Best Psychedelic Rock
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The Oscar nominated documentary 'searching for Sugarman' opened my eyes to why. People thought he had killed himself after being humiliated in the USA. In South Africa he was loved by the young population, 'He Crucified our minds'. He opened our eyes in an apartheid era, when we were blinded by it's evils. It was possibly the greatest Album never heard, but there may have been a 'Rich Folks Hoax' somewhere."
"From a hard, working class background, inclined toward movies and music and influenced by his father's guitar playing, he taught himself and quit school at 16. In the 60s/70s, when war, words, music, and the streets came alive, Rodriguez's singer-songwriting talent carried him to widespread popularity, becoming mainstream in Australia and South Africa. With North American promotion lacking, unbeknownst to him, international licensing and bootlegging created a huge following and market for him, and through intense coercion, Rodriguez agreed to appear in person."
"My only complaint is that I got all three cds and there is a lot of overlap in the songs, but I think the deal was something like I bought the two original CDs and the soundtrack was an extra $5, so not a big deal, but if you want only one CD, get the soundtrack, as it has most of his best songs, but everything he wrote is worth listening to."
"And now he even gets some money for the albums he made in 1969 in Detroit, MI, and 1971 in London, England...which did not sell at the time, except for huge amounts in South Africa. Interesting songs with titles that say a lot: "Sugar Man", "Crucify Your Mind", "This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues", "Hate Street Dialogue", "Inner City Blues", "Rich Folks Hoax", etc."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Hands down the best live album EVER made."
"The recording quality was excellent and came in nice paper disc packaging."
"Excellent sound."
"I had this on vinyl back in the day and I can't believe I waited so long to get this on CD."
"One of my top 10 albums of all time."
"Jerry Garcia...Bob Weir anything else?"
"Nice memories from a time long ago..."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"oh Tarantino, if only you kept making modern movies so we could enjoy your soundtracks."
"This was exactly what I wanted because of the Group Called Smith!"
"I prefer the Village of the Giants rendition, it's a lot more garagey."
"So glad to have this reissued on vinyl so I could complete my Tarantino collection."
"Great album, with excellent recording transfer."
"Not my favorite Tarantino soundtrack but still very fitting for the source material."
"Great soundtrack, some surface noise."
"Some really good songs."
Best Oldies
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Find Best Price at Amazon"In addition, it includes the music done by The Supremes after Diana Ross went solo."
"This Outstanding set of CDs are a comprehensive compilation of "All" the Hits from the Supremes (1961-1967); Diana Ross & The Supremes (1967- 1969) and the post Diana Ross Supremes of the 1970s. From 1964 thru 1967, the Motown hit making machine called The Supremes produced 10 songs which reached #1 atop Billboard’s Pop Chart and they achieved more success on the R&B Chart. H-D-H's string of hits catapulted The Supremes, Motown and many other Motown artists into national and international spotlight. Behind the dynamic and innovative song writing team of H-D-H, Motown, The Supremes and many others artists thrived as their crossover appeal and demand soared. This was another of many very defining period in the legacy of The Supremes, Motown and all its artists. From 1962 thru 1967, H-D-H also wrote for many other Motown artists and future legends. During this period, they wrote all the music and lyrics and produced The Supremes to 10 #1 hits as well as several Billboard #1 Pop hits for other Motown artist (i.e., The Four Tops and Martha and The Vandellas. Their final #1 Billboard hit for The Supremes and Motown was the 1967 song, “The Happening”. After the departure of H-D-H, Smokey again stepped up as principle writer for other artists in Motown's deep and rich talent pool, including the renamed Diana Ross & The Supremes."
"This is the 3rd set of Supreme's CD's I've purchased, and the 3rd is truly a charm!"
"Beautiful memories."
"Very good quality purchased to replace old vinyl."
"Great item and very fast shipping, very happy!"
"Probably could have used only one disc of the two."
"Excellent quality CD of The Supremes!"
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!"
"Here is why: **** AMAZING PRODUCTION QUALITY, ON BOTH THE CDs AND THE DVDs. **** THE FINAL OFFICIAL RELEASE WHERE YOU ALSO GET TO SEE / HEAR PINK FLOYD KEYBOARDIST RICHARD WRIGHT. **** COMPLETE AND AMAZING 5.1 VERSION OF "ON AN ISLAND" ALBUM. **** GILMOUR, STILL AT THE VERY TOP OF HIS GAME, DEMONSTRATING NEW TALENTS, SUCH AS PLAYING THE SAXOPHONE!! P.S., somewhere out there is a nice DVD recording of a Roger Waters concert from Cork, Ireland (2006), which features Nick Mason."
"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."
"After listening to the CD's while driving, I began to appreciate the music more and more and notice the different touches on these new recordings more and more. I also enjoyed the DVD's especially since it was Richard's last concert filmed with David, and I treasure it, also, but it is the cd's that I have enjoyed so much!"
"One CD in the second set is also scratched and both appear to be used."
Best British Invasion
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Takes me back to growing and mum loving to dance and singe~bless."
"All my favorites and variety of through the years."
"ooh the memories, classic."
"The first CD begins with Frank Sinatra performing a sublime rendition of "Birth Of The Blues;" Frank adds a few lines at the beginning to put his own stamp on this ballad and when Frank goes into the main lyrics of the song it really takes off like a jet! Listen for Andy Williams to sing "Moon River" with panache; this always amazes me! I love this tune by Scott. Moreover, "You've Made Me So Very Happy" by Blood, Sweat & Tears combines a soft rock style with a smooth jazz flavor to make this number very strong; I could never forget this awesome number. Simon and Garfunkel also do a timeless, moving ballad that was so well associated with them; "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is a very tender love song that never fails to move me with its beauty. Looking Glass does good on "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl);" this tune tells the story of a young woman who wants love from one of the sailors who come to port where she works--but, sadly, she doesn't get what she wants."
