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America Album Reviews

Hat Trick

TOP SONGS: Molten Love • Rainbow Song • Wind Wave • Hat Trick • Willow Tree Lullaby • Muskrat Love • Green Monkey ...

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The Bangles Album Reviews

All Over the Place

TOP SONGS: Going Down To Liverpool • Live • Hero Takes A Fall • He's Got A Secret • James • Restless • More Than Meets The Eye • Tell Me • All About You • Dover Beach ...

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Beach Boys, The Album Reviews

Sunflower/Surf's Up

TOP SONGS: Disney Girls • Add Some Music To Your Day • Deirdre • This Whole World • Forever • Our Sweet Love • Feel Flows • 'Til I Die ...

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Beatles, The Album Reviews

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

TOP SONGS: A Little Help from My Friends • Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds • Getting Better • Fixing a Hole • Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! • A Day in the Life ...

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The White Album

TOP SONGS: Back in the U.S.S.R. • Dear Prudence • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da • While My Guitar Gently Weeps • Blackbird • Rocky Raccoon • I Will ...

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Belew, Adrian Album Reviews

Inner Revolution

TOP SONGS: Only a Dream • Big Blue Sun • War in the Gulf Between Us • Everything • Inner Revolution • I'd Rather Be Right Here • Birds • Heaven's Bed • I Walk Alone ...

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Blondie Album Reviews

Plastic Letters

TOP SONGS: Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45) • Contact In Red Square • (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear • No Imagination • Cautious Lip • Poets Problem ...

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Blood Sweat & Tears Album Reviews

Greatest Hits (Extra Tracks)

TOP SONGS: Spinning Wheel • You've Made Me So Very Happy • I Can't Quit Her • Sometimes in Winter • Go Down Gamblin' • Lucretia MacEvil • And When I Die • Hi-De-Ho ...

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Blue Oyster Cult Album Reviews

Don't Fear The Reaper: The Best of Blue Oyster Cult

TOP SONGS: (Don't Fear) The Reaper • I Love The Night • Burnin' For You •
Flaming Telepaths • Astronomy • Godzilla • Take Me Away • Shooting Shark ...

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Spectres

TOP SONGS: Godzilla • Golden Age of Leather • Death Valley Nights • I Love the Night • Fireworks • Nosferatu ...

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Bowie, David Album Reviews

Best of Bowie

TOP SONGS: Space Oddity • Changes • Suffragette City • Rebel, Rebel • Fame • China Girl • Sound and Vision • Ashes To Ashes • Under Pressure • Let's Dance • Blue Jean ...

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Jackson Browne Album Reviews

For Everyman

TOP SONGS: Colors Of The Sun • These Days • For Everyman • Ready Of Not • I Thought I Was A Child • Red Neck Friend • Our Lady Of The Well • The Times You've Come ...

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Saturate Before Using (first album)

TOP SONGS: Doctor My Eyes • Rock Me on the Water • Jamaica Say You Will • My Opening Farewell • From Silver Lake • Child in These Hills • Song for Adam • Under the Falling Sky ...

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Buffett, Jimmy Album Reviews

Living and Dying in 3/4 Time

TOP SONGS: Pencil Thin Mustache • Come Monday • Brahma Fear • Ringling, Ringling • Saxophones • Brand New Country Star • West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown ...

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Buggles, The Album Reviews

The Age of Plastic

TOP SONGS: Living in the Plastic Age • Video Killed the Radio Star • Kid Dynamo • I Love You (Miss Robot) • Clean, Clean • Elstree • Astroboy • Johnny on the Monorail ...

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Bush, Kate Album Reviews

Hounds of Love

TOP SONGS: Cloudbusting • Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) • And Dream Of Sheep • Hello Earth • Hounds Of Love • The Morning Fog • The Big Sky • Under The Ivy ...

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Lionheart

TOP SONGS: Symphony In Blue • Oh England My Lionheart • Fullhouse • Wow • Coffee Homeground • In Search Of Peter Pan • Hammer Horror • Kashka From Baghdad ...

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The Sensual World

... including the song "Deeper Understanding"

TOP SONGS: The Fog • The Sensual World • Never Be Mine • Deeper Understanding • This Woman's Work • Heads We're Dancing • Rocket's Tail • Reaching Out • Love And Anger ...

