Best Hard Rock & Metal
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Except that it was recorded in San Francisco and not my hometown there is nothing to not like."
"It's Ghost live."
"Really gives you the feeling of what it's like to be at a Ghost show."
"Love the live album by Ghost!"
"Excellent!"
"I usually hate live albums."
"I saw them open for Maiden in Nashville and am overjoyed that I now get to hear their full show, which I did not get to see."
"Great job Ghost."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great album!"
"Love this album."
"One of the best 80s Rock Albums, this is a must have."
"Gets 10 stars in my book....R.I.P Malcolm Young!"
"The sound is tighter and fuller, and the songs seem more enjoyable and free of the dirty joke garge band sound from their early days. This is to say that ACDC still sound like ACDC only somehow better and refreshed You can probabaly even recognize the chords they are usning."
"Great Album.... super quality sound."
"Excellent collection of ac/DC songs!"
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As far as the music goes, it’s a little different than previous albums."
"It demonstrates the experiences, growth and change that makes great bands remain relevant and moving upward and onward."
"This group is great."
"This band takes it right to the edge where distortion would become noise but somehow they contain it."
"This long awaited new CD proved to be worth the time."
"Love this band and I love Maria Brink!"
"Up and coming band grab this."
"Constantly listening to it."
Best Alternative Metal
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Now what I don't like about this CD is that the songs sometimes sound too similar, it's not neccesarily a bad thing but if you have it in shuffle with other artists it wont seem repetetive."
"This is a good album to rock out to if you like hard driving music."
"I was about to go on a short trip with a lot of driving, and I love listening to Disturbed while I drive, so I bought the entire CD from Amazon so I could burn it right before the trip."
Best British Metal
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Sound wise, this lp sounds great, but not a whole lot different than the original CD."
"Great album, Sounds good!"
"It has great songs, great drums, great guitars and great vocals."
"This review is from a fan who does like the no prayer for the dying album so maybe my maiden tastes aren't quite in line with others."
"One of maiden's best."
"Very cohesive album."
"Excellent & Awesome for Iron Maiden Fans!"
Best Compilations
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Find Best Price at Amazon"but the same way I would go to see him in concert at Jones Beach and then at Radio City the following year... and probably hear the same material... it was / is certainly worth it."
"Love it very good sound and songs I never heard before."
"Never knew he sang bluegrass."
"He did covers of songs that were not on albums, so it gave the listener, some songs that the title Something, Old, New, Borrowed and Some Blues truly captured. This is a CD for Fogelberg fans and those who appreciated the LA Rock music of Jackson Browne, Eagles, Poco, Stephen Stills, etc."
"I was mesmerized by "Don't Let That Sun Go Down"--the sheer grittiness, power and bluezy quality in his voice was incredible."
"I don't think Dan has ever released a song that wasn't a hit."
Best Death Metal
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I was one of many who wrote a scathing review of Illud on Amazon back when it came out. I stand by each and every word of that review years later. I’ve been a fan since Altars came out way back when and after an eight year wait Illud was like a kick to the head it was so bad. Well, Trey gave Vincent, Destructhor and Tim the boot. It’s got the speed, the riffs and a great lead at the end. but it’s still a straight ahead blast off to what is a great album. This song has been universally praised by just about every website and I don’t understand why. One of the longer songs but it has a ton of twists and turns that held my attention. Sludgy with insanely fast double bass. Tucker’s an accomplished bassist so it’s nice to hear more of him in this song. The Earth was supposed to sound like originally lol. Declaring New Law. The song starts out monstrous but sort of fizzles. The Fall of Idols. Tucker is on FIRE on this song. In this day and age where every underground recording has crystal clear production, Kingdom’s Disdained is VERY old school sounding. It sounds muddy but once I played around with the settings on my phone (Hint, ease up on the drums a little) it sounds awesome now. It’s raw, dirty and clear if that makes any sense. I had it turned all the way up to max on my headphones and it’s still not as painfully loud as most modern releases. Scotty on drums……finding a replacement for Pete was not easy but he’s got the power, the technique and most importantly the swing and groove Pete had. Steve….a lot of people side with Vincent since he was on the bands classic albums. Hopefully we won’t have to wait ten years for the “L” album. (Favorite Songs). Piles Of Little Arms. D.E.A.D. Righteous Voice. For No Master. Fall of Idols. Songs I didn’t care for but still aren’t bad. Kingdom’s Disdained, Raw, brutal, brilliant and a true return to form from the masters themselves."
"With the return of Steve Tucker, Morbid Angel has made a return to the pure death metal at which they've always excelled."
"Trey Azagthoth is back with some of the most evil and menacing sounding riffs and some of the most slime ridden spaced out solos from another dimension you will swear you opened up a gateway from Hp Lovecrafts Necronomicon. If you are curious if Morbid Angel are phoning it in or doing an industrial electronic dance album I'm here to inform you HELL Fu@ng No! This album will one day be mentioned with the band's greatest works and will have you banging your head and roaring with approval and celebration that the gods of extreme metal have truly returned!"
