Best (mass- Market) Rock Album in the last 20 years!

[LeCounts1099]

That's what I mean by I might not have the $ Spence (esp. after buying some BM Big Dannys recently... )


Time was you could get great seats from calling / waiting in line... now you must pay scalpers' prices if you want Front- row center!

I'm getting R30... as soon as I can buy a DVD Player (I've resisted so far... but now I finally have incentive!)

For those with little patience: go directly to these tracks from "Snakes & Arrows" first: "Far Cry," "Spindrift," "The Main Monkey Business (Instr.)" "Faithless," & "We Hold On" (the last maybe the best song on the album)...

ProfessorM I know your tastes: can't wait to hear your review of this album! Headphones recommended!

[tattoobob]

I never liked Rush after 2112, that said I have two words Led Zeppelin is the king of Classic Rock for me. Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Yes, Neil Young, J. Geils to name a few.

[spence]

Originally Posted by tattoobob

I never liked Rush after 2112

Maybe you like this instead?

-spence

[LeCounts1099]

No, I know Bob & I know he would love these more recent Rush albums if he got them & listened:

Power Windows; Roll the Bones; Test For Echo; Grace Under Pressure; Counterparts & Subdivisions... & the new one too! Get listening Bob! You've missed a lot of great Rush music in the last 25 years since 2112! (J. Geils? Bob Dylan? )

Love Led Zep more than most Bob... but they're no Floyd or Hendrix or Rush!

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by LeCounts1099

No, I know Bob & I know he would love these more recent Rush albums if he got them & listened:

Power Windows; Roll the Bones; Test For Echo; Grace Under Pressure; Counterparts & Subdivisions... & the new one too! Get listening Bob! You've missed a lot of great Rush music in the last 25 years since 2112! (J. Geils? Bob Dylan? )

Love Led Zep more than most Bob... but they're no Floyd or Hendrix or Rush!

don't forget : Caress of Steel, Fly by Night, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres....those are the killer ones....2112 is pure classic

[Raider Ronnie]

Being a drummer and a fan of Neil Peart,
Ive seen Rush dozens of times , going back the late 70s
But to be honest, I haven't been a big fan of their last few albums.
But now you got me wanting to check out the new one.
As for classic rock,
In my opinion,
Pink Floyd is in a league of their own !
And every one else is below them !

[Slingah]

I was/am a huge Rush fan...have all discs up to Moving Pictures ( some of their stuff after that is pretty bad I thought)...have seen them multiple times but not since the 80's...one of the best was a show at the Cape Cod Coloseum for the Pemanent Waves tour......I will get the cd and give it a whirl...I heard good things about the show last year and wished I went...might have to check it out...probaly only crappy seats left

[afterhours]

nothing comes close to the allman bros. live at the filmore as the greatest live album ever....nothings even in the same zip code.

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by afterhours

nothing comes close to the allman bros. live at the filmore as the greatest live album ever....nothings even in the same zip code.

Not really the same type of classic rock,
But Steely Dan's Aja , much better album!
Dark side of the moon, better than both !

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by afterhours

nothing comes close to the allman bros. live at the filmore as the greatest live album ever....nothings even in the same zip code.

Greg Allman "Laid Back" comes close

[Slingah]

check this out...pretty cool

[Joe]

I'm a big Dylan fan. He still shows flashes of brilliance on his more recent work, and he's won some big awards in recent years, Grammies, Oscars, a Pulitzer this week - but his work now is very uneven when compared to his earlier stuff. I like the work he did in the decade after he left the folk movement - very truthful.
Dylan is a media darling - he can do no wrong. Mainly because the liberal establishment - the people with their fingers on the media buttons, grew up with his music. Critics are also very much aware that after his death, his work will come to be recognized in an ever-increasing positive light.
Curators will tell you that an artist only has so much real creativity, only so many original ideas. They spend their creative lives working around those few ideas. Artistic lives are fragile and finite - ten years is long run even for highly talented people. Get caught up in the trappings of fame: women, drugs, becoming unreasonably eccentric, and they often short circuit it all together.

[LeCounts1099]

Slingah... you'll LOVE "S. & A."... Guaranteed! PERFECT for a dark beach parking Lot in between shifts with a starry sky!


Home stuck "in" tonight, my GF away... (& Sun./ Mon. will be my first fishing attempt of '08)...

SO: got inspired-- again just so my biases are known... here's MY personal "top- 10" Rock/ Classic Rock/ Modern Music albums of all time:

1) Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"
2) Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here"
3) Pink Floyd, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn"
4) Jimi Hendrix Exp., "Are You Experienced"
5) Pink Floyd, "The Wall"
6) Pink Floyd, "Meddle"
7) Jimi Hendrix Exp., "Electric Ladyland"
8) Pink Floyd, "Animals"
9) Rush, "Moving Pictures"
10) Rush, "Permanent Waves"

[LeCounts1099]

But Don... HAVE you heard the Hendrix & J. Beck Live albums I referenced?


I honestly think the Fillmore album-- great as it was-- comes in third to those other two!

[afterhours]

i like jimmy a lot, not a huge jeff beck fan. the abb just does for me in a big way..dwayne, #^&#^&#^&#^&ie, berry and the boys