I have to laugh because at the time, I thought (You Can Still) Rock In America was a really heavy hard driving guitar song. Don’t misunderstand, I think it is a great song and Midnight Madness was a good album. It was certainly much more crunchy guitar oriented than the stuff I was listening to. You can definately tell that people had heard of Eddie Van Halen by this point. The guitar solos got faster and more frenetic with fret play tricks.
I have long felt that this album, Midnight Madness was the first baby step towards the metal years. Granted I would not consider Night Ranger heavy metal but they pointed me in that direction with pounding drums and guitar heavy anthems that promote fist pumping and turned average tennis racquets into blazing air guitars.
Sure they had some girl oriented songs like Sister Christian and When You Close Your Eyes, but it was still one of the more rocking albums that I owned by then. That was all about to change.
(You Can Still) Rock In America
Rumours In The Air
Sister Christian
When You Close Your Eyes