Silas Lang
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Anything from The Fixx would do, but I'm partial to this one from 1984:
P.S: This band is CRIMINALLY under-rated. They were / are amazing and have a very unique sound.
Love it!
A couple other great ones by them:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXfc7VMyj94
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First one that came to mind, not because it's the best, but because it's the break-out new wave song.Well?
I don't know many new wave groups, but I still, with some confidence, nominate:
There's loads of contenders on those first few Devo records.
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Revolver
Sgt Pepper
Rubber Soul
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I was speaking strictly about his heyday in sabbath, obviously he sucks now
oh really? based on this performance from just last year I would have to respectfully disagree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKRFbcSQ9gY
Sure there's some rough edges and he tends to go off key on some of the Vol. 4 material but that's live rock n roll. And for a guy that's 64 I wouldn't say he sucks, is embarrassing or a sad shell. Far from it, actually.
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The Doors
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Black Sabbath
Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Blue Oyster Cult
Captain Beyond
:rush:
Yes
Led Zeppelin
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Aerosmith
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Santana
Bad Company
Buffalo Springfield
Foreigner
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Van Halen
The Cars
Asia
Flash
Badger - One Live Badger
Mott The Hoople
Mountain - Climbing!
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Jefferson Airplane Takes Off!
Rick Derringer - All American Boy
Pat Benatar - In The Heat of the Night
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Starting with all the songs written by Barrett plus the whole of Dark Side...that's about 25. So 25 more.
1. Echoes
2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
3. A Saucerful of Secrets
4. Careful Wuth That Axe, Eugene (live)
5. Dogs
6. Embryo (live)
7. One Of These Days
8. Set The Controls For the Heart of the Sun
9. Sheep
10. Comfortably Numb
11. Hey You
12. Remember A Day
13. Fearless
14. Wish You Were Here
15. Mother
16. Let There Be More Light
17. Childhood's End
18. Point Me At The Sky
19. Free Four
20. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in A Cave and Grooving with A Pict
21. Cymbaline
22. Fat Old Sun
23. Wots..Uh The Deal
24. Grantchester Meadows
25. In The Flesh
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The Moody Blues
The Who
Captain Beyond
Devo
Buffalo Springfield
The Zombies
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Jefferson Airplane
Black Sabbath
The Yardbirds
Savoy Brown
Soundgarden
Aerosmith
Blue Oyster Cult
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http://zeppelinlyrics.com/Led_Zeppelin_Houses_Of_The_Holy.jpg
Review by Lester Bangs in Creem magazine (June '73)
I'm listening to Jimmy Page's overdubbed guitar on "The Song Remains The Same". It opens the album with a terrific surge of power, an intricate careen that speaks a little of both the Byrds and the Who at their best, and volumes of Jimmy Page's continuing vitality. When Robert Plant's vocal enters after Page's extended attack it's an abrupt change of mood and tempo, but the contrast works, Plant's lazy drawl playing off Page's insistence. "I had a dream - crazy dream...Sing out Hare Hare, dance the Hoochie Coo..."
Robert Plant, the original hippie, has been responsible for all of Led Zeppelin's lyrics, and his peacelove doves and mushy stairways are all over Houses of the Holy. This is the first Zep set where they made the mistake of printing the lyrics; if they hadn't, we might have missed gems like "I got my flower, I got my power", or prime Rowan Brothers stuff like "Hare Hare" and "Singing in the sunshine, laughing in the rain..."
That kind of stuff may bug you the first few playings if you bother to notice it, but that's not what pulls this album down from being a true masterpiece like their last one. Plant's just the easiest member to pick on, and Houses is as erratic as Zeppelin have been for most of their career. At its peaks it's amazing, but even though the peaks predominate the valleys are so unambitious you get exasperated.
The perfect cuts are "Song", "Dancing Days", "No Quarter" and "Over the Hills and Far Away". "Days" is built on another one of those angular, dissonant, truly disorienting Page riffs like the one employed in "Misty Mountain Hop". It almost hurts, but you can't get enough of it, and even if some of Plant's lines are rather mawkish, the lyrics and the song's blinding strut make it a crazed '73 successor to "Dancing in the Streets" - a summer song!
"Over the Hills and Far Away" is simply fine, churning mainstay Zep expertise: a folky Page opening, a yearning vocal, a cinerama explosion. These boys breathe dynamics, and they've still got as fine and fierce a rhythm sense as any group on either side of the Atlantic. Just dig "The Crunge", which may put you off at first because it sounds like Plant and the band indulging themselves in a little James Brown wank with tighten-up guitar. But Plant's vocal has a genuine sense of humor, and when Page starts dragging those sproinging backwards riffs from underneath and counterposing them against all this mockblackface (there is such a thing) it all gets a bit more, ah, intellectual, even if the blabbing at the end is a bunch of foolishness.
