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I’d Call That A Bargain… The Best I’ve Ever Had.

Advantages: 9 great tracks, some classics. Success from failure.
Disadvantages: The failure cost Townsend a nervous breakdown.

The Who = music. A simple equation and one which I learnt from a very early age. Every album and single at my disposal and parents who didn’t mind it being blared out of the old National Panasonic stereogram. ‘Who’s Next’, released in 1971 to great acclaim, is widely regarded as the pinnacle of the greatest live rock ‘n’ roll bands career. The album came about after Pete Townsend, guitarist and main songwriter, failed to complete his ‘Lifehouse’ ...
...eclipsing the hugely successful ‘Tommy’ and which led to a nervous breakdown. What it also led to is a dearth of high quality material with no home. Cue ‘Who’s Next’, nine superbly performed and produced tracks While not being my favourite Who album (that honour goes to 1973s ‘Quadrophenia’) it does give a flavour of every band member at their very best, managing to capture a studio version of the live energy that saw them crowned as the worlds greatest ...

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Queen

Advantages: Includes the first 'hit' single 'Seven Seas of Rhye'
Disadvantages: Honestly cannot think of any!

May's guitar rips into the first of many searing machine gun like chords that ricochet through this eponymous debut album. 'Keep Yoursef Alive', the band's first single, gets you well into the stride of things. 'Doing all right' takes the pace down a few notches and shows that the band have quite a degree of light and shade (a fact which becomes more apparent after the first 3 albums). Freddie penned the last two tracks on side 1 of this album. I ...
...at himself from the titles? ('Great King Rat' and 'My Fairy King'). Side 2 opens up with one of their best tracks ever for energy. 'Liar', I would guess, must have been one of their most pleasurable tracks ever to play live as the whole band seem to go at it hammer and tongs. Again, just when you think you have them sussed, the pace drops off for the almost aetherial 'The Night comes Down', but, hold on, it's foot on the pedal time again with 'Modern ...

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Review of Queen (Limited Edition Replica Vinyl) [Remastered] - Queen

Therapy for Cardiac Arrest...and everything else!

Advantages: Fantastic quality music,good range of the artists musical talent, THE BEST ALBUM COVER OF ALL TIME!
Disadvantages: It isn't available on Hybrid SACD format as per Pink Floyd DSOTM, no CD TEXT on std release, otherwise none!

I first heard "Sheer Heart Attack" back in 1977, before I was starting to get into Queen big time. My then best friend had bought it the day before and popped it round. I only had an hour to check it out and...totally dismissed it! The only memorable thing for me at the time was the intro to "Brighton Rock" which sounded like a fairground. An that's the way it stayed for another six months.. Now the story continues when I saw it available at my ...
...that very day. So I borrowed it, took it home listened to it again, then again,and again. How stupid I felt. I was blown away-there was no going back. since then I've owned it on Vinyl, Japanese Viynl and then as a Japanese CD as a replica of the Vinyl release c/w lyrics and Japanese text. Now released again in Japan as part of a general re-release of all the Queen albums featuring ART (Abbey Road Technology) as another remastering exercise. From ...

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The Who Live At Leeds Is A Classic

Advantages: A great live performance in a small venue
Disadvantages: Huh?

...purchase a recording of a live concert, of course, and Live At Leeds by The Who has been a part of my music collection for many years. Live At Leeds was recorded at Leeds University on February 14, 1970. Many live shows had been recorded prior to this concert on the tour of the United States, but these performances proved to be unsatisfactory for release as a live album. You see, what The Who were after was a live recording in a more intimate setting ...
...was one of the classic live recordings in the history of rock 'n roll music. What stands out about the Live At Leeds album is the ambience that The Who wanted to capture--the album has a distinctive home-made feel, complete with good dialogue and crowd interplay between songs. The obviously enthusiastic crowd inspired the band to turn in a tremendous performance--all of the players were extremely gifted musicians, but what made this concert special ...

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Aloha From Hawaii

Advantages: Some great songs from the world's greatest performer
Disadvantages: None

ALOHA FROM HAWAII is the soundtrack CD for the television special Elvis made in January 1973. The show was the first ever music concert broadcast live around the world via satellite, and was watched by an audience of over 1 billion people. The show was a fund-raising benefit to raise money for the Kui Lee Cancer Fund and amazingly the event raised over 3 times the estimate, making $75,000 for the fund. Although this sounds small for an event of this ...
...a huge sum, and very surprising. The 25th anniversary CD features the full concert from 14 January 1973, and in addition it features a bonus 5 songs Elvis recorded after the concert, which were added to the US broadcast version of the show. At this time in his live shows Elvis was including an awful lot of chat in addition to his songs, much of which was fuelled by the drugs he was taking. However, in full awareness of what his audience wanted to ...

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