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Byrds, The Album Reviews

Younger Than Yesterday

TOP SONGS: So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star • My Back Pages • Renaissance Fair • Have You Seen Her Face • Thoughts and Words • Why • It Happens Each Day ...

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Chicago Album Reviews

Chicago II

TOP SONGS: Make Me Smile • Wake Up Sunshine • 25 Or 6 To 4 • Colour My World • The Road • Fancy Colours • Poem For The People • So Much To Say, So Much To Give ...

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Cochran, Eddie Album Reviews

Somethin' Else: The Fine Lookin' Hits of Eddie Cochran

TOP SONGS: Summertime Blues • C'mon Everybody • Sittin' in the Balcony • Twenty Flight • Nervous Breakdown • Teenage Heaven ...

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Collins, Judy Album Reviews

The Very Best of Judy Collins

TOP SONGS: Someday Soon • Both Sides Now • Since You've Asked • Send in the Clowns • Suzanne • Who Knows Where the Time Goes • Albatross ...

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Costello, Elvis Album Reviews

Armed Forces

TOP SONGS: Moods For Moderns • Oliver's Army • Accidents Will Happen • Party Girl • Chemistry Class • Busy Bodies • Goon Squad • Watching The Detectives (Live) ...

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Album Reviews

American Dream

TOP SONGS: This Old House • Clear Blue Skies • That Girl • Compass ...

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Cue the Moon Album Reviews

Thought Forgotten Spoken

TOP SONGS: "Choose Your Weapon" • "Pox" • "Owner Revisited" • "Learn to Swim" ...

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Deep Purple Album Reviews

Machine Head

TOP SONGS: Smoke on the Water • Pictures of Home • Space Truckin' • Highway Star • Lazy • Maybe I'm a Leo • Never Before ...

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Denver, John Album Reviews

Country Roads: Greatest Hits

TOP SONGS: Calypso • Rocky Mountain High • Eagle and the Hawk • Take Me Home, Country Roads • Annie's Song • American Child • Sunshine on My Shoulders ...

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Windsong

TOP SONGS: Looking For Space • Calypso • Fly Away • I'm Sorry • Spirit • Windsong • Cowboy's Delight • Shipmates And Cheyenne • Love Is Everywhere • Two Shots ...

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Dire Straits Album Reviews

Brothers in Arms

TOP SONGS: So Far Away • Money For Nothing • Walk of Life • Your Latest Trick • Brothers In Arms • Why Worry • Ride Across The River ...

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Dire Straits (first album)

TOP SONGS: Down to the Waterline • Sultans of Swing • Water of Love • Wild West End • Six Blade Knife • In the Gallery • Lions ...

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Making Movies

TOP SONGS: Tunnel Of Love • Romeo & Juliet • Skateaway • Expresso Love • Hand in Hand • Solid Rock ...

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On Every Street

TOP SONGS: Calling Elvis • On Every Street • Fade To Black • You And Your Friend • Heavy Fuel • All My Parties • How Long ...

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Donovan Album Reviews

A Gift from a Flower to a Garden

TOP SONGS: Wear Your Love Like Heaven • Oh Gosh • Sun • Land of Doesn't Have to Be • There Was a Time • Under the Greenwood Tree • Someone Singing ...

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Donovan's Greatest Hits (extra tracks)

TOP SONGS: Mellow Yellow • Colours • Hurdy Gurdy Man • Catch the Wind • Lalena • Sunshine Superman • Jennifer Juniper • Wear Your Love Like Heaven • Atlantis ...

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Sutras

TOP SONGS: Universe Am I • Nirvana • The Way • Deep Peace • Everlasting Sea • Give It All Up • Be Mine • Please Don't Bend • The Evernow • Eldorado • Sleep ...

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Dolby, Thomas Album Reviews

The Golden Age of Wireless

... including the song "She Blinded Me With Science"

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Dyniss Album Reviews

The Green Anthem

TOP SONGS: All the People • The Green Anthem • Less than Me (v.2.0) • Generaligion • Any Day • Dear Dog • Arms Around Me • Paper Page • Watersnakes ...

See review on Grinning Planet

 

Fifth Dimension, The Album Reviews

The Age of Aquarius

TOP SONGS: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In • Blowing Away • Wedding Bell Blues • Workin' on a Groovy Thing • Let It Be Me • Winds of Heaven ...

