All the Way Alive is Power Ballad closing out the decade that made them—eighteen tracks that swing from stadium-sized defiance ("We Have the Power," "We Are Lions") to the quieter reckonings of a band that knows the '80s won't last forever ("After August," "Who Am I After Us"). True to the era, the album arrived alongside a wave of extended 12" mixes—the kind of stretched-out, dancefloor-ready cuts that let a track like "Neon City" or "Transform" breathe for six or seven minutes instead of four.
Chloe Love returns for three features, and it's billed as exactly what it is: a reunion. Four years after "Power Love" spent 43 weeks at number one, Maverick and Love get back in the booth together for "Under a Million Lights," "When the Radio Was Ours," and closer-adjacent "We Were the '80s"—a deliberate callback to the duet that made both of their careers.
This would be Power Ballad's final studio album before Cade Maverick's 1991 disappearance—and knowing that, closer "The Power Ballad Never Dies" hits different. Whether that title was a promise or a warning is still argued about by fans to this day.