Jean-Michel Jarre gave a series of five concerts in Beijing and Shanghai in 1981, marking the first time a modern Western musical artist had performed in communist China. Mao let him do the concerts because, according to Jarre's biography, he liked the color of his eyes more than anything else. Recognizing the historical significance of the whole undertaking and the milestone it represented in Jarre's career, a double live album […]

Banquet is the fourth album by German progressive rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1974, where Lucifer's Friend finally combined the many different elements of their sound (prog, soul, jazz, hard rock) into a coherent and completely distinct style.This time, the main focus of the album is on epic progressive songs with complex orchestrations that go through a variety of surprising and ambitious changes in their orchestrations.The opening track, "Spanish […]

One Step Beyond is the 1979 debut album by British ska-pop group Madness. It was ranked 90th among the 100 greatest albums of all time in a 2005 poll conducted by British television channel Channel 4.The album, which was recorded and remixed in about three weeks, reached number two and remained in the UK album charts for over a year.It was the first album by producers Clive Langer and Alan […]

The Golden Wire is the third solo album by Police guitarist Andy Summers, recorded in November and December 1988 and released in 1989.Andy Summers is a wonderful and demanding stylist, composer and guitar virtuoso. Summers remained very productive after the Police disbanded in the mid-1980s, making a series of distinctive solo albums, and successful films such as Down And Out In Beverly Hills. His solo musical development has been sporadic […]

All Directions is the 15th album by the Temptations, released in 1972 by Motown Records, produced by Norman Whitfield.The LP contains the group's No. 1 hit, "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone", a twelve-minute track that Whitfield produced, as well as its first single release, Undisputed Truth. "Papa" won three Grammy Awards in 1973:Best R&B Vocal Performance by the group, Best R&B Instrumental Performance by the group, which was on the […]

Easter is the third studio album by the Patti Smith Group, released in March 1978 by Arista Records. It was produced by Jimmy Iovine and is considered the group's commercial breakthrough, due to the huge success of the single, "Because The Night", co-written by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith, which reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 5 in the United Kingdom.It is the first album released […]

Demons And Wizards is the fourth studio album by British rock band Uriah Heep, released on 19 May 1972 by Bronze Records in the United Kingdom and Mercury Records in the United States. The album was a huge success, selling over 3 million copies worldwide.The original vinyl release featured a legendary cover, the outside of which was designed by Roger Dean. The inside featured photos of the band, various liner […]

Friday Night in San Francisco is a live album, released on August 10, 1981, by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía. It was described by jazz writer and critic Walter Kolosky as "a musical event that could be compared to the Benny Goodman Band's performance at Carnegie Hall in 1938 and may be considered the most important of all live acoustic guitar albums".All tracks except "Guardian Angel" […]

Gas Food Lodging is the second LP by the American band Green On Red, released in 1985 by Enigma Records.Their self-titled debut album, Green On Red, featured seven tracks of psychedelic pop, wrapped in a dark, underground undercurrent of noise, while Gas Food Lodging was the band's strongest work of the era when their early rock roots were taking shape, as they assessed the situation as it appeared through the […]

Exile on Main St. is the tenth British and twelfth American album by the Rolling Stones, released as a double album on May 12, 1972 by Rolling Stones Records.After the release of "Sticky Fingers", the Rolling Stones left England due to high recording studio fees and moved to the south of France, where Keith Richards rented the Villa Nellcotte for the band members and their entourage. Using their portable studio, […]

Supertramp is one of the few pure-blooded bands of the seventies that manage to combine a completely personal style with moments of remarkable compositional and interpretative work.Their music, simple in its basis, is presented in an extremely artistic manner, which is mainly based on the amazing skill of the members and the wonderful orchestrations of Hodgson-Davis, the central core of the group. If you add to the above their amazing […]

Love Devotion Surrender is an album released in 1973 by guitarists John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana, supported by their respective bands Santana and Mahavishnu Orchestra. The album was inspired by the teachings of Sri Chinmoy and was intended as a tribute to John Coltrane. It contains two compositions by Coltrane, two songs by McLaughlin, and a traditional gospel song arranged by Santana and McLaughlin. The album went gold in 1973 […]

Love is the self-titled debut album by the Los Angeles rock band Love, released in March 1966 by Elektra Records.Twelve of the album's fourteen tracks were recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders from January 24 to 27, 1966. The remaining two tracks, "A Message To Pretty" and "My Flash On You", were recorded during some of the band's informal rehearsals.Love has elements of folk rock, garage, proto-punk and psychedelic rock. It […]

Morrison Hotel is the fifth studio album by American rock band The Doors. It was released by Elektra Records in February 1970. The album is split into two sides with the separate titles "Hard Rock Cafe" and "Morrison Hotel" and is largely seen as the Doors' return to the mainstream.Morrison Hotel was a return to basics largely stemming from the group's frustration with the prolonged recording sessions for The Soft […]

Troubadour is a 1976 album by J. J. Cale, his fourth since his debut in 1972. Eric Clapton covered the song "Cocaine" on his 1977 album Slowhand, turning it into one of his biggest hits. He later covered the track "Travelin' Light" for his 2001 studio album Reptile. "Travelin' Light" was also recorded by Widespread Panic for their 1988 album Space Wrangler. The original "Travelin' Light" by J.J. Cale performed […]

