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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: _tom_ on December 02, 2006, 05:08:43 PM
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Christmas is coming soon and Mums allready started asking me which CDs I'd like.. I wanted to get some albums (as I've only got a few songs by em and want a full album) by these bands but no idea which albums are the best:
-UFO
-Lynch Mob
-Van Halen
-Pagan's Mind
-Ozzy
and any others you can recommend in this kinda style. You may well mock me for not owning any albums by these bands, but for some reason I've never got round to buying any.
Cheers
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Blizzard Of Ozz and Diary Of A Madman for Ozzy :wink:
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Anything with David Lee Roth for Van Halen. :)
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Strangers In The Night (live album) for UFO
The first 4 albums (especially Fair Warning) for Van Halen
First two Lynch Mob albums
And additionally for Ozzy, Bark At The Moon (Jake E Lee!) and Speak Of The Devil (the best Sabbath tribute band ever!).
Pagan's Mind I don't know.
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Thanks for the replies.
I love the song Bark at the Moon so I'll probably get that Ozzy album :)
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you've got to get either blizzard of ozz or diary of a madman. Randy Rhoads man!!! wait, scratch that, get the Tribute album. Randy Rhoads live man!!!
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-UFO
-Lynch Mob
-Van Halen
-Pagan's Mind
-Ozzy
and any others you can recommend in this kinda style. You may well mock me for not owning any albums by these bands, but for some reason I've never got round to buying any.
Cheers
After the recommend a beer thread earlier I'm getting into this advice lark..
Lynch Mob:
Both the first and second Lynch mob albums are excellent = Wicked Sensation and the self titled Lynch Mob. I still listen to both regularly after all these years. Don't bother with any others especially "Smoke This".
Van Halen:
The original 1st album remaster is the classic and should be in every collection + For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge + 5150 for the Van Hagar period.
Ozzy = Tribute:
Randy Rhoads will always be THE MAN!
For both Ozzy and Van Halen some albums are made by 1 or 2 songs with the rest not really cutting it. IMHO it is worth getting a best of package on CD to fill in the jewels between classic value for money albums.
David Lee Roth - Eat em and Smile:
Every guitarist should own this.
Whitesnake 1987 - This album will be playing in my house till the ambulance turns up to take me to the morgue.
Even then I've left strict instructions to have "Here I go Again" played during my cremation.
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Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance - one of the best cds ever!
Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic Calling - just as good as celesital.
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You really ought to get the 3 Badlands albums too. Jake E Lee doing high-octane blues rock with a fantastic vocalist (Ray Gillen RIP).
Badlands - Badlands
Badlands - Voodoo Highway
Baslands - Dusk
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In fact get Infinity Divine by Pagan's Mind too, there isn't a bad album, is uggest get them in this order:
Celestial Entrance
Enigmatic: Calling
Infinity Divine
But Pagan's Mind are one of the best bands ever.
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+1 to Badlands!! :D
And OK, someone's going to take the piss but if you are getting into late 70s/80s hard rock:
Scorpions - Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism, Blackout and Love At First Sting
Forget "Wind of Change" and the long, slow decline through the 90s, the Scorpions were on fire for those 4 albums (and World Wide Live). The earlier stuff with Uli Roth is all great too.
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haha I cant get em all for christmas! My Laney was a kinda joint birthday/xmas present so I cant get loads :lol:
Joe, I heard from a guy I speak to over msn that Enigmatic: Calling is Pagan's Mind's best album.. I've only heard the songs 'Through Osiris' Eyes', 'Astral Projection' and 'Entrance Stargate' which are all awesome.
I'll check out some Badlands Muttley, and cheers for all the other suggestions people! :twisted:
Philly I've "sampled" a few Scorpions songs via Limewire (like I do with most stuff before I buy it) and I liked it so one of those could be good :) I love the 70s and 80s hard rock!
Ooh and Amazon just came up with the self titled by Blue Murder, never heard any but I love Skyes - is it any good though?
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ummmm
Jelly Roll
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Ooh and Amazon just came up with the self titled by Blue Murder, never heard any but I love Skyes - is it any good though?
I can remember being all excited about that one, and rushing out to buy it on the day of release. But... I never really got into it. It's not bad, and there's lots of good playing, but it lacks something. I think the songs just aren't strong enough. Others may disagree....
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I wont bother then, I only want hard rockin' stuff :P
Got a few Badlands tracks, this is great stuff!
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I think you would like gary moore stuff to be honest:
corridors of power
maybe the thin lizzy album Black Rose its plain awesome
Van Halen 2 is my fave van halen album, dance the night away :D
For Ozzy diary of a madman, amazing!
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I wont bother then, I only want hard rockin' stuff :P
Got a few Badlands tracks, this is great stuff!