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The Flaming Lips Album Reviews

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

TOP SONGS: Do You Realize?? • One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 • Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon • Fight Test • In the Morning of the Magicians ...

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Focus Album Reviews

In and Out of Focus

TOP SONGS: House Of The King • Black Beauty • Why Dream? • Sugar Island • Happy Nightmare (Mescalin) • Focus (Instrumental) ...

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Fountains of Wayne Album Reviews

Welcome Interstate Managers

TOP SONGS: Stacy's Mom • Mexican Wine • Bright Future In Sales • Hackensack • Hey Julie • Fire Island ...

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Gabriel, Peter Album Reviews

Shaking the Tree: 16 Golden Greats

... including the song "Here Comes the Flood"

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Genesis Album Reviews

Wind & Wuthering

TOP SONGS: One For The Vine • Blood On The Rooftops • Eleventh Earl Of Mar • Your Own Special Way • All In A Mouse's Night • Unquiet Slumbers For The Sleepers ...

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Nursery Cryme

TOP SONGS: The Musical Box • For Absent Friends • The Return Of The Giant Hogweed • Seven Stones • Harlequin • The Fountain Of Salmacis ...

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Gilmour, David Album Reviews

About Face

TOP SONGS: Until We Sleep • Near The End • You Know I'm Right • Let's Get Metaphysical • Murder • Out Of The Blue • Love On The Air • Cruise • Blue Light ...

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Guthrie, Arlo Album Reviews

Arlo Guthrie's Greatest Hits

TOP SONGS: Coming into Los Angeles • City of New Orleans • Cooper's Lament • Darkest Hour • Motorcycle Song (Significance of the Pickle) • Alice's Restaurant Massacree ...

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Hall and Oates

20 Best Songs

INCLUDING: Las Vegas Turaround • She's Gone • Abandoned Luncheonette • I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) • Goodnight And Goodmorning • Angelina • Maneater • When The Morning Comes • Kiss On My List ...

See GP's picks for the 20 best Hall & Oates songs

 

James Gang

12 Best Songs

INCLUDING: Midnight Man • Take A Look Around • Walk Away • Tend My Garden • Funk #49 • Ashes The Rain And I • Another Year ...

See GP's picks for the 12 James Gang best songs

 

Jethro Tull Album Reviews

Benefit

TOP SONGS: With You There to Help Me • Nothing to Say • Teacher • For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me • To Cry You a Song • Inside • Play in Time • Sossity; You're a Woman ...

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Living in the Past

TOP SONGS: Living in the Past • Life Is a Long Song • Wond'ring Again • Up the 'Pool • Witches Promise • Singing All Day • Just Trying to Be • Driving Song • For Later ...

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Songs from the Wood

TOP SONGS: Songs from the Wood • Velvet Green • Whistler • Ring Out Solstice Bells • Cup of Wonder • Jack-In-The-Green • Hunting Girl • Fire at Midnight ...

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Joel, Billy Album Reviews

The Stranger

TOP SONGS: Vienna • She's Always a Woman • Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) • The Stranger • Italian Restaurant • Only the Good Die Young • Just the Way You Are ...

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John, Elton Album Reviews

Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player

TOP SONGS: Daniel • Crocodile Rock • High Flying Bird • Teacher • Blues for My Baby and Me • I'm Gonna Be a Teenage Idol • Elderberry Wine • Skyline Pigeon ...

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Kansas Album Reviews

The Kansas Boxed Set (Slipcase)

TOP SONGS: Carry On Wayward Son • The Wall • Icarus • The Pinnacle • Song For America • What's On My Mind • Dust In The Wind • Hold On • Point of Know Return ...

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Kingston Trio, The Album Reviews

New Frontier/Time To Think

TOP SONGS: The New Frontier • Greenback Dollar • Coal Tattoo • Turn Around • Deportee (Los Gatos) • The First Time • Adios Farewell ...

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Kinks, The Album Reviews

The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society

TOP SONGS: Sitting by the Riverside • Animal Farm • Village Green Preservation Society • Do You Remember Walter? • Picture Book • Village Green • Monica • Big Sky ...

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Lewis, Huey, and the News Album Reviews

Sports

TOP SONGS: If This Is It • Heart And Soul • The Heart Of Rock & Roll • I Want A New Drug • Walking On A Thin Line ...