Black and Blue was the first studio album by the Rolling Stones to be released with Ronnie Wood replacing Mick Taylor. Wood had played twelve-string acoustic guitar on the track "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" from the album It's Only Rock' n Roll and appears on half of the tracks on Black and Blue, mainly on backing vocals, with Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel playing guitar […]

Made In Japan is the seventh and first live album by Deep Purple, recorded during their first tour of Japan in August 1972. It was initially released in December 1972 in Europe and in April 1973 in the United States, and was a great commercial and critical success.The band was known for their strong stage presence, having recorded several of their concerts in person and having made several broadcasts through […]

Second Helping was the second album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on April 15, 1974. It contained the group's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", a response to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man". The song reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1974. This was the group's last L.P. with Bob Burns on drums.The album was recorded at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles except for "Sweet […]

Aladdin Sane is the sixth studio album by David Bowie, released by RCA Records on 13 April 1973. It is the follow-up to the groundbreaking The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and was the first album Bowie wrote and released to achieve such a major impact on the music scene.The editors of New Musical Express, Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray, described the album […]

Abraxas is the second studio album by Santana, released in September 1970.The album's title comes from a line in Hermann Hesse's book Demian, referenced on the album's back cover:"We stood before it and had begun to freeze inside from the exercise. We questioned the painting, we scolded it, we made love to it, we prayed for it. We called it mother, whore, singer, slut, we called it our beloved, we […]

Bob Dylan At Budokan is a double live album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in April 1979 by Columbia Records. It was recorded during his 1978 world tour and consists mainly of the artist's "greatest hits". The performances on the album are radically different from the originals, using the same musicians who played on Street-Legal, but relying on a much larger band with a stronger brass and backing vocal […]

Salisbury is the second studio album by British hard rock band Uriah Heep, released in January 1971 in the United States and a month later in the rest of the world, through "Vertigo Records".The album introduced Uriah Heep to a "progressive" rock musical approach, with the album's title track, which lasts over 16 minutes and features a 24-piece orchestra, being a typical example. "Salisbury" also gave the band their first […]

Led Zeppelin II, as its title suggests, is the second studio album by Led Zeppelin, released in October 1969 by Atlantic Records.The album was recorded between various tours by the group from January to August 1969.The tour to promote the album began in the United States on October 17, 1969, continuing in Great Britain and Europe from January to March 1970.The album was a great success, helping their first album […]

Dreamboat Annie is the debut studio album by American rock band Heart. At the time, the band was based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The album was recorded in Vancouver and first released in Canada by local label Mushroom Records in mid-1975. It was released in the United States on February 14, 1976, through Mushroom Records' Los Angeles subsidiary. The album contained three commercially successful singles, two of which became mainstream […]

Seconds Out is the second live album by Genesis following 1973's Genesis Live. It was released as a double LP on 14 October 1977 by Charisma Records and was their last with guitarist Steve Hackett before his departure. The majority of the recordings were made in June 1977 at the Palais des Sports in Paris during the Wind & Wuthering Tour. One track, "The Cinema Show", was recorded the previous […]

Spooky Two is the second studio album by English rock band Spooky Tooth. It was originally released in March 1969, by Island Records and licensed by A&M Records in the United States.Spooky Tooth's sound on this album is driven by a robust instrument and guitar, charting a course that fluctuates between the evocative sound of Deep Purple or Atomic Rooster on the one hand and the fearless, bluesy hard rock […]

Bring On The Night is Sting's first live album and second of his solo career, recorded from May 29 to December 23, 1985 during live performances in Paris, Rome and Arnhem and released on July 1, 1986 by A&M Records.The album's title comes from a song by the Police from their 1979 album Reggatta de Blanc. The songs featured include new material by Sting from his solo studio album The […]

Live And Let Live was the first live album by 10cc, released in the autumn of 1977. It was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London between 18 and 20 June 1977 and at the Manchester Apollo, Manchester between 16 and 17 July 1977.The album featured the new line-up of 10cc following the departure of Kevin Godley and Lol Creme in 1976. The trio of Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman and […]

We're An American Band is the seventh studio album by American rock band Grand Funk Railroad, better known as Grand Funk. The album was released by Capitol Records on July 15, 1973, and went gold in the United States just over a month after its release. Two singles were released from the album. The first, "We're An American Band", was released on July 2, 1973, and the second, "Walk Like […]

This album was recorded in 2009 by the band of Wishbone Ash bassist Martin Turner and his band, Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash. Argus, is considered one of the best Wishbone Ash albums originally recorded in the 70s.Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash entered the studio in 2009 and re-recorded the entire Argus, reviving the epic dream stories and unique guitar melodies of the first recording, elements that influenced the entire spectrum of […]

By the time his third solo album was released in 1983, Suicide frontman Alan Vega had decided he wanted to escape the punk art ghetto he had confined himself to and seek the mainstream success Suicide had never had. So for Saturn Strip, Vega signed a major contract, his first with Elektra Records, and did everything he could to make it a success. He used producer and Suicide fan Ric […]

Violent Femmes is the debut album by Violent Femmes, the main recording of which took place in July 1982. The album was released by Slash Records on vinyl and cassette on April 13, 1983, and on CD in 1987 with two additional tracks, "Ugly" and "Gimme The Car".In 2002, Rhino Records remastered the album, adding an additional CD of demos and live performances of tracks as well as a radio […]

