#249 & #250 Deep Purple – Machine Head & Made In Japan

Heavy metal music developers Deep Purple had two albums on the list for the year of 1072. I moved them together to be reviewed. Machine Head is their sixth studio album and Made In Japan is a live album. This is not an album I would listen to again. I think I was burnt out […]

#142 Johnny Cash – Johnny Cash at San Quentin

Johnny Cash is on the list again. Johnny Cash at San Quentin is similar to his last album on the list. It is a live concert in prison. I hate these types of album. This album has so many things against it before I even listen to it. I do not hear any difference between […]

1001 Albums #54

When I saw the title of the next album Live at the Regal from B.B. King I became depressed. Another live album and another artist I am not familiar with in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list. Surprisingly it is an okay album even with all my hatred of live albums. […]

1001 Albums #43

Jacques Brel. Enregistrement Public à l’Olympia 1964. Enough said. Okay, maybe a bit more for those who do not know of him. He was from Belgium. He died in 1978 at the young age of 49, but he knew he was dying since 1973. If Edith Piaf was the queen of chanson, then Brel was the […]

1001 Albums #40

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is not a book I will recommend. I am on album number forty and it is another live album: James Brown and the Famous Flames’ Live at the Apollo from 1963. I have not listened to it as I write this intro. My problem with the book is that it includes live albums which are […]