Wondrous Love - Blue Highway

Advantages: classic rock album, lot of personal meaning
Disadvantages: singer died shortly afterwards

...; 4:24 Beating Around The Bush – a song about love lies. A choppy, staccato rhythm (stop-start) but Angus unleashes on his solo. Running time – 3:55 Shot Down In Flames – this is probably my favourite AC/DC song and one of my top ten songs of all time. An absolute gem of a riff to start, then the funky rhythm kicks in. From the title, it’s quite easy to see that it tells the story of being blown out (turned down) by women - maybe that’s why I like it so much! Running time – 3:22 Get It Hot – a good solid rocker. Contains the classic line, “I’m gonna bend you like a G-String”. Although this is a short song, it is all the better for it. Running time – 2:34 If You Want Blood (You've Got It) – along with ‘Highway to Hell’ this is the other really well... Read review

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Advantages: Two seminal albums from rock's greatest singer-songwriter
Disadvantages: Rather an odd coupling

...In 1965 Bob Dylan went electric, stood firm when audiences tried to boo him off stage (or else turned the amps up twice as loud) and moved the goalposts again with the unforgettable 'Highway 61 Revisited'. It opens with what must be the most famous single drumbeat in rock music and Al Kooper's matchless swirling organ work on the intro to "Like a Rolling Stone", a song which still sounds just as powerful now as it did the first time round. Poet meets rock'n'roller again on the next track, the action-packed "Tombstone Blues", takes a breather for the finger-pointing "Ballad of a Thin Man" ('something's happening but you don't know what it is, do you Mr Jones?') and the bluesy "It Takes a Lot to Laugh...". There's a mesmerising, surreal quality to "Queen Jane Approximately" and "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", and the whole record... Read review

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Advantages: An excellent Moodies Album
Disadvantages: What?

...at leisure. Love of love and love of life and giving without measure, till in return a wondrous yearn of a promise, almost seen, and hand in hand here we’ll stand on the threshold of a dream.’ The concert itself was magical but I had to get a copy of the CD with The Dream, I had to listen to it again and learn the words, after all he had spoken to me hadn’t he? And so it was that I bought my first Moody Blues album – On The Threshold of a Dream. This happened in the mid 90’s and the album had been recorded in 1969 – I wonder if it’s significant that it was recorded the same year that Dave was born – the man who was to restore my faith in love and help me to live my dreams? The album itself is what they used to call a ’concept album’ back in the 60’s and has a distinct theme running through it. The Moodies at the time were Justin Hayward, John... Read review

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