"Like any collection, it is missing many pieces that you or I might have chosen to include, but let's face it...there is so much music to choose from and a limted number of songs that can fit on 2 CDs!"
"While almost all of the first disc is of that style (Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, et al.), the second disc shows the growth from the more optimistic folkish style, and ends with the more soulful R&B music of the end."
"This is a superb review of a superb musical era."
"DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND DON'T GET THIS I MEAN THERE'S NOT 1 JIMI HENDRIX SONG ON HERE I MEAN I KNOW THIS IS POP COLLECTION BUT HEY 1951-1975 WHO ARE THE AMETURES THAT PUT THESE TOGETHER I AM THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO CARES ABOUT MUSIC..?"
Best Jam Bands
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I had this on vinyl back in the day and I can't believe I waited so long to get this on CD."
"One of my top 10 albums of all time."
"Jerry Garcia...Bob Weir anything else?"
"Nice memories from a time long ago..."
"100% satisfied."
"Exactly as advertised, I'm a happy camper."
"China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider!"
Best Avant Garde & Free Jazz
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The percussion and electric guitar keep this sounding current and modern, even though the acoustic strings are often associated with classical music."
"This is a great album!"
"Traditional Jewish music meets surf rock meets contemporary jazz."
"Half of the group (Mark Feldman, Erik Friedlander & Marc Ribot) have their own Book of Angels releases. Those who don't (Cyro Baptista, Joey Baron & Greg Cohen) are long time John Zorn collaborators. Perhaps because most of these musicians played on the initial "Bar Kokhba" album and on the "50th Birthday Celebration" live release, this group has chemistry. I don't recall being as moved by a Jazz violin since hearing Stéphane Grappelli play with Django Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France."
"Zorn's stated goal with the new Masada songbook was not to make a band the focus of the project but rather the music and in this he really succeeds-- covering a range of moods and influences while being both uniquely Jewish and uniquely John Zorn (and readily identifiable as Masada). And really, these are the keys to what makes this record fantastic-- great playing and great support as a band whose level of interaction is a mix between near psychic response and Zorn's unique exertions over them (everything from switching accompaniment from arco to pizzicato to not at all to conducting triangle strikes and extending brilliant solos)."
"This is just superb - great grooves as ever (Zorn can conjure up perfect basslines at will it seems - 'Lilin' springs immediately to mind, but the Masada Books contain so many others), intense yet always sensitive drumming and percussion, and, of course, endlessly beautiful soloing and comping from Ribot, Feldman and Friedlander."
Best Arena Rock
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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 Southern Rock
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This southern rock music is really good and compares to Lynyrd Skynyrd and other CDs I own. Rick Medlocke - guitar-vocals and Jackson Spires drums - vocals and the others play great southern rock for several albums, before the standard story of nearly having the big time success peters out and they disband, only to form again later for a while."
"One advantage of seeing them in small bar got to stand right in front slapping hands with em while they were jamming! She's got legs clean up to her hairline I wonder if she's worth the climb?I'm on the run got no time for you now I gotta play for this crowd!"
"Bought this cd for my hubby to jam out to on the road for work."
"it is hard to mess up a CD so what can ya say - deliver was on time and it plays perfectly - great addition to my music collection."
"I highly recommend this to the old school Southern Rock fan, as well as the new fan that wants to learn what it was all about!"
"GOOD PRODUCT, FAST SHIPPING."
Best Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
![Purple Rain [Explicit]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WSAG1qvML._SS600_.jpg)
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Find Best Price at Amazon"the classic hits are still timeless gems: 'let's go crazy', 'purple rain' (the best track on the album!"
"You know it, just get it if you need your vinyl."
"Downloaded quickly and was jamming to it within minutes on my ear buds while volunteering at my kids elementary school."
"Love Prince."
"Prince, Freddy Mercury, and David Bowie all taught me how to begin celebrating my freaky, funky self, even if I didn't seem to belong anywhere."
"This is arguably the best Prince album of all time and is is definitely worth a place in anybody's vinyl collection."
"This is a great album, every single song."
"love Prince."
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 Compilations
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Find Best Price at Amazon"BOOKENDS (released in 1968) is the greatest of all Simon & Garfunkel albums, and one of the best records made in the 1960s. The Vietnam War, the assassinations of public figures, and seeing part of my city burn the previous summer during riots-- it was a lot to handle. The first side of the record ends with the sad longing and fears of Old Friends, who sit on a park bench and reminisce together. The fears and sadness of 1968 are long past, but a final memory remains: As I lay in bed early that Christmas Eve, the colored glow of tree lights seeped into my room. Off in the distance were disembodied television voices of Apollo astronauts circling the moon-- they read passages from the book of Genesis, and wished well the "people of the good Earth.""
"The Vietnam War, the assassinations of public figures, and seeing part of my city burn the previous summer during riots-- it was a lot to handle. The first side of the record ends with the sad longing and fears of Old Friends, who sit on a park bench and reminisce together. The fears and sadness of 1968 are long past, but a final memory remains: As I lay in bed early that Christmas Eve, the colored glow of tree lights seeped into my room. Off in the distance were disembodied television voices of Apollo astronauts circling the moon-- they read passages from the book of Genesis, and wished well the "people of the good Earth.""