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Avalanche---Mountain Solid Silver---Quicksilver Messenger Service Win, Lose, or Draw---The Allman Brothers Band Live---Jr. Walker and the All Stars (The recording is so bad it's unlistenable, and those guys usually kicked three asses for the price of one live . . . ) Love Is . . . ---Eric Burdon and the Animals. (Band does not live by the all-time superquirk cover of "River Deep, Mountain High" alone . . .)
Avalanche---Mountain Solid Silver---Quicksilver Messenger Service Win, Lose, or Draw---The Allman Brothers Band Live---Jr. Walker and the All Stars (The recording is so bad it's unlistenable, and those guys usually kicked three asses for the price of one live . . . ) Love Is . . . ---Eric Burdon and the Animals. (Band does not live by the all-time superquirk cover of "River Deep, Mountain High" alone . . .)
Agreed.
Mountain's "Avalanche" album could have been so good but unfortunately flopped. The reason I say could have been so good is that they had released three consecutive live albums and their fans wanted new material. I saw them twice in that period (1971 and 1974) and played great sets! I'm thinking the West, Bruce and Laing albums kind of gotten in the way. WBL! Now this is a group I can guarantee as not being talked about on this forum until now. I remember Clive Davis of Columbia records really wanting to push these guys. Back to "Avalanche", when they sold out the Denver Colisseum in August '74, I was ready for new material. Was let down big time after buying it and giving it a listen.
Eric Burdon and the Animals "Love Is". I would have never wanted a group to go out this way. Back then 2 lp sets were costly (this was around Nov. '68), that lp cost around $7.99-back in '68 that wasn't cheap. One of my college buddies bought it, I gave it a listen, and the first thought to come out of my head was "2 lp set, hmm, should have been just one, after listening to a couple cuts. After a few more songs I was debating about even ONE! Actually, River Deep Mountain High wasn't all that bad a cover song compared to their version of the BeeGees "To Love Somebody". Yikes! I remember a couple years later that I bought that lp out of the cut out bin at Montgomery Wards stereo department (yep, they sold albums back then!) It was cheap, like say 99 cents.
WBL! Now this is a group I can guarantee as not being talked about on this forum until now. I remember Clive Davis of Columbia records really wanting to push these guys.
No surprise, considering there was a big bidding war for them when Leslie West, Jack Bruce, and Corky Laing decided to hook up. And, that their first gig as a working group was Carnegie Hall. Where it worked against them was that they worked under pressure to produce "big" product and didn't have a chance to feel where they could go, particularly with their songwriting. (It was something like the Blind Faith story all over again, even if West, Bruce and Laing didn't create quite the earthquake Blind Faith did to the point where Blind Faith's getting together provoked one of the major mergers of the music industry before they'd even gotten to finish an album!) Which was a shame, because a) you could take a few cuts from Why Dontcha and Whatever Turns You On and make one excellent album out of them; and, b) most important, there was clearly something there between them, even if their songwriting was still lacking after the second album. Their live album, Live 'n' Kickin', was badly produced and the performances weren't all that great. I'd seen them live and I knew they were better than Live 'n' Kickin'.
If there was one WBL cut that showed above all where their promise might have been, it was probably Why Dontcha's set closer, "Pollution Woman."
Big marketing mistake---the cover of Whatever Turns You On. Tacky and lame---R. Crumb the artist wasn't, and it made WBL look like a joke band.
Turbo by Judas Priest
Fly on the Wall by AC/DC
Hot Space by Queen
Dynasty by Kiss
Theater of Pain by Motley Crue
Adrenalize by Def Leppard
Agent Provocator by Foreigner (I agree)
Kilroy was Here by Styx
Afterburner by ZZ Top
Ultimate Sin by Ozzy
Youthanasia by Megadeth
Time by ELO
The Hunter by Blondie
Gaucho by Steely Dan
Presence by Led Zeppelin
Little Miss Dangerous by Ted Nugent
Pop by U2
Presto by Rush
Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden
Panorama by The Cars
OU812 by Van HAGAR
Lap of Luxury by Cheap Trick
Unmasked and Crazy Nights were the worst of Kiss. Dynasty was the album that laid the groundwork for their downfall. The only good 80's Kiss album was Creatures of the Night featuring War Machine. Really, the only thing good since Creatures was Revenge thanks to Domino.
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