail yesterday. Very cool cd! I've been looking for this cd for years and finally decided to order it on the internet. I highly recommend checking it out!

As for the line up:

Jens Johansson - Keys
Anders Johansson - Drums
Michael Romeo - Guitars and Bass
Goran Edman - Vocals

Great line up of musicians!

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Re: Johansson - The Last Viking

Post by Equinox » Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:39 am

I actually have the mp3 files for like 4 months or so...and I don't like it.
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Re: Johansson - The Last Viking

Post by browneyedgirl » Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:48 am

My son has this CD. We got it from CDBaby. It sounds pretty good. He wanted it out of curiosity because He heard from a couple of his friends&the 'net that Jens had made some dandy solo albums so, he got it.
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Re: Johansson - The Last Viking

Post by MaFiaBoY » Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:00 am

My ex is an absolute Jens-freak annd she has all his album, so I've got it on mp3 too, just AWESOME (I prefer Fission, though)
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Re: Johansson - The Last Viking

Post by Inventariado » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:15 am

It's a GREAT album. Everybody here should have it. It's a MUST.

Jens plays great and you'll also enjoy his composing.

You can't miss "IN THE MIRROR", "FORREST SONG", "CARRY ME"...

Goran Edman's vocals are also great. He is not pushed into his limits (just like in Malmsteen era), he sings in a slower range... and it sounds so cool, awesome voice.

Cool solos, a lot of beautiful melodies, and the swedish spirit of this two amazing brothers.

Don't download it. Buy it! It's really worthy.
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Re: Johansson - The Last Viking

Post by Patricia » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:34 am

I've listened few songs from this album and i think it's quite good.
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Re: Johansson - The Last Viking

Post by MaFiaBoY » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:38 am

Inventariado wrote:Don't download it. Buy it! It's really worthy.
I would if I could find it in record shops down here. But it seems it was only released in Scandinavia and f***ing Japan. So you have to mailorder them from there.
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Re: Johansson - The Last Viking

Post by Burning Reflection » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:47 am

My top ten Jens Johansson list (I'm a big fan and yes, I've bought all of these)

1) Fission
2) Heavy Machinery
3) Fljada whatever "Featherless Bipeds"
4) All of Jens' Stratovarius songs/solos
5) Winterheart's Guild Solos
6) Last Viking
7)Benny Jansson Solos
8 ) Yngwie Era Material
9) Ten Seasons
10) Spastic Ink solo (just because it'd be awesome to hear him do full on solos throughout the next ink cd with Ron if he can handle it :lol: No, I know he can handle it )

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Re: Johansson - The Last Viking

Post by StragOvariuS » Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:06 pm

Heavy Machinery its a HELL of a trip. Great album.
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Re: Johansson - The Last Viking

Post by Fireblade » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:15 pm

I was a Johansson freak before I was a Strato freak! 8) MH and TLV are both awesome! Try Ten Seasons for mellow piano stuff a bit like Keep the Flame in its mood. And Fjaderlosa Tvafotingar (with some umlauts) for totally weird Jens stuff. It's bloody hard to get hold of, though.. I got a taped copy years ago and haven't found it to buy (where postage is not more expensive than the CD, anyway..) :roll:

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Re: Johansson - The Last Viking

Post by elvenrhapsody » Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:44 am

Is "The Last Viking" the one that sounds like MIDI???
or?????

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