Alright, so I was thinking that you guys listen to music a lot, so why not listen to one album a week and post a brief review of it, pick a favorite and least favorite song off of it?

The last full album I listened to was the 1984 Ramones album Too Tough To Die. The album really stands out in the crowd of Ramones albums. This was a huge turning point for their music, they got serious, political, and more emotional. Their sound also got thicker and heavier, a lot more rich. It's an emotional rollercoaster full of more cynical songs than positive ones. The guitar work is well done, there are even a couple points where they go bluesy, most notably in Chasing The Night, the guitar solo. The drums are faster paced than normal, because of Richie. There are a several songs that break 3 and 4 minutes on this album, and even though they're longer, there's still a decent amount of songs, giving you a lot of content to listen to. Taking all of this into account, to me, this album is at least a 9/10 to me. There are a few imperfections, the biggest being the song Mama's Boy. It's just, well, a bad song. It's lackluster, to put it nicely. If I had to pick a pure gem off of this album, though, it would have to be Daytime Dilemma. Such a well played, well sung, well written song. It's got the energy and the emotion of what a truly great song should be.

(also, this is the album I listen to most often, it's my favorite of all time.)

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Album or full concert?

And I have to wait another week to post my next album?

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Gary

Full album. I don't know of any band that follows an album while doing a concert.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Cool.

I'm gonna go with a band that thought they would be seen as a joke and that's how they came up with they're name. The guitar player grew up listening to the old blues players and was heavily impressed with Chuck Berry, and didn't know what a barre chord was for many years. In many peoples opinions, this was the best rock/blues band of all time.

Led Zeppelin 1. 1969.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJ7S8GU2uQ

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Gary