The psychedelic jazz-rock band Sweet Smoke was formed in Brooklyn in 1967, originally named Sweet Smoke Of The Happy Pipeful, but was active from 1969-1974 in what was then West Germany.Their debut album, Just A Poke, was released by EMI Columbia in Germany in 1970. It was also released in Italy, the Netherlands and France, where, due to their stage presence in those countries, they were quite popular. They were […]

At The Sound Of The Bell is the second album by the American Pavlov's Dog from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 1972 and released in 1976.It is an album forged by Blue Oyster Cult producers Murray Krugman and Sandy Pearlman, who also produced and recorded the first album, which has a more appealing sound to the ear. The question of course is, what was its path. Too pop for progressive […]

Straight Shooter is the second studio album by British supergroup Bad Company. The album was released on 2 April 1975, a month after the release of the single "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" and four months before the album's second single "Feel Like Makin' Love".It peaked at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for […]

H.P. Lovecraft II, as the title suggests, is the second album by the American psychedelic rock band H.P. Lovecraft, released in September 1968 by Philips Records. As with their first LP, the band combines psychedelic and pop-rock influences, although they place a greater emphasis on psychedelia than on their first album. H.P. Lovecraft II failed to sell enough to enter the Billboard Top LPs chart or the UK Albums Chart, […]

This double live album, made on BJH's final tour with Wooly Wolstenholme in attendance, is one of the best live albums progressive rock has ever produced.While not as exciting as Genesis Live or as grand as Yessongs, it shows the band in excellent form, fully in tune, playing many of their best songs, including "Child Of The Universe", "Rock And Roll Star", "Poor Man's Moody Blues", "For No One" and […]

Who's Next is the fifth studio album by the British band The Who. It was based on the never-released rock opera Lifehouse, which had been written by Pete Townshend as a follow-up to the 1969 album Tommy. The project was cancelled due to its complexity and the group's conflict with Kit Lambert, the band's manager, but the Who salvaged a few stand-alone songs, without the connecting story elements of the […]

Mardi Gras is the seventh and final studio album by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released on April 11, 1972. It was recorded after the departure of guitarist Tom Fogerty and was their only album as a trio, with the band also sharing lead vocals on select tracks.Unlike previous albums, Mardi Gras featured Stu Cook and Doug Clifford sharing songwriting and production with John Fogerty, as well as their […]

Two For The Show is the sixth album by American progressive rock band Kansas and their first live album, released in October 1978 by Epic/Legacy Records. The album was reissued in a remastered form on CD in 2008. It was recorded during the band's three previous tours in 1977 and 1978 and went gold and then platinum shortly after its release.The album spawned a single, "Lonely Wind", which preceded the […]

Zebop! is the 12th studio album by Santana, released on April 29, 1981 by Columbia Records with producers Carlos Santana, Bill Graham and Keith OlsenAfter collaborating with Herbie Hancock on the jazz album The Swing Of Delight, Santana returned to the realm of pop-rock for 1981's Zebop. They even managed to include, albeit slightly, some of their famous Latin sound on some of the album's tracks, such as "E Papa […]

Animals is the tenth studio album by Pink Floyd, released on 21 January 1977 by Harvest and Columbia Records. It was recorded at the band's Britannia Row studios in London in 1976 and was produced by the band itself. The album continues the extensive songwriting style found on their previous works, including 1975's Wish You Were Here. The album received positive reviews and was commercially successful, reaching No. 2 and […]

Go is the first album by the supergroup Stomu Yamashta's Go, released in 1976, and is a concept album in the truest sense of the word, fusing pop/rock sounds with jazzy colors and classical elements that are connected by a central motif of space travel. More specifically, according to journalist Robin Denselow, the whole thing deals with "change and the polarity between fantasy and reality, death and revolution and the […]

Welcome Back, My Friends, To Show That Never Ends - Ladies and Gentlemen E.L.P. is the second live album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released as a triple album in August 1974 by Manticore Records. It was recorded in February 1974 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, during the group's 1973–74 world tour in support of their 1973 fourth album, Brain Salad Surgery.The album […]

Working Nights is the debut album by British jazz band Working Week, released by Virgin Records in 1985. The album peaked at No. 23 in the UK Albums Chart in April 1985. Working Nights was re-released in 2012 as a remastered 2-disc Deluxe Set by Cherry Red Records.Working Week were the brainchild of guitarist Simon Booth and saxophonist Larry Stabbins, who had worked with Booth in his previous band, the […]

Eat a Peach is a 1972 double album by the American rock band, The Allman Brothers Band, containing a mixture of live and studio recordings. Following their artistic and commercial success with the release of the live album At Fillmore East in 1971, the band entered the studio for their third album.Sadly, on October 29, 1971, the band's leader and founder Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident in […]

Space Oddity is the second studio album by David Bowie, released on 14 November 1969 by Mercury, a subsidiary of Philips Records, and produced by Gus Dudgeon and Tony Visconti.Following the commercial failure of his self-titled debut album in 1967, Bowie acquired a new manager, Kenneth Pitt, who also took on a promotional film in the hope of broadening the artist's audience. For the film, Bowie wrote a new song, […]

