Intuition

Intuition is one of the band’s peaks, on which TNT gathered its high vocals, technical guitar and pop choruses into an even more refined form. Tony Harnell’s soaring singing and Ronni Le Tekrø’s colorful guitar give the songs flair and firm drama. The sound is composed, but the riffs and rhythm have solid drive, balancing melodic beauty with playing that cuts, at a high level. The sweet, open melody of “Tonight,” the drive of the title track “Intuition,” and the strength of “Ordinary Lover,” “Forever Shine On,” “End of the Line” and “A Nation Free” vividly reflect the band’s prime. Harnell’s high register is light yet strong at its core, and Le Tekrø’s guitar skillfully converts technique into the appeal of the song. A record on which a Norwegian band showed a firm presence on the international melodic-hard-rock stage, it is still highly regarded as a representative work of late-1980s melodic rock.