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ROCK AND ROLL! => All Them Other Guys => Topic started by: KiloDeltaCharlie on November 09, 2023, 04:15:43 AM
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An idea I've nicked from the Sea of Tranquillity YouTube channel...
What are your 10 favourite albums by solo artists who have previously been in a band?
RULES:
The artist must have been an established member of a group. They can have left the band forever or just to make that album they always wanted to.
They can't have been a solo artist first before joining a band.
SoT have restricted it to 1 per artist, but I don't think we need to do that.
Post your top 10 counting down one per day.
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I haven't finalised my ten yet, so will start posting later today. I'll be including album covers when I can.
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Hmm...interesting.
BUT a question...just a solo artist or does a solo band count? As one could argue that DIO was never a solo thing but a proper band...so that would have to be excluded then right?
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I know what you mean and the Sea of Tranquillity had the same question. He decided to exclude Dio, Ozzy and Gillan because they had bands. But I don't think we need to as the named leader is so prominent and important to the group. Additionally I'd have to revisit my list quite substantially. :D
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Hmm...alright. This is gonna need some thought.
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So it needs to be a proper solo album and not "The Your Name Here Band" or "Your Name's Band Name Here" - so no Rainbow, as well, with that rule. Jimi Hendrix also ruled out, as he was either JH Experience or Band Of Gypsys.
One that I just listened to recently and have listened to every fall with regularity for maybe 8-10 years is Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's first solo album, "David Gilmour". That's on my list.
So is Rory Gallagher's "Photo Finish". He was in Taste to kick off his career, but made his name as a solo performer and never had "The Rory Gallagher Band" or anything like that. That's on me list, as well. :) I'll add "Calling Card" and oooooooh "Irish Tour '74" has to be in consideration, as well!
Janis Joplin's "Pearl". Big Brother was holding her back, so she went solo and made a beautiful album.
Billy Squier's "Don't Say No". The Piper albums are fun, but Squier comes into his own with this solid release.
Ian Anderson's "Walk Into Light" caught me off-guard as a teenager when I expected something more Jethro Tull-y, but grew on me since then.
Todd Rundgren - once in Nazz, but set free, what a solo output! I'll go with his "Hermit of Mink Hollow", which is the album of his I keep going back to for the tasty tracks on it. I can also add "Something/Anything" and be fine with that.
"High on You" by Sly Stone. Released as an actual solo album and not in association with The Family Stone, it's a solid piece of funk rock before his drug use got in the way of his recording schedule.
"Teaser" and "Private Eyes" from Tommy Bolin. If I had to pick one, it would be the one with "Post Toastee" on it. He was in The James Gang, among other bands.
Tony Martin's impeccable "Thorns". I want to include that, as well, but I think I'm going over 10 soon and will need to make hard choices. Fulfills all the promise he potentially had with Black Sabbath.
How about an Ozzy album? "Blizzard of Ozz", absolutely. His former band? Wasn't it called Earth or something like that?
Both "The Nightfly" and "Kamakiriad" from Donald Fagen are gems. I'm putting them into consideration. Fagen, of course, was in a little band called Steely Dan.
Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs" is a masterwork. He's strong in Procol Harum, but lights up the sky with this album.
"Frampton Comes Alive" because Dooooo YOU / feeeeeeeeeeel like I dooooo :D Ex-Humble Pie guitarist does good with this set.
So that's 16... 17... 18? Ohhh myyyy, that would be a LOT of ties to get them into a list of 10, wouldn't it? :smug: Maybe I could get 2 more and make it a list of 20 favourites? :D
Glenn Hughes - "Building the Machine" is one of my faves from his solo output. But was he in another band? I think he was in... Trapeze? :D
Lou Rawls - "All Things in Time", fantastic soul record, I must consider that one from the former member of The Pilgrim Travelers.
Curtis Mayfield's "Back to the World" is another favorite of mine from the guy who used to sing lead with The Impressions.
Oops now I got 21... Might as well make it 22 with Junie Morrison's (ex-Ohio Players) "Freeze".
23 will be from a guy who got his start in Buster Brown's Orchestra - Little Richard! While his earliest albums are collections of singles, his 1967 release "The Explosive Little Richard" is a solid, true album that I play frequently.
Lyn Collins, a backup singer with James Brown & The J.B.'s had a smash album with "Think (About It)" and maybe if I moved the funky stuff to a list of its own, I could have two top ten lists... oh wow this is going to take some thinking and I hope I don't find another album while I think...