The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown is the self-titled debut studio album by the English psychedelic rock band The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, released in June 1968. The album was produced by The Who's manager Kit Lambert, with the collaboration of Pete Townshend. The album was released in June 1968 by Lambert's Track Records in the United Kingdom, with its distribution in North America handled by Atlantic Records. The […]

The Final Cut is the twelfth studio album by Pink Floyd, released on 21 March 1983 through Harvest Records, and produced by Roger Waters, James Guthrie, and Michael Kamen.During the recording of The Wall, Waters, Mason, and Gilmour noticed a change in the behavior of keyboardist Richard Wright, who was appearing in the studio without contributing to the album. Wright left the band after the recording sessions, on friendly terms […]

Stormbringer is the ninth studio album by Deep Purple and was released on December 10, 1974 by "EMI" in Europe and by "Warner" in America.The album divided fans and critics since the jazz and funk influences were now evident in the band's playing style. This change in Deep Purple's style was also the reason for the departure of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore after a few months."Stormbringer" sold relatively well and although […]

5, as its title suggests, is the fifth studio album by J. J. Cale, released in 1979 and was his first album in three years.By 1979, Cale had recorded four albums, his debut Naturally being his most commercially successful and containing the minor hit "Crazy Mama". While his albums did not sell well, Cale enjoyed great success as a songwriter when other artists recorded his songs, such as Eric Clapton's […]

Caravanserai is the fourth studio album by Santana, released on October 11, 1972, and marked a significant turning point in the career of Carlos Santana, as it was a departure from his first three albums. In contrast to the fusion sound of salsa, rock and jazz that had become the band's trademark, the album focused primarily on jazz orchestral pieces. All except three of the songs are instrumental. The album […]

Brothers In Arms is the fifth studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 13 May 1985 through Vertigo Records internationally and Warner Bros. Records in the United States. It spent a total of 14 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart (including 10 consecutive weeks between 18 January and 22 March 1986), nine weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 in the United […]

Before The Flood is a live album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and the Band, released on June 20, 1974, by Asylum Records in the United States and Island Records in the United Kingdom. It was Dylan's first live album, although live recordings of earlier performances would later be released. It is Dylan's 15th album and the seventh by the Band, documenting their joint tour in 1974. It reached number […]

Projections is the second album by American blues rock band Blues Project. Produced by Tom Wilson and released by Verve/Folkways Records in November 1966, the album was their first studio release to feature a more rock-oriented sound. The album cover features the band in a photo by Jim Marshall.Shortly after the release of this album, Al Kooper left the band in the spring of 1967 to form Blood, Sweat & […]

Hiatt Comes Alive Αt Budokan? is the twelfth album by singer-songwriter John Hiatt and his first live album, released on November 22, 1994. The recordings were made during the artist's tour from February 26 to May 30, 1994 in the United States, with the title a parody of Peter Frampton's album title, Frampton Comes Alive! and albums released by many artists that contained Live At Budokan in their title, such […]

The Howlin' Wolf Album is a 1969 album by Howlin' Wolf, with members of the Rotary Connection as his backing band. It combined blues with psychedelic rock covers of several of Howlin' Wolf's classic songs. Howlin' Wolf did not particularly like the album, a fact noted on the album cover, which instead of a photo has the phrase "This is Howlin’ Wolf’s new album. He doesn’t like it. He didn’t […]

The Sky Is Crying is the fifth studio album by American blues rock guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble, released on November 5, 1991 by Epic Records, approximately 14 months after Stevie Ray Vaughan's death, featuring tracks selected by his brother Jimmie, who spent months researching the tracks, demonstrating how important it was to select only tracks that resonated with his brother's legacy. In the end, he […]

Sticky Fingers is the ninth album by The Rolling Stones, released on 23 April 1971 by Decca Records, while in the United States it was released by London Records, with the LP being their eleventh studio release on the other side of the Atlantic.Although the official recordings of "Sticky Fingers" began in March 1970, the band had been at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama since 1969, recording "Sister Morphine". […]

Nightingales & Bombers is the sixth and final album recorded by the original quartet of Manfred Mann's Earth Band. The album was also released before the cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded By The Light" with the band's new lineup that propelled them to greater commercial acceptance. Despite the replacement of singer Mick Rogers by Chris Thompson and the addition of another guitarist, Dave Flett, to widen the gap between Nightingales […]

Pulse is a double album and the second live album by Pink Floyd, released on 29 May 1995 by EMI in Europe and Columbia in the US. It has also been released on video and DVD.Recordings for this release took place from August to October 1994 during the tour in support of their album "The Division Bell".Pulse topped the charts in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Australia, etc. […]

Real Macaw is Graham Parker's second studio album since his split from Rumour, released in 1983.Rolling Stone magazine described The Real Macaw as "a propulsive, brilliantly sung LP." Trouser Press, on the other hand, called it "a softer-sounding record that should have been harder" while PopMatters wrote that "even with the keyboards with an expiration date, it ranks among the best pop-oriented rock albums of all time."Graham Parker must have […]

Zucchero - Live At The Kremlin is the first live album by Italian singer Zucchero Fornaciari, released on 4 November 1991 by Polydor.Although not originally planned, the set-box included a double live LP and a VHS tape, representing in fact the artist's first live work, from his Gold, Incense and Beer tour, as well as his self-titled album Oro, Incenso e Beer, culminating in his double stop at the Moscow […]

