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Silent Knight | 
| Artist: Saga
Label: Steamhammer Us
Category: Music
Buy New: $11.98
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 30050
Format: Enhanced, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 7429
UPC: 766489212425
EAN: 0693723742922
ASIN: B000068R0D
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Don't Be Late (Chapeter 2) | | • | What's It Gonna Be? | | • | Time To Go | | • | Compromise | | • | Too Much To Lose (Chapter 7) | | • | Help Me Out | | • | Someone Should | | • | Careful Where You Step |
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Album Description
2002 reissue of the Canadian progressive rock act's 1980 album includes one bonus track, 'Don't Be Late' (Video Track), plus unseen photos, liner notes, original artwork & updated booklet. Steamhammer.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 A MASTERPIECE November 23, 2007
A. M. Cordova
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Was The First Album That I Heard From "Saga", And Hooked Me Into Their Music When I Was Only 4 Years Old...and Since Have Been A Fan Collecting all their albums....now i have them all, because every single saga album is great and important for atleast one song!
Now To The Review:
Don't Be Late: An Amazing Way To Kick Off An Album, This Was The First Saga Song That Came To My Ears, This Song Reallys Sets The Bar For The Rest Of The Album, And That This Is A Dark, "Saga" Album
What's It Gonna Be?: Another Amazing Track!, With It's Ripping Guitar, and catchy chorous this one shines!
It's Time To Go: This Song Is Dark, Yet Beautifully Orchastrated.
Compromise: Another Great Rocking Dark Track!
Too Much To Lose: An Epic Saga Song
Help Me Out: This Song Is Catchy, And Good
Someone Should: This is the only "Filler-Song" on the album
Careful Where You Step: This Song Goes Back To Where The Album Started In A Great Fashion!, It's A perfect Song To End This Album With, With It's Dark Lyrics, And Dark Creepy Keyboards
Overall Perfect "Saga" Album!
The # 1 Progressive Rock Album ever ! June 3, 2006
sergio (venezuela)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Don't Be Late" is the best progressive song ever. Forget about Yes and Pink FLoyd, Forget about Dream Theater or Rush. This album is it.
possibly the best Saga album out there... May 12, 2006
SK (Waldwick, NJ United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
After creating such a fine album just a year earlier (Images at Twilight), Saga went on to deliever what I believe is their most accessable and consistent work and what a fine album Silent Knight is.
Starting off exactly where Images left off, the band blows the listener away with Don't Be Late. That track alone is worth the whole disc, but wait there's more to come. In fact, all the songs are out of this world as the band manages at the same to stay true to their progressive roots and incorporate some of the radio friendly elements with the traditional song structure and keeping their songs under 5-6 minutes in length.
My other personal favorites are Help Me Out and Careful Where You Step, but once again, all of the songs are really of the highest quality - it's hard to believe the disc was released quarter a century ago.
The following year Saga would go on and release their most famous Worlds Apart that features my personal all time favorite song Wind Him Up that is very close to Silent Knight in style with the rest of the songs on WA leaning towards a new path the band would choose later on (progressive pop comes to mind) and stay with for the rest of the 80s, eventually returning to their roots in the 90s yet failing to match the quality of their earlier albums.
So there you have it folks, the album that should not be overlooked by you, progressive melodic pompous rock lovers.
Enjoy it!
 Silent Might January 23, 2005
mark
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having been a Saga fan (off and on) for two decades, and having purchased this album shortly after its release, this album, within the bands "learning curve", is one of their best, as many others have also attested to. Yes, most of the songs are earmarked as "early syth stuff" from a part rock, part pop sounding band from the early 1980's (this was released in 1980), yet there is always the majority who knows for sure what really sounds atleast somewhat well crafted. This is Saga's third release, and for a band that will have eventally been around for atleast 25 years (as of this year), you can be sure that atleast two or three songs off of "Silent Kningt" will hook you for a good long time, or atleast make you buy another two or three (or four) of their cd's over some time.
As with most bands or artists with something to say in their initial years, Saga surely had someting to say and play from the get go and for several albums afterward. In "Silent Knight", Saga was dripping with potential yet they were inches away from expressing the true spring/summer of what they could really pull off, which they did on their next release "Worlds Apart".
"Silent Knight" doesn't have too many moments you will want to skip past, but I'm willing to bet that the parts that you do decide to skip past will eventually egnrave its marks upon your brain only because they are, in the end, just interesting or nice to listen to only after you have digested all the other "really really good stuff" off of this release.
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