ReRushed

I love the Immaculate Grid. A very humbling game...

Doug Clifford and Stu Cook are probably the most under appreciated rhythm section in Rock music. Smooth and tight. Creedence's secret weapon. Fogerty's post-Creedence songs never had the same feel or quality.

"Someday Never Comes" and "Sweet Hitch-Hiker" are top notch Creedence tunes. "Lookin' for a Reason" is a pleasant Hank Williams inspired, toe tapping tune. Wait, those are the songs John Fogerty wrote...

"Strawberry Fields Forever" - The Beatles "I Found Out" - John Lennon "I'm Set Free" - The Velvet Underground" "I'll Come Running" - Brian Eno "'Til I Die" - The Beach Boys "I Believe" - Buzzcocks "Centerfield" - John Fogerty "The Whole of the Moon" - The Waterboys "Freewill" - Rush "Watching the Wheels" - John Lennon Honorable mentions: "Tomorrow" - Wall of Voodoo, "Sign on the Window" - Bob Dylan, "Subdivisions" - Rush, "I Believe" - R.E.M., "Respectable Street" - XTC

Big Thief - Masterpiece [9/10] King Crimson - Red [10/10] Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On [9/10] PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea [9/10] Wire - Send [9/10]

They are overrated. Good, but overrated.

Physical Graffiti by miles.

Rest in peace, Mr. Verlaine. Marquee Moon is a sublime album. Razor sharp guitars slashing and cutting through every song.

Judas Priest - Point of Entry [7/10]

David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name [6/10] Ween - Quebec [9/10] AC/DC - Back in Black [10/10]

Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman [9/10] Black Sabbath - Mob Rules [8/10] The Michael Schenker Group - MSG [6/10] Whitesnake - Come An' Get It [5/10]

Diary of a Madman is a much better album than Blizzard of Ozz.

"Hard Hearted Alice" and "Teenage Lament '74" are top notch. Two of my Alice Cooper favs.

David Coverdale is a terrible lyricist.

A Baker's Dozen off the top of my head: Brian Eno - Another Green World Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs Neil Young - After the Gold Rush John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band George Harrison - All Things Must Pass Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3 Paul Simon - Graceland Colin Newman - Commercial Suicide Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson Roger Taylor - Fun In Space Lou Reed - New Sensations Pete Townshend - Empty Glass David Johansen - David Johansen