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Album review: MAN – All’s Well That Ends Well
Esoteric [Release date 17.02.14] Man’s ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’ is a splendid reminder that there was still some great music being made just before punk hit the rock scene like an unexpected sledgehammer. This album was supposed to be … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, All's Well That Ends Well, Andy Dunkley, Barry Marshall, Deke Leonard, esoteric, jam band, John Cipolinna, John McKenzie, Man, Michael Heatley, Micky Jones, Phil Ryan, rock, Terry Williams, Wales, west coast rock
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Album review: TEN YEARS AFTER – The Friday Rock Show Sessions Live At Reading 1983
Talking Elephant [Release date 21.07.14] 6 March 2013 was a sad day for British rock, when it was announced that Alvin Lee had died suddenly. He was 68 but had seemed to be invincible. However, with Ten Years After and … Continue reading
Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Purpendicular (reissue)
Hear No Evil Recordings [Release date 16.06.14] Deep Purple’s current album ‘Now What?!’ was a favourite of 2013, and ‘Purpendicular’ shows its blood line: the very first Purple album with guitarist Steve Morse in 1996. As ever it captures the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Deep Purple, Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Purpendicular, reissue, review, rock, Roger Glover, Steve Morse
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Album review: CADO BELLE – Cado Belle (reissue)
Big Break Records [Release date 23.06.14] At last, Cado Belle’s one and only album – originally released in 1976 – gets a proper reissue. Earlier versions have suffered from a lack of bonus tracks, decent audio and packaging, with one … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Darby, album, Cado Belle, Colin Tully, Maggie Reilly, reissue, review, rock, soul
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Album review: BILLY JOEL – A Matter of Trust: The Bridge To Russia
Sony Music [Release date 19.05.14] As I was passing through HMV this week – in awe of the growing racks of 180 gram vinyl (you’d need a course of body building supplements to walk out with Purple’s 9 LP Made … Continue reading
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Tagged A Matter Of Trust - The Bridge To Russia, album, Billy Joel, CD.DVD, concert, documentary, live, review, singer, songwriter
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Album review: TODD RUNDGREN – Reissues
Edsel Records [Release date 19.05.14] Just when you thought it was safe to avoid further Todd Rundgren re-issues, along come another three. The first thing to say is that Edsel always do a marvellous job with their packaging. Yes these … Continue reading
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Tagged A True Star, A Wizard, album, pop, reissue, review, rock, Something Anything, Todd, Todd Rundgren
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Album review: POOBAH – U.S. Rock
Ripple Records [Release date 10.02.14] This album was originally released back in 1976 during the peak of Poobah’s career and has now been lovingly re-mastered and reissued by Ripple Records. Poobah were formed by guitarist Jim Gustafson back in 1972 … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice Cooper, Cream, Jim Gustafson, Judas Priest, Ohio, Poobah, remaster, review, Ripple Records, rock, U.S Rock, Youngstown
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Album review : JOHN MAYALL AND THE BLUESBREAKERS – Reissues
Eagle Rock [Release date 17.03.14] With a near 60 album discography, you probably don’t worry too much about the ebbs and flows of commercial success. Suffice it to say that John Mayall remains the most consistently enduring figure in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Ammons, album, blues, Buddy Whittington, Dave Morris Jr, Eric Steckel, Freddie King, In The Palace Of The King, Joe Yuele, John Mayall, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Maggie Mayall, review, Road Dogs, Robben Ford, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stories, Tom Canning, Walter Trout
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Album review: SAXON – The Complete Albums 1979-1988
Parlophone/Warner Music [Release date 17.03.14] Saxon get the “complete albums” treatment with a 10-disc set, essentially the 2009/2010 remasters in facsimilie sleeves. All of Saxon’s albums have appeared on CD before, some on different labels, including the strange 2-on-1 packages … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Biff Byford, bonus tracks, box set, Crusader, Denim And Leather, Destiny, Innocence Is No Excuse, Paul Quinn, Power & The Glory, reissue, review, Rock The Nations, Saxon, Strong Arm Of The Law, The Complete Albums 1979-1988, The Eagle Has Landed, Wheels Of Steel
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Album review: UFO – The Complete Studio Albums 1974-1986
Chrysalis/Warner Music [Release date 17.03.14] A growing trend in recent times is for labels to re-package a band’s albums in facsimilie sleeves. Invariably these are fairly basic, with no bonus tracks, credits, or enlightening essay. As a quick fix, and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, box set, Force It, heavy rock, Lights Out, Making Contact, Mechanix, Michael Schenker, Misdemeanour, No Heavy Petting, No Place To Run, Obsession, Paul Raymond, Pete Way, Phenomenon, Phil Mogg, review, The Complete Studio Albums 1974-1986, The Wild The Willing And The Innocent, UFO
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Album review: THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT – The Complete Albums Collection
The Alan Parsons Live Project, news, interview, radio feature (February 2015) Sony Legacy [Release date 31.03.14] Alan Parsons almost redefined the idea of the concept album in 1976. Parsons was famously the assistant engineer at Abbey Road and got his … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Parsons, Ammonia Avenue, box, boxed set, Chris Rainbow, Colin Blunstone, Eric Woolfson, Eve, Eye In The Sky, Gaudi, I Robot, Pyramid, Stereotomy, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, The Alan Parsons Project, The Complete Albums Collection, The Sicilian Defence, The Turn Of A Friendly Card, Vulture Culture
