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sábado, 1 de março de 2008

Cat Stevens - Morning has Broken

Yusuf Islam, anteriormente conhecido pelo nome artístico de Cat Stevens (Londres, 21 de Julho de 1948) é um ex-cantor e compositor britânico.
Seu nome completo é Stephen Demetre Georgiou.
Seu pai é de origem grego-cipriota e sua mãe, de origem sueca.
Vendeu 40 milhões de álbuns, principalmente entre as décadas 1960 e 1970.
Em 1971, escreveu a trilha sonora do filme Harold and Maude (no Brasil: "Ensina-me a Viver").
Entre suas canções mais populares estão "Morning Has Broken", "Peace Train", "Moonshadow", "Wild World", "Matthew and Son" e "Oh Very Young".

terça-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2008

Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House (70)

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01 this is the rock
02 station man
03 blood on the floor
04 hi ho silver
05 jewel eyed judy
06 buddy's song
07 earl gray
08 one together
09 tell me all the things you do
10 mission bell

Cars - Panorama (80)

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01 - Panorama
02 - Touch And Go
03 - Gimme Some Slack
04 - Don't Tell Me No
05 - Getting Through
06 - Misfit Kid
07 - Down Boys
08 - You Wear Those Eyes
09 - Running To You
10 - Up And Down

segunda-feira, 25 de fevereiro de 2008

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (65)

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01 Like a Rolling Stone
02 Tombstone Blues
03 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
04 From a Buick 6
05 Ballad of a Thin Man
07 Highway 61 Revisited
08 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
09 Desolation Row
10-Bob Dylan-Tangled up blue
11-Bob Dylan-Changing of the guards
12-Bob Dylan-The groom's still waiting at the altar

terça-feira, 5 de fevereiro de 2008

Blues Traveler – Four (94)

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01 - Run Around
02 – Stand
03 - Look Around
04 – Fallible
05 - The Mountains Win Again
06 – Freedom
07 - Crash Burn
08 - Price To Pay
09 – Hook
10 - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
11 - Just Wait
12 - Brother John

Blues Traveler - Live From The Fall (96) - Duplo

Disco 1

01 Love And Greed
02 Mulling It Over
03 Closing Down The Park
04 Regarding Steven
05 New York Prophesie
06 100 Years
07 Crash Burn
08 Gina
09 But Anyway
10 Mountain Cry


Disco 2

01 Alone
02 Freedom
03 Mountains Win
04 Breakfast
05 Go
06 & 07 Low-Go
08 Run
09 & 10 Hippie-Imagine

sábado, 19 de janeiro de 2008

Blues Traveler - Save This Soul (93)


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01 - Trina Magna
02 - Love & Greed
03 - Letter From a Friend
04 - Believe Me
05 - Go Outside
06 - Defense & Desire
07 – Whoope
08 - Manhattan Bridge
09 - Love Of My Life
10 - NY Prophesie
11 - Save This Soul
12 - Bullshitter's Lament
13 - Conquer Me
14 – Fledgling

quarta-feira, 9 de janeiro de 2008

Shiva – Firedance (82)

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01 - How Can I
02 - En Cachent
03 - Wild Machine
04 – Borderline
05 - Stranger Lands
06 - Angel Of Mons
07 - Rendezvous With Death
08 – User
09 - Call Me In The Morning
10 – Shiva
11 - Rock Lives On
12 – Sympathy


Heavy Metal

John Hall (G,K,V)
Andy Skuse (B)
Chris Logan (D)

U2 - Best Of 1980-1990 (98)

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01 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
02 - New Year's Day
03 - With Or Without You
04 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
05 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
06 – Bad
07 - Where The Streets Have No Name
08 - I Will Follow
09 - The Unforgettable Fire
10 - Sweetest Thing
11 – Desire
12 - When Love Comes To Town
13 - Angel Of Harlem
14 - All I Want Is You

terça-feira, 8 de janeiro de 2008

Peter Gabriel – So (86)

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01 - Red Rain
02 – Sledgehammer
03 - Don't Give Up
04 - That Voice Again
05 - In Your Eyes
06 - Mercy Street
07 - Big Time
08 - We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)
09 - This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds)

quinta-feira, 27 de dezembro de 2007

Genesis – Genesis (83)



1 Mama
2 That's All
3 Home by the Sea
4 Second Home by the Sea
5 Illegal Alien
6 Taking It All Too Hard
7 Just a Job to Do
8 Silver Rainbow
9 It's Gonna Get Better



Moments of Genesis are as spooky and arty as those on Abacab — in particular, there's the tortured howl of "Mama," uncannily reminiscent of Phil Collins' Face Value, and the two-part "Second Home by the Sea" — but this eponymous 1983 album is indeed a rebirth, as so many self-titled albums delivered in the thick of a band's career often are.

Here the art rock functions as coloring to the pop songs, unlike on Abacab and Duke, where the reverse is true.

Some of this may be covering their bets — to ensure that the longtime fans didn't jump ship, they gave them a bit of art — some of it may be that the band just couldn't leave prog behind, but the end result is the same: as of this record, Genesis was now primarily a pop band.