If you like the Badlands stuff you'll probably like this: Jake E Lee - Retraced (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Retraced-Jake-E-Lee/dp/B00081MVQ2/sr=8-1/qid=1165104772/ref=sr_1_1/202-1191423-2407859?ie=UTF8&s=music)
It's a fantastic album of covers some of the classic rock tracks that influenced him as he was learning guitar. Includes tracks originally by Procol Harem, Cactus, Free, Montrose, Robin Trower, etc. It rocks. :)
Muttley
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:D Hi Tom my turn !! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Pagans Mind - Enigmatic Calling Buy, Buy, Buy, its there best imho. The others are great but EC will get you into them its very accesible.
Van Halen - Get the 1st one. There debut album. Its a great place to start.
Ozzy - Blizzard Of Ozz. Again the album that launched Ozzy into the stratosphere.
UFO - Strangers In The Night. Its got all of Michael Schenkers greatest riffs & songs on it. Its a classic live album. You`ll Love It !
You might want to try Iron Maiden. There back catalouge is going cheap on Amazon at the moment. I would advise 7th Son Of A 7th Son its under a fiver & its aguably Maidens best moment.
Thats enough for you to be getting on with !!! :P
:D 8)
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Get Fair Warning by Van Halen, it's the business! 8)
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Cheers for the replies :)
Philly, which Badlands album would you say is the must-have? The song "High Wire" is the best I've heard by em so far.
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I got given a Badlands tape years ago by my mother-in-law's ex boyfriend, he told me repeatedly that it was the best thing since sliced bread. Unfortunately, he was such a class-a w***er that I never actually bothered to listen to it and may have actually thrown it away some time back.
DOH!!!
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Philly, which Badlands album would you say is the must-have? The song "High Wire" is the best I've heard by em so far.
If you were only getting one, the first album. At the time, I found Voodoo Highway a bit too bluesy in comparison, but I absolutely love it now. And Dusk wasn't even released in Ray Gillen's lifetime so I was expecting a load of half-finished leftovers, but it actually sounds like a great completed album.
So basically, they're all 100% essential :wink: . But if you must pick one, go for Badlands.
There was a lot of tension in that band. I went to see them in 91 (maybe early 92?) and they announced before the tour that Gillen had left (or been sacked) and replaced with a female blues/gospel singer. But then they appeared on stage with Ray! It was obvious the band were really angry with him - Jake never looked at him once, and at one point Greg Chaisson stood on Ray's mike lead so he had to sing the whole song bent over! Weird, but it was a fantastic gig!
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Cheers for the replies :)
Philly, which Badlands album would you say is the must-have? The song "High Wire" is the best I've heard by em so far.
Butting in here, but I'd say Voodoo Highway and then the self title debut. Reason being that the production is less 80s glam orientated and the guitars are rawer souding... which I like.
Dusk is a release of some demos that were recorded and were meant to be on the 3rd album which never got released originally due to them being dropped and then Ray Gillen dying. It's good, but due to the demo nature not quite up to the other two.
Muttley
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My ideas on this: some over looked gems and great rock albums
-UFO : Strangers in the Night and Walk on water
-Lynch Mob - Wicked sensation and I'd check out Under lock and Key/ Back for the attack by Dokken too
-Van Halen : Early Roth stuff . Ist, 2nd , FAir Warning and 1984 are the better ones
-Ozzy : Blizzard of Ozz, Diary of a madman, Tribute, No rest for the Wicked, Ultimate Sin
Badlands - 1st album; Badlands (great songs like High Wire and Seasons, Devil's stomp)
Great White : Once Bitten & Twice Shy (fab stuff and way overlooked)
Scorpions :+1 to what Philly said
Aerosmith : Toys in the attic & Rocks
Def Leppard : High and Dry - their best guitar album!!
(Sounds similar to & as good as Back in Black by AC/DC)
Kiss : Alive (Alive 1- not Alive2 or Alive3) & Revenge
Slade : A greatest hits or Slade Alive ( more great songs than you'd ever know)
Europe - Start from the Dark (a total shocker if you think they are just "Final Countdown")
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-Ozzy : Blizzard of Ozz, Diary of a madman, Tribute, No rest for the Wicked, Ultimate Sin
Gotta have Blizzard and Diary; they're classics, even though to my mind there are ... some dodgy songs on 'em :) and I was never a huge fan of Randy Rhoads. Possibly one "had to be there", which I wasn't, particularly. :) But I've got these records, despite not being a huge fan of Ozzy's solo career. Definitely some keepers on them!
Oh, I have a strange soft spot for the oft maligned Live at Budokan recordings, which basically amount to a greatest hits package with Zakk, Trujillo, John Sinclair, and Mike Bordin as the backing band (and a pretty fair job they do, IMO).
Aerosmith : Toys in the attic & Rocks
Def Leppard : High and Dry - their best guitar album!!
(Sounds similar to & as good as Back in Black by AC/DC)
+1! :)