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Album Reviews: NINE BELOW ZERO – Don’t Point Your Finger/Third Degree
The two most successful albums on Nine Below Zero’s early roster have been reissued and come in expanded packages with loads of live material, alternative versions and informative liner notes. ‘Don’t Point Your Finger’ is classic British r’n’b to its … Continue reading
Album review: HEART – Magazine (Hybrid SACD)
Audio Fideltiy [Release date 18.03.14] Heart’s album ‘Magazine’ had a chequered history. After the initial success with ‘Dreamboat Annie’ the band fell out with the small label Mushroom Records. A legal dispute ensued as they tried to get out of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ann Wilson, Audio Fidelity, Heart, Magazine, Nancy Wilson, reissue, review, rock, SACD
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Album review: FAIRPORT CONVENTION – Moat On The Ledge
Eagle Rock [Released 24.03.14] Another good value 3-in-1 CD box set from Eagle Records that gathers together two live albums from Fairport Convention (who have had a lot of live albums released through the years!) and the band’s ‘XXXV’ studio … Continue reading
Album review: JOHN SEBASTIAN – Reissues
John B Sebastian, The Four Of Us, Tarzan Kid, Welcome Back plus BBC In Concert 1970 Edsel Records [Release date 10.02.14] Dylan just about nailed it when he pronounced ‘the times they are a changin’ in 1964 and John Sebastian, … Continue reading
Album review: TWISTED SISTER – Reissues
Eagle Records [Release date 17.03.14] An interesting trio on this budget box set as it skips the band’s debut album ‘Under The Blade’ and their biggest seller ‘Stay Hungry’ (which the band re-recorded in 2004 as ‘Still Hungry’). You Can’t … Continue reading
Album review: ALICE COOPER – Billion Dollar Babies
Audio Fidelity [Release date 01.03.14] There’s been something of a glut of Alice Cooper re-issues of late – Trash and Hey Stoopid, The Eyes Of Alice Cooper and Dirty Diamonds, and Brutally Live – to name but a few. This … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice Cooper, Audio Fidelity, Billion Dollar Babies, reissue, review, rock, SACD
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Album review: STATUS QUO – Piledriver Deluxe Edition
Universal [Release date 24.03.14] Status Quo are preparing for the second round of their ‘Frantic Four’ reincarnation and – hey – here comes an extended reissue of their 1972 album. ‘Piledriver’ is important because it continued their journey from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Lancaster, album, deluxe edition, Francis Rossi, John Coghlan, Piledriver, reissue, review, Rick Parfitt, rock, Status Quo
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Album review: DEREK SHERINIAN – Reissues (Inertia,Black Utopia,Mythology,Blood Of The Snake,Molecular Heinosity)
Armoury Records (re-issues) [Release date 10.02.14] Sherinian came to wider attention with Dream Theater in 1994 and since he left that band in 1999 the volume of his session work has grown along with stints in Black Country Communion and … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Holdsworth, Black Utopia, Blood Of The Snake and Molecular Heinosity, Derek Sherinian, Dream Theater, Inertia, John Petrucci, John Sykes, keyboards, metal, Mythology, Planet X, progressive, reissue, rock, Simon Phillips, Slash, Steve Lukather, Tony Franklin, Virgil Donati, Yngwie Malmsteen, Zakk Wylde
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Album review: ALICE COOPER – Reissues (Trash/Hey Stoopid)
Hear No Evil [Release date 23.09.13 and 27.01.14] Alice Cooper is not an artist whose back catalogue has seen much by way of remastering and re-issues and I’ve longed for Bob Ezrin to dig out the original recordings of Love … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice Cooper, Hey Stoopid, Joe Perry, Joe Satriani, Jon Bon Jovi, Nikki Sixx, Ozzy Osbourne, reissue, review, rock, Slash, Steve Laukather, Steve Vai, Steven Tyler, Trash
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Album review: CAST – reissues (All Change, Mother Nature Calls, Magic Hour, Beetroot)
Edsel Records [Release date 03.02.14] Cast embarked on their traditional low-key pre-Christmas dates in 2013 and celebrated their 20th anniversary with a new album ‘Troubled Times’. With their first four albums now expanded to deluxe editions, the time is perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged All Change, Beetroot, Cast, deluxe edition, DVD, John Power, Liverpool, Magic Hour, Mother Nature Calls, reissue, review, Shack, The Las
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Album review: JAY FERGUSON – Reissues
Edsel Records [Release date 02.12.13] 2-CD From a personal point of view, these three albums from the late-seventies are perhaps best recalled from their place in the racks of many a vinyl seller at record fairs. I don’t really remember … Continue reading
Album review: THE BOOMTOWN RATS – Classic Album Selection 1977-1984
Universal [Release date 21.10.13] The latest record company wheeze to squeeze the last vestiges of profit out of dusty back catalogues seems to be the ‘reasonably priced’ box set. Which can be very good news for the discerning punter, but … Continue reading
Album review: JETHRO TULL – Benefit (A Collector’s Edition)
EMI [Release date 28.10.13] ‘Collector’s Edition’ is about right. If, like me, you owned the vinyl, upgraded to CD, and then invested in the 2001 remaster (compete with 4 bonus tracks), then you’ll need to seriously question whether the latest, … Continue reading
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Tagged 5.1, album, Benefit, Collector's Edition, Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull, Martin Barre, prog, Progressive Rock, reissue, remix, review, Steven Wilson
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Album review: ALICE COOPER – Brutal Planet/Dragontown
Armoury Records [Release date 07.10.13] The Noughties saw a resurgence in form and popularity for Alice Cooper, culminating in 2009′s Along Came A Spider – an album which many pundits saw as an updating of his 1st ‘solo’ concept album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice Cooper, Armoury Classics, Brutal Planet, Dragontown, reissue, review, rock
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