"If you lived in the suburbs, you were issued it."
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Topic: "If you lived in the suburbs, you were issued it."
Posted By: Finnforest
Subject: "If you lived in the suburbs, you were issued it."
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 18:17
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I believe Wayne Campbell said of Rumours, if you lived in the suburbs...you were issued it. 10 classic albums we sometimes ridicule.....but we've all heard them. Is there one that still turns your crank?
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 18:18
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Boston's debut, definitely. Styx's isn't bad either, but I easily prefer their earlier stuff.
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 18:22
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For me, it's between Lindsay Buckingham's amazing production talents at crafting quality pop-rock, Billy Joel's finest songwriting, and Ann Wilson's amazing voice over Fisher/Derosier (sp) jamming. I gotta go with Heart. ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 18:23
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Tough list. Came down between Fleetwood Mac and Eagles. Went with Eagles. E ------------- 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 18:26
I think he said it about Frampton Comes Alive, actually.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Finnforest wrote:Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 18:26
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Oh, and I used to wear Boston out. Still do sometimes.
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 18:27
Ha ha, I checked. You were right Robert........that means.......I'm not worthy (bowing to you)  ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 18:37
| Rumours all the way. Wonderful album, and almost every song is a gem. |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 19:01
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Close call between Rumours and Dreamboat Annie. Have to go with the Wilson sisters though; too many good memories with that one Good list though, but I'd have gone with Head Games for Foreigner and Pieces of Eight for Styx. Useless trivia - Rumours is the album that kept Kansas' Leftoverture from making it to #1 on the Billboard charts in the spring of 1977. Kansas peaked at #2. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 19:20
I've only gleaned Rumours and heard a few songs off Born to Run. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 19:24
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in Bob's boat... comes down to a death match between Rumours and Dreamboat Annie. gotta go with Dreamboat Annie... just a bit more bite in it ... but oh those are such classic albums.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 20:36
Boston's debut. I just spun it the other day, in fact! One of my very first purchases and still one of my favorite. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 20:40
| Billy Joel doesn't have a vote yet, now he does |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 20:51
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Rumours and Dreamboat Annie are the only ones I've ever heard. I only really liked 'The Chain' off Rumours (probably due to a part of it being used by the BBC for their F1 Grand Prix theme), but Dreamboat is one of my most treasured possesions - I played it so much that I wore-out the first LP I bought, the replacement didn't have the gatefold cover, so I replaced that with a mint copy I found in a secondhand shop, and then as soon as it was re-issued on CD I bought it again (I read somewhere that the recent remastered version is heavily compressed, so I've avoided it) - I haven't got the live version yet, but will one day. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 21:20
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Dean, you HAVE to hear the recent live DVD of Dreamboat, where they play the entire album cover to cover. It is beyond stunning how good they still sound.
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 07:50
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Dreamboat Annie is a classic. What's there to ridicule about it?
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 07:59
^ good question.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: June
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 09:18
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Rumours for me. It's a fun album.
I'm somewhere between hate and indifference with all the other bands.
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 09:25
No, not really. I said *sometimes* and I believe most people knew what I meant, that occasionally these bands get some heat for being over exposed, as the Wayne Campbell quote at the top suggests. I think maybe Roc was just looking for something to be contrary about today. ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 15:56
| Born to Run is the only goodie on there. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 16:39
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I know all of them and actually quite like about half of them, but Hotel California is the only one of them I'm likely to choose to listen to (and then only when I'm driving). However, if any of Mac, Joel, Boston or Springsteen's classic album tracks comes on the radio I'll probably turn it up and might even sing along if there's nobody else around. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 16:55
I've only heard 2 of them all the way through. |
Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 16:59
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Boston follwed by the Eagles.
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 17:06
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'Fly Like an Eagle' is a damn fine album. Some excellent synth' noodling on there. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 17:17
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This was a tough one, but ultimately, I had to pick Rumours for its range of emotions from the sweet to the angry and bitter, all wrapped up in easily-accessible yet well-written songs. Runners-up were Paradise. What a kick-a.. album and Billy Joel's The Stranger...love the title track and Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (two of Joel's finest works). Hotel California would have been in the running too if I hadn't heard most of the songs on it 5 billion times + thanks to FM radio. I could sing the entire album backwards I think, but still love The Last Resort. A few other good ones in there, but those are my favs. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 18:10
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Boston debut is just solid from start to finish.
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 18:52
I haven't heard any of them...
I used to like the song Hotel California, but now the radio at work plays it, and it induces suicidal thoughts just as readily as any of the others. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 18:58
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 20:21
The Billy Joel, Styx, Foreigner, Boston, RIO Speedwagon, Stevie Miller and well, Heart albums in the poll are about as overexposed as Happy the Man or Yezda Urfa in my country. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 20:47
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I grew up in the suburbs around then. If by "issued" you mean overexposed to, I'd agree. Not to knock the stuff or anything, but damn, it did all get overplayed.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 21:00
Same is true in the UK - we've heard of them, but they were never popular or over-played on the radio. Heart got some exposure with Bad Animals and "Alone" is a perennial karaoke classic (but no one knows the words - guarantee if you mention it in in a bar some one will sing "Tonite" in an overly dramatic way), but prior to that they were essentially unknown as far as the British public were concerned. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 21:06
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Wow, I'd never have guessed that. I thought stuff like Rumours and Hotel California were pretty much a worldwide phenom. My mistake gents. I guess the gist of the poll applies mainly to the American audience then. Carry on Wayne's World fans. ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 21:17
Those two titles and Born to Run are big sellers over here as well. That's why I didn't mention them. But still I can't remember ever hearing a track from Rumors on the radio. Not even once. (I was just a baby when it was released, though) ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 21:33
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Rumours for me. The other large pop albums of the day (Steve Miller, Eagles) are not in the same league.
Plus I say, great for Fleetwood Mac. Fleet and Mac had been soldiering on since the early days, and had developed into a great rhythm section. The best of what is on this album is classic: Dreams, Go Your Own Way, The Chain. I saw them at the time and I can tell you, no one had finer stage presence than Lindsey Buckingham in a white suit, playing a white Les Paul.
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 21:34
Still interesting to me. I assumed that what was on American rock radio was eventually sending the tentacles everywhere. You guys are lucky then, you didn't have to hear "Keep on Lovin You" 9 times a day. What is funny is that on many FM rock stations in most large cities, you still hear these same albums played as if it were the70s. Not all bad, sometimes it is fun to crank up Nugent or Chicago or Journey for the 8000th time. Other times, it can make one suicidal as Harry mentioned. Sorry for the erroneous assumption. ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: March 08 2009 at 21:36
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^We've had our own overexposed albums to deal with, believe me. Oops: Just checked the charts for Born to Run in Norway. It peaked at no. 26 (with four weeks in the charts). And Rumours peaked at no. 17 (with only two weeks in the charts). Hotel California was in top five for about 30 weeks and no. 1 in 7 of them, though ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 11 2009 at 03:49
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There are some real classics there, but I guess the one I'd play all the way through would be 'Rumours' - combination of good songs & Buckingham's production still makes it a great album today.
Honourable mentions though to Boston's 1st & 'Fly Like An Eagle'... ...but am I the only one never knowingly to have heard a Heart song?  ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 11 2009 at 03:56
yep, but easily fixed:
...as heard in a 1000s karoke bars all over the world.
...though that's not the style of Heart under discussion here, this is more like it...
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: March 13 2009 at 10:32
There lies the problem. Overplayed. I liked it the first hundred times I heard it but now your in the thousands. |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: March 13 2009 at 10:34
Of those albums I really only know Hotel California ... 
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