So is "D'yer Mak'er" (foolishness, that is). It sounds like a half-assed attempt at reggae mushed into another one of those cutesy 50s routines (Liner sez: "Whatever happened to Rosie and the Originals?" Well, if you must know, THEY HAD ONE HIT AND DIED THE MUNG FADE BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T SO HOT IN THE FIRST PLACE). But it's so f***ing goofy you end up liking it in spite of (because of?) its very asininity. Which certainly can't be said of "The Rain Song", a truly undistinguished ballad that drags on for far too long. Page is impeccable as ever even when he sounds like some "Laguna Sunrise" (Led Zeppelin influenced by Black Sabbath?). Plant is wimping all over himself, and the strings drift smoothshod over everybody til the whole song drowns in its own lymph.
So you can see why I'm tied up in knots and yodeling. Houses of the Holy is leagues from the perfect album Led Zeppelin are capable of making, and I hate to skip cuts. But f**k it! 1973's gonna be a big year for rock 'n' roll bands, what with Iggy's Stooges and the Blue Oyster Cult and this one already hammering all over the place. Led Zeppelin are supreme masters of the studio, which means that you're constantly amazed that four guys are putting out such a vast range and sheer awesome size of sound. You can see their songs even while you're hearing them in the best oldhat psychedelic sense. And since psychedelia is about due for a recycle anyway, even Plant's love-in lyrics are okay by me. I expected a little more than this after waiting over a year, but I know that at least "Song" and "Dancing Days" are gonna be with me long after they finally get around to releasing their next one, and that's enough.
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Great live band too!
Mick Jones is a much better guitarist than one would suspect from just listening to the records.
The first 4 Foreigner albums rock, with the debut being my fave. Even non hits like Starrider, Love Has Taken Its Toll, Women, Love on the Telephone and on and on...great shit!
Hey Earl you ever heard Lou Gramm's pre-Foreigner band Black Sheep? I was checking them out awhile back and it sounded pretty damn good as well!
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5 stars:
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Genesis Selling England By The Pound
Deep Purple Made In Japan
Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny & Mutation
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
Yes Yessongs
Aerosmith
Emerson, Lake & Palmer Brain Salad Surgery
Jethro Tull A Passion Play
Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies
Fleetwood Mac Mystery To Me
Paul McCartney & Wings Band on the Run
4 stars:
Genesis Live
The Beatles 1962-1966
The Beatles 1967-1970
Yes Tales From Topographic Oceans
Rick Derringer All American Boy
Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are!
Paul Kantner & Grace Slick Baron von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun
Badger One Live Badger
Todd Rundgren A Wizard, A True Star
Captain Beyond Sufficiently Breathless
The Butts Band
Alice Cooper Muscle of Love
Free Heartbreaker
3 stars:
Fleetwood Mac Penguin
Buckingham Nicks
The Who Quadrophenia
Neil Young Time Fades Away
Redbone Wovoka
The Rolling Stones Goat's Head Soup
George Harrison Living in the Material World
Allman Brothers Band Brothers and Sisters
David Bowie Aladdin Sane
2 stars:
Rick Wakeman The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Jefferson Airplane Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
Grace Slick Manhole
John Lennon Mind Games
1 star:
Paul McCartney & Wings Red Rose Speedway
Uriah Heep Sweet Freedom
Cheech & Chong Los Cochinos
That's everything I have (on vinyl). Still looking the 1973 releases of Thin Lizzy, King Crimson, Humble Pie as well as many more...a great year indeed!
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Been giving their early stuff a serious listen recently for the first time here recently and I'm pretty amazed. These guys were incredible! Back in '78 they foreshadowed that '80s synth sound but actually at the beginning there was more a lean guitar driven rocking sound. Combining those two styles with intelligent, subversive and catchy rock songs full of wit and satire, I think they were really on to something through Freedom of Choice. I haven't delved much farther than that other than some of New Traditionalists which sounded ok tunewise but seemed to lean more towards the synth pop direction (not that that's automatically bad). So why weren't these guys more successful? Mothersbaugh's vocals were a little odd but for me that's part of their distinctiveness. Did they succumb to that '80s synth pop blandola or lose their original inspiration or simply conform or what? Perhaps the more devoted devotees on here (if there are any) could speak to that. But if you like heavy rock and may never have taken them seriously before, you might want to check out the early stuff. DEVO rocks!!
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The Magnificent Seven Ride (1972)
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QUOTE (Rick N. Backer @ Oct 20 2012, 02:03 PM) I love all the Ozzy era albums, but I think the debut has entirely too much "noodling," primarily by Iommi for my taste. I think Paranoid through Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is their best work. Sabotage has some great stuff (Hole in the Sky) but some crap too (Am I Going Insane).
The Dio era is, in my view, a completely different band. I actually ordinarily prefer Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules to the Ozzy era stuff, although I do go through my Ozzy era binges.
I don't like Born Again. I saw the tour, but as the years go by I like the album less and less.
The Martin era is crap. So is the Ray Gillen stuff.