Anybody who paid attention to "Misunderstanding" and "No Reply at All" could tell that this was a good pop band, primarily thanks to the rapidly escalating confidence of Phil Collins, but Genesis illustrates just how good they could be, by balancing such sleek, pulsating pop tunes as "That's All" with a newfound touch for aching ballads, as on "Taking It All Too Hard."

They still rocked — "Just a Job to Do" has an almost nasty edge to its propulsion — and they could still get too silly as on "Illegal Alien," where Phil's Speedy Gonzalez accident is an outright embarrassment (although in some ways it's not all that far removed from his Artful Dodger accent on the previous album's "Who Dunnit?"), and that's why the album doesn't quite gel.

It has a little bit too much of everything — too much pop, too much art, too much silliness — so it doesn't pull together, but if taken individually, most of these moments are very strong, testaments to the increasing confidence and pop power of the trio, even if it's not quite what longtime fans might care to hear.

domingo, 23 de dezembro de 2007

Roger Glover – Snapshot (02)



1 My Turn
2 Burn Me Up Slowly
3 Beyond Emily
4 Queen of England
5 No Place to Go
6 The Bargain Basement
7 What You Don't Say
8 Nothing Else
9 Could Have Been Me
10 The More I Find
11 When It Comes to You
12 Some Hope
13 If I Could Fly
14 It's Only Life


Even though he has produced bands and guested on other artists' records over the years, bassist Roger Glover will forever be best known as a member of Deep Purple.

Purple had been his main focus for some time come the early 21st century, but somehow Glover also found the time to issue a solo album, Snapshot, in 2002.

Despite hard rock/heavy metal having long been Purple's musical preference, Snapshot turns out to be a major left turn for Glover, as a variety of non-headbanging styles are included — funk (the album-opening "My Turn"), reggae ("Burn Me Up Slowly"), folk-meets-soul-rock ("Queen of England"), and blues ("It's Only Life").

Although the album is credited to Glover, vocalist Randall Bramblett is really the main focus throughout, as he sings on nearly all of the album's tracks — and has no problem adapting to the various styles.

Once upon a time, a solo album by a member of an established rock band usually meant a collection of tunes that didn't exactly fit in with the bandmember's renowned style.

And that's exactly what Glover opted to do with Snapshot.

Pretenders - Learning To Crawl (84)



1 Middle of the Road
2 Back on the Chain Gang
3 Time the Avenger
4 Watching the Clothes
5 Show Me
6 Thumbelina
7 My City Was Gone
8 Thin Line Between Love and Hate
9 I Hurt You
10 2000 Miles


Chrissie Hynde took a long, hard road to rock & roll stardom, but when her band, the Pretenders, finally broke through in 1979, they wasted no time, growing from promising newcomers on the British music scene to major international stardom with a pair of smash albums to their credit in a mere three years.

But the Pretenders' meteoric rise came to a crashing halt in 1982, when drug abuse claimed the life of guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and forced Hynde and drummer Martin Chambers to dump bassist Pete Farndon, who would also succumb to an OD in April 1983.

Hynde was forced by circumstance to reinvent the Pretenders for their third album, 1984's Learning to Crawl, but if the new edition of the group lacked some of the spark of the band that made the first two LPs, through sheer force of will Hynde created a masterpiece.

While Hynde hardly held back in her emotionally potent songwriting in the Pretenders' early work, on Learning to Crawl there's a gravity to her lyrics that blended with her tough but wiry melodic sense and streetwise intelligence to create a set of truly remarkable tunes.

"Back on the Chain Gang" is a touching tribute to her fallen comrades that still sounds bitterly rueful, "Middle of the Road" is a furious rocker that explores the emotional and physical toll of a musician's life, "Time the Avenger" is a taut, literate examination of a businessman's adulterous relationship, "My City Was Gone" deals with the economic and cultural decay of the Midwest in a manner both pithy and genuinely heartfelt, and "2000 Miles" is a Christmas number that demonstrates Hynde can be warm without getting sappy.

As a guitarist, Robbie McIntosh brought a simpler and more elemental style to the Pretenders than Pete Farndon, but his tough, muscular leads fit these songs well, and bassist Malcolm Foster's solid punch fits Chambers' drumming perfectly.

Three albums into her recording career, Chrissie Hynde found herself having to put the past to bed and carve out a new beginning for herself with Learning to Crawl, but she pulled it off with a striking mixture of courage, strength, and great rock & roll; with the exception of the instant-classic debut album, it's the Pretenders' finest work.

domingo, 9 de dezembro de 2007

Survivor - Survivor (79)

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1 Somewhere in America
2 Can't Getcha Offa My Mind
3 Let It Be Now
4 As Soon as Love Finds Me
5 Youngblood
6 Love Has Got Me
7 Whole Town's Talkin'
8 20/20
9 Freelance
10 Nothing Can Shake Me (From Your Love)
11 Whatever It Takes

Survivor - Caught in the Game (83)

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1 Caught in the Game
2 Jackie Don't Go
3 I Never Stopped Loving You
4 It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
5 Ready for the Real Thing
6 Half-Life
7 What Do You Really Think?
8 Slander
9 Santa Ana Winds


Caught in the Game had Survivor focusing on a harder rock & roll sound, with greater emphasis stemming from the guitar and percussion, but this new formula didn't fare well commercially and the band failed to put any of the album's songs onto the charts.