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My number 10
Iommi - The 1996 DEP Sessions
I prefer this one to Fused
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Oh snap, one more solo album to consider!
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Okay. I'll start by doing this one by one!
#10
MELANIE C - The Sea
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It was either this or Beautiful Intensions...but Melanie had been on a year break between albums after This Time (which was actually a pretty weak album) but she came back to glory with this brilliant release. Songs like the Title track, Weak, Stupid Game, Burn and especially the epical Enemy are all absolutely suberb tracks and showcase why Melanie is so great. The b-side to the single Rock Me, Stop This Train is actually the best track of them all...just a suberb song!
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Oh and what about Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie...techincally both (although being leaders in their previous bands) are labeled as solo artists....?
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I would allow both, but only when it was clear that they were as solo artists and not in an eponymous band.
And to make things easier on myself, I'm going to apply that one-per-artist restriction for my list.
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If I make a list of Honourable Mentions, I can do a top ten list...
ZZZPTM'S HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Lou Rawls - All Things in Time
Ian Anderson - Walk into Light
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!
Glenn Hughes - Building the Machine
Little Richard - The Explosive Little Richard
Lyn Collins - Think (About It)
Now to do some listening to sort out my places on the list...
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10. David Gilmour - David Gilmour
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There is a cold exterior to the album, but the sap runs warm under the bark and the ground is hot under the snow. There are standout songs, but as a whole, the album is greater than the sum of its parts. Gilmour's solos are in great form and his backing band was very well-selected. A true VSOP of a release.
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That was Pete Pardo's choice today on Sea of Tranquillity.
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That was Pete Pardo's choice today on Sea of Tranquillity.
How about that! :)
I see some of my other picks on his other entries, I may have some significant overlay with the rest of his entries.
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No. 9
I really had to think hard before including this one. It's a great album but really bends the rules of a "solo" album. But it does have his name front and central!
Geezer Butler - Black Science
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It may be a bit more commercial than his other albums, but that's fine by me. I like the 60s/70s SF references and who can deny the unspeakable evil of Elvis!
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I was contemplating on that one as well....but I went for this one instead:
# 9:
IOMMI
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Actually there was 3 albums in contention for this slot. GZR's Black Science, Iommi/Hughes - Fused and this one...Fused is musically superior to this one but Glenn just makes my ears hurt...HURT! Sure there are couple of bad singers here as well..Skin and Whiny Corgan (who ruins a perfectly good long song!) which are skip-a-doo tracks everytime and Rollins and Grohl are occational skips but the rest are all very very good. Patterns, Time Is Mine, Just Say No To Love and Into The Night are the top of the crop for sure, and the rest are all very good.
I think it was a bit of a risky move from Tony to go with multiple singers but it worked well as (for the most part) he managed to pick good ones.
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Number 9 for me is...
Todd Rundgren - Hermit of Mink Hollow
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A concept album built around the idea of being the odd man out so often, you really have a lot of time to think and reflect. Which is what was going on in Rundgren's life when he went off to go record this album all on his own. He does all the everything on it and puts so much great storytelling into his songs. He's done faffing about with prog and psych - the 12 tracks here are all in that sweet spot between 2-4 minutes except for the silly little Onomatopoeia. So much to like on this album, it's my favorite of all his works.
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#8
Oliva - Raise The Curtain
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I didn't feel comfortable doing Jon Oliva's Pain album for this as that was a proper band not just a solo project eventhough it carried his name...because originally the band was going to be all 'Tage Mahal but due to legal reasons that wasn't possible so because it was such a pain with the name Jon decided to name the band Jon Oliva's Pain. Which I always thought was quite clever in a very Jon Oliva kind of way!
Anyways. Raise The Curtain is pretty much as much of solo album as it can be because Jon plays....well guitar, bass, keyboards AND drums on the album...oh and he sings too. Chris Kinder and Jim Morris add some drum parts and lead guitar bits here and there...but mostly it's just Jon.
The album is different from JOP and Savatage but there are bunch of heavy tunes mixed with softer more mellow stuff which Jon has always done very well (as mentioned in the Ballad thread)...some of the riffing on this album is totally weird as are some of the tunings used which leads to a really funky sound which I happen to love!
