Recent content by Val Rannous

Gee, thanks. I supposed I deserved that, after my posting of Finnish bluegrass Iron Maiden covers.

My vote is for Welcome to the Jungle - It was the very first thing I saw/heard of theirs (thank you MTV), and I just stared at the screen saying "Wow". I knew I liked it from the very first notes out of Slash's guitar.

Enjoy: https://open.spotify.com/track/3t65cFs0pfbc9gVvNE3lBf

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Let's goooooo! https://open.spotify.com/track/2DMDV9kUEO2WjUHg5acHBY

Love love love this album, and the middle finger shot at their record label. "So, you want more commercial stuff for radio? Well, listen to this!!!" Well, I'll wait for @Atomic Punk to chime in since we're tied at #1, but my vote for the playlist song is probably obvious. Hey, it makes the...

Nah, there's some good stuff back there - both A Passage to Bangkok and The Twilight Zone are excellent songs. But yes, it's all about side 1.

Easily my favorite Tom Petty album. All the others have songs I like/love, but don't hold my attention for a full album - this one keeps jamming all the way through. I think the reason is for me this feels like, well, more than just a Tom Petty album - it feels like Full Moon Fever by Charlie...

Man, 3 of my top 5 picks went today - and I got sniped on 2 of them (and not by my wife this time). I semi-expected to get out-voted on Queen, but Rush?!?

Works for me, love Spirit - although I still hold a soft spot in my heart for Jacob's Ladder, Edit - and now that I've caught up the to post wavefront, apparently I'm not the only one!!! That's a lot of love for Jacob's Ladder!

This one's pretty much Mrs. R's fault, she introduced me to this album. My small town Texas upbringing really isolated me from rock music until I was in high school - up until that point I was pretty much a classic music nerd, since the only thing I kinda ever heard played otherwise was...

Now kiss and make up.

"Our first guest speaker comes from the year 400 BC, a time when most of the world looked like the cover of the Led Zeppelin album, Houses of the Holy. We were there. There were many steps and columns. It was most tranquil."

Should be higher - I had this at #17 on my list - and I got the title right, dammit, including the parentheses! (Cut and pasted directly from Wikipedia, so if I'm wrong so are they...) @Dr. Octopus , @kupcho1 - we need a re-ranking!

Dorothy was one of my last cuts before I did my rankings, really good stuff.