Alien Shores

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Alien Shores
Studio album by Platinum Blonde
Released	1985
Studio	Metalworks Studios, Mississauga, Ontario
Genre	New wave
Label	CBS Canada – 80105
Producer	Eddy Offord, Mark Holmes
Platinum Blonde chronology
Standing in the Dark (1984) Alien Shores (1985) Contact (1987)
Singles from Alien Shores
"Crying Over You" Released: 1985 "Situation Critical" Released: 1985 "Somebody Somewhere" Released: 1986 "Hungry Eyes" Released: 1986

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Alien Shores is the second studio album by Platinum Blonde Released by Columbia/CBS Records Canada in 1985, it contained one of the band's biggest Canadian hits with "Crying Over You" and their only US hit, "Somebody Somewhere". The album reached a high of 3 for 4 weeks on the Canadian charts.^[2]

This album was the first to feature Kenny MacLean as a full-time bassist and keyboardist. This freed lead singer Mark Holmes to focus on lead vocal duties.

The band enlisted Alex Lifeson from fellow Canadian rockers Rush to perform guitar solos on two songs on the album, "Crying Over You" and "Holy Water". A song entitled "Alien Shore" is the sixth track on Rush's 1993 album Counterparts.

The album was released as a mini-concept album with the b-side (starting with "Lost in Space") containing various songs with a science fiction theme and narrative.