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  1. Catfish

    Best album of 1969

    1969? Close to a 4 way tie for me.... LZ I and II, Abbey Road, and Electric Ladyland
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    Best album of 1972

    I am sure overall polling will give it to Machine Head, mine? Black Sabbath Vol.4.
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    Best album of 1973

    My vote for '73- Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies. Maybe not the best technically... but my personal favorite, and the one that really gelled the sound.
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    Review Rush- Grace Under Pressure (1984) *****

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Rush- Grace Under Pressure- (1984) ***** I am going to truly enjoy today's review, because Rush's 9th Studio LP Grace Under Pressure may be as near as the most "filler-less" album that the band ever made. There are three or four I like better in their intent and...
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    Review Alice Cooper- Welcome to My Nightmare (1975) *** 1/2

    Seem to remember (maybe Circus Magazine review) that there were allegorical meanings (Obvious)
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    Review Alice Cooper- Welcome to My Nightmare (1975) *** 1/2

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Alice Cooper- Welcome to My Nightmare (1975) *** 1/2 The phenomenon known as Alice Cooper took the rock work like a storm 1971-1973, taking an obscure Detroit band to the stratosphere, with one part showmanship, one part a unique schtick, and one last part some...
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    Watch RUSH Perform Live With New Drummer ANIKA NILLES For First Time

    Full Concerts are now finding their way to YT. Geez, Geddy's voice was awful. This shouldn't have happened,.:mad:
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    Review Yes - 90125 (1983) *****

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Yes- 90125 (1983) ***** There was a few moments in the early 1980's that there were a great many of us who felt that AOR was dead. Punk and new wave had infiltrated the rock air waves in massive amounts, and a lot of the old classics were seeming to fade into...
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    Review Deep Purple- Shades of Deep Purple (1968) ** 1/2

    Interesting Factoid: DP is the anti-Tap The Spinal Tap meme is that drummers fall like flies. Paice is the only member of DP to appear on every studio album
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    Review Deep Purple- Shades of Deep Purple (1968) ** 1/2

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Deep Purple- Shades of Deep Purple- (1968) ** 1/2 A few years back I went on a bent as was reviewing and listening to bands who whisked through the breakthroughs and rapid fire changes of what constituted the transition of rock between 1964 and say about 1969...
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    Review Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band- Night Moves (1976) *** 1/2

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band- Night Moves (1976) *** 1/2 Bob Seger and his band of upper Midwest journeymen had already had a very decent second tier of level success from the late 1960's to 1976, But that success was limited geographically to that area...
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    Review Rush- The Cherubs of Labyrinth (2026) *** 1/2

    :brew::rush:
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    Review Rush- The Cherubs of Labyrinth (2026) *** 1/2

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Rush- The Cherubs of Labyrinth (2026) *** 1/2 In an incredibly strange and exciting chain of events, the legendary band Rush has almost stealthily released their 20th Studio Album, The Cherubs of Labyrinth. This even shocked industry insiders, who thought the...
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    Worst style of music...... EVER.

    A couple of decades ago, one of my kids tried to get me listen through a Beastie Boys album... I asked... Discernable pleasureable hook? Nope Time / Key changes to manage basic musical procession? Nope Variation in meter and cadence? Nope Vocal variations to counter melodic patterns- Nope...
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    Worst style of music...... EVER.

    No brainer for me.... (C)Rap. Zero redeeming quality in this shit. I've done reviews here from Abba to NIN, Willie to Blink 182. I refuse to listen to a Hip Hop album. A blight.
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    Review The Shaggs- Philosophy of the World (1969) **** 1/2

    :):):) I was wondering if anyone would ever notice the 4-1 gag? I guess 357 days is better than never. And the Catfish moniker? Naw... that goes back to the '70's and my magnificant mustache. Predating the "moderm catfish meme" by decades. OTOH, can you imagine me spending 32 minutes...
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    What Are You Listening to Now? Pics/Videos

    Remember this when was on TV, as it happened. Still think it is one of the greatest live percussion feats in rock history. Palmer solo at about 2:55- 7:40
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    Pearl Jam - Vitalogy & No Code

    I previously reviewed what I felt was the band's best effort.... "10". My 3 *** rating is a lot based on that I was really all that enamored with the Grunge genre. Again, just my "druthers" than an evaluation of the band's worth. Overall, along with Nirvana, they are (IMO) included best in...
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    Review Led Zeppelin- Prescence (1976) ***

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Led Zeppelin- Presence (1976) *** A tad back, I coveried a few albums that I had deemed dissapointments. Today's review includes one of from one of my all time favorite bands, Led Zeppelin. This band is legendary, but it doesn't mean their discography was...
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    Recommend Punk Bands in Order of Punk's History Timeline

    I was in college during the blast on the scene arrival of the Ramones and Sex Pistols. Scuttlebutt of the music press at the time was it was either parody or back handed slap respone to Art Rock (future prog) and AOR. We all thought it was a brief fad, like Disco, but obviously that was not...
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    Recommend Punk Bands in Order of Punk's History Timeline

    Ouch, I don't even think i could even give this assignment justice. I guess a lot depends on how you define Punk.... MC5 as you mentioned, further later, the NY Dolls, Iggy maybe.... Even some of the Velvet Underground's upbeat stuff could roughly be intrerpreted that way as progenitors...
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    Who Are The 'Big 4' Of Prog Rock?

    Doc... I did have S/S phase, and was really into Neil Young's work. In fact, I made it a point to own every album, till I got tired at about Harvest Moon in the early '90's. I saw hm twice in the mid 1980's, once with Int. Harverstether's which was a good gig. Then I saw him in hisRock-a-...
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    Who Are The 'Big 4' Of Prog Rock?

    Thanks Doc.... Like everything in music, when doing these reviews, lists, and critiques, it is really tough to parse the objective vs. the subjective. An example? In my early childhood of loving rock music, say age 8-12, I thought the Beatles could do no wrong. But, there was a period of...
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    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2023

    R & R HOF? Alex Lifeson said it best at his induction speech. Blah Blah Blah!!! This instituion is a joke, and should be ignored by all of us.
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    Who Are The 'Big 4' Of Prog Rock?

    This might be one of the toughest threads I've responded to, because the premise has to include a murky mix of objectivity and subjectivity. Plus what are the criteria and qualifiers..... If I establish a system of longevity, musicanship, productivity, influence, and intangibles. Here would...

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