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Loggins and Messina Album Reviews

Loggins and Messina (self-titled album)

TOP SONGS: Thinking of You • Angry Eyes • Your Mama Don't Dance • Holiday Hotel • Good Friend • Golden Ribbons • Lady of My Heart • Whiskey • Long Tail Cat ...

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Liquid Blue Album Reviews

Supernova

... including the song "Supernova"

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Love Album Reviews

Forever Changes

TOP SONGS: Andmoreagain • Alone Again Or • You Set the Scene • Good Humor Man • Red Telephone • Live and Let Live • A House Is Not a Motel • Daily Planet • Old Man ...

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Lynyrd Skynyrd Album Reviews

All Time Greatest Hits

... including the song "That Smell"

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Manzanera, Phil / 801 Album Reviews

K-Scope

TOP SONGS: Walking Through Heaven's Door • Gone Flying • K-Scope • You Are Here • Numbers • Hot Spot • N-Shift • Cuban Crisis • Slow Motion TV ...

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Listen Now

TOP SONGS: Listen Now • Flight 19 • Island • Law and Order • Que? • That Falling Feeling • City of Light • Initial Speed • Postcard Love ...

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McCartney, Paul (and Wings) Album Reviews

Venus And Mars

TOP SONGS: Listen To What The Man Said • Rock Show • Magneto And Titanium Man • Medicine Jar • Venus And Mars (Reprise) ...

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Mellencamp, John Cougar Album Reviews

Scarecrow

TOP SONGS: Rain On The Scarecrow • Rumbleseat • R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.(A Salute To 60's Rock) • Small Town • Lonely Ol' Night • You've Got To Stand For Somethin' ...

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Men At Work Album Reviews

Business As Usual

... including the song "Down Under"

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Midnight Oil Album Reviews

Blue Sky Mining

TOP SONGS: Blue Sky Mine • Stars of Warburton • Bedlam Bridge • Forgotten Years • Mountains of Burma • King of the Mountain • River Runs Red • Antarctica ...

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Diesel and Dust

TOP SONGS: Beds Are Burning • The Dead Heart • Dreamworld • Sometimes • Bullroarer • Warakurna • Put Down That Weapon • Sell My Soul • Whoah • Arctic World ...

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Earth and Sun and Moon

TOP SONGS: My Country • Feeding Frenzy • Outbreak of Love • In the Valley • Now or Never Land • Truganini • Earth and Sun and Moon • Renaissance Man • Bushfire ...

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Miller, Steve Album Reviews

Young Hearts: Complete Greatest Hits

TOP SONGS: Space Cowboy • Fly Like an Eagle • Serenade • Living in the USA • The Stake • Wild Mountain Honey • The Joker • Abracadabra • Take the Money and Run ...

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Mitchell, Joni Album Reviews

Hits

TOP SONGS: Free Man In Paris • Help Me • The Circle Game • Raised On Robbery • Big Yellow Taxi • You Turn Me On I'm A Radio • Carey • Chelsea Morning • Urge For Going ...

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Monkees, The Album Reviews

Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.

... including the song "Cuddly Toy"

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Moody Blues, The Album Reviews

A Question of Balance

... including the song "How Is It (We Are Here)"

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Days of Future Passed

... including the song "The Day Begins"

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In Search of the Lost Chord

... including the song "The Word/Om"

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To Our Children's Children's Children

... including the song "Sun is Still Shining"

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Murphy, Peter Album Reviews

Deep

TOP SONGS: Seven Veils • Deep Ocean Vast Sea • Cuts You Up • Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem • Strange Kind of Love • Crystal Wrists • Line Between the Devil's Teeth ...

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Nash, Graham Album Reviews

Songs for Beginners

TOP SONGS: I Used to Be a King • Military Madness • Chicago/We Can Change the World • Man in the Mirror • Simple Man • There's Only One • Better Days • Sleep Song ...

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Nektar Album Reviews

Recycled

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Remember the Future

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New Riders of the Purple Sage (NRPS) Album Reviews

New Riders

... including the song "Swimming Song"

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Palmer, Robert Album Reviews

Addictions, Vol. 1

... including the song "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)"

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Pink Floyd Album Reviews

Obscured By Clouds

TOP SONGS: Obscured By Clouds • When You're In • Burning Bridges • The Gold It's In The... • Wots...Uh The Deal • Mudmen • Childhood's End • Free Four • Stay ...

