Night Ranger - 7 Wishes CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

"I Need a Woman" and "This Boy Needs to Rock," the titles of two of the songs on 7 Wishes, neatly encapsulate both Night Ranger's interests and its appeal. The band plays heavy metal with a light enough touch for radio and MTV and bellows bombastic sub-Broadway ballads that, from a distance, sound slightly sincere. If Meat Loaf were to make a heavy-metal album, it would sound like this.

Nothing on 7 Wishes is as annoying as last year's insanely jingoistic "You Can Still Rock in America" or the inexplicable "Sister Christian," but nothing is as perversely distinctive either. The music is ridiculously uniform: as a public service, the LP has been banded so one can tell where
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