Hejira is the eighth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. The songs on the album were written during a series of road trips in 1975 and 1976, and reflect on events that occurred during those trips, including several romantic relationships she had during that time.Featuring lyrically extended songs, as well as the amazing bass playing of Jaco Pastorius, whom she had just met, Hejira continued Mitchell's journey beyond her […]

How Dare You! is the fourth album by British band 10cc. It was released in 1976 and included the UK hits "I'm Mandy Fly Me" and "Art For Art's Sake". The album was the band's third to feature cover art by the creative team at Hipgnosis Studio.It was also the last 10cc album by the original lineup of Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Lol Crème, the latter two […]

American Stars 'n Bars is the eighth studio album by Canadian folk-rock musician Neil Young, released by Reprise Records on May 27, 1977. The selection of tracks was made from recordings made over a period of 29 months and includes "Like A Hurricane", one of Young's best-known and most popular songs. It peaked at number 21 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold in the United States.In the summer […]

Treasure is the third studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Cocteau Twins, released on 1 November 1984 by 4AD. With this album, the band introduced their current core line-up of vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie and bassist Simon Raymonde. This new line-up also coincided with the development of the ethereal sound associated with the band's music.The album peaked at No. 29 on the UK Albums Chart and became […]

Straight Ahead is the fifth album by Brian Auger and the Oblivion Express, released in 1975 and for many his last good one, after which the reviews that followed were mixed. Brian Auger, who was also called the "godfather of acid jazz", has done an excellent job, with some of his keyboard passages being truly wonderful as in "Beginning Again", with which the album begins, or "Bumpin' On Sunset", with […]

"For Children Of All Ages" is the third and final album by American psychedelic rock band The Peanut Butter Conspiracy and was released by Challenge Records in 1969. The album came after the group's contract with Columbia Records expired, with bassist Alan Brackett to produce the album himself during the recordings.The material on the album was originally intended as a side project started by Brackett, who also composed the majority […]

Welcome To The Canteen is the first live album by British band Traffic. It was recorded live at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon and at the Oz Benefit Concert, London, in July 1971 and released in September of that year. It was recorded during Dave Mason's third stint with the band, which only lasted for six shows.The tracklist includes one song each from Traffic's first three albums, two songs from Mason's […]

Live In New York is a live recording of Nektar from 1974, released in 1977, in New York city, where they always seem to give their best. In any case, Nektar is a band that you have to hear live to fully appreciate.Here we have the band in their original lineup with Roye Albrighton on guitar and vocals, Ron Howden on drums, Mo Moore on bass and vocals and Taff […]

Axis: Bold As Love is the second studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on December 1, 1967 by Track Records in Europe and Reprise Records in America.The Experience returned to Olympic Studios on May 4, 1967 to begin recording the follow-up to Are You Experienced?. The first track they tackled was Noel Redding's "She's So Fine", which he sang and Hendrix and Mitchell provided backing vocals. On the […]

History: America's Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by American folk rock trio America, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1975. It was a big hit in the United States, reaching number 3 on the Billboard albums chart and going multi-platinum. It also went 6x platinum for shipments of 420,000 copies of the album in Australia. On July 20, 2019, the album re-entered the US charts peaking at […]

Plays Live is the first live and fifth album in a series released by Peter Gabriel. It was his first untitled solo album. The album was originally released as a double LP and longplay cassette in 1983, featuring sixteen songs. It was re-released in 1985, as a CD titled Plays Live (Highlights) with only twelve songs, some of which had been changed from their original version so that the album […]

Goin' Back To New Orleans is the 30th studio album by New Orleans singer and pianist Dr. John, released by Warner Bros. Records on June 12, 1992. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album of the Year.The album features many musicians and singers such as the Neville Brothers, Al Hirt, Danny Barker, Alfred "Uganda" Roberts, Pete Fountain, Alvin "Red" Tyler, Chuck Carbo, Clyde Kerr Jr. and […]

Utrecht...The Final Frontier is Pendragon's seventh album and third live album, recorded in 1994 in Utrecht, Netherlands. If you've never heard this great progressive rock sound, then it's time to start.The sound quality is crystal clear and the band's performance takes your breath away. The dramatic 'Kowtow' which opens the album is worth the money the lucky concertgoers paid for, with Nick Barrett's subtle voice being used to its best […]

The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert held from June 16 to 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival became known for the first major American performances of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, Ravi Shankar, as well as the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and Otis Redding appearing to a massive American audience.The Monterey Pop Festival inspired California to […]

Breakfast In America is the sixth studio album by English rock band Supertramp, released by A&M Records on March 29, 1979. It was recorded in 1978 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles. It produced four US Billboard singles: "The Logical Song" (No. 6), "Goodbye Stranger" (No. 15), "Take The Long Way Home" (No. 10) and "Breakfast In America". (No. 62). In the UK, "The Logical Song" and the title […]

Just One Night is a 1980 double album by Eric Clapton, recorded live at the Budokan Theatre, Tokyo, Japan in December 1979, when Clapton was touring in support of his final album that year, Backless. The album cover features a painting by Japanese artist Ken Konno. The album reached No. 2 in the US. and No. 3 in the UK and went gold.Critical reaction to the album was largely positive. […]