Best Hard Rock
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This album transitions smoothly from track to track."
"The vocals and solos blend and twist these fabulous hard edged songs into a frenzy!"
"Love the album, love the band."
"Awesome!"
"Great band (BCC - may they long live), great album."
"This supergroup continues to deliver!"
"Not the best of the four albums but c'mon, still awesome."
Best Live Albums
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a really great album."
"One of my all-time favorite David Gilmour performances!"
"Awesome."
"Gilmour ended his On An Island Tour with this show which features the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner. The disc also features a making of featurette called Gdansk Diary which also covers some background on the Solidarity movement in Poland. These performances include highlights from the Island tour recorded at the Mermaid Theatre in London, The AOL Sessions in New York and Live at Abbey Road."
"I absolutely love it."
"Love Love Love David Gilmour."
Best Pop Metal
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Come on, it's KISS... No way to go wrong buying anything they've done..."
"When the set first came out I was very uneasy about purchasing it mostly b/c the members have nothing to do w/ the set at all as far as packaging, art work, remastering, etc.... track selection is great and it has a few songs that are not on the orig albums."
"Exactly what I was looking for!"
"This is an awesome set of 4 CD's."
"Song choices are subjective."
"Great career retrospective in an interesting format."
Best Thrash & Speed Metal
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great but Edited BS!"
"The album is just great all around metal and like the concert if I had to pay money to see them, I got my money's worth with the album. Most new metal out there nowadays is a few kids still in high school screaming about problems that only impact teens and I can't relate to that crap."
"Cant go wrong with 5 Finger Death Punch!"
"The only bad thing about this disc is that I can't imagine the band ever surpassing the quality of the music herein. Bathory writes some excellent and memorable riffs, and Ivan Moody's vocals are beyond reproach. Moody lifts those other outfits, but it's his pairing with Bathory that creates the heavy metal holyland."
"I just looked into FFDP because I was looking another bands website and there was the FFDP logo and I was like well they seem pretty cool."
Best Glam
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Twisted Sister's second full length album You Can't Stop Rock N' Roll features a number of favorites that remain in their set to this day. Feel The Power (BONUS TRACK). The remastering by Scott Hull has just added upon the original Atlantic CD release's production. That Spitfire reissue from a few years back (mastered from vinyl) was a disgrace. The Armoury Records reissues' booklet was a simple reproduction ... with the associated loss of detail and clarity."
"The follow-up to their debut was another serious hard rock record that seemed to contradict Twisted Sister's often comical and garish stage and publicity look. The title track which was originally intended for the first record but held back became Twisted Sister's first MTV video but it was "I Am, I'm Me" that was the first UK single off the LP."
"So, I am going back and purchasing older bands material that I KNOW is good on CD. I've heard all kinds of mixed feeling on what sound good and bad. Dee Snider's vocals are great as always and the drum sound is better on here then "Stay Hungry" though I love both albums."
"You cant stop rock n roll, who would want to stop it anyway, this is not a test, its operation rock n roll!!!!!"
"All these are worth buying this CD."
"Two of my Favorite Twisted Sister albums are Under The Blade and You Can't Stop Rock N Roll!!!"
"While not as good as "Under the Blade", Twisted Sister's second effort "You Can't Stop Rock&Roll" is the next best thing."
"Great band , and a killer album!"
Best British Alternative
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Dig Out Your Soul [2 LP][Reissue]. Just got the double 45rpm vinyl reissue of this classic."
"And to be quite honest, though I've enjoyed these early records that most Oasis fans continue to hold up as the holy grail of band, I found them to be generally kind of musically one-dimensional. Oasis is a one vocalist band, for crying out loud, banging on three or four jangely chord songs,with amps on 11 for most of those early records. In this sense, they are following a path perhaps originally layed down by The Beatles, but followed by a number of wonderful British bands who proved over the years that they were much more than just the muscial adrenaline of their youth. This wasn't the straight up rock n' roll band I had fallen in love with and these new sounds The Beatles were making just didn't do it for me at that time. Though I can't say I like it quite as much, after afew listens, "Dig Out Your Soul" picks up right where "Don't Believe The Truth" left off, but without quite as much of the Beatle derivative in it."
"That said, the tension between these two artists is so strong that it creates an amazing sonic experience almost 20 years into the band's journey. Ian Gallagher the vocal brother is channeling Lennon in this album through the filter of the familiar Oasis sound. Noel Gallagher is channeling Tommy from The Who with ghostly drum rhythms from a drummer that seems to be none other than Keith Moon himself in the bodily form of Zak Starkey. Ringo's son Zak was the Godson of Moon and learned to play drums at his feet."
"This album proves that Oasis is more than just "stadium rock," and provides modern alternative vibes that definitely are great to listen to."
"Better than most other bands best albums and that's a fact."
"There are some other good tunes in here, but a lot of the songs are very mellow, psychedelic (not what I was expecting, although it isn't necessarily a bad thing), and a little blase, with too much reverb effect on the vocals that make it sound like Liam is singing in a public restroom....or singing off key through a megaphone."