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Pretenders, The Album Reviews

Learning To Crawl

... including the song "My City Was Gone"

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The Pretenders

... including the song "Brass in Pocket (I'm Special)"

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Psychedelic Furs, The Album Reviews

Greatest Hits

TOP SONGS: The Ghost in You • Love My Way • Heaven • Pretty in Pink • Sister Europe • Heartbreak Beat • President Gas • Until She Comes • Angels Don't Cry • Sometimes ...

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Queen Album Reviews

A Night At the Opera

... including the song "I'm in Love With My Car"

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R.E.M. Album Reviews

Automatic For The People

TOP SONGS: Man On The Moon • The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite • Everybody Hurts • Drive • Nightswimming • Try Not To Breathe • Star Me Kitten ...

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Rolling Stones, The Album Reviews

Forty Licks

TOP SONGS: She's A Rainbow • Get Off My Cloud • Ruby Tuesday • Paint It Black • Let's Spend The Night Together • Under My Thumb • Mother's Little Helper • Wild Horses ...

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Their Satanic Majesties Request

... including the song "She's a Rainbow"

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Ridgway, Stan Album Reviews

The Big Heat

... including the song "Nadine"

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Rush Album Reviews

Hemispheres

... including the song "The Trees"

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Signals

... including the song "Subdivisions"

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Schilling, Peter Album Reviews

The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime)

... including the song "Zone 804"

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Shatner, William Album Reviews

Has Been

TOP SONGS: Ideal Woman • That's Me Trying • Common People • Has Been • Together • Real • It Hasn't Happened Yet • You'll Have Time • Familiar Love • I Can't Get Behind That ...

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Simon, Paul Album Reviews

1964/1993 (Box Set)

TOP SONGS: Kodachrome • Loves Me Like A Rock • Have A Good Time • Late In The Evening • America • Mrs. Robinson • The Sound Of Silence • Take Me To The Mardi Gras ...

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Paul Simon (first album)

TOP SONGS: Mother and Child Reunion • Me and Julio Down by the School Yard • Duncan • Run That Body Down • Peace Like a River • Congratulations ...

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Sinclair, Richard Album Reviews

Caravan of Dreams

TOP SONGS: Plan It Earth • Heather • Keep On Calling • Going for a Song • Emily • Cruising • It Didn't Matter Anyway • Halfway Between Heaven & Earth • Flowered At Bracknell ...

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Smiths, The Album Reviews

Singles

TOP SONGS: How Soon Is Now? • Bigmouth Strikes Again • There Is A Light That Never Goes Out • Heaven Knows I'm Miserable • What Difference Does It Make? ...

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Spinal Tap Album Reviews

This Is Spinal Tap

... including the song "Stonehenge"

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Spirit Album Reviews

Spirit (first album)

TOP SONGS: Topanga Windows • Girl In Your Eye • The Great Canyon Fire in General • Fresh-Garbage • Uncle Jack • Taurus • Straight Arrow ...

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Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

TOP SONGS: Life Has Just Begun • Nature's Way • Love Has Found A Way • Prelude - Nothing To Hide • Space Child • When I Touch You • Morning Will Come • Animal Zoo ...

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Springsteen, Bruce Album Reviews

The River

TOP SONGS: Hungry Heart • Sherry Darling • Two Hearts • Out In The Street • Crush On You • The River • Point Blank • Cadillac Ranch • The Ties That Bind ...

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The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle

TOP SONGS: Incident on 57th Street • Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) • Kitty's Back •
4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) • E Steet Shuffle • New York City Serenade ...

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Squeeze Album Reviews

Singles – 45's and Under

TOP SONGS: Take Me I'm Yours • Goodbye Girl • Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) • Another Nail For My Heart • Black Coffee In Bed • Tempted • Is That Love ...

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Steely Dan Album Reviews

Aja

TOP SONGS: Black Cow • Aja • Deacon Blues • Peg • Home At Last • I Got The News • Josie ...

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Katy Lied

TOP SONGS: Doctor Wu • Bad Sneakers • Chain Lightning • Black Friday • Any World (That I'm Welcome To) • Your Gold Teeth II • Everyone's Gone To The Movies ...

