Category Archives: Classic Album Review
Retrospective: Green Day
This is sort of Part Two of my entry about Green Day, and as said, here’s a brief rundown on the first six Green Day albums, and why you shouldn’t judge them solely by the garbage they’re releasing now. Rolling Stone may kiss their ass for their new stuff, but what the fuck do they [...]
Classic Album Review: Rainbow – Rising (Polydor 1976)
Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple in the mid-70s over creative differences. He hooked up with Ronnie James Dio to form Rainbow, which is pretty much Deep Purple with more dramatic vocals, and more progressive rock leanings than his previous band. They churned out some pretty good stuff with Dio at the helm, and 1976′s Rising [...]
Classic Underrated Album Review: Death – Human (Relativity, 1991)
As I write this review, the health care system in the US has gone through some rampant changes, particularly involving who gets covered and who doesn’t by insurance companies. Chuck Schuldiner, the mastermind behind Death’s music, had brain cancer, and died in 2001 at the age of 34. Before his untimely death, Schuldiner, who was [...]
Classic Album: Kate Bush – Hounds of Love (EMI, 1985)
Kate Bush is one of those artists that I should have gotten into years ago, but didn’t; her influence has been nothing short of vast, and to say that the Tori Amoses and Bjorks of the world don’t owe her a debt would be a lie. I picked up Hounds of Love on vinyl a [...]
Classic Album Review: Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town (Columbia, 1978)
Generally speaking, I am not a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. I like his acoustic solo stuff better than his stuff with the E Street Band. When a Springsteen song is really good, it’s really good, but when a Springsteen song is not so good, it’s mediocre, and kind of annoying. Darkness on the Edge of [...]