It was so sad that because of all the loss in Jon's life after the release of this album (Matt Laporte's passing, passing of his wife and his son and Paul) that so far this has remained the final piece of music Jon has released but next year promises some hope with a one more Savatage album.
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#8 Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues
Gary Moore was and never has been an artist I've been a huge fan of... except for this album
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Before this album he was known for Thin Lizzy and a bunch of solo hard rock albums which were solid but nothing outstanding. Then in 1990 he went all bluesy on us and released this album, which I adore!
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Number 8 on my list...
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Robin Trower's amazing second solo album, Bridge of Sighs. Start to finish, it's a moody, bluesy odyssey. It's got a great mix and works solidly as an album. Of course, it has his huge hit "Too Rolling Stoned", but the rest of the tracks are no slouches. If you wanted to get into Trower, this would be the place to start.
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Bit late today, been away much of the weekend!
No. 7 - Robert Plant - Manic Nirvana
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Never been a huge fand of Plant, even with Zeppelin it was very much hit or miss. But I liked this one, it got some radio play, and while there's a couple of floaters in the bowl it's a pretty decent album. I should listen to it more often than I do,
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#7
Glenn Tipton - Baptizm Of Fire
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I have always very much enjoyed this album...In fact I like this better than any post-reunion Priest album. Songs like Extinct, The Healer, Left For Dead, Himalaya, New Breed and the absolutely SUBERB Enter The Storm deserve their place in heavy metal history. But I do wish that Glenn would have put his ego on the back burner and found an actual singer to front the effort as his vocals are most certainly the weak point of the album. But I can also understand why he wanted to sing..it was his solo effort after all and he wanted the spotlight firmly on himself at this point. He had a great line up of guest musicans here including, Neil Murray, Billy Sheehan, Cozy Powell and Robert Trujillo to name a few so naturally you know musically this is going to rock.
I always ponder how great songs from this album would have sounded like with Tim behind the mic had this been a Priest album...
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My 7th place is...
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Sly Stone's band kind of left him prior to this album, so he went ahead and did most of the instrumental parts on his own. It's a return to form after his dissolute Small Talk album with The Family Stone. He covers all the bases here with a great mix of songs, his last hurrah before his drug use sidelined him creatively for the rest of the decade and beyond.
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#6
Ozzy Osbourne - No Rest For The Wicked
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I was struggling a bit between this and Diary...Diary has songs that are better than anything on this album but it also has songs worse than anything on this album...and I have always considered this to Ozzy's most consistent album. There isn't a single really bad track on it and songs like Miracle Man, Bloodbath In Paradice and Demon Alcohol are among his finest for sure. Also I wanted to show this album some love as it doesn't get nearly enough of it.
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You're right, that's a good album, I would place it 2 or 3 on Ozzy's list.
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I have 5 acts left... at Number 6
Ronnie James Dio - The Last in Line
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After leaving Rainbow and Black Sabbth, RJD released two superb albums to show that he didn't need a renowned guitarist to make great music. The Title Track, We Rock, Egypt... are great tunes.
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Well, I didn't include Dio in my considerations because I'm going with the rule that it was a band, not a solo outing, otherwise that Last in Line would be on my list.
As it is, I have a real treat in at number 6:
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I love the whole album, but when Post Toastee rolls around, I shut everything down and pay attention. Bolin was gone too soon, so I savor the great tracks he laid down.
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Sea of Tranquillity aren't doing "solo bands" because he's going to visit those on a countdown in the spring. I'm not sure we'll do that so I'm including them here.
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I'm bit divided with DIO as well as I have considered it a band not so much a solo thing. Had it been called Blizzard of Ozz as it was supposed to then I would have excluded it too...
It does kind of depend if I'm gonna be able to fill out the list without DIO then I shall if I can't then I'll add it too! :D
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I'm not worried, as long as it's a solo performer, it's a good thing for the list. :)
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No. 5
Peter Gabriel - So
I was a huge fan of the song Sledgehammer - possibly influenced by the impressive video - so I got the album as soon as I could and realised that Sledgehammer wasn't even the best song on the album!
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Favourite songs are Red Rain, Sledgehammer, Mercy Street.
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#5
DORO - Calling The Wild
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This was my first Doro album. Bought it just by chance from a record store back when it was fairly new. And I instantly fell in love with it and her. The duet with Lemmy on Love Me Forever is beyond fantastic but songs like Kiss Me Like A Cobra, Dedication, Burn It Up, Ich Will Alles and Now Or Never are all just suberb and the Billy Idol cover of White Wedding surpasses the original! Quite often the first album you hear from an artist can hold a very special place in your heart and this one most certainly does so in mine.