With Frankie Sullivan finally expressing himself with his guitar playing, the album does manage to establish a vibrant and dominant punch through most of the cuts, but because of this, there's a shortage of musical flow and melodic consistency that becomes apparent after the first few tracks.

Efforts such as "What Do You Really Think" and "I Never Stopped Loving You" are Survivor's best examples of their straight-ahead rock fair, but they're canceled out by non-abrasive fillers like "Slander" and "Santa Ana Winds," which have the band playing well below their capacity.

After this album, Survivor replaced vocalist Dave Bickler with the more inspired-sounding Jimi Jamison.

The album that followed, 1984's Vital Signs, had the band playing clean-cut radio-friendly rock, and two of the three singles released from the album made it into the Top Ten.

Survivor encountered further success with their new vocalist and their future albums had more of a congenial pop/rock flair to them, which was apparent even on the releases that didn't net the band any charted singles.

None of Caught in the Game's tracks appear on Survivor's most thorough hits package entitled Fire in Your Eyes: Greatest Hits, an essential 18-track compilation released in 2001.

Survivor - Vital Signs (84)

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1 Can't Hold Back
2 High on You
3 First Night
4 The Search Is Over
5 Broken Promises
6 Popular Girl
7 Everlasting
8 It's The Singer, Not The Song
9 I See You in Everyone

Replacing singer Dave Bickler with former Cobra vocalist Jimi Jamison paid off for Survivor, giving them three Top 20 singles from Jamison's debut on 1984's Vital Signs.

His high harmonies, added to the group's well-maintained keyboard/guitar style, threw them into the ring with bands like Styx and Foreigner.

Both "High on You" and "I Can't Hold Back" are built on congenial rock charm with an AOR dressiness, using the synthesizer to guide Jamison's energetic singing.

Along the same lines as Journey's "Open Arms," the delicate but sternly sung ballad "The Search Is Over" gave them a number four single in May of 1985, bettered only by the number two placing of "Burning Heart" from the Rocky IV soundtrack a year later.

Outside of the singles, the other songs on Vital Signs keep up with the band's effective formula, a much better effort than 1983's Caught in the Game, which lacked both enthusiasm and rock magnetism.

Though a hits package from Survivor would cover most essentials, Vital Signs works best as the band's most spirited studio release.

Survivor - When Seconds Count (86)

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1 How Much Love
2
Keep It Right Here
3
Is This Love
4
Man Against the World
5
Rebel Son
6
Oceans
7
When Seconds Count
8
Backstreet Love Affair
9
In Good Faith
10
Can't Let You Go


After 1984's Vital Signs netted Survivor three Top 20 singles, the band knew that they would have to come up with something of equal or greater value upon their next release.

Unfortunately, 1986's When Seconds Count failed to do either, although the album did give Survivor their last Top 40 hit with the synth-driven "Is This Love" in November of that same year.

Only Jimi Jamison, Frankie Sullivan, and Jim Peterik made up the band at this point, and a handful of session musicians had to be hired in order to complete the album.

The result was a harder, more streamlined approach to their music, shedding themselves of their past pop/rock sound for the most part.

Other than "Is This Love," cuts like "Man Against the World" and "How Much Love" sound the firmest, with the band focusing more on melody and on an appealing song structure.

But the bulk of When Seconds Count comes off hurried and overlooked, evident in shoddy efforts like "Rebel Son," "Oceans," "Keep It Right Here," and "In Good Faith."

Although Survivor opted for the more aggressive pop/rock avenue, the material on When Seconds Count doesn't exactly comply with the group's chosen formula, unlike the smoother-sounding Vital Signs or even 1983's Caught in the Game.

The album itself would have benefited by the inclusion of "Burning Heart," which was released on the Rocky IV soundtrack a year earlier but became Survivor's second-highest-charting single.

The album that followed, 1988's Too Hot to Sleep, is more consistent, with sharper songwriting and sturdier musicianship the whole album through.

When Seconds Count isn't a total write-off, but the better tracks can be heard on any of Survivor's hits packages.

Glass Tiger - Diamond Sun (88)

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1 Diamond Sun
2
Far Away from Here
3
I'm Still Searching
4
A Lifetime of Moments
5
Its Love U Feel
6
My Song
7
(Watching) Worlds Crumble
8
Send Your Love
9
Suffer in Silence
10
This Island Earth

Diamond Sun was Glass Tiger's follow-up to their successful 1986 album Thin Red Line.
While not a popular album in the U.S., the album does feature some guest appearance by the Chieftans.
Recommended only for die-hard completists, otherwise track down The Best of Glass Tiger: Air Time first, which provides a better introduction to the group and some of their much better songs.