By the time Gordon Lightfoot released Summertime Dream in June of '76, he had already earned the title of Canada's greatest songwriter. A longtime chart-topper in folk, rock-country and country, Lightfoot helped shape the folk-pop sound of the '60s and '70s and defined a style of narrative songwriting that has endured for more than fifty years .Although Summertime Dream was Lightfoot's twelfth album, recorded at Eastern Sound Studios in Toronto […]

Misplaced Childhood is the third studio album by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion, released in 1985. It is a concept album based on the childhood of Marillion singer Fish, aka Derek William Dick, who was inspired by a brief event that occurred while under the influence of substances.The album was recorded in the spring of 1985 at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin and produced by Chris Kimsey, who had […]

This is the first of three albums that Lonnie Mack recorded for Electra Records between 1969 and 1971 and is a very good and musically solid effort from Lonnie, with his guitar playing almost to the fore as you would expect.With a line-up of familiar faces in the band including former James Brown bassist Tim Drummond, pianist Dumpy Rice, harmonica player Rusty York, keyboardist David Byrd and on vocals the […]

The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 is the debut studio album by the Anglo-American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, which included George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. It was released in October 1988 to commercial success and positive reviews.Although Harrison had long planned to start such a band, it came about through a fortuitous event. Harrison was in Los Angeles and needed a B-side for a single […]

Hallowed Ground is the second album by the Violent Femmes, released in June 1984. As with the band's first album, the songs were primarily written by singer, guitarist and lyricist Gordon Gano when he was in high school. "Country Death Song", for example, written by Gano during his high school years, was inspired by the tradition of folk songs about "terrible, horrible stories". Departing from the straightforward rock style of […]

Prologue is the third studio album by English progressive rock band Renaissance, released in 1972.In this particular year, the line-up at that time disbanded and only former Gentle People singer Annie Haslam and former Rupert's People keyboardist John Tout remain, who are also the core of the band. New members added were bassist Jon Camp, drummer Terence Sullivan and guitarist Mick Parsons. Shortly afterwards, Parsons was killed in a car […]

Heavy Horses is the eleventh studio album by English rock band Jethro Tull, released on 10 April 1978 on Chrysalis Records. This was the second of the band's trilogy of records where their sound featured a lot of folk elements, following 'Songs From The Wood' which had been released a year earlier, which took a more realistic perspective on the ever-changing world. The album is dedicated to the domestic working […]

Trilogy is the third studio album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in July 1972 by Island Records. The cover, designed by Hipgnosis, features a combined bust of the three members, while the first edition's inside features a photomontage of the three of them in Epping Forest.Trilogy increased ELP's worldwide popularity by including "Hoedown", an Aaron Copland composition, which was one of their most popular live songs. Greg Lake himself […]

The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys is the fifth studio album by Traffic, released in 1971. As with the group's other albums, The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys featured different styles of rock music including jazz rock , progressive rock, as well as classic rock and roll. The name of the song from which the album takes its name was suggested by actor Michael J. Pollard.The Traffic trio […]

"The Flock" is an excellent album from 1969, the boom year of brass bands and is the debut album of the group of the same name, whose sound includes guitar, bass, drums, backed by trumpet, two tenor saxophones, with the second to take the place usually occupied by the trombone in the typical wind instruments of the time, and a violin.This resulted in Flock sounding completely different from other similar […]

Live is the seventh album by German progressive Kraut rock band Eloy and their first live album, released in 1978.Being, now, one of the two most successful German rock bands (with Scorpions being perhaps the only other equally successful), Eloy decide to unfold their rich musical talent through a double, as was customary in the 70s, live album. The group had now also received several proposals for appearances in other […]

Absolutely Live is the first live album released by Toto in 1993, featuring new singers Jenney Douglas-McRae, John James and Donna McDaniel. After its first release the album was reissued in 1999 by Sony International.Toto are considered by many critics and fans to be one of the best live bands to ever appear. The original line-up of the group was probably the tightest band ever to appear on the modern […]

Selling England By The Pound is the fifth studio album by Genesis, released in October 1973 by Charisma Records. It reached No. 3 in the UK and No. 70 in the United States. In February 1974, the single "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" was released and became the band's first UK top 30 hit.The album was recorded in August 1973 following the band's tour in support of […]

Electric Mud is the fifth studio album by Muddy Waters, featuring members of the band Rotary Connections as his backing band. It was released in 1968, portraying Muddy Waters as a psychedelic musician. Producer Marshall Chess felt that Muddy Waters recorded Electric Mud in an attempt to appeal to the rock audience as well.It reached No. 127 on the Billboard 200 as a controversial album for fusing electric blues with […]

Mirage is the second studio album by English progressive rock band Camel, released on 1 March 1974. It includes songs such as "The White Rider", "Lady Fantasy" and "Supertwister" which are a special showcase for Andrew Latimer’s flute.There are five tracks on Mirage, with two, "Lady Fantasy" and "Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider" over 9 minutes being multi-part songs. The album was released by Gama and Deram […]

In 1972, Steely Dan released Can't Buy a Thrill. It's just their first step and their unique style is already ready. The album clearly foreshadows what was to follow in the years to come.The sound is bright and hard, with a music that has its own perfect aesthetic, well-crafted and calculated down to the smallest detail. The key changes in the melodies, although governed by an unprecedented primitiveness, are barely […]