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My number 5 is interesting beyond the music because it was one of the first digital recordings and is frequently used to demo high-end sound systems... but I like it for the tunes!
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Without Walter Becker, Donald Fagen becomes a warmer, more nostalgic songwriter. Though the sounds on the album are an extension of the jazz-based arrangements that Steely Dan had grown into over the years, the lyrics are where we get the biggest difference from Dan's sound. Gone are the drug dealers and junkies, the infidelities and emotional pains; they're replaced with a certain adolescent optimism that gets dented on the sides but still emerges drivable and usable for later work.
It's a smoooooooooooooooooooth listening experience and great fun every time I get into it. Each song is a vignette of the mid-late 50s with a touch of the early 60s, The Golden Age of Rock and Roll. But Fagen found that he enjoyed jazz more than rock in that time period, so it's interesting how that story is told in an eclectic blend of sounds that recall both the rock and jazz sounds of the era - including a nod to how Caribbean sounds were all the rage in the late 50s with a tune about a coup/revolution in some island nation, somewhere south of Florida... it's a playful album, start to finish, and a real pleasure to curl up with of an evening.
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# 4
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe / II
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I'm cheating here a bit but I'm gonna lump these two together. Rob's first solo outing and his 4th share the name and some of the themes but most importantly the quality. Both are excellent albums with basically no weak tracks on them. It is quite shocking considering Rob's backing band is completely different on each record. Also these album feature 2 of Rob's best tracks Dragula and Sick Bubble Gum...ironically both about racing a certain car from a certain old tv show. This is pretty much a perfect double album...there was just 11 years in between them!
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My number four is...
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Tony put everything he had into this one, and it's phenomenal. Not everyone's cuppa java, but it hit on all the marks I wanted it to. It's savoury, through and through, and I am thankful for the recommendation here to try it out. Really hit the spot with me, and I like to spin it now and again with all the other great stuff I got.
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I'm gonna sorta cheat as well, because I really wasn't sure which of these two albums I was going to include!
No. 4
Tony Martin - Scream / Thorns
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Both phenomenal albums, I think Thorns is maybe a little more consistent but that Scream has a couple of better songs on it. As such I can't really choose between them!
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Hmmm...damn...you too jumped the gun! I will be posting Thorns tomorrow! Would have been cool to have the same album at the same day for all of us! :D
And yes I too am considering about cheating and putting Scream there as well but we shall see....
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Number 3
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
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This and Blizzard of Oz were a fantastic start to his solo career. I prefer Diary... but Blizzard would be just outside the top 10 here, it's probably let down by the overplayed Crazy Train!
Best Tracks: Over the Mountain, Flying High Again, Tonight and Diary of a Madman
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# 3
Tony Martin - Thorns
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Tony Martin returned after 15 years with a solo album and oh boy what a solo album it was! Most certainly the album of the year back in 2022 and one of the best releases in the whole 20s so far. Not really a single weak track on it and As The World Burns is one of the best songs he's ever done!
I had been facebook buddies with Scott for years and years and when I heard he'd be parnering it up with Tony I knew that would be something special and special it was!
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My number 3 is from my younger days when I was but a lad and it was just me and the rock and roll on my radio, even before I had a turntable to call my own...
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Dude! :rockon:
Great tracks start to finish, a helluva rocker. Lonely Is the Night is the best single from the album, but the deep cuts are also real treats, especially the energetic closer that's also the title track. Yes, I've got nostalgia clouding my judgment in part, but remove those clouds and we still have a kickass record from Mr. Squier.
Yes, I'm playing it now. That's a sign of greatness, when you grab on any reason to listen to the album one more time. :smug:
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Number 2
Ronnie James Dio - Holy Diver
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I bet you all thought this would be my Number 1. A fabulous album and while his work with Blackmore and Iommi are definitely better it was a vindication on his desire to go it alone.
Best Tracks - Stand Up and Shout, Holy Diver, Don't Talk to Strangers and Shame on the Night
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Great tracks start to finish, a helluva rocker.
And a girl magnet. At least his poster was - it seemed that anyone I dated back then had that poster on their wall.
