Die Magie Der Steine - Heilsteine - Parzzival

Advantages: alles
Disadvantages: nichts

...Besetzung als auch bei dem, was sie inhaltlich herausbrachten. Der ursprüngliche Frontmann Syd Barrett war nicht mehr in der Band, als "Dark Side Of The Moon" ("DSOTM" ab jetzt) aufgenommen wurde. Er wurde durch die Gitarren-Legende David Gilmour ersetzt. Barrett war eine einzigartig treibende Kraft für Pink Floyd, Lead-Gittarist, Lead-Sänger und verantwortlich für über 90% der Songtexte. Als er aber die ersten Anzeichen einer krankhaften mentalen Instabilität zeigte, war er über einen langen Zeitraum nicht mehr in der Lage der Band beizustehen und Impulse zu geben. Barrett ging und wurde durch den in Cambridge wohnenden und mit der Band schon vorher befreundeten David Gilmour ersetzt, der, obwohl er ein gleichwertig guter, wenn nicht sogar noch begnadeter Gittarist war, doch einige Zeit benötigte, um sich selbst als Songschreiber und Producer zu... Read review

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Advantages: Rare moments of genius
Disadvantages: The coolest band on earth's descent into mediocrity

..., they did, in a way. They were actually commissioned to write a theme tune for it, and this is what they turned in. The producers didn’t like it, told Harry and Stein to rewrite it, Harry and Stein refused and the task fell to Sheena Easton to sing the song that would open the flick (which, if you’re interested, is probably the best of all the Roger Moore flicks, with the exception of ‘Live and Let Die’). While Easton’s theme is crap, this is not much better, a sprawling, lazy mess of a song with some bad lyrics that just sounds unbelievably lame and not the same band who had given us some of the finest songs of their time. The band seem like they are just going through the motions and Harry sounds completely disinterested. Really bad stuff. ‘The Beast’ follows in the vein of ‘Orchid Club’ and ‘Dragonfly’ by being a long, drawn-out epic, a dark... Read review

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Advantages: Some all-time classics
Disadvantages: None, Nil, Nada

.... But what of Blondie? What did they bring to the table? Well, more so than any other band they were rooted in pop sensibilities. They had an uncanny knack for a hit and great ideas about how to revitalize pop. Harry once remarked that she wanted to make the kind of music she used to hear on the radio back in the glory days of Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and classic girl groups, and that is something highly evident in Blondie’s music. In 1976 Blondie, now with a new line-up of Harry, Stein, Gary Valentine (bass), Jimmy Destri (keyboards) and Clem Burke (drums) released their eponymous debut album. Chock-full of classics, it failed to get anywhere in the US charts and kind of died without trace. But it was undoubtedly a classic album, a rough, tough, swaggering album rooted in punk and pop-art. It is represented here on the Greatest Hits package... Read review

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