Street Noise was released in 1969 by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, originally as a double LP. Includes, among others, covers of “Light My Fire” by the Doors, “Take Me To The Water” by Nina Simone, “Save The Country” by Laura Nero, “All Blues” by Miles Davis, “Indian Rope Man” by Richie Havens, “Let The Sun Shine In” and “I Got Life” from the musical Hair.Driscoll covers this […]

In 1975, Blue Oyster Cult released their live album On Your Feet or On Your Knees which was a tribute to the band's first three albums which were landmark recordings for heavy rock while also being a reliable testament to what kept this great band alive and true to their live performance.The incredible power and fury of this album blows away most live albums that came before it. The feel […]

Power And The Passion is the fourth studio album by German progressive rock band Eloy, released in 1975. For the first time, the group develops a story over two sides of an LP. Gordon Bennett, who wrote the lyrics to "Plastic Girl" from last year's Floating album, developed a narrative that follows Jamie, a scientist's son, who ingests a time-eroding drug and finds himself in Paris in the year 1358. […]

Get Ready is the platinum-selling second studio album by American blues-rock band Rare Earth, released on September 30, 1969 by Motown Records. The album spawned a hit single, a short version of "Get Ready", which reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970, staying on the charts for 20 weeks, beating the original version with the Temptations. The track was written by William "Smokey" Robinson of the famous […]

Live Alive is the first live album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, released on November 15, 1986 by Epic Records, and is made up of four live performances by the group. Performances were recorded on July 15, 1985 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 17 and 18, 1986 at the Austin Opera House, and July 19, 1986 at the Dallas Starfest. Much of the album was recorded in […]

The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper is a double live album recorded at the Fillmore West. The album is essentially a follow-up to the commercially successful and critically acclaimed Super Session studio album, which featured Stephen Stills in addition to Bloomfield and Kooper, earlier in 1968.The performances, the recordings as well as the production cannot be described as flawless. In the liner notes, Kooper describes the difficulties […]

The Super Super Blues Band by Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley was recorded in September 1967 in Chicago and released on January 26, 1968.One could easily describe this album as a super bust of the blues. Power trios in the late 60s were all the rage, even at Chess Studios, where the special purpose supergroups Super Blues of 1967 and later the Super Super Blues Band were formed.The Super […]

The River is the fifth studio album by Bruce Springsteen and was released on October 17, 1980 by Columbia Records. This double album was produced by Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen and E-Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt. The album was Springsteen's first to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spent four weeks at the top of the chart. The song "The River" was nominated for Best Performance by […]

4 Way Street is the third album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, their second as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and their first live album in general, released on April 7, 1971 by Atlantic Records and certified gold by #1 on the Billboard 200. It was a documentary of their tour from the previous year, featuring live recordings made at concerts they played at the Fillmore East in New York […]

Agents Of Fortune is the fourth studio album by American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on vinyl on May 21, 1976 by Columbia Records, produced by Murray Krugman, Sandy Perlman and David Lucas.From 1972 to 1974, Blue Öyster Cult released three successful studio albums and toured constantly, attracting new friends, but the big commercial success came with 1975's live recording "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees" and […]

Alchemy: Dire Straits Live is the first live double album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on March 16, 1984 by Vertigo Records internationally and Warner Bros. Records in the United States. Recorded at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 22 and 23 July 1983, the album contains well-known songs from the band's first four albums, the ExtendeDancEPlay EP and Mark Knopfler's personal soundtrack album Local Hero. Many of the songs […]

Presence is the seventh studio album by Led Zeppelin, released in March 1976 on the Swan Song label.On August 5, 1975, Robert Plant was involved in a serious car accident on the island of Rhodes, leaving him with an ankle problem and unable to tour. This led the band to begin recording their next album, with most of the songs being written in Malibu, California by Jimmy Page and Robert […]

Blow Your Face Out is the second live album by American rock band The J. Geils Band, released in 1976.The album was recorded at two concerts held in November 1975. The first was at Boston Garden, in the band's hometown, on November 15 and was recorded by Record Plant East Remote and David Hewitt. The second was recorded by Metro Audio Detroit four nights later at Cobo Hall in Detroit, […]

Bluesman John Campbell's Elektra Records debut is a curious affair with more than one respect despite its apparent perfection and original voice.The first oddity of the case is the fact that Campbell signed. Clearly in 1990, when Campbell was agreeing and signing his contract with the label, record company executives were still interested in finding new and original talent to develop for a while and market. One Believer was out […]

Still Got The Blues is the eighth solo studio album by Northern Irish guitarist Gary Moore, released on March 26, 1990. This LP marked a significant shift in style for Moore, who prior to this album, was primarily known for his rock and hard rock music with Skid Row, Thin Lizzy, G-Force, Greg Lake, but also during his own extensive solo career, as well as his jazz-fusion work with Colosseum […]

Vehicle is the debut album by Ides Of March, released in 1970. The album's title single, "Vehicle", became the fastest selling single in Warner history.The Ides Of March were local heroes in Chicago for several years, playing British Invasion-style pop and enjoying local hits with songs like "You Will Not Listen" and "Roller Coaster" before becoming nationally known in the early 1970s with the hit single "Vehicle", a classic mix […]

