It has been one of my favourite Magnum albums since it was released and shows them at their brilliant best. I've read quite a few reviews who depend their rating whether the album (or artist) is prog and rate it down if not. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Produced by David Richards and Queen drummer Roger Taylor, the band's sound stepped towards that of 1980s Queen, with keyboards much higher in the mix than guitar. This is a very good Magnum album - I don't like it as much as "Kingdom of Madness", "On a Storyteller's Night", "Wings of Heaven" or "Princess Alice and the Broken Arrow", but it is up there close to their best. There's truly not a bad track here, and different ones emerge as favourites each time I play it - currently it's Midnight, for its risky but perfectly judged saxophone climax, and Holy Rider, for that boomy, epic soundscape that prefigures what the Killers created in Sam's Town. Auf diesem Album geht es etwas rockiger zu, aber 2 melodiöse Nummern setzen sich auf Anhieb im Ohr fest.Only nine tracks but very much quality rather than quantity I found this album utterly absorbing from start to finish. Capitalising on the success of On a Storyteller's Night, Magnum changed to a more commercial direction with Vigilante. The weakest tracks are the first three and the last, but the ones in the middle are all good ones; Midnight (You Won't Be Sleeping), Red On The Highway, Holy Rider, and When The World Comes Down are actually not bad at all!

Vigilante was the first Magnum album I bought (still on vinyl back in 1991 as I didn't have a CD player then) and I still believe it is their best one. I decided to replace my old cd as some tracks had always seemed to jump so I was quite disappointed to find the new does the same so perhaps it is a mastering fault when the it was transferred from vinyl. I don't give many five-star reviews, but Vigilante gets one because it's proof that there was good music being made even in the Thatcherite taste desert that was Britain in 1986.

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While I have always liked the title track, I initially dismissed the rest of the album as too poppy and simplistic. The gloss serves to the band's advantage too, in that it reins in the beardy, prog-rock tendencies of some of their earlier work and draws attention to the concentrated quality in the songwriting, and especially to Bob Catley's superbly paced singing.

Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The approach adopted here was a lot more commercial and the end result is a more streamlined Magnum sound.