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Stranger in Us All.

Advantages: Superb incorporation of classical scales into Rock, great riffs and leads.
Disadvantages: Rainbow's last album

Ritchie Blackmore, (creator of one of the most famous rock riffs - Smoke on the Water) after shuttling between Deep Purple (1965 - 1974, 1984 - 1994) and Rainbow (1975-1984,1994-1997) came up with this brilliant Album during his second stint with Rainbow, featuring vocalist Doogie White of Scottish Origin. Blackmore uses a scalloped fretboard with wood shaved of b/w frets meaning that he plays with a light touch, resulting in a furious pace. This ...
...opener Wolf to the Moon which starts of with a signature fast paced Blackmore Riff. Doogie White, proves that his recruitment by Blackmore into the band is no stroke of luck. The entire album has ritchie blackmore's classical influence portrayed in great style with some neat riffs. With the album of to a great start with the fast paced Wolf to the Moon, (which would also be a great concert opener), the next song Cold Hearted Woman marks the beginning ...

alex2000_mc 22.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Stranger In Us All - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

Tight Denim And Fuzzy Long Perms

Advantages: A coming of age album, perfectly polished
Disadvantages: Probably not to be topped again by the band

...when after the gentleness of Hysteria and a soft cuddle with your new fella. It'll either having you reach for the volume knob to turn it up or turn it down. I liked it, simply because it was fun, after such a serious track. It tells you to 'stand up' We're back almost into bop mode again. The last track 'Love and Affection' could have been another 'Hysteria' but it seems to lack something, I think because it sounds so similar. It bares the mark ...
...spoils it. Its again gentle and reflective. It doesn't have the same broodiness of 'Hysteria'. It would have felt better on a follow up album. It's still a good piece to finish an album but not a rock album. They were essentially a commercial rock band unlike others, they had chosen to conform, whether it was to make money or get popular fast. One feels that previous albums, 'On through the night' and 'Pyromania' seemed to be true Def Leppard. One ...

sam1942 04.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Hysteria - Def Leppard

linkin park were once called hybrid theory

Advantages: great music performed live by a great band
Disadvantages: it doesnt show them 100% at their best

...the CD(12 audio live tracks) comes with DVD (17 performance tracks), case, and booklet (10 pages). DVD DIRECTOR: Kimo Proudfoot DVD PRODUCER: Matt Calabiano ALBUM PRODUCER: Josh Abraham Great an up close look at a band who is passionate about their music. The DVD has some off-stage sound bites and lots of on-stage action shots. The bands seems to have the big tough Metallica fans prancing happily in the Mosh Pit throughout the show which ya gotta ...
...time to notice the text and art on the actual CDs themselves - - which is reallly cool. 1. Don't Stay great slow motion footage during the intro. the crowd is immediately into the show. 2. Somewhere I Belong the band showcases their strong vocal talent here. The mix between DJ, guitar, bass, vocals is amazing. 3. Lying From You not mixed very well which is Too bad cos its a really Good song. 4. Papercut vocals get lost in the music here, again. ...

boots_tart 16.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Live In Texas (+DVD) [Digipak] - Linkin Park

This is how it should be

Advantages: A good collection of Thunder tracks
Disadvantages: sound compromised compared to studio tracks

This album is everything that LIVE classic rock should be. Thunders frontman/singer Danny Bowes delivers a stonking performance unrivalled by today teenie rockers.Ther rest of the band are: Gary "Harry" Janes - Drums, Luke Morley - Guitar/Harmonica, Ben Matthews - Guitar/keyboards, and Chris Childs - Bass. Thunder was formed from the ashes of another great band - Terraplane - in 1989. The band are from London and surrounding districts. Having ...
...a good representation of a live Thunder gig, the atmosphere translates well to the CD and it is the next best thing to being there. This is a double CD, with 22 live tracks. The tracklist includes well-known favourites, from the Back Street Symphony era, such as "Dirty Love" and "She's so fine", through the powerful "Does it feel like love?" and the haunting "Low life in high places" to the scorching "Gimme some lovin'". The general feel of this ...

thundersmurf 03.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Live - Thunder

I hate......slow songs.....oh yeah

Advantages: Good grief it's loud
Disadvantages: It won't be for everyone

Kyuss were a band from Southern California, who where one of a number of very heavy US rock bands getting a break in the post-Nirvana era. Nowadays they are more famous for having spawned Queens Of The Stone Age, because guitarist Josh Homme and bassist/singer Nick Oliveri went on to form that band and had huge success with it too. Here though in 1992, together with drummer Brant Bjork and lead singer John Garcia, they put down a blueprint for what ...
...rock is just very heavy rock music taken even further by the post-grunge favoured method of downtuning guitars and slowing it all down to neanderthal beats. Josh Homme takes it even a step more heavier by playing lead guitar through a 400 watt bass head, giving a very distorted and throbbing distinctive sound. The band became very popular at twilight desert concerts, where the youth would gather around car headlights, listen to their music and presumably ...

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Review of Blues For The Red Sun - Kyuss