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Led Zep standing In The Light

Advantages: all of sides one and two
Disadvantages: some of sides three and four

...1970's acoustic "III" album. Physical Graffiti came out in spring 1975 and was a massive seller, staying at no 1 on the US charts for much of that year. It is a colossal record and most Zepp fans will have either this or the "Runes" album as their favourite. Mine is actually "Houses", but hey, you pay your money and take your choice. CUSTARD PIE Zeppelin raid Bukka White's "Shake Em On Down" for the rythym track, although with a clever bit of keyboard ...
...rocker. The "Custard Pie" that Robert Plant is singing about appears to relate to a certain part of the female anatomy. I'll leave you to work it out for yourselves. THE ROVER Taut, driving, menacing tight but loose. The rythym section hold the song down whilst Jimmy Page spreads a glorious guitar over it. Robert sings of joining hands and dark sides of the globe. It's a plea for unity. Bloody brilliant it is too. Legend has it that the guitar ...

pinkmatchstick 23.01.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Physical Graffiti [Remastered] - Led Zeppelin

West Coast pyschadelia meets East Coast riffing

Advantages: 1970's American rock at its finest
Disadvantages: The "bonus" tracks are not much of a bonus

According to Homer Simpson, 1974 was the year that rock reached perfection. Personally I think they were out by a year, but the writers of that show must have been thinking of releases like this, the third album from New York City's famous hard rock band Blue Oyster Cult. Pigeon-holed as gonzo headbanging rockers to start with, BOC soon showed they were the thinking mans rock band. At a time when the majority of bands were singing about coke, sex ...
...as The Doors and Love left off, taking the West Coast vibe and marrying it to their own harder-edged Eastern seaboard rock sound. This is no mere cock-rock, the subject matter here include such as lesbianism ("Astronomy") incest ("Dominance And Submission") and even World War 2 ("ME262"). Leave behind any pre-conceptions of BOC as "that wierdo space-fantasy HM band", this is just good old straight up rock and roll with a twist in its tail. The twin ...

pinkmatchstick 02.07.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Secret Treaties [Remastered] - Blue Oyster Cult

BLOODY SOUNDS

Advantages: ---
Disadvantages: ---

What does happen if the little devil turns the wheel? Jo, there is good music in the plant again! Every day I look into my shelves there and look for suitable music for the day the same game. It then goes loose, JudasPriest there, can not be no on this day. Deep Purple, I had first yesterday anyway. Def Leppard, one could hear again, too but I lack the atmosphere. But then, the handle comes into the safe like every day. Yes correctly into the safe ...
...*AC DC* The CD If you shroud appeared to Blood in 1978. Until this time, of course there already were some changes. Of course the first great was voucher Scott of this, it took the place of Dave Evans at the mike and the advancement of a band started with. In the year 1978 AC DC consisted as follows: Angus Young (Lead Guitar) Malcom Young (Rhythm Guitar) Bon Scott (Vocals) Phil Rudd (Drums) Cliff Williams (Bass) ***Design*** Typically of photos ...

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Review of If You Want Blood You've Got It [Remastered] - AC/DC

No one came, for miles around.............

Advantages: Another brilliant British prog rock album
Disadvantages: none whatsoever

First released in 1971, Fireball was the follow up to "In Rock" and is seen as part two of a trilogy of classic British progressive rock albums from Deep Purple, sandwiched between 1970's In Rock and 1972's Machine Head. Thought for today: other than Zeppelin's IV, Houses Of The Holy and Physical Graffiti, has any other band ever come out with three great albums one after the other? I doubt it very much. Coldplay fans there's the door, you ain't ...
...but hey you don't buy Fireball just to read how it was made do ya. So you get the original 7 tracks of the vinyl, plus nine extra cuts. THE ORIGINAL ALBUM The title bursts out of the speakers; it's all urgency, seemingly everyone playing different lines - Glover's bass is all over the place and Paice's drumming is thrashing about trying to keep up - but somehow it all works. Apparently this was taken at such a fast speed in the studio that they ...

pinkmatchstick 20.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Fireball (25th Anniversary Edition) [Remastered] - Deep Purple

Buy this Stairway to musical Heaven

Advantages: beautiful combos of lyrics, instruments and genre
Disadvantages: Nothing

Led Zeppelin's 4th album (so entitled, lest we forget), is a curious mix of folk, rock and excellent blues instrumentals. With an element of Mick Jagger to them, Robert Plant's vocals on tracks such as Stairway To Heaven really take the top spot on this short album, although the whole presentation is brilliant. The Battle Of Evermore is a foot-tapping ye olde age track, with plenty of instrumentals to it that take you back centuries, while tracks ...
...the bluesy nature of Zep. The album really does show a highly versatile side to the group, and with only 8 tracks to do this in, it really does show just how talented and astute these guys were in their heyday. The vocals and instrumental sounds click on nearly every track, and I found the whole thing easy to listen to, no matter the genre that was being explored at the time. The underlying feel of the album, though, is perhaps summed up in Misty ...

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Review of Led Zeppelin IV (Remastered) - Led Zeppelin