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The Royal Scam

TOP SONGS: Kid Charlemagne • Don't Take Me Alive • The Caves of Altamira • Green Earrings • Sign in Stranger • The Fez • The Royal Scam ...

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Sting Album Reviews

The Soul Cages

... including the song "The Soul Cages"

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Supertramp Album Reviews

Crime of the Century

TOP SONGS: Hide In Your Shell • Crime Of The Century • School • Dreamer •
If Everyone Was Listening • Bloody Well Right • Rudy • Asylum ...

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Talking Heads, The Album Reviews

Sand In the Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1976-1992

... including the song "Burning Down the House"

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Taylor, James Album Reviews

JT

TOP SONGS: Your Smiling Face • Secret O' Life • Traffic Jam • There We Are • Another Grey Morning • Terra Nova • If I Keep My Heart Out Of Sight • Handy Man ...

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Sweet Baby James

TOP SONGS: Sweet Baby James • Sunny Skies • Country Road • Fire and Rain • Blossom • Anywhere Like Heaven • Suite for 20 G ...

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Tears for Fears Album Reviews

Shout: The Very Best of Tears for Fears

TOP SONGS: Everybody Wants To Rule The World • Shout • Mad World • Head Over Heels • Sowing The Seeds Of Love • Break It Down Again • Pale Shelter ...

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Turtles, The Album Reviews

Solid Zinc: The Turtles Anthology (best of)

... including the song "Earth Anthem"

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Who, The Album Reviews

Quadrophenia

... including the song "The Punk and the Godfather"

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The Who Sell Out

TOP SONGS: I Can See For Miles • I Can't Reach You • Melancholia • Glow Girl • Rael 1 • Our Love Was • Armenia City In The Sky • Glittering Girl • Someone's Coming ...

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Yardbirds, The Album Reviews

Ultimate!

... including the song "Shapes of Things"

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DON'T FEAR THE REAPER...
OR OTHER BOC MUSICAL MONSTERS

Over the decades, Blue Oyster Cult produced a number of musical spawn that clawed their way up the charts, including "Don't Fear The Reaper", which was the unlikely target of the "more cowbell" parody on SNL. Other great musical monsters in the BOC collection include the vampires in "I Love The Night" and "Nosferatu" ... the flying black horsemen in the eerily cool "Wings Wetted Down" ... and, of course, that inimitable city-destroyer, "Godzilla". Click the song titles to hear MP3 clips on Amazon.com, or try the Don't Fear the Reaper collection on CD, which is a decent quick overview of the band's career.

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LITERARY HEROES
MEET PROG ROCK

Robin Hood and William Tell
And Ivanhoe and Lancelot,
They don't envy me...

Whether it's these lyrics from Electric Light Orchestra's "Can't Get It Out of My Head" or other songs, references to classic literature and classical music blended nicely in much of ELO's early work. This song is one of their best (and biggest) early hits and originally appeared on Eldorado, one of those great concepty rock albums that were in vogue in the 1970s.

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A MOTHER OF A SONG
"For A Thousand Mothers" is just one of ten top-notch songs from Jethro Tull's 1969 breakout album Stand Up, where Ian Anderson and the boys mastered the earthy progressive-rock sound they had experimented with on their first album. The 2001 reissue includes 4 bonus tracks. Hear MP3 clips or check out CD on amazon.com.

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SUPERTRAMP —
“SCHOOL” ... AND THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY

After school is over,
You're playing in the park ...
"Don't be out too late,
Don't let it get too dark!"
They tell you not to hang around
And learn what life's about;
And grow up just like them,
Won't let you work it out,
And you're full of doubt ...

"School" is one of Supertramp's best songs, from one of their best albums. Other top songs include the title track, "Dreamer", "Hide In Your Shell", and "Bloody Well Right". See full GP review of Crime of the Century.

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cover for song WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN

THE WHO —
“WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN”

Meet the new boss—
Same as the old boss...
I'll tip my hat
To the new constitution,
Take a bow
For the new revolution,
Smile and grin
At the change all around me—
Pick up my guitar and play,
Just like yesterday;
Then I'll get on
      my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again...


Will Obama be a true agent of change, or just the latest agent of fortune? Citizens, take heed...

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