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Wonderworld

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Hard Rock and Metal
by: Uriah Heep

Release Date February 26, 2008
I really like this album, it's a natural successor to the brilliant 'Sweet Freedom' which was a hard act to follow but I think that it does it very well.
Just how I like it.. nice and heavy with lots of special moments not least with the title track which is one of my favourite Heep tunes, a great melody which sticks in your mind and I often find myself humming it for no reason at all. 'Suicidal Man', 'So Tired', 'Something or Nothing' and 'We got We' are all great rockers, well played and produced but (agreeing with the previous reviewer) the star of the show has to be 'I Won't Mind' - a fabulous track full of Heep delights like slide guitar, heavy wah wah solo and some great singing from David Byron.
Gary Thain's bass playing really ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 122
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Done With Mirrors

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Hard Rock and Metal
by: Aerosmith

Release Date March 19, 2007
Original lead guitarist Joe Perry re-joined Aerosmith in 1985, and this album marked the beginning of their hugely succesful late-eighties comeback. It didn't get nearly as much attention as "Pump" or even "Permanent Vacation", partly because it lacks the obvious pop hit, I suppose, but it is actually a very solid hard rock record, perhaps Aerosmith's best since "Rocks".

The production is excellent, the riffs are big and dirty, the arrangements lean and mean, and "Mirrors" opens with one of Aerosmith's best songs of the 80s, the high-energy "Let The Music Do The Talking".
Other highlights include the funky, mid-tempo swagger of "Shame On You", the wonderfully titled groove of "The Reason A Dog", and the gritty, riff-driven two-guitar ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 123
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The Definitive Alice Cooper

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Hard Rock and Metal
by: Alice Cooper

Release Date February 26, 2001
If you're looking for a good overview of Alice Cooper's incrediable music, this is the perfect CD.
Here you will find the legendary hits, "Poison", "Schools Out" etc, cult classics and a generous selection of album tracks.
This is a great album which lives up to it's name, it's suitable for hardcore Alice fans, newbies and those people who just like decent rock music.

CD-Charts Position 124
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Renegade

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Hard Rock and Metal
by: Thin Lizzy

Release Date May 16, 1990
This is a very frustrating Album as the good parts are superb and the rest very poor making it so disjointed.

Four songs make this Album worthwhile with the first 2 Absolute Lizzy Classics :

Angel of Death - Hard Rocking Lizzy at their best- Superb
Renegade-My Favourite Lizzy Track-Dark and Deep and superbly balanced between a delicate ballad and out right Rock Song.
It's getting Dangerous - Lynotts lyrics on this and chorus are now so obvious of the internal tormment and demons of the guy. This is a very emotionally charged song and phils vocals excel with feeling in what we all know now was a sinister cry for help.

Acceptable -Hollywood-A great Song emphasising perhaps Lizzy fortunes at the time.

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CD-Charts Position 125
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On Through The Night

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Hard Rock and Metal
by: Def Leppard

Release Date May 10, 1989
It's hard to describe why this is not great, but i am going to try as it seems to be a rule on Amazon to only review items you like. I have a copy of Slang, which I like, and i thought i would go back to the beginning and work through the albums in chronological order (which works for me normally) but after this, i won't be bothering with the rest. It's just not very good.

CD-Charts Position 126
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Honkin' on Bobo

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Hard Rock and Metal
by: Aerosmith

Release Date March 29, 2004
My mantra's usually been that once a group starts doing whole albums of covers, they've run out of ideas.

I'm eating my word with Honkin On Bobo. This amazing album is Aerosmith playing the music that kicked off rock and roll and where the likes of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendix, Rolling Stones, AC/DC etc etc drew their inspirations; ie the blues or as Keef Richards would say "der bloos."

The likes of Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Willie Dixon are covered with reverance and oh, so well.

What really brings home to me on listening to this, is what terrific musicians Aerosmith are and they're as tight as a drum. One of the best rock bands ever to come out of the US.

An excellent album

CD-Charts Position 127
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Ghost of a Rose

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Hard Rock and Metal
by: Blackmore's Night

Release Date June 30, 2003
Having been blown away by the first three albums, unlike the reviewer above I was terribly disappointed with 'Ghost of a Rose'. There are some great moments on it, but the melodies are blander and weaker over all and the tracks less infectious than on previous (and subsequent) albums. Several of the tracks almost get somewhere great but not quite - which is a shame and a bit frustrating as I can see that this album could have been great.
Having said that, the title track is perfect (and better than the curiously re-recorded version on 'Beyond The Sunset') and 'Cartouche' and 'Loreley' are certainly worth buying the album for if nothing else.
I still enjoy it and play it, but it's always an 'almost' great album...

CD-Charts Position 128
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Thin Lizzy

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Hard Rock and Metal
by: Thin Lizzy

Release Date March 07, 1990
Before the drink and drugs got him Phil was truly a Celtic bard who could romanticise about his absent dad and sing tenderly of the girls he too would leave behind. The poignant theme of the Vagabond and The Orphan runs through the first three albums and Eric Bell's beautiful guitar accentuates the poet's loneliness. Check out the guitar break on 'Honesty Is No Excuse', it's heartstopping. I copied 'Diddy Levine' for a mate of mine who was adopted and he absolutely hated it. It's that good! A true artist who just got farther and farther away from his feelings. This album has a depth to it that, in my opinion, he never recaptured. Amazing.

CD-Charts Position 129
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Obsession

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Hard Rock and Metal
by: UFO

Release Date August 02, 1999
This is one of the all-time classic hard rock albums. I agree with the other reviewer who says that Schenker and Mogg bring out the best in each other, and this album and the next studio album they did together 18 years later (Walk on Water) prove it. Having said this, it should be noted that Schenker frequently reaches this guitar-playing standard without Mogg - though Mogg is probably Schenker's best song-writing partner.

Anyway - to the record in hand. Only You Can Rock me is a superb opening track with a haunting melodic solo in the middle that has to be one of rock's timeless great moments. Pack it Up and Go is a great-song that simultaneously show-cases Schenker's talents. Arbory Hill slows things down nicely before the more ballad-like Ain't No Baby and Lookin' ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 130
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Virtual XI

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Hard Rock and Metal
by: Iron Maiden

Release Date March 23, 1998
what is this??? iron maiden are one of my all time favourite bands but this is the worst album i have ever heard. if i bought this and got it home and it had a 50 pound note tucked in the sleeve i would still feel ripped off. stick with the dickinson/dianno stuff. surely someone in the band must have felt that this was going to be a poor album while they were recording it!