Calling Card is the eighth studio album by Irish guitarist and singer Rory Gallagher, released in 1976 and the second of four albums he released with Chrysalis Records in the ‘70s. All song compositions are by Rory Gallagher with the album to be considered a milestone in his career.Calling Card was co-produced with Gallagher by Deep Purple and Rainbow bassist Roger Glover. It was Gallagher's first time working with a […]

Malo is the first album by the 12-piece band Malo from San Francisco, released in 1972. Their name means "bad" in Spanish but good in the Mayan language.On April 22, 1972, Malo performed the song "Suavecito" on the ABC-TV program "American Bandstand". Two months earlier, on February 27, 1972, "Suavecito" had entered the Billboard Hot Top 100 at No. 76, and on April 30 of the same year, it reached […]

Strong Persuader is the fifth studio album by American blues guitarist and singer Robert Cray. Recorded by Cray at Sage & Sound and Haywood Studios in Los Angeles, produced by Bruce Bromberg and Dennis Walker, it was released on November 17, 1986 by Mercury Records and Hightone Records. Strong Persuader became the group's breakout hit and since 1995 has sold over two million copies, later entering No. 42 on Rolling […]

E. C. Was Here is a 1975 album by Eric Clapton, recorded live in 1974 and 1975 at the Long Beach Arena, Hammersmith Odeon and Providence Civic Center by Record Plant Remote during Clapton's first tour after Derek And The Dominos in 1970 and their live album In Concert.After his recovery from heroin addiction in 1974 and his subsequent comeback with the album 461 Ocean Boulevard, the guitar legend kept […]

Perhaps the hottest era of original Chicago Blues left its mark with Chess Records in the late 1960s. In an effort to appeal to younger audiences at the time, the label recruited an elite group of musicians, including the holy trinity to consist of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Bo Diddley.Unfortunately, in the case of Muddy and Wolf, the inoculation with acid rock vibes of the solid and traditional Blues […]

Songs From The Wood is the tenth studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released in February 1977. The album marked a new direction for the band, which returned to celebrating British pagan folk and the countryside in a broad folk rock style that combined traditional instruments and melodies, with hard rock and electric guitars.The album is considered the first in a trio of Jethro Tull folk rock […]

Go Live From Paris is Go's second album, recorded live at the Palais Des Sports in Paris on June 12, 1976.The primary difference comparing this live album to their first studio album Go, also from 1976, is that Go Live From Paris presents everything in the proper manner and order and in full association with Oriental Mythology, through a suite, with two parts, which includes. This is in direct contrast […]

Top Priority is the tenth album by Rory Gallagher. It was his fourth and final studio album with Chrysalis Records. The album was the second with the renewed trio, himself on vocals, guitar, harmonica and electric sitar, Gerry McAvoy on bass and Ted McKenna on drums.Like the previous album Photo-Finish, Top Priority, released only a year later, is Gallagher's return to hard rock. The ballads, acoustic and folk influences that […]

Electric Music For The Mind And Body is the debut album by American band Country Joe And The Fish. Released in May 1967 by Vanguard Records, it was one of the first psychedelic albums to come out in San Francisco.Tracks from the album and especially "Section 43", "Grace" and "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" were heard on progressive San Francisco FM radio stations such as KSAN and KMPX. At the […]

Yellow Moon is the seventh studio album by the Neville Brothers and was released on March 14, 1989 by A & M Records and produced by Daniel Lanois.The Neville Brothers delivered a very good pop-rock album, their first under A & M Records, which was as musically solid as any they released with that label. The vocals were so well-arranged and superbly performed that they contributed greatly to the album's […]

EtCetera is the second album by Peruvian band Laghonia, released on December 7, 1971.The core of Laghonia was a combination of members from Peru and the USA, namely Saul Cornejo on vocals and guitar, Manuel Cornejo on Drums and David Levene on guitar and vocals. All eight tracks on the album were released on 45s under the group's first name New Juggler Sound. When the band changed its name to […]

Ever since Cristo Redentor was first released, in November 1968, by Phillips Records, it has been one of those albums that no lover of good music can avoid having in their record library. In the album there is a strong presence of wind instruments and strings. A prime example is the reverse guitar playing on "Wade In The Water", which is obvious that when the album was recorded in 1968, […]

Sun Secrets is an album by the Eric Burdon Band recorded in 1973 and released in December 1974.It includes some re-recordings of well-known songs, with which lead singer Eric Burdon topped the charts a few years ago. The band included Aalon Butler on guitar, Randy Rice on bass, and Alvin Taylor on drums.The tracks "The Real Me", "Ring Of Fire" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" were also released as […]

Tusk is the twelfth studio album by American-British band Fleetwood Mac. Released on October 12, 1979, it is considered experimental, mainly due to Lindsey Buckingham's sparse compositional interventions and the influence of punk rock and new wave on his production techniques. The album cost more than $1 million to record (a fact that was widely noted in the press in 1979) and was the most expensive rock album to date. […]

Let It Bleed is the eighth British and tenth American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released on 5 December 1969 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States. Released shortly after the band's 1969 US tour, it is the follow-up to their 1968 album Beggars Banquet as well as the band's last album to feature Brian Jones, who played portable harp on 'You […]