Rubber Soul
(Brand:EMI)
Rank 'em how you like, Rubber Soul is an undeniable pivot point in theFab Four's varied discography no matter where, or how, you first heard
it. So many classics: "Drive My Car" and "Nowhere Man" merge the early
combustible Beatifics to a burgeoning studio consciousness; "The Word"
can be read as a pre-psych warning shot; the sitar-laden "Norwegian
Wood" and the evocative "Girl" (the latter written on the last night
of the sessions) stand as turning points in John Lennon's oeuvre.
George finally emerges too, with the McGuinn-ish "If I Needed
Someone". --Don Harrison...
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Absolute Greatest
(Brand:EMI)
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Ab III
(Brand:Roadrunner Records)
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25: The Very Best of a-ha
(Brand:Rhino)
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars: Remastered
(Brand:EMI Catalogue)
Of all David Bowie's many distinctive personae, none have done more tolodge this most ingenious of British artists in the world's
consciousness than his 1972 amalgam of the alien visitor and
Christ-like rock star: Ziggy Stardust. Cheap glamour, spacemen and
ambiguous sexuality surface throughout the loosely conceptualised
collection that is The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders
from Mars. If its premise sounds faintly ludicrous, then inspired and
dramatic songs such as "Starman" and "Five Years" dispel all doubts
about Bowie's genius, and the theatrically tragic "Rock 'n' Roll
Suicide" brings the album and it's fictional protagonist to a close.
As a cultural and musical signpost, Ziggy Stardust points
simultaneously backwards to early rock & roll and forward to the
simpler, tougher inclinations of late-1970s punk and New Wave rock. As
one of the defining rock albums of the 20th century, its influence is
immeasurable. --James Littlewood...
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Sigh No More (Ltd Edition Three Disc Box Set)
(Brand:Island)
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Boxed: Youth and Young Manhood/Aha Shake Heartbreak/Because of the Times
(Brand:Sony Music)
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Beachcomber's Windowsill
(Brand:4AD)
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Back in Black
(Brand:Epic Records)
The death of the lead singer would spell the end of most bands. Butmost bands aren't AC/DC. After Bon Scott's overindulgence in alcohol
lead to his undignified end, lead guitarist Angus Young and Co. simply
found a singer that sounded exactly the same and carried on. The
result: Back In Black, the most successful album of their lengthy
career. Like every other AC/DC album, it doesn't deviate from their
trademark sounds: loud guitars, basic boogie and vocals that sound
like they are being screamed out by a buzzsaw. But never before (or
since) have they gotten the formula so consistently right: "You Shook
Me All Night Long", "Rock 'N' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution", "Hell's
Bells" and the title track are among the best hard rock songs ever.
AC/DC never experiment and never innovate; they just rock. No other
band even comes close. --Robert Burrow...
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Greatest Hits
(Brand:Polydor Group)
If time is the true test, then Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits confirmsthat they really were one of the greatest rock & roll bands in the
world. While, in retrospect, fellow graduates of the class of 1987 are
about as cool as poodle perms and spandex, the LA bad boys still rock
like gods. Listening to the sun-drenched chords of "Paradise City" and
the ensuing stadium-sized swagger is enough to make wearing leather
trousers and bandanas seem like a good idea. Of course, it helped that
for them sex, drugs and rock & roll was a way of life, not a fashion
statement. As Axl Rose wails "I wanna watch you bleed" on "Welcome to
the Jungle", like a chain-smoking lunatic possessed, it's hard not to
believe he meant it. Yet equally, it was his surprisingly poetic
nature that made genuinely touching love songs of "Patience" and
"Sweet Child of Mine". Though none of their subsequent albums matched
the drug-crazed genius of Appetite for Destruction, they did, as the
Greatest Hits reminds, have their moments. From the bloated Use Your
Illusion I & II came ultimate rock ballads "Don't Cry" and "November
Rain", along with the primal rage that was "You Could Be Mine". And
while the covers of the The Spaghetti Incident were largely
forgettable, the fact that their final single was a seedy sneer
through the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" seems
spectacularly fitting. --Dan Gennoe...
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