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#2
Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet
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I was getting into Alice Cooper around this time (thanks to my English teacher who was a big fan and he told me to check Alice out) with albums like Trash, Billion Dollar Babies and Welcome To My Nightmare. I liked them all but as I was more into heavier stuff I was totally blown away by Brutal Planet which I bought brand new when it came out. I remember putting on and going like what the hell? This is Alice but damn it's heavy! The title track, Pick Up The Bones, Eat Some More, Wicked Young Man and Cold Machines are SUBERB tracks but honestly not a single weak track on the album. A total masterpiece!
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Great tracks start to finish, a helluva rocker.
And a girl magnet. At least his poster was - it seemed that anyone I dated back then had that poster on their wall.
Oh yeah, he had that rockstar look that the chicks all dug.
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My #2 album, and it was a tough fight with my #1, but I feel confident in this placing and there's zero shame in being second place.
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You get 100% what you see on the label here. Rory friggin' Gallagher, ripping it up on his 1974 Irish tour. It stands next to Made in Japan as one of the best ever live albums. One track, Walk on Hot Coals, gives me chills upon chills with every listen, it's the definitive version of that wonderful, passionate song. Everything on the double album is wonderful, but that song is a tearful monument to perseverance, it's hard-driving blues riff relentlessly weathers the storm and the solos overlayed upon it are laden with emotions that burst their cords to rage out in musical mastery. It's the stuff of legends.
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Number 1
Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
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I've always adored this album, it's better than many Maiden albums in my mind, except the very best I suppose. It's not out of place with what Maiden would have released.
Best Tracks - King in Crimson, The Tower, Book of Thel, Machine Men... but honestly even the weaker tracks are pretty good!
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Well how about that...my number 1 is also from a Maiden singer ;)
#1
BLAZE - TENTH DIMENSION
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After Blaze departed from Maiden he came back with a vengeance with a great new band of great young musicians and released a SUBERB album called Silicon Messiah and then 2 years later he released a concept album about a man who discovers a tenth dimension and is forced to hand over the reigns to people he knows is going to misuse it. The story is rather brilliant but what really counts are the songs. There isn't a single weak song on the album, it is an absolute masterpiece from start to finish. It was so unfortunate that Blaze had absolutely ZERO support from the record label SPV because his career could have shot up with this album but with no press and no advertisment most people at the time didn't even know Blaze had started a solo career!
But this album (which remained the last one of the Blaze-band line-up) still remains one of THE best heavy metal albums of the 2000s and is better than anything Iron Maiden has put out since Bruce's return to the band!
And yes I did decide not to include DIO on my list as I had started already with the notion of not including it because of the fact that it was more of a band than just a solo project...list would have been different had DIO been included.
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I knew you'd have Blaze at number 1! ;D
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My number one...
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Back when I was a wee tyke, my choices in music were based on what my parents bought and played. I was 5! I had no money! :D One album I remembered getting played all the time was Janis Joplin's epic, Pearl. When I got a little older and had permission to use the record player, I went through my parents' collection to check things out. There were some boring albums in there, some that I had no interest in, and a few gems that I planned to look into more later on. But when I got to Pearl and put it on, that opening of "Move Over" grabbed me in a new way. It was no longer the soundtrack as I ran around the house or played with Legos, it was now a track I chose to consciously like. And, as the rest of the album unfolded, I wanted to suspend my methodical play-through with a few more replays of the album.
Later on, when I met a young lady that would one day be my wife, I played a tape of the album for her and she fell in love with it. On countless car trips, we'd make that a go-to for singalong good rock and roll that kept us awake and having fun. This album means so much to me on a personal level, yes, but it's also such a strong album in and of itself that I don't have to apologize to anyone if I put it on. It's amazing, and so tragic that Janis passed away before recording finished. So much life and passion in this album, I'll never get tired with it.
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I knew you'd have Blaze at number 1! ;D
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I have become predictable?
I have to say I did not expect you to put Brucey on top...that being said Chemical Wedding is a brilliant album and his best for sure.
As for ZZZ's list...my goodness....there are so many I have never ever even heard of! But I think I will check out just for kicks.
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My 10 picks are definitely more on the blues-rock-hard rock side of the musical spectrum. But those are my go-tos for some great music that, regardless of genre, I know I can enjoy.
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I thank you both for joining in with my little game, you both had some interesting choices.
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100% fun, will do again with different parameters.
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I've always been a fan of top 10 lists!