Well, speaking of Meat Loaf up above in another thread, how about "It's All Coming Back to Me Now?"
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Meatloaf is a guilty pleasure for me. All I have is Bat Out of Hell II and III, so I am not entirely well versed in his other stuff, but I admit the sheer pomposity and overblown style of the guy are fun at times! I'd not especially want to get caught at the red light blasting the guy, but there is something to be said for the pomp and circumstance of the whole thing.
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I'd put Kelly Keagy's solo albums up there with any of Night Rangers, as well as Jack Blades' most recent solo album. I wasn't thrilled with his first one, but Rock and Roll Ride works heavily for me, anyway.
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The Los Angeles Times a few days ago reviewed the David Bowie album and pretty much said it was his best thing in decades. I'm not a Bowie fan (though not a hater either), so I won't be getting it, but the review in the paper was beyond glowing.
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Same thing with me, Terry. I played the heck out of Eclipse at first, then let it sit on the shelf for quite a long while. I tried listening to it again a couple of months ago, and it just fell flat to me with maybe one or two exceptions, tops. It just didn't work again/anymore for me.
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It's kind of funny how Tommy Shaw has said things like that and has that attitude when one of his best buddies, Jack Blades, continues to have his creative fingers in lots of pots pretty much all the time. The only thing original that I know Shaw has done in the last ten years that I am aware of is his bluegrass album, while Jack Blades has two solo albums, two Night Ranger albums, a number of a
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I've posted a few times over the years about seeing Boston at the Greek Theatre in LA. They were beyond boring on stage...they just stood there lifelessly, basically performing the greatest hits album, then walked off without a word to the crowd, any dialogue, any real show. It was a complete waste of time as far as a stage show/live performance goes. Dreadful.
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I've been wondering the same thing. I got Somewhere in California from a Best Buy, and I saw the album several other places in store as well afterwards, but I've not seen this new one stocked anywhere, or listed as an in-store pickup.
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I'm a major fan of the original line up, and I do have great affection for the current line up as well, but it bugs me how the band and the band's website acts like Mojo never happened. It's a different type of album, sure, but to at least some it has its merits. It's the black sheep of the Night Ranger discography, but it is out there...it does exist! The Night Ranger website had it on there
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Night Ranger isn't especially strong with math skills...Seven is the eighth Night Ranger album, no matter what Jack says! Feeding Off the Mojo came out, it had the Night Ranger logo on it...Seven should be called Eight, darn it!
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If you watch that promo video for the upcoming Night Ranger live album, you'll count six people on stage, not five. Who is the extra guitarist up there with them?
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Y&T's Endangered Species cover isn't that far off of these two, either...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ7epqRbQR0
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When you listen to it now, it's nearly more a disco song than a rock song, but I remember staying at the house of a family who was friends with my mom when I was seven, and the oldest son in the family just got Styx's Paradise Theater, and he was playing "Too Much Time on My Hands" and using drumsticks on his bed as it was. I grooved on it too, and still like Styx to this day. That
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It's not exactly the type of music most discussed here, but Toy Matinee could fit the bill fairly well. Some gooooood stuff on there if you're not put off by its eclectic nature!
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I live near the real San Dimas High School...I pass their football field on the freeway fairly often on my commute between jobs. When I do pass their field, I can't not hear "SAN DIMAS FOOTBALL RULES!" in my head. Also, while I don't know of a Circle K in the city of San Dimas, there is one just a couple miles away in the city of LaVerne that I always imagine as the source of "st
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It's against popular opinion, but I enjoyed the three man version of Night Ranger. Overall I prefer the "classic" and current lineup, but I saw them a number of times with Gary Moon in tow, and I saw them bringing intensity more to the stage as a trio more than any time I have seen them as a five piece, as if they were trying to prove something as a three piece versus the regular lineu
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I love that album, too...I much prefer it to her followup, which is good too, but much less of a rock album. Never Enough isn't Scandal, but it's a bit closer to that kind of rock than her other solo album. I do wish she would put something new out, whether solo or with a reunited Scandal...she's a distinctive, powerful voice.
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I'm likely the odd one out on this, but I personally like Condition Critical a lot more than Metal Health. I haven't played any Quiet Riot for a while now, but as I remember it, I could play Condition Critical straight through without having to skip around, in comparison to Metal Health, much of which I really can't stand or am bored by. QRIII does get a bit into the overproduced stuff, as ment
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This pretty much sums it up for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0 Of course it's a good idea for everyone to have health insurance, but it's not a good idea to tell people that they have to have it, or they will be penalized by the IRS and possibly face freakin' jail time for not having it. (Yes...if you read enough on the topic, there are provisions in this thing that if you do
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As I understand it, and I may be way off on this, it's a big deal because it basically requires everyone to have health insurance no matter what. For the upper class, it's no big deal, as they can easily afford it. For the lower class, it's not that huge a thing, as there are government programs like Medicare that they are likely already on. The catch comes for the middle class, whose jobs may
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"Plexiglass Toilet" by Styx fits the bill!
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I still buy DVDs, too...just like with music, I like having a physical object in my possession rather than just a computer file somewhere that can get corrupted or otherwise lost. It's increasingly frustrating to find DVDs, though...most stores have shrunk the number of DVDs they carry pretty drastically, I've noticed. I've run into an occasional DVD that this or that player may have a proble
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While I like Boston's music, both times I've seen them they had zeeeeeero stage presence altogether. All they did is walk on stage, stand perfectly in place at their mikes, and perform the songs. Then they walked off, show over. No banter with the crowd, no movement, no backstories about the songs, etc...I could have gotten the same effect by buying some of those goofy multicolored lights at S
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True, Captain! But then again, I bet the worst anyone would suffer would be a "Flesh Wound!"
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I always have liked Unusual Heat. It's not the band's best output, and I'll admit that there's not much variation in sound among the songs, but to my ears it's a fun listen. Plus, I had a really cool concert moment happen when I saw Foreigner at the outdoor Greek Theater in Los Angeles on the tour in support of the album: they performed "Ready for the Rain to Fall" during the conc
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Again, personal tastes and different strokes come into play: I always thought that "I Believe" from Bon Jovi was a killer first track, and while I'm not quite as enamoured of Ratt's "City to City," it works well for me as the first item on that album. That's just me, though!
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Of the later studio releases, I personally like Power and In the Spirit of Things the most of any Kansas releases; they're the only two albums of theirs that I can spin from start to finish without having to skip certain cuts that annoy or bore a little bit. Freaks of Nature is hit and miss, but there are a couple songs on that one that I really love ("Hope Once Again," "Peaceful
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I've wondered the same myself. His website sat stagnant for years, then suddenly was revamped from the ground up, but has sat stagnant ever since the refurbishment. Also, I've not been able to find the A Thousand Bridges CD as a physical CD or as a download anywhere, even though his site lists several places it is supposedly available. I'd get it if I was able; I liked Feeding Off the Mojo qui
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I got Jack Blades' new solo album in the mail yesterday. I get home pretty late, so didn't give it a listen last night, but gave it its first spin in the car on the commute to work this morning. If you were one of those who was a little bit put off by his first solo disc, don't dismiss this one out of hand. It's a bit different than Night Ranger material, and has a bit of that Shaw/Blades-Be
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