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  1. Catfish

    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...
  2. Catfish

    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...
  3. Catfish

    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...
  4. Catfish

    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...
  5. Catfish

    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...
  6. Catfish

    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...
  7. Catfish

    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...
  8. Catfish

    Review The Who- The Who Sell Out (1967) *** 1/2

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- The Who- The Who Sell Out- (1967) *** 1/2 This Fascinating and semi-ground breaking LP that exemplifies and parallels the Beatle Mania Mod transition to psychadaelia. This particular album is genius in that somewhat serves as a concept album of illustrating how...
  9. Catfish

    Review Foreigner- Agent Provocateur (1984) ****

    (Random) Classic Rock Album of the Day- Foreigner - Agent Provocateur (1984). **** Thought I would try something new. With a couple of thousand of LP's, I figured it might be different and interesting to close the eyes, and point to one in a random fashion to review. Today's random pick...
  10. Catfish

    Review Rush- Snakes and Arrows (2007) ****

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Rush- Snakes and Arrows (2007) **** I have chosen this particular work to honor and commemorate the loss of the Professor who we lost 6 years ago tomorrow The loss still reverberates ongoing within the memories of us prog fans. And if you look at the the YT...
  11. Catfish

    Review Lynyrd Skynyrd- (Pronounced- Len-nerd Skin-nerd)- (1973) ****

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Lynyrd Skynyrd- (Pronounced- Len-nerd Skin-nerd)- (1973) **** Thought I might cover this lengendary Southern staple today. As a genre, it was fantastic fork in the road genre, that was fresh off the Psychedelia era. This band, and the Allman Bros., caught the...
  12. Catfish

    Review Styx- Equinox (1975) **** 1/2

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Styx- Equinox (1975) **** 1/2 I have a lot of emotion invested in this LP. This and my Boston debut album dominated my turntable and Truck 8-Track during the 1976-1977 timeframe. This was also the first sucessful LP of the first great band that I got to see...
  13. Catfish

    Review Neil Young- Everybody's Rockin' (1983) 0*

    Today, someone asked me, if I consider any album ever made, ZERO STARS...... This Young shitstir dumpster fire comes as close (IMO), 100.000% Filler Frisbee. Should have gotten jail time for auditory assault...
  14. Catfish

    Review Rush- Vapor Trails (2002) ****

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Rush- Vapor Trails- 2002 **** This is the great comback album, after the band took a hiatus after the tragic losses in Neil Peart's family. And Mr Peart released a lot of pent up emotion, and it came out in a mix of retrospection on both sides of the emotional...
  15. Catfish

    Review Blink 182- Take Off Your Pants and Jacket- (2001) ***

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Blink 182- Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001) *** Blink had a tough act to follow. To followup on the massively successful "Enema of the State", would be an almost an impossible feat. Enema was Quintuple Platinum, which is (was) a pretty amazing...
  16. Catfish

    Review The Cars- Candy-O (1979) ****

    Classic Album of the Day- The Cars- Candy O (1979). **** Bands like The Cars, The Police, Elvis Costello, among another put a big dent into the AOR Arena Rock era,. They called and identified the genre soon afterwards as New Wave. So we ditched our long hair and Tee shirts for sunglasses...
  17. Catfish

    Review Bloodrock- 2 (1970) *** 1/2

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Bloodrock- Bloodrock 2 (1970). *** 1/2 If I was conducting my monthly Top 20 lists 3 years earlier (1970-1972) ,this would have beeb one of the top bands listed- Yes...Bloodrock- Bloodrock was a Dallas based hard rock and blues ensemble who dominated underground...
  18. Catfish

    Review Heart- Bad Animals (1987) ***

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Heart- Bad Animals. (1987) *** I have wanted to add a Heart LP to review for some time, but the YT/Vevo fascists have prevented its playing in entirety for the ones I felt had the most impact, power, and legacy- Their debut Dream Boat Annie. When these front...
  19. Catfish

    Review Fleetwood Mac- Mirage (1982) *** 1/2

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Fleetwood Mac- Mirage (1982) *** 1/2 By 1982, the era of Fleetwood Mac's dominance and stranglehold on the radio had ended. The 3 previous behemoths had yielded 22M in sales, while today's album only sold 2M. It could be speculated that Fleetwood Mac by design...
  20. Catfish

    Review Black Sabbath - Paranoid- (1970) ****

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Black Sabbath- Paranoid (1970) **** Sadly, a cornerstone of heavy metal passed away today (Ozzy Osbourne). For nearly 60 years he and his other mates much more set up trends and fashions in heavy metal. Hell.... they invented the metal genre single handedly...
  21. Catfish

    Review Rush- Hemispheres (1978) *****

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Rush- Hemispheres (1978) ***** Rush had maybe 4-5 albums that I preferred over Hemisphere, but a band with (IMO) about 10- 5 star LP's, anyone of those 10 would be a fun choice to cover on any given day. Today, I chose Hemispheres for the fact that this was...
  22. Catfish

    Review Van Halen- Self Titled (1978) ** 1/2

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Van Halen- Self Titled (1978) ** 1/2 I have always really liked Van Halen's music. There is no underestimating EVH's guitar wizardry, and how it changed hard rock in the late 1970's. I have been late to the game with a review, because as legendary as this band...
  23. Catfish

    Review Kansas- Leftoverture (1976) ****

    Classic Album of the Day- Kansas- Leftoverture (1976). **** If I were asked right now, what is the absolute biggest omissions in the so called sham of a rock and roll hall of fame, I would have to overwhelming say that it is the band Kansas. These guys are top tier talent, and have great...
  24. Catfish

    Review UFO- Obsession (1978) ***

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- UFO- Obsession (1978) *** Today's selection is somewhat of change of pace. I would pretty readily guess that almost everyone born after 1965, has not heard this band. But these hardworking journeymen of over 40+ years almost produced 2 dozen studio albums. The...
  25. Catfish

    Review Fleetwood Mac- Tusk (1979) ****

    Classic Rock Album of the Day- Fleetwood Mac- Tusk (1979). **** As Epic of a hit that Rumours became in 1979, yours truly will not dispute that fact, but even with the ubiquitous nature of that LP in the halls of modern classic rock universe. I recognize that the experimental basis of this...

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