For the most part I think it rocks with a precision and sense of purpose quite uncommon for the era until the latter part of the track 'Warning' and even there Iommi sounds quite inspired and keeps it interesting and creative enough with some memorable passages and good ideas that could've perhaps been turned into 3 or 4 fully developed songs. Actually I don't think there's a duff track on the first 6 albums.
The Dio stuff wasn't quite as diverse and experimental as what preceded it but still I think maintained enough of the Sabbath vibe and spirit that it doesn't feel completely different to me. Born Again was a pretty big disappointment at the time and definitely still their worst up to that point but these days I can enjoy it for what it is. After that the band fell apart and for all intents and purposes was over. The name Black Sabbath should have been allowed to be gracefully retired at that point but unfortunately that didn't happen.
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Clearly Aerosmith for me. They had a pretty strong run until the '90s whereas Kiss began to decline in '76. I like the early Kiss stuff from when they were still a hungry, committed rock n roll band but even then they were never in Aerosmith's league. With Destroyer they strove for more variety while Aerosmith never really had to since they naturally possessed more of a musical and lyrical depth than Kiss. It's a shame Kiss didn't continue to pursue that path they had mapped out with Destroyer but they didn't and after that, for various reasons, they completely lost the plot and their edge and turned into a joke, churning out increasingly second rate and distinctly uninspired lowest common denominator drivel.
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QUOTE (treeduck @ Oct 23 2012, 04:07 PM) It's a bit late in the day for a KISS v Aerosmith rivalry. Here's a little tidbit from way back in Creem magazine's Sept. '75 issue:
Perhaps the lack of press coverage comes from the fact that Aerosmith never identified themselves with any particular fan bandwagon, even though their first two albums were released at the peak of the glitter controversy. "We were doing makeup, glitter the year before in New Hampshire", says Perry. "We weren't wearing 14 inch platforms or anything. Our music was the main thing, though the show runs a close second. Kiss is the epitome of what we're talking about. Without their show, there's no go. I feel really sorry for them. I look at people in the circus, having to climb up some ladder every night. I wouldn't want to do that either. But Kiss is entertainment...they're just using rock 'n' roll as their format. We're looking at it from a different point of view."
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Dressed To Kill
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QUOTE (Rick N. Backer @ Oct 12 2012, 12:10 PM) Notice that, except for Paranoid and Fairies Wear Boots, you named every track off Paranoid. What an absolutely brilliant album. 
It surprises me that the first album doesn't seem to get the same sort of accolades which it thoroughly deserves. It's easily the equal of Paranoid. The rest I'd rank like this:
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (amazingly brilliant in its own right)
Master of Reality
Vol. 4
Sabotage
Heaven And Hell
Mob Rules
Technical Ecstasy
Never Say Die
Born Again
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Ritchie Blackmore doesn't care at all
I knew I could count on Ritchie not to give a damn about such a meaningless "honor".
I don't think that it really holds any prestige or legitimacy at all. I've always felt from the very beginning that the whole idea of a hall of fame for rock & roll is totally absurd and contrary. Music is not a sport or a competition and should never be reduced to that. There is absolutely no objective criteria to determine who should be included or not especially when you take into account who's got the power and influence behind it all - the snobbish critical elite of Rolling Stone and the like who like to try and assert their own dubious authority on the history of rock music. The music itself is its own legacy and some hollow ceremony (or lack thereof) is never going to change that.
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QUOTE (LeaveMyThingAlone @ Oct 16 2012, 11:38 PM) QUOTE (WCFIELDS @ Oct 14 2012, 12:32 AM) I've been playing guitar for over 20 years, and I get a real kick out of some of the comments in this thread. Sure Alex is a great guitarist, but the best? Not even close....no chance. Of course on this board, lots of people are going to say that. Also, I'm willing to bet that Ed could easily play most of Al's guitar parts like nothing, not the other way around. I don't know, but what I think D3strukt is saying is that it's not what you play, it's how you play it. EVH can't touch Alex's emotive style and playing. Alex's style of play moves me, EVH does nothing for me. I don't give a sh!t how hard it is to play.
I would love to hear Eddie Van Halen play limelight, good example. Would he nail every note? Yeah. Would he play the solo with anywhere the same feel and soul? No chance..
Or anything on Hemispheres as another example.
When it comes to music I just never think in terms of the best or the greatest or whatever but I think do there are levels of musicianship. I'm just curious about whether those who say Alex is nowhere close to Eddie would say the same if it was Howe, Blackmore, Hendrix, Page, Green, Clapton, Kossoff, Iommi, etc. I think Alex is in that top tier with those guys with Eddie being on the second level. I would never deny that Eddie was influential with his own sound and style that was new when he burst onto the scene but his playing never did much for me personally. I don't listen to Van Halen for the guitar playing so much but rather the tunes, the riffs and the sound of the band as a whole.
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Why does he have to be so grumpy and bitter all the time
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People actually listen to and enjoy crap like this? Just further evidence (not that any is really needed) of the further de-evolution of our society...
What's the Best New Wave Song?
in Music Of The Spheres
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This should have